Cheap to Buy. Cheap to Run (Samsung ML 2010)

Member Name: bencallis

Product:	Samsung ML 2010
Date:	17/05/08 (793 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap, fast, refillable toner, small

Disadvantages: Envelopes can get jammed

I purchased this printer around 3 months ago for £45 which I thought was great value for money.
Laser printers have come down in price over the last few years and mono (black and white) laser printers are now of similar price to basic ink-jets.

I wanted to buy a laser printer as I was fed up with inkjets drinking ink and the faff of having to change ink on such a regular basis. The samsung was in my budget and had all the benefits of a laser printer in a small box.

The printer was easy to setup and came with drivers for windows Vista and Xp. I am a Mac user and it was plug and play for me (with Leopard). The toner had to be inserted which is done within seconds.

Being my first laser printer I was impressed with the printing speeds, long gone have the days of waiting 30mins for a journal to print. Printing a 30 page document is now done within minutes.
The printer is relatively small (as far as laser printers go) and will fit on almost any desk (Dimensions (WxDxH) 35.8 cm x 29.9 cm x 21.7 cm). The printer has a relatively small paper capacity at 150 sheets, although this is ample enough for home use or smaller offices.

As its only a Mono laser printer photos are not expected to be printed although simple graphs and small pictures in documents print out nice enough.
The printer is shipped with a 1/3rd full cartridge which is rated at 1,000 prints. After 3 months of 'normal' use this is still going strong. Official replacement cartridges are as expensive as the printer and are rated at 3,000 prints, thankfully the cartridges can be refilled with ease.

An interesting feature of this printer is 'Toner Save' mode which is estimated to save you 40% of toner per print! Having this feature enabled reduces the darkness of the blacks although it is perfectly adequate and I am currently have it enabled.
A slight annoyance is the fact when printing on envelopes they often get jammed, although I think this could be due to the quality of the envelopes I am currently using.

Overall this is a great printer which is extremely cheap to run!

Summary: This is a great printer for document printing!

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