Samsung
ML-2955DW
Price: $205
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Grey
exterior, the Samsung ML-2955DW can not look more realistic, but its features
are significant. Maximum speed of 28 pages/minute (ppm), quite fast, and it
has USB interface, a wired Ethernet and 802.11n wireless. In summary, this is a
reasonable specification for this price.
Fat and
short body of the printer has a room for an output 150-sheet tray. It is
completely covered by a dust barrier that you have to turn it up to form part
of the tray when you print. It is compact design, but we wish Samsung had
similar attention granted to the tray. When load A4 paper in, the tray sticks
out at the back of the printer. There is no cap included, so dust can
accumulate on sheets of paper if the printer is used occasionally. Slot for
versatile paper providing is covered by a lid with latch, but the lid release
requires many pressure that the printer is moved behind the working desk.
Panel of
ML-2955DW includes four buttons, including the Eco button we saw on the recent
Samsung printers. When enabled, this makes the client computer to set up saving
in paper and toner, although it can be ignored by the user if they want. There
is a “soft” power button no disconnect the printer physically from the main
power source, so that the printer uses 0.1W when off.
A setup
process installs driver easily of Samsung, which is one of the best process
we've ever seen. It helps you easily select the correct paper or envelope
settings, but when printing envelopes, it seems inconsistent with the optional
direction of the Adobe Reader, so the text is rotated 90 degrees in our first
envelope printing test. We have solved the problem after several attempts, then
we have the perfect, plain envelope print.
On the
other hand, print quality is very good. Black text is clear without aliasing,
the graphics and color photos present the smooth transfer with no apparent
wobble pattern. Light is better than the average for a monochrome laser printer,
although they are slightly lighter than the ideal level and show some horizontal
banding phenomenon.
Printer
speed sticks as Samsung’s announcement in our tests, which including the time
required to prepare and roll work. When connected via Ethernet, the printer
provides 25 copies of a full text letter in more than 1 minute, 24 rich
graphics pages is longer than 2 seconds. As we waited, automatic 2-sided
printing of the paper is slower, with 10 sides of graphics on five sheets of
paper take exactly 1 minute to print.
Operating
expenses are not the cheapest we've seen when using the Samsung 2500 pages toner
cartridge, but they are quite reasonable for a monochrome laser printer in this
price. However, for heavy users, we recommend the Samsung ML-3710ND.
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Summary
Comment. A
monochrome laser printer is quite competitive with high print quality, but
heavy users should look for a model with lower operating costs.
Monochrome
laser printer for home/small office 1200dpi, 28ppm
Mono, USB interface, 10/100 Ethernet, 802.11n wireless, 197x348x338mm,
one-year RTB warranty.
Energy
consumption: 2W stand by, 4W idle, 967W active.
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Choosing
Laser Printing
Follow
these steps to find your ideal specification
Resolution:
600x600dpi
Memory:
8MB
Speed:
16ppm
Interface:
USB
Page/month:
5000
Paper
Tray: 150 sheets A4
These are
just the minimum specification that are proposed
1. The
price of the A4 laser printer with the above specifications starts at $85. The
model is good for users who print under 500 pages/month. Look for good print
quality, flexible drivers and operating cost is lower than 2p/page. Ideally, it
should keep paper neatly in the tray horizontally and allow proving papers
recorded in the head and handmade envelopes easily.
2. You
have to spend more for a printer with the design quality and speed to cope with
heavy workload. The users who use it frequently or small workgroups need 25
pages/minute (ppm), the whole department needs more. Printing requires cost of 1p/page
or less.
3. The
color laser printers are available with four grooves rolled for about $202.
They are cheaper but much slower when printing in color compared with 1 slot
model. Fortunately, some of the cheapest printers just have a slot.
4. The
support for printer language such as Printer Control Language (PCL)
6 or PostScript 3 means that you can use printer with any computer, even some
PDAs.
5. Not all
laser printers print graphics well, but a resolution of 1200dpi will help.
Color laser printers can print high-quality graphics but it should have at
least 32MB of memory.
6. Network
adapter allows you to connect the printer to an Ethernet network, so all
network users can print it directly. Smaller groups can use a PC to host and
share any printer by using File and Print Sharing Wizard utility of the
Windows.
7. 2-sided
printing option is cheaper and allows you to print two sides of paper
automatically. A scanner/fax unit makes printer turn into versatile accessory.
The large groups should have multiple paper trays to handle the kinds of paper are
printed at the top and other office papers.
