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Samsung ML-2010 Laser Printer

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• Reviewed by: retroleum

  Updated: 11-27-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Days

  Strengths: Fast printing (once page is rendered), toner cartridge easily refilled, cheap

  Weaknesses: Jams easily, loud

  Overall Evaluation: I think I actually got money back by buying this printer because it was a floor model and had a rebate attached. But anyway, I was worried about the floor model part but it seems to be able to take a lot of use and maybe some abuse.As others have said, it's about as loud as a small jet engine when turning on, and it takes a little bit of time to warm up. It's extremely quick printing documents with selectable text like Word docs and typed PDFs. Image PDFs take may a WHILE to render per page, depending on the speed of your computer and the complexity of the image, but that is not really a fault of the printer itself. Print quality is very nice and crisp. Be sure to have the "Toner save" feature on, since it doesn't detract from quality and claims to save you toner (I've never had it off so I don't know if it works incredibly well, but 6 college students were able to get a whole year's worth of readings and papers out of one full cartridge). Speaking of toner, it's very easy to refill with bottle toner bought off eBay or somewhere. Don't bother buying cartridges (they're more expensive than the printer itself). It also works well with my Macs (Tiger and Leopard) after finding the right driver. Don't know about Vista.Unfortunately, the printer jams pretty easily... when I'm not using it. I suspect my friends are just not as careful loading the paper as I am, because I have to keep pulling jammed sheets out for them but rarely have jamming problems with it myself. So just load the paper carefully (in straightened stacks, not one by one if you can help it). I haven't tried thick paper or envelopes, so I don't know how it fairs with those.Overall, