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Samsung ML2571N Compact Laser Printer
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Up to 24ppm in A4 (25ppm in Letter) Print Speed. Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi effective output Print Resolution. As fast as 9.0 seconds from Ready First Print Out Time. 32 MB (Max) Memory. PostScript3, PCL6 Emulation.
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Customer Reviews
for Samsung ML2571N Compact Laser Printer --- Samsung
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Great, fast and Clean printer
I have been using this printer on an all Mac network at my office for about 8mo.s. Besides the fact that it is a little loud when it gears up to print, it is a very good printer. It will occasionally need to be rebooted when it becomes unresponsive. Other than that, it's perfect.
You can't beat the quality and price. It's very fast also.
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Very nice printer
First off - Amazon's description of this printer is wrong - it does not fax. I wish it did; but it doesn't. See HP site for more accurate description.
Ok, the main reason I bought this printer was because i was getting frustrated with my inkjets. For the last 9 years, it was always a roll of the dice if what i printed would come out ok or not. Now that the laser printers have come down in price (I was able to get this printer for under $600), I thought it might be worth it..
Although the real test will be a year from now, so far so good. The quality has been great. I have 4 computers at home, so the networking feature works wonderful for me. And I love the fact that I can stick my sony memory sticks directly into the printer and print without the PC. Speed is probably slower than average for a laser (compared to those that I've seen at work) but still ok when compared to my old inkjets. Really, the only issue i had with this printer was the price.. but if it lasts me the next few years with no hassle, then that would make up for the cost. Minor issues were the lack of a fax, and the size - it is pretty big - but that is to be expected with color lasers.
Overall I am quite pleased with the product..
Now, with that said, I can see how this printer isnt for everyone. I wont print a lot.. in fact i print very little.. so little that my inkjets would dry out due to lack of use. People with higher volume needs may not like the printer - as the number of pages that the toners are stated to last for is 2000pages- not sure if thats just the out-of-box toners-but i can imagine that not being much for a small office printer.
Also, its not a true photo quality printer. You can print photos with it.. and the quality is still pretty good..(good enough for me) but, if thats the main reason for your purchase, i would stick with a cheaper photo inkjet printer.
Anyway, hope this info helps.
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Great Mac and PC compatible Color Laser MFP
This HP Color LaserJet CM1017 is great. It is actually weighs less then my old Black and White Canon D780. What makes this printer great for me is the ability to copy and the ability to print color reliable. It's a excellent printer and now I don't have to worry about here are my thoughts so far.
Installation, dirt simple. Unpacked it, plugged it in to network, and turned it on. The LCD screen is easy to navagate and it prints out a nice sheet on the current network connection status. It quickly found my DHCP, I went to the IP and did some basic setup. Then popped in the CD, added a printer, pointed Windows XP to the CD's driver folder and I was in business. Very easy. Setting up my Mac was also easy.
After using my PrintFixPro color calibration the prints were very nice. Mostly I plan on printing out Google directions and invoices but this is a great printer.
Over all everything about the printer is good, so it would take too long to list them. But there are a couple issues. People complain about the lack of Fax features, but I don't miss that at all. Use eFax! It's way better then a standard Fax machine.
So, the only issue I have, is that the Duplexing is "manual" which to mean's it doesn't have duplexing. This doesn't matter too much to me but it's pretty lame. The sibling HP printer all support duplexing, and I think this printer should too. Oh well. It does have software duplexing build into the driver which is sorta handy, but I think real duplexing would have been better.
Oh well... still it's a great printer, and it's great for mix environments like ours. Finding a good MFP for Macs and PC's is hard.
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So far, so good
I've been using this all-in-one for 3 months now. So far, it's been a great buy. I read reviews that it went through ink cartridges quickly, but with moderate use, I haven't noticed that problem. Color print quality is ok.. maybe with the upgraded ink cartridges, it would be better. But if I was worried about that, I'd probably have gotten a dedicated photo printer. It's cheaper to order prints online anyways.
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Good, reliable printer
We installed fourteen of these under our purview (college dorms) 10 months ago and our residents printed ~800,000 copies since.
Pros:
* They simply do not jam. I've run a printing operation serving 2500 residents for eight years and have never had a workgroup laserprinter be so reliable.
* They work well in an 'open' printing environment. We us PostScript and accept about 25% of our jobs from Macs, 70% from PCs - mostly XPSP2, and 5% Linux. There are no noticeable OS issues. We've seen that certain versions of Acrobat on Windows or Mac may fail to print, particularly with large file sizes (>300MB ps) or with full-page mathematical notations, but Adobe upgrades fix that on Windows and Preview fixes that on Mac.
