How to setup a Samsung SCX-4500W for Printing and Scanning on a wireless network with OS X 10.5, 10.6

How to setup a Samsung SCX-4500W on a wireless network with OS X 10.5:

  1. First go to this page:
    http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=printersmultif...
  2. From the tabs select Support & Downloads >> download center >> driver >
    • install 3x MAC OS Drivers
      1. Printer Driver for Mac OS X
      2. Scan Driver for Mac OS X
      3. Smart Panel Application for Mac OS X
    • The Printer Driver download also contains the SetIP application that you may need to find your printer
  3. Connect w/ an ethernet cable ethernet
  4. Run the SetIP application which should find your printer.
  5. Connect to the printer with your browser.
    • Set the password: go to Maintenance >> Security & set an admin name & password for the printer
    • Set to use wreless network; go to Network Settings >> Wireless >> Wireless Settings >> Wizard
    • Set it to use your local WPA or WEP SSID & pass (sadly does not seem to allow does for hidden SSID)
  6. Now disconnect the Ethernet cable and reconnect to the printer in your Browser and verify your changes.

How to print to the Samsung SCX-4500W from OS X 10.5 on a local wireless network:

  1. Go to the print dialogue
  2. Add new printer
  3. Select the Samsung SCX-4500W
  4. Print

How to scan with the Samsung SCX-4500W from OS X 10.5 on a local wireless network:

  1. After installing the above setup Adobe Photoshop CS was able to scan directly via the Menu: File >> Import >> Samsung SCX-4500W series...

or

  1. Use Applications >> Image Capture
    • open Image Capture
    • Select Devices >> Browse Devices...
    • Select the Button "Use Twain Devices" next to the Samsung SCX-4500W listing

Comments

thanks

great article. thank you!

Support for Samsung SCX-4500W

Big help needed

How to "uinstall" all the prefrences totally, cause when I just delete it, it starts all over again...!!

re: How to scan w/SCX-4500W from OS X 10.5 on local wireless

Wow! Thank you so much for the information and the clear way in which you presented it. I had figured all this out when I first set up our SCX-4500W. Then I could not remember how I got it to work when I needed to set it up again and found I couldn't remember how to get the scanning function to work. The Samsung site was of no help--the downloads didn't work to get me to the point where I could actually scan. Thank you for providing the information needed to get there--for me, it was the Image Capture application. And there the Twain did meet. Thanks again!

re: samsung

Thanks for the info. I used this samsung for a long time and I tell you it was really great. I only trusted this brand.

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