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Summary: Fast, Easy, Reliable
Review: I received the printer about a month ago and it was easy to setup, the printing clarity is excellent. I use the USB port and it prints very quickly, I definitely recommend using this port over the parallel port. The paper loader is just like the more expensive laser printers feeds well and holds a good number of pages. The paper loader was always a pet peeve in the past, they never held enough or fed correctly.
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Summary: Great Printer, But NOT True 1200 dpi
Review: I wrote to Samsung tech support inquiring about why I couldn't set my printer to 1200 dpi. In the printer driver settings, you can only choose '300 dpi', '600 dpi', and '1200 dpi (class)'. When set to '1200 dpi (class)', the SRT Mode settings become enabled, and you can choose between 'Text Enhance' and 'Image
Enhance'. With the printer set to '1200 dpi (class)', the configuration sheet printout says 'QUALITY=600'. Samsung tech support responded with:
"This is capable of 1200 dpi if you add the PostScript Module.
Please call our Accessories Department for supplies." I wrote back, stating that every bit of my research into this printer prior to purchase indicated that this was a true 1200 dpi printer, plain and simple, without qualification. To which they responded:
"After Review our Legal Department has comfirmed that the statement 'Capable of 1200dpi' is the key phrase and further more it is stated that the options include, extra 2ndary paper trays, EDO memory and PS modules." Confusing. Otherwise, a very good 600 dpi printer.
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Summary: Replacement Cartridge
Review: I've read a lot of reviews talking about how hard the cartridge is to find. You can find the cartridge at microcenter.com.
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Summary: One more thing re warranty
Review: If it is DOA, Samsung will only replace it with a remanufactured unit (if you are unable to lug it to their service center). So, you pay for a new one, it dies within one year, and you get a remanufactred one in its place. No more Samsungs for me. HP seems the way to go.
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Summary: Could be the best kept printer secret
Review: It took me a while to make a decision regarding replacing my old laser printer. I knew I wanted to stay away from low-end HP laser printers....I have had this printer for a week. The low price was attractive. With some of the money I saved, I purchased an extended warranty with full replacement. The print quality is comparable to other more expensive laser printers. It has more features than HP printers that are twice the price. Toner cartridges are still difficult to find. The big unknown about this printer is long-term reliability....I decided that an extended warranty is a sound option.
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Summary: Great Printer, Small Price
Review: It was time to replace my HP Laserjet III, and after some looking around it became apparent that Samsung and Brother are more competitive than HP in the low end personal laser market. I chose the Samsung and am very pleased with the choice. The Samsung provides great output (1200 x 1200 DPI), is fast, is networkable, and you can expand the memory to do complex printing. I miss the heavy construction of the HP, but the Samsung is a good product for the money...
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Summary: Outstanding features at a reasonable price
Review: My HP Laserjet 4 finally died, and I spent several days looking at laser printers. Now that I've had this one for a couple months, I'm convinced I made the right choice. It's a great printer at a great price! It holds a huge amount of paper - 500 sheets at once. I've fed thick card stock and cover stock through it, and envelopes/labels load and print with no problems. Many of the inexpensive laser printers feel cheap and flimsy - this one feels substantial, much more like my HP than most of the lasers on the market. One feature I really love is the "reprint" button- press it, and it prints another copy of the page you printed last. Why don't all printers do this? It prints a lot faster than my old HP - plenty fast enough for a small office environment. The toner cartridge includes the drum - very important, as many of the cheaper printers have a separate drum which must be replaced with every few toners, sometimes for almost as much as the printer cost! The included starter cartridge is good for only 3000 pages at 5% rated coverage (less than that in real life), but considering how cheap the printer is I still think it's a bargain that they include a cartridge at all. The regular cartridge is rated for 6000 pages. Compare this to an inkjet (where they basically give the printer away to sell you overpriced ink cartridges for the rest of your life) and I can't see why anyone wouldn't buy a laser. This one has the right combination of features and a great price - highly recommended!