* Changing toner is a no-brainer.
* The print quality is excellent for both text and color images. I'm uncertain why Andre's experience was so poor, but believe it was an anomaly.
Cons:
* It's slow. Expect to wait the 20 seconds or so for first page out unless you've just printed another job. And, when it starts printing, it's no speed demon. If you are setting up only one or so, the sleep time is configurable, but with 14 of these deployed and managed by student staff, we merely put printers in place, out-of-box. Stick with Xerox workgroup printers for speedy KW printing.
* It's heavy. Two person heavy. Really.
* It's bigger than your average printer.
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Coulda been a great printer....
Most of the time this printer is a winner. Rarely jams, and print quality is excellent. And the duplexer works very nicely. However, after 3 months we've had the machine out of order as much as working, primarily due to inept service techs. But now we think the problem is solved and the printer seems to work perfectly. Unfortunately, it has another problem--toner disappears like beer at a frat party. I haven't tracked pages printed, but with what seems to me like pretty light usage we are going through about $400 worth of toner a month, with only a few people on the printer. If that works for your budget then this is otherwise a decent machine.
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Great so Far
After a week, this printer is proving to be a great value. For $500, the speed is unbeatable and so far print quality is great. I set it up in about 30 minutes on my home network, without having to refer to anything but the quick setup instructions. It works fine from all 3 computers now and I am very happy. Once, after being unplugged accidentally for a day, I had to reinstall the drivers because it was assigned a different IP address when it came back up - and I'm sure there was an easier fix, but it took about 10 minutes to reinstall the software.
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Brillant color and amazing speed
You cannot beat the price (under $400) and speed of this color laser printer. All the engineering that you would expect of a Ricoh is built into this product. Really solid features and well constructed for long life. About 3500 pages average for each laser ink cartridge - individualy replaceable - very simple design. The color on photo grade paper is stunning. I researched all avaialable laser printers and there is not a better deal to be had on a color laser from a quality manufactuer. If you want the best Tektronix - now Xerox Phaser 8560 with the ink sticks is still the best but at 2.5 times the price. If you have very high volume the Xerox is the better deal becuase the ink sticks are under $100 as opposed to the Laser ink cartridges - lowest price about $140 - so over 2 years or so the Xerox is better.
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GOOD PRINTER
THIS IS A SECOND PRINTER ADD-ON AFTER USING A 4200N FOR 4 YRS (AND STILL WORKING GREAT). THE 4200 HAS BEEN SUCH A WORK HORSE, I FIGURED WE COULD NOT GO WRONG WITH THE UPGRADE 4250TN. SO FAR, THE 4250 IS MEETING ALL EXPECTATIONS.
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Fast, Darned Fast
I am used to faster network printers in the 30ppm range (which makes home printers seem slow). Then, this thing spits out at 45ppm. It seems like ours does 60ppm because it prints a page per second (maybe because they are not full pages of text). Wow. Of course, the expected HP quality and reliability.
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Good all around printer for your point-n-shoot digital camera
This is an excellent all-around printer for those who aren't too demanding in their choice of quality printers. It's perfect for the average family person who just needs the convenience and ease of printing what was shot with the digital camera over the weekend. Don't get me wrong - the output of the final results are quite impressive, but for those who have a more demanding eye for perfection and need more 'professional' results, this may not be the printer for you. For instance, I was originally going to purchase the new iP6700D which is touted as an ideal printer for the digital SLR user, with higher resolution and number of nozzles compared to the iP6310D. However, if you don't want the hassle of changing and maintaining 6 individual ink tanks at approximately $14 apiece, this iP6310D is probably the route you want to take, as it only has two inkjet tanks (approx $25 apiece) to worry about, yet has the 6 colors (3 grouped in each tank) like some of the more costly models.
Overall, I'm really satisfied with this printer, especially for the price, and the quality of the printed product. My only tip is, use the "Vivid Photo" option under printer settings to get more vibrant color.
I don't know what the difference is between this model and the iP6210D it replaces (the specs appear exactly the same), but I assume Canon made some improvemements and/or minor tweaks to it.
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Fast, but Buggy
This printer has a great price, good specs, and fast printing. However, it does have some issues that hopefully HP will work-out.
