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Summary: Forget inkjets....amazing Samsung
Review: This black and white printer saved my life!!!! Unbeatable price, no paper jams, simple to set up, and incredibly fast. Only downside is that it is so fast that if you are printing more than 15 pages at a time you can't leave its side. The paper flies out and you will have a problem keeping them in order. But it beats waiting for an inkjet all day. No color, but really, how often in day to day office applications, do you need color?
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Summary: Great Printer! Here's a tip on buying USB cable...
Review: I agree with most of the other reviews here. This printer does a really sharp job with text. Graphics are not quite as superb, but for a personal laser printer it's quite acceptable.One note about the front-feed slot. If you like feeding envelopes or nonstandard-sized paper into your printer, you should know that the adjustable guides can get moved out of position with little effort, and it's easy for your paper to get crooked while going through. You have to pay close attention when feeding the paper to make sure it goes in straight. Other than that, it works fine, and I have had no problems at all so far using the tray. One tip for buying a USB cable: DO NOT buy your cable at Best Buy, Circuit City, or CompUSA. You will pay between $20 and $30 for a 6' Belkin cable. If you go to Wal-Mart or Target you can get a name brand cable (in not-as-fancy packaging) for less than $15.
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Summary: Wonderfully functional little printer
Review: I have not cursed this printer at all over the year during which I have used it, and that is something to say for an inexpensive peripheral. The printer has nice resolution, speed, and always works. Toner refilling is easy and the toner can be purchased very cheaply if you know where to look. I highly recommend this printer for anyone who needs high-quality B&W prints.
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Summary: AMAZING
Review: I have had this printer now for 1 year. In that 1 year I have gone through maybye 7000 various pages. This tiny little beast does the job extremly well. One time my dog ran away and i had to print out 200 flyers for the occasion. The samsung got it done in about 2 minutes! Also if you are worried about the price of tonor you can get them very cheap through the internet when you buy the refilled versions and you also get a major discount if you buy more than 1. I payed $50 each because i bought 5. I still have 4 in my closit. Anyways AMAZING printer. Not compatible with lenox and mac though. If you need that get the 1740.
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Summary: Fine for college kids and below. Disappointing otherwise.
Review: I bought this printer because it got very good reviews and was cheap. I had to replace my Epson which I loved, but it wasn't compatible with OSX when I upgraded my system. The printer works. That's about the best I can say about it. It's slow to start up and is noisy. Things I can overlook because I don't print much, but annoying nonetheless. I had my Epson for over 2 yrs. and printed a lot - never ran out of ink and ink never faded. I've had this printer for less than a year, I've printed a fraction of the amount from the Epson, and it's already fading even after shaking the toner. Also, it doesn't always print straight. Fine for notes, terrible for resumes and serious letters.
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Summary: Awesome printer... for 18 months
Review: When I bought this printer, I thought I had found a gold mine---laser quality printing at a very affordable price. For 18 months, I was extremely satisfied; it worked like a dream and the quality was excellent. Just as good as the more expensive laser printers at my research lab (except no duplex). No more replacing ink cartridges every other month! The initial toner lasted 6 months. The second toner is still working well.
Too good to be true? Yes. Eighteen months after I bought the printer, it stopped working... six months after the warranty expired. I called up Samsung. They said the fuser needed replacing and I had to take it to a repair shop. How much would that cost? As much as I paid for the printer! I'd would have expected the printer to last much longer... but I guess you get what you pay for...
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Summary: An excellent, efficient, inexpensive printer.
Review: A few months ago I noticed this small laser printer for sale at Best Buy (...). Needing a printer and liking the price, I purchased the printer. I have not regretted that decision since.
The original "starter cartridge" printed envelopes very faintly and ran out of toner at 500 pages instead of the estimated 1,000. No big deal, a simple change of the toner cartridge (a 5 second task), and voila! -- the envelopes print fine.
