Using a Dell Printer on a Mac

20 Responses

1. Sorry it was so difficult to install. Most peripherals are very easy – just plug into the USB and go to town, your machine should find all the plug-ins and stuff you need. My wife likes to say the “i” in a lot of Mac’s products stands for intuitive, everything just works. Haven’t installed any Dell peripherals, but am using a Jabra headset, HP laser and Brother laser printer right now – all three just plug and play.

   Hope you’re enjoying your Mac odyssey !

   Jeremy Hart — February 21, 2007 @ 5:06 pm —

2. Wow thanks so much for posting this, I’d given up on getting my 1100 to work with my G5.

   Zach Swanson — April 14, 2007 @ 5:28 pm —

3. thanks for posting. google brought me right to you!

   Zach — July 28, 2007 @ 2:16 pm —

4. thank you so much bro, no idea who you are. know how we’ve all be in a major printer jam…and NEED to print…i was just in one…i hve a mac…roomate has dell 1100..thought i was screwed, found your site..haha..thanks

   kdog — September 1, 2007 @ 3:46 pm —

5. This worked for me too, but I had to use the ML-210 driver instead of the ML-1210.

   Joe — October 23, 2007 @ 1:07 pm —

6. Wow,
   THANKS SOOOO MUCH!! This worked perfectly on my new MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo 2ghz. I was a ***dows user before, never thought Mac would be this easy to use.
   Thanks again!

   eric — December 17, 2007 @ 10:06 pm —

7. @eric You’re welcome. Unfortunately, using the same set of drivers at that site, I’ve been unable to get my HP OfficeJet k80 to work.

   Tom Markiewicz — December 29, 2007 @ 9:44 am —

8. I also had to use the 210 driver but with that change, it works very well. Thanks!

   Andrew Rich — July 19, 2008 @ 12:39 am —

9. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

   Sarah — August 19, 2008 @ 11:31 am —

10. Thanks mate. I thought for a second that I finally found something wrong with my new MacBook pro, but you saved the day!

    Kage — September 7, 2008 @ 3:43 am —

11. @Sarah, @Kage you’re very welcome!

    Tom Markiewicz — September 11, 2008 @ 12:22 pm —

12. I have done all downloads and installed drivers but printer just sends data and then says no job printing. Any help welcome ta. I have a Mac G4 and a Dell 810 printer.

    Rob Staley — January 18, 2009 @ 6:33 pm —

13. I've been looking for a solution for this problem for years! It works great, worked with the samsung 1210 driver.

    Thanks again!

    EBurns — March 6, 2009 @ 2:24 am —

14. Just did this after installing Snow Leopard and worked. Thanks for taking the time to put this out there!

    Curt — August 29, 2009 @ 6:21 pm —

15. I have a dell 1100 printer and I just bought a mac with the newest version of Snow Leaopord 10.6.1, and i really want to be able to use it, the instructions seemed to work for everyone else but I can not figure them out. I am not very computer savy. Can someone please explain in more simplier terms. I click on number 1 in the directions, and I get a new window with this page: OpenPrinting/MacOSX/samsung-gdi. Under the download section, there are 5 different things (maybe drivers) that I can download, I do not know which one to download. But I think I should use the Foomatic-RIP for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) – Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) or this one Ghostscript for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) – Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard).

    After I install the right one of these, do I need to download the printer too. If so, I click on the Samsung 1210, then this page really confuses me. Which one of these do I need to download.

    Samsung ML-1210
    BW laser printer, max. 600×600 dpi, works Perfectly
    Recommended driver: gdi (Home page, view PPD, download PPD)
    Generic instructions for: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler

    If anybody can please help me out I would be really thankful. Thanks

    pamg — September 20, 2009 @ 5:51 pm —

16. just installed everything on 10.6 (without rosetta)
    first ghostscript, then foomatic rip and then then samsung driver. after that i created a new printer as described here. works VERY WELL!

    Thanks a lot. already thought I would need to get a new printer.

    Dennis — November 1, 2009 @ 3:23 am —

17. Not really sure what I'm doing. downloaded the linux files to the desktop. Was that right? Will they work from there? And I don't get a samsung 1210 or 210 option in the drivers. I see a lot of samsung, have tried a few, get a whirr and lights blinking but nothing prints. Any suggestions? And try to make instructions REALLY clear and simple… Thanks Rick

    Rick — June 14, 2010 @ 11:11 am —

18. Thank you so much. Perfect.

    dave — June 14, 2010 @ 8:36 pm —

19. Great post. I had no idea dell used Samsung. Everything I've run across has been a rebranded Lexmark. I didn't see it covered in the comments so if it is just ignore. The Samsung ML-2010 is a carbon copy of the Dell 1100 and has os x drivers on the samsung site.

    http://www.samsung.com/us/support/detail/suppor...

    I guess its not too much more difficult to use Tom's method. It boils down to 1 download verses 3.
    I did both and found no difference in operation of my printer.

    Michael Arnold — July 11, 2010 @ 6:06 pm —

20. Great post. I had no idea dell used Samsung. Everything I’ve run across has been a rebranded Lexmark. I didn’t see it covered in the comments so if it is just ignore. The Samsung ML-2010 is a carbon copy of the Dell 1100 and has os x drivers on the samsung site.

    http://www.samsung.com/us/support/detail/supportPrdDetail.do?menu=SP01&prd_mdl_cd=&prd_mdl_name=ML-2010&prd_ia_sub_class_cd=P

    I guess its not too much more difficult to use Tom’s method. It boils down to 1 download verses 3.
    I did both and found no difference in operation of my printer.

    Michael Arnold — July 12, 2010 @ 12:06 am —