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Summary: Outstanding features at a reasonable price
Review: My HP Laserjet 4 finally died, and I spent several days looking at laser printers. Now that I've had this one for a couple months, I'm convinced I made the right choice. It's a great printer at a great price! It holds a huge amount of paper - 500 sheets at once. I've fed thick card stock and cover stock through it, and envelopes/labels load and print with no problems. Many of the inexpensive laser printers feel cheap and flimsy - this one feels substantial, much more like my HP than most of the lasers on the market. One feature I really love is the "reprint" button- press it, and it prints another copy of the page you printed last. Why don't all printers do this? It prints a lot faster than my old HP - plenty fast enough for a small office environment. The toner cartridge includes the drum - very important, as many of the cheaper printers have a separate drum which must be replaced with every few toners, sometimes for almost as much as the printer cost! The included starter cartridge is good for only 3000 pages at 5% rated coverage (less than that in real life), but considering how cheap the printer is I still think it's a bargain that they include a cartridge at all. The regular cartridge is rated for 6000 pages. Compare this to an inkjet (where they basically give the printer away to sell you overpriced ink cartridges for the rest of your life) and I can't see why anyone wouldn't buy a laser. This one has the right combination of features and a great price - highly recommended!
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Summary: Looks great but as of today no Jag drivers
Review: Okay, I don't have one of these but I want to buy one! I've been comparing it to the 1200se and it seems to win hands down -- it holds twice as much paper, prints 30 percent faster, the toner is slightly cheaper per page and it has a "toner saver" feature that stretches a toner cartidge about 40 percent longer. Sounds great, right? Plus, in several reviews I've read both printers get the same high ratings on print quality and reliability. However, as of 11-18-02 Samsung is saying (and I quote!) "There is a 50/50 chance that it [that is, the older OS X drivers] will work on OSX.2, the driver for the OSX.2 will be out next monht." Now, I would think the tech guys at Samsung could afford to buy one G4, install Jaguar and know 100 percent if the older OS X drivers would work. But at least they got back to me right away while I'm still waiting for HP to respond. There is an open source project for OSX printer drivers called GIMP, but currently no support for this Samsung as far as I can tell. So while this is a great printer (and I was planning to get the Postscript upgrade and some extra memory) for the price, OS X 10.2 users should check availability of working drivers before buying. For what it's worth, I don't know that I will buy this and HOPE Samsung delivers when they say they will. Another month longer for them is no big deal (I guess), but for me, with a printer that I can only use in Classic, it would be a serious drag.
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Summary: Great printer with a few tiny flaws
Review: Reviewer: An electronics fan from New York
I have been a happy owner of Brother HL-630 since Windows 3.1 days. For years it served my need quite well, W3.1, W95, W98, until recently it decided not to take in any more paper. So I needed a new printer. I don't need to print out fancy photos or colorful booklets. I needed a good black-white laser printer at reasonal price. I couldn't quite decide between Samsung ML-1450 and Brother HL-1440. The feature and price were quite close. And both got some very good reviews and very bad ones. The Sumsung was $... more with 2MB extra memory, and I have been quite happy with my old Brother printer.
Here are the few reasons why I chose Samsung at last:
1. Built-in memory: 4MB for Samsung, 2MB for Brother HL-1440. I don't want to open the new printer and install more memory right away.
2. Resolution: 1200x1200 for Samsung, 1200x600 for Brother. It doesn't matter much for everyday printing, but one never knows.
3. Multi-page printing: 16 for Samsung, 10 or something for Brother. Don't remember the exact number, read in someone's review, but not 16. Does it matter? again, one never knows.
4. Paper input capacity: 550 for Samsung, 250 for Brother. I am lazy and rather like to print without worrying if I have enough paper in the stack.
5. Reviews on Amazon: bad ones for Samsung are mostly from Mac user while there are both PC and Mac for Brother. I am a PC user.
7. Toner: Toner/Drum unit for Samsung, one replacement for both while Brother needs separate units which in turn would cost more.
8. This is small but quite personal opinion: Brother looks cheaper. HL-1850 is great but I didn't want to spend that much. Just received my Samsung a few days ago. The machine looked great, simple neat design. Very easy to set up. It came with a color manual for installation. One could use it right away without reading its manual. The output look sharp and great. I would love to give it a 5-star, except a few things below:
1. The data transfer beween computer and printer is noticable slow, even compare to my ancient Brother HL-630. I am running Windows 2000 with 256RAM. Currently I use parallel port. I am not sure if USB would be better but then I already a couple USB devices at the same time so I doubt the bandwidth would be better.
2. No hardcopy manual provided. You can easily download it from Samsung website and print it out. Good test on double-side printing, but of course also good test on one's patient with slow data transfer before it starts printing.
3. When you have only one piece of paper on the multi-purpose tray, the paper could easily got jammed...
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