Toner distribution has been even, with only an occasional shaking of the cartridge needed. It prints text and online bar-coded postage crisp and cleanly even on cheap paper.
Using the Samsung drivers for Mac OS X it prints quickly and efficiently. The printer auto-detects that one is feeding paper through the envelope slot and feeds only from there.
I've only detected a few minor issues:
1) Occasionally (and this hasn't happened recently) the printer will feed paper at a slight angle causing the text to appear slightly canted. This hasn't been an issue for several months.
2) If one attempts to insert an envelope into the envelope feeder when the printer is "hot", there's no problem. However, if one attempts to feed the envelope when the printer's "cold", it feeds the envelope entirely through the mechanism while the corona wires heat up. One then needs to wait the 20-30 seconds while it heats to feed envelopes. This can be avoided by opening and closing the toner cartridge door or tapping the "Toner Save/Cancel" button twice (hitting it once will cause the printer to heat up but enable/disable Toner Save -- hitting it twice causes it to return to whatever setting it was on before).
3) I wish there was some way to have the printer remain "hot" for longer periods of time. I frequently will write a letter, print it, and then start a second letter. During the period I'm writing the second letter the printer cools down, needing another heating cycle to get ready.
All in all, the ML-1710 is a most excellent low-end laser printer. It's significantly less expensive to operate than inkjet printers, prints crisply and clearly, is easy to maintain (i.e. by changing toner), and prints on both regular paper and envelopes just fine.
The only features I'd request would be a deeper output tray (I sometime print several hundred pages at once), the ability to print straight-through (even with the back panel open, the printer slightly bends the paper leading to crinkling in some envelopes), and the ability to adjust the timer for cooling down. Otherwise, I'm extremely satisfied with the printer.
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Summary: Big things DO come in little packages !
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I purchased this printer to do office jobs in black and white, I print a lot of labels and want them to be smear free.
This little machine has traveled with me and my laptop to many different trade shows and motel rooms.
It's small, square and easy to transport and set up.
I did have a problem with the software NOT working on my MAC OSX and called SAMSUNG Tech Support and they sent me a download to get me going.
I rate the SAMSUNG ML-1710 and SAMSUNG Tech Support - 5 STARS each !!
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Summary: The worst of all possible printers?
Review: This printer is a worthless piece of junk. It doesn't deserve even one star, and I'd rate it zero if I could. It can't print envelopes, which come out badly crinkled no matter how they are fed, and with text so faint in any font it's barely readable. It cannot print even a single decent page of normal, dark, well defined characters in any font I've tried. It prints most fonts extremely lightly, such that the characters are fainter than draft quality. These problems have existed from the beginning. No matter what settings one makes to try to get it to print characters darkly it still fails to print normally. Samsung replaced the original toner cartridge, but that did not solve the problems. This printer was a complete waste of money. If someone gave me one of these, I'd refuse it. This evaluation comes from one who has experience with various laser printers at work and home. Years ago I owned a very inexpensive Panasonic laser printer that worked great in every respect throughout its life. This printer is not worth a red cent. It can't be used for business correspondence or even personal letters, because it is incapable of producing a presentable page of text; it produces only embarrassments. In fact I always have to make five or so printings of a given page just be able to pick out one that has the fewest extra faint areas. But even the best choice among them is an embarrassment that I hate to have associated with my name. Samsung ought to be ashamed of themselves.
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Summary: BAD = Faint Envelope Printing + $110 Toner for Only 3000 pgs
Review: This printer was purchased for low volume office use.
~ USELESS for printing envelopes. Envelopes print barely legible, looks like a watermark (many other similar feedbacks on this).
~ NO FIX for problem - Samsung Tech Support UNABLE to fix faint envelope printing problem w/ new driver downloads.
~ From day one, the toner has been unevenly distributed across the printed pages. Shaking the toner cartridge as Samsumg suggests works for a page or two but them it's back to the same problem.
CAUTION - you get what you pay for.
don't waste your money on this product!!!!!!!!!!!!
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