Samsung Ml-1660 Driver Mac

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Mertie Oldow

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:20:11 PM8/3/24

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Hi guys, I have a problemi with my arch installation. Today I give up to DIY installation of my printer Samsung ML-1660 on Arch. With Debian and Ubuntu, my previous OS, I hadn't any problems, just plug-and-play. With Arch, it seems that everithing is not simple XD. So, after two weeks between forums and google I ask for help. I had tried to instal samsung-universal-driver, to blacklist usblp, to instal different version of cups, nothing. In Settings > Devices > Printers I can view that my system can see the printer but when I try to add it I get an error "Unable to add a printer" (with gnome shell). I will show you some output, maybe you will be able to help me

This one has been driving me crazy, but I've finally found a really, really simple solution to getting the Samsung ML-1670 running on a Mac running Catalina. This solution may also work for other unsupported Samsung printers, but I've not tested it.

I've no idea why the ML-1860 works but it definitely does; I've actually used this driver for powering our ML-1670 for many years before encountering these latest issues with Catalina. I'm not very familiar with Samsung laser printers but I guess they were very similar.

I'm not running Big Sur so no I don't. Have you tried downloading the print drivers in my original post? I was really surprised they installed on Catalina, but they did. So it wouldn't surprise me if the same is true for Big Sur.

(Don't quote me on this but I believe Catalina was the first native 64 bit operating system from Apple. It was a big change and loads of non 64 bit apps stopped working when it was released. The fact that these 7 year old print drivers still work on Catalina seems like a bit of a miracle to me. Big Sur is just the next development of Catalina rather than a ground up rebuild. I'm no expert but my thinking is, if the drivers are working on Catalina then there's a good chance they'll continue to work on Big Sur).

Thank you for your super fast reply! I can download the "programm", but when I try to install it, I get the notivication that the volume doesnt fullfill the requirements. I'm by far no expert and this whole problem is driving me insane... the apple support told me to contact samsung, but i guess that hp does the support now and to me the site not really userfriendly.