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Summary: Good printer, toner costs are actually not high!
Review: An earlier reviewer complaining about toner costs missed a point about the Samsung. The Samsung toner cart is a combined toner/drum cartridge. The Brother printers have seperate toners and drums. From experience, you need to replace the Brother drum after about 15k pages, not the 20k they rate the drums at. So every 4-5 cartridges, you need a new drum too. The combined Samsung cart is about 50% more than the equiv Brother, but if you get the Brother, you will spend the "savings" on a drum later. That said, both the Samsung and equiv Brother are great printers, just make sure your Brother drum doesn't run out during a project, or your local office supply chain store will charge about 50% more for the drum than Amazon (about as much as 2 Samsung carts).
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Summary: Good printer, toner costs are actually not high!
Review: An earlier reviewer complaining about toner costs missed a point about the Samsung. The Samsung toner cart is a combined toner/drum cartridge. The Brother printers have seperate toners and drums. From experience, you need to replace the Brother drum after about 15k pages, not the 20k they rate the drums at. So every 4-5 cartridges, you need a new drum too. The combined Samsung cart is about 50% more than the equiv Brother, but if you get the Brother, you will spend the "savings" on a drum later. That said, both the Samsung and equiv Brother are great printers, just make sure your Brother drum doesn't run out during a project, or your local office supply chain store will charge about 50% more for the drum than Amazon (about as much as 2 Samsung carts).
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Summary: Excellent economy choice.
Review: I just purchased a ML-1750, and so far it's great! The toner-save mode is quite handy, and still creates very legible text, just slightly lighter than normal mode. One wouldn't notice the difference except side-by-side, so it's well worth the 40% toner savings claimed by Samsung. The included toner prints only 1000 pages; 3000 pages is the yield for a regular cartridge, at around $80, a pretty good deal.The printer is fast and setup was easy. Note that a USB cable is not included. As mentioned, it is somewhat light, so you have to hold onto the printer when inserting the toner/paper cartridges, but this is not much of an issue. It does also take about 20 seconds to warm-up. The power-save timeout is configurable, however, as are many other options. The included drivers are excellent in that regard; features include poster mode, multi-page per sheet, zoom, etc. The only complaint I have is regarding paper handling: it's not totally straight, so pages can come out just very slightly skewed. Make sure the guides in the paper tray are properly setup (a bit of a trick, because you can only have it in one very tiny "click" before 8.5" won't fit anymore), and it's not off by more than 1 or 2 mm, but otherwise.. it bounds on unacceptable. This could have been easier to setup. The manual paper feed seems like it might have similar issues, although I haven't had an opportunity to totally test it yet. All in all, a great printer, highly recommended. 1200dpi, up to 8X as much memory as competitors, paper tray. Just make sure you setup the guides right, and you're set!
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Summary: Great Little Printer
Review: If your looking for a small but very capable laser printer for personal or home office use, this Samsung is an excellent choice. In addition to its attractive appearance, small size, and fast print speed, this printer also has very good quality output for text and graphics. The only minor drawbacks I can claim have been mentioned by others: noise during operation (quiet when in sleep mode) and first print warm-up of about 30 seconds (actually quite good for printers in this range, but slower than some inkjets). I also had problems with feeding very thick cardstock without having the paper slip in the roller and print slightly askew. But despite that difficulty, the paper feed options are still above average for this class of printer. All in all, this is an excellent choice for anyone looking for economical, high quality B&W home printing.
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Summary: Toner too expensive
Review: In interests of full disclosure, I chose not to buy this printer due to toner costs. Just check those costs before you buy. A 3000 page toner costs $79, versus $54 for the toner of an equivalent Brother (say the HL1440 which I have owned) or $70 for a 6000 page Brother toner. I think Samsung is known to do this "make the profit in the refills" for this printer.
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Summary: Toner too expensive
Review: In interests of full disclosure, I chose not to buy this printer due to toner costs. Just check those costs before you buy. A 3000 page toner costs $79, versus $54 for the toner of an equivalent Brother (say the HL1440 which I have owned) or $70 for a 6000 page Brother toner. I think Samsung is known to do this "make the profit in the refills" for this printer.
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Summary: Excellent Choice
Review: This is my first laser printer, and I'm amazed at how quickly it prints compared to my old inkjet. Text quality is great and the printer is very easy to set up. Mac users be warned, even though the specs say Macs are supported, Samsung ships this printer with a small card inside saying that any reference to Mac support should be disregarded and offers to buy back the printer because of this afterthought. Overall, an excellent value.
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Summary: Best Laser Printer
Review: This is truly a fantastic investment. The picture quality is very sharp. It prints amazingly fast. Can do almost everything a professional quality printer could. It's so small it fits perfectly in my desk. It also goes into sleep mode to preserve the toner. Get this printer. The 1750, this one, is the newest model from samsung.
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Summary: Samsung has discontinued Mac Support!!!
Review: This wonderfully efficient, quick, and compact printer worked relatively well under Mac OS 10.2, but-when I updated to OS 10.3-it failed to provide adequate performance. Some items do not print, printing order is reversed, and (for some users) the OS 10.3 printer driver update (not included) corrupts the Mac OS system to the effect that it disallows all printing. Quelle Horreure!! Samsung claims the driver was not sufficiently developed because they have discontinues Mac support and their software development firm, located in Korea, does not recognize Macintosh as a viable business partner. In other words, skip this purchase if you use 10.3!
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