Comments on: Props to Samsung – Vista Driver Released Today

By: Pete Wood

Pete Wood — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:10:01 +0000

Tim, you are a god. Your post on May 4, 2007 at 6:59 am works perfectly.

By: Lois

Lois — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:43:49 +0000

I’m not seeing the driver when I click on the link. Only thing showing is toner. Please help with ML-4500 vista driver

By: Roberto

Roberto — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:39:42 +0000

IF YOU HAVE ISTALLED ML-4500 ON A XP MACHINE AND YOU WANT SHARE IT WITH ANOTHER COMPUTER VISTA BASED,
YOU MUST USE THIS DRIVER:
Samsung ML-1210

Rob
from Italy

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:18:12 +0000

hey derek, thanks for doing this!
i can’t get my computer to recognize the printer, though… doesn’t seem to work at all. the driver is there, but any time i plug the printer in, vista tells me that no printer is attached.

any ideas?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:20:55 +0000

Try this:

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/download/supportDown.do?model_nm=ML-4500&mType=DR&vType=L&disp_nm=ML-4500

By: Asim

Asim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:22:44 +0000

Hey Guys

Derek that link you gave for the ml 4500 driver it takes me to a support page, have they took the driver off the website? #how can i get it now can anybody help me or send it me?

By: shef

shef — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:45:13 +0000

Hi guys

I’m having exactly the same problem as ‘j.m said’, i download the driver from the website but then when it comes to running it i get the not compatible message as well.

i’m not particularly tech savvy and so would appreciate any advice on how to overcome this – thanks so much!

By: j.m

j.m — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:30:32 +0000

I am having horrible trouble trying to get vista to recognize my samsung 2010ml laser printer. i even dowloaded the driver from the samsung website for vista x64 which is what i have but after dowloading driver i get a “not compatable with a policy enabled on your computer that blocks nt.4.0 drivers” then it just fails to install.
I also tried the most related printers already preinstaklled drivers on vista in the control panel and it wont ditect that either.
can anyone please help? anyone encounter he same problem i have encountered?
please contact me at realassets@excite.com.
any help or suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:02:30 +0000

Uh, meant to add, you need to substitute the name of the pc sharing the printer in ‘pcname’ and the name of the printer for ‘sharename’ above. I guess not everyone is old and crusty and used to use Lan Manager!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:59:44 +0000

Thanks for the link, just what I was looking for!

I had an added boggle with my printer, in that it is a network printer attached to an XP machine across the office, and Vista attempts to download the driver from the XP machine, and won’t as it doesn’t accept kernel mode drivers. (even if you have it installed locally already)

So, hot tip for anyone in the same situation; Install the driver from the URL above, and when it tries to detect a local printer, hit the ‘no’ button to carry on regardless. You now have the driver, so all you need is to hook up to your network printer, so, get a cmd box up (you will need to enable this in Vista too, Start button, right click the background and select ‘properties’, ‘start menu’ tab, ‘customise’ button, and scroll down to towards the bottom and check the ‘run command’ box. OK back out. OK, so open that CMD box, and type;

net use lpt1: /delete
net use lpt1: \\pcname\sharename

and send a test doc from your ‘local’ printer, and it should print out just dandy.

By: Sander

Sander — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:40:45 +0000

Thanks a million, Derek. I’ve been looking for a Vista driver for months now