A word of warning to future Samsung ML-1710 customers

[Pedro Vera]

Greetings,

Today I purchased was has to be the cheapest laser printer in the 
market, the Samsung ML-1710, $100 after rebates. It took me a bit over 
(a frantic) hour to get it to work in Panther so I'll post the work 
around here and hopefully this will help somebody else.

1. There are no drivers for Panther (no surprise here).
2. There are no drivers for Jaguar (big surprise here).
3. Follow the instructions in the bottom of this page:
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/37356-1.html
4. I don't know how it would work in Jaguar, but in Panther I cannot 
add a printer from my account, even if I am admin. I suspect a 
corrupted preferences file somewhere. It took me 45 miserable minutes 
and a few reboots to figure out I should make a new user account and 
try from there: From the new user account the driver I had installed 
was recognized properly and the printer works just great.
5. After my first 5 minutes trying I grabbed the printer, carried it to 
my wife's Dell and had it running in less than 2 minutes, so I knew the 
printer and the cable were good.

The printer is really fast and just a tad loud. I am angry because I 
had to scour the web for about 45 minutes (and I am going to end up 
going late to work tomorrow because of this) but it could have been 
worse: I was preparing myself to reinstall Panther!

If it gives me grief tomorrow I have no choice but to move my files to 
the new account and wipe that one off.

Pedro
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