Help required for driver to operate Samsung Laser Printer ML

[Reginald Caspall]

Hi,
I would be most grateful if some kind person can point me in the right
direction to obtain a driver for my as yet unused Samsung Laser Printer,
model No. ML-5200A.

I have had this equipment for several years and to be truthful have not
yet seen it working other than to print out a demo page. It seems that
whatever text I send to the printer fails to go anywhere. I am using
Windows XP Pro. I seem to be unable to gain any help from Samsung for
this problem. Lesson learned never to again purchase a Samsung product.

Regards,
Reg Caspall,
Geelong, Victoria,
Australia.

[john]

Reginald Caspall wrote:

Hi,
I would be most grateful if some kind person can point me in the
right direction to obtain a driver for my as yet unused Samsung Laser
Printer, model No. ML-5200A.

I have had this equipment for several years and to be truthful have
not yet seen it working other than to print out a demo page. It seems
that whatever text I send to the printer fails to go anywhere. I am
using Windows XP Pro. I seem to be unable to gain any help from Samsung
for this problem. Lesson learned never to again purchase a Samsung
product.

Regards,
Reg Caspall,
Geelong, Victoria,
Australia.

The best place for drivers is usually http://driverguide.com/
However they don't have any drivers for ML-5200A.

It doesn't look as though Samsung released any drivers for it apart from
those for Win98 which were on the CD which came with the printer.

There is a driver for the ML-5100A - again only released for Win98 which
has a couple of comments implying it works most of the time on WinXP so
perhaps you could try the driver that came with the printer.
For Win2K there is a suggestion using the ML-85 PCL driver in Win2K for
the 5100A.

[John]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:00:12 +1000, Reginald Caspall
<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
I would be most grateful if some kind person can point me in the right
direction to obtain a driver for my as yet unused Samsung Laser Printer,
model No. ML-5200A.

I have had this equipment for several years and to be truthful have not
yet seen it working other than to print out a demo page. It seems that
whatever text I send to the printer fails to go anywhere. I am using
Windows XP Pro. I seem to be unable to gain any help from Samsung for
this problem. Lesson learned never to again purchase a Samsung product.

Regards,
Reg Caspall,
Geelong, Victoria,
Australia.

If it's a PCL printer, try an HP LaserJet driver. The LaserJet II,
III, and 4 drivers are included in XP. Start with the II driver and
work up until it fails.

John

[Ye Old One]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:00:12 +1000, Reginald Caspall
<[email protected]> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

Hi,
I would be most grateful if some kind person can point me in the right
direction to obtain a driver for my as yet unused Samsung Laser Printer,
model No. ML-5200A.

I have had this equipment for several years and to be truthful have not
yet seen it working other than to print out a demo page. It seems that
whatever text I send to the printer fails to go anywhere. I am using
Windows XP Pro. I seem to be unable to gain any help from Samsung for
this problem. Lesson learned never to again purchase a Samsung product.

Samsung are a very good company in Europe, I deal with them a lot.

The ML-5200A was only sold into limited markets. There is a french
language driver on the Samsung site or it is built into Windows XP Pro
or Windows 2003.

--
Bob.

[mickg]

Ye Old One wrote:

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:00:12 +1000, Reginald Caspall
[email protected]> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

Hi,
I would be most grateful if some kind person can point me in the right
direction to obtain a driver for my as yet unused Samsung Laser Printer,
model No. ML-5200A.

I have had this equipment for several years and to be truthful have not
yet seen it working other than to print out a demo page. It seems that
whatever text I send to the printer fails to go anywhere. I am using
Windows XP Pro. I seem to be unable to gain any help from Samsung for
this problem. Lesson learned never to again purchase a Samsung product.


Samsung are a very good company in Europe, I deal with them a lot.

The ML-5200A was only sold into limited markets. There is a french
language driver on the Samsung site or it is built into Windows XP Pro
or Windows 2003.

You could try the one at:
http://listing.driveragent.com/prt/SAMS ... 5458770fbb

MickG

[No Spam]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:02:07 GMT, Ye Old One <[email protected]> wrote:

Samsung are a very good company in Europe, I deal with them a lot.

[snip]

But they are being slow to fully support Windows XP x64 edition which
has been out 18 months. Many people have Samsung printers which cannot
work on x64.

Not the actions of "a very good company" in my view and one which I
will avoid in the future.

[Ye Old One]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:10:21 GMT, No Spam <[email protected]> enriched
this group when s/he wrote:

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:02:07 GMT, Ye Old One <[email protected]> wrote:


Samsung are a very good company in Europe, I deal with them a lot.

[snip]

But they are being slow to fully support Windows XP x64 edition which
has been out 18 months. Many people have Samsung printers which cannot
work on x64.

Not the actions of "a very good company" in my view and one which I
will avoid in the future.

May I point out that Microsoft do not even support users of XP64.

--
Bob.

[Baldy]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:39:42 GMT, Ye Old One <[email protected]> wrote:

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:10:21 GMT, No Spam <[email protected]> enriched
this group when s/he wrote:

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:02:07 GMT, Ye Old One <[email protected]> wrote:


Samsung are a very good company in Europe, I deal with them a lot.

[snip]

But they are being slow to fully support Windows XP x64 edition which
has been out 18 months. Many people have Samsung printers which cannot
work on x64.

Not the actions of "a very good company" in my view and one which I
will avoid in the future.

May I point out that Microsoft do not even support users of XP64.

Your use of the short phrase "of XP64" is extraneous.

[Ye Old One]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:37:54 -0700, Baldy <[email protected]>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:39:42 GMT, Ye Old One <[email protected]> wrote:

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:10:21 GMT, No Spam <[email protected]> enriched
this group when s/he wrote:

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:02:07 GMT, Ye Old One <[email protected]> wrote:


Samsung are a very good company in Europe, I deal with them a lot.

[snip]

But they are being slow to fully support Windows XP x64 edition which
has been out 18 months. Many people have Samsung printers which cannot
work on x64.

Not the actions of "a very good company" in my view and one which I
will avoid in the future.

May I point out that Microsoft do not even support users of XP64.

Your use of the short phrase "of XP64" is extraneous.

Your good point is noted

--
Bob.