The firmware seems pretty buggy. We've had several different problems with the printer crashing. Every couple days or so we get a "Service Error" message on the screen and the printer has to be rebooted. Also, I tried printing a large (1000 page) pdf on it and it would just freeze after printing around 140 pages. It froze twice on the exact same number of pages. I had to break it up into print jobs of 100 pages each. We've also seen where it gets in an infinite cycle where it says, "Processing Job" and the data light blinks, but nothing ever comes out. Again, it requires a reboot. We upgraded the firmware, but the problems didn't go away.
FYI, a parallel port doesn't seem to deliver data fast enough to this printer! It consumes data faster than the port can send it. We could only achieve the 45ppm when we hooked it up to the USB 2.0 port. Not sure about the performance when using HP JetDirect internal print server.
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Unfair competitior
Last time we got frastrating experience from HP
deskjets, scanners and now laserjet.
Their competition seems unfair. Take a look on
a comperison chart above. As a competitors suppose to be
Dell 5300W and Lexmark 640T.
As for 4250 it worked for 4 month normally and
all of a sudden lost speed. Now about 35ppm.
We replaced firmware from september 2005.
It did not resolve speed issue.
Support simply waste our time for 2 hours
and I had to cancel conversation.
Previous guy is right printer is buggy.
In our case its event log already have 37 errors (max 50).
Finally paper loader died in a year.
So keep away from HP.
We already swithc to Canon, Microtek and Dell.
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This Printer is a Disaster
This printer is very loud. It sounds like a blowdryer and causes the lights in my office to dim (I'm in an old building, but still). I have a USB 2.0 connection, so there should be no problem. It keeps jamming and the help function is completely useless. I used the HP 4000 for many years and was very happy. This printer is a disaster.
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great printer, easy to use and fast
I researched pretty thoroughly before purchasing this printer. I bought it from Staples, and have been SO happy with the choice. It's not as compact and pretty as those new HP's but I have loved it nonetheless. I think the photo quality is great, even without changing out the color ink cartridge. The setup was a breeze, though I do not have the fax connected. You really get more features for a better price with this printer. It may not be as pretty as the others, but who cares!? It's done a great job so far, I have had it 6 months.
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I don't recommend, there are much better ones out there
I puchased x7350 without doing any product research. A BIG mistake. It ended up that I had to sell it on eBay and bought another one instead.
Problem 1: The quality is not bad but not good. Comparing with the Canon MP600 I bought later, the x7350 quality is about 70% of MP600 in my judgement.
Problem 2: It shakes greatly when prints. All inkjet printers shake to certain degree when print, this is normal. But this one shakes more than normal. Comapring with the Canon MP600, x7350 is at least 10 lb lighter with cheaper platic parts.
Problem 3: It doesn't work with Linksys print server. After trying with many different ways and working with Linksys teck support, I gave up. The problem is that Lexmark use some non-standard or proprietary protocal so their printers only work with their own printer servers which are 3x more expensive.
So before you purchase this one or other Lexmark all-in-one, please check out product reviews from sites like cnet or others. I have learned my lesson.
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Fast, but not robust, scanner
I've been using Lexmark X7350 for about two months. I've used it extensively to scan piles of A4 papers (using the ADF) and to scan books of various sizes.
1) Quality. I've found the quality of the text scanning is excellent (I use Scansoft Omnipage 15 and not the software that comes with it). You see clear text background and well shaped characters. However it's bad when it comes to handwritten documents in pencil.
2) Speed. It's fast. Much faster than many Canon scanner e.g. Canon MP110. It takes about 10 seconds to scan a document at 300 dpi.
3) Software. The worst scanner I've ever seen. For example you can scan directly to PDF but you can't see the scanned pages until the creation of the PDF. That means you can't rescan a page individually. Also after a paper jam you have to restart the whole job process. The software doesn't save anything in this case. This is what the case with Scansoft Omnipage 14 or 15.
However it wasn't a robust machine for me. After a month of extensive use the scanner head (the part under the glass that moves to scan the paper) started to move incorrectly making the scanning output with distortions such as very dark or zigzagged letters. I had to send the machine for repair. After repair some of the problems remain. Now I'm thinking of buying a more robust scanner.
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Lexmark X8350
I purchased this all-in-one mainly for the copy and fax capability. It has preformed perfectly in that capacity. This is the easiest all in one I have ever used, navigation is very intuitive.The foot print is small for what it does.
It has become my main printer.
P.S.
Check ink prices out on Amazon.
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Waste of Money
Well, it doesn't work correctly after only 6 months of light use. The drivers don't work right. The scan function doesn't work properly and now I have to replace it with another brand.
The customer service at Lexmark is dreadful.
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this is the one
Perfect- works right away, small in size overall, color screen, all components work perfectly.
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