Legendary printer - been with me for years (Samsung ML 4500)

Member Name: bored_at_home

Product:	Samsung ML 4500
Date:	15/10/09 (21 review reads)
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Advantages: Fast, High capacity, Low running costs, Reliable

Disadvantages: Dust magnet, slow sending images to it

This printer must be 8 years old now and mine is still ticking! It has no faults, and in that whole time I've only replaced the toner cartridge once! The 8ppm is still fast enough, it can catch a good chunk of paper for you or just drop it all in the floor on a pile. It can almost hold a full pack of 500 sheets in the 'in' tray. The quality doesn't fade as the drum is built into the cartridge so the quality is renewed with every cartridge change. The accuracy is enough for any document printing need, I used this printer to print my dissertation and my gf is now using it to print hers.
The only problem I have with this printer is that it uses the old parallel port technology - it can be a nightmare to find a card for these but when I did I even got the printer working under windows vista! The printer can be slow to warm up and I think most of this is down to the parallel port speed.

B&W laser printers still retail at £150 and this is still a viable contender after 8 odd years on the market!

Summary: Will never need another document printer

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