Using a Dell Printer on a Mac

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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 !

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

    Thanks again!

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

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

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.

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

18. Thank you so much. Perfect.

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.

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.

21. I also got this to work on Snow Leopard. The problem I had was that I did not download and install the samsung-gdi-1.816.2.dmg file. Once I had done that I had no problems.

22. You are simply the best !
    Many thanks

23. thank you very much for your (old but still useful) post!!

24. Worked like a charm!!!

25. Excellent! Thank you – still worked perfectly with the 1210.

26. Yes, thank you so much for posting. I have a new found appreciation for posting. I think I will start to contribute myself.

27. Thanks so much! This worked perfectly.

28. does anyone know if the mac works with a dell p1500 laser printer?

29. This is very nice article. I have got Dell 1100 laser printer and i am using Mac OS. So this tips are very useful to me. I will try this tips to take print on Dell 1100 laser printer.

30. Thanks Everyone, this worked for the DELL 810 and MAC OS 10.6.7!!

    1. What driver did you use? Samsung ML 1210 or 210? I am having trouble now. I have Dell 810 and MAC OS 10.5.8

       1. Hi, did you end up getting this to work? I’m trying to connect a Dell 810 to a MacBook Pro with Mac OS 10.6.8 and having no luck…