Printers: Samsung ML 1670 with Snow Leopard & Lion
HI all,
For the past 3 years I've been using a HP 1022 mono laser printer on my iMac. Great printer, worked perfectly. I decide to upgrade to Snow Leopard and now its useless; memory full, prints odd # pages.
Despite all the advice I've seen on the web nothing has resolved it. Update drivers, add printer etc etc.
I am now looking at getting another printer, Samsung ML1670, a budget one for my needs and Samsung say it compatible with OSX 10.6
Anybody had any good or bad experiences with this and SL?
And just out of curiosity anyone know if it works on Lion as I would like to update my MacBook too.
Many thanks,
Steve.
Well, the ML-1670 is supposed to work on Snow Leopard and Lion, drivers indicated here for OS X 10.3 ~ 10.7
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/print-solutions/print-solutions/mono-printers /ML-1670/XEU-support?
Samsung used to be Mac UNfriendly but that seems to have changed with the more recent models.
I use a ML-1610 which officially is not Mac compatible but did get it to work somehow on 10.6 and 10.7
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