Samsung ML-1710 Laser Printer

Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your time or money
Review: This printer was purchased for low volume office use. 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. The printer is useless for printing envelopes. They come out faint as a watermark and barely readable every time. Reading other reviews reveals that there is no fix for this problem. My advice - as with almost everything else, is that you get what you pay for. Don't waste your money on this product.

Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: This is not a serious printer. If you want to print more than, say, 2 pages a month, save your money (doesn't take that much) and buy a Hewlett Packard. Also, good luck with their "tech support."

This will be my last Samsung product.

Rating:
Summary: It prints, but it won't bake bread.
Review: So the BIG BOX store employee said this printer was a great value. I have owned my Samsung ML 1710 for 8 months now. It is both PC and Mac compatible, which works for me. It is a very basic machine that prints. But there are a few things you must understand before you buy it.

Most printers in this price range come with what is known as a starter cartridge: It works for a few weeks, a couple hundred pages, at which time the toner runs out and you have to buy a new cartridge ($70 - $80). Thus the previous reviewers complaints.

I like this printer for it's simple interface, the fact that there is no drum to replace every 10,000 pages (the drum is built into the cartridge, or so I was told), and it is quite small compared to other laser printers.

This product lost one star for print quality. I find that even with a new cartridge , varying amounts of toner adhere across the page, so pages always looks like your running out of toner.

It lost another star because it takes an incredibly long time warm up.

So far, my average cost per page is about 14 cents - based on cartridge replacement and estimated life of the machine (but not including paper).