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Summary: Great, inexpensive, fast, good output, easy to use,small
Review: I bought this because it was the least expensive laser printer from a major manufacturer (after rebate). But I've been very impressed with it. It was super easy to set up (plug it in, install CD, plug in the USB cable) and has a nice status monitor in your "tray". It takes seconds to warm up and prints instantly if it's already warm. The output looks good to me, although I've seen better half tones the text is excellent. Con: no duplex.
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Summary: Compact and Inexpensive
Review: I just bought this printer after seeing it in a local chain store for more money. I received it in no time. Setup was no problem with included drivers on a XP and a 95 machine that was networked to the XP machine. Print quality was fine. I will add more about this when I have owned it longer. Speed of printing was as advertised and the warm up time before the first page came out was a little long but acceptable. Overall A Great Value!
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Summary: So far so Good... Part 1
Review: I just got this print last night. So I am happy to report...So far so good. set up was no problem. The usb connection is remarkeably quick, hit print, the printer hums and out comes what you want. It is quick, amazingly more so then my inkjet printer. I can easily believe the claim of 17 pages per min, though I have not timed it. The driver software is also suprisingly complete and robust. You can do the basics with it, landscape or portriat, change print quality, 600 or 300 and toner save. Also included are the abilities to put multiple pages on one sheet, 4 pages one one , for example. This can save a lot of paper, it works well with the reductions very clear, though small. One nice feature is being able to save different print preferences in a pull down list, so if your like me and print web stories, set up a your pref. and call it websites. Also included with the print software is an ability to do watermaks, including custom setup and something called overlays which I haven't really player with yet, more to come on that soon.
Over all, I am very happy with this printer. I will check back after I have had the printer awhile and up date this review.
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Summary: Cheap but poor quality
Review: This printer is quite cheap. However, its catridge is a problem. One problem I think is the cost for this catridge is much more than those of other brands. Another one is the quality of the print-outs is getting worse after you start to use it. The words are obscure and light... So I would rather pay a little more to get a printer with higher quality.
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Summary: Great personal laser
Review: Pros:
- Great text quality
- Small footprint
- Cool, elegant look
Cons:
- No duplex
- Graphics are so-so We bought this for day-to-day printing and to get away from the high ink costs of inkjets. We now use the inkjet only for color and photo-printing. This printer was rated very well by Consumer Reports and has a low cost per page. The starter toner does about 1000 pages and a replacement 3000-page toner costs about $70.
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Summary: Good Printer - Abysmal support.
Review: Printer performed as expected for a unit in the ML-1710's price range - speedy and excellent print quality. However, a single call to their support leaves me wary of buying another Samsung product. The two service reps I conversed with both became defensive and then downright rude. I can offer no reason for their obnoxious response to my question about powering the printer from a UPS. If a mere inquiry evokes such an acerbic reaction, imagine the reception to an actual printer problem.
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Summary: Expensive toner
Review: I was on the verge of buying this printer on sale for my father, and then I checked on the price of toner. The toner cartridge (reportedly 3000 pages) runs at about twice the cost of a 3000-page-toner cartridge on my beloved Brother laser printer. For me, the initial investment of an extra few dollars on a Brother will repay itself the very first time I buy toner. I guess Samsung learned from the ink-jet marketing scheme of making their money on overpriced ink/toner. I am not sure why one customer reviewer claims that the Samsung toner cartridge comes with a drum unit. When I researched the price of the toner cartridge, drum units for this printer were sold separately, and at quite a high price.
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Summary: Get what you pay for....
Review: Ok printer, but after about 200 pages, I notice that every page looks like its printed in toner saver mode (read: looks horrible with toner saver turned on) even though it's not. Manual paper feed is schizophrenic at best, you have to wait for the previous page to feed and wait for the fuser to spin down before inserting the next sheet, otherwise it will cause a paper jam. Then, of course, you have to wait for the thing to spin up again before it starts the next page. Sometimes, manual feed will just run a sheet of paper thru the unit for giggles...
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Summary: Mediocre Printer at Best
Review: This printer has terrible color translation drivers and produces the aboslute worst grey scale renditions of any laser printer I have used. The text is inconsistent in darkness, and the outer edges of the right side of the page are clearly lighter in toner than the rest of the page. Beware of this mediocre unit.
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Summary: Good printer, but needs alternate OS X drivers
Review: ...P>I use Mac OS X, and the drivers that Samsung has for this printer are trash. It takes maybe 20 seconds for it to rasterize/process each page before sending it to the printer. This means that the printer's fuser powers down between pages and that printing is incredibly slow. What the other Mac OS X people who have complained about the drivers is to download and install some alternative, free, open source drivers.
1. Download and install the two obvious links at http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/samsung-gdi/
2. Follow the instructions for setting up a printer, but choose the ML-1210 or ML-4500 as the model for your printer. This gives far, FAR better performance than Samsung's drivers even though it takes a few minutes to set up. Either way, the speed, quality, and low cost of this printer are amazing. The warm-up time is always precisely 20 seconds, the printing speed seems to be always around 15 ppm, and the form factor of the ML-1710 allows it to be put almost anywhere. I take off one star for the trouble it took me to find decent OS X drivers and also because the manual paper feed isn't very good: at least on OS X, there is no option for it and it puts out an additional piece of paper in addition to the manual page. Sometimes, regardless of the computer, if you put the page in the manual feed slot just a bit too far in, it will pull the page through without printing anything. Never did I expect to get an office-quality laser printer for so cheap. The Samsung ML-1710 is well worth the money if you are a consumer who prints mainly black and white documents (e.g. a college student as myself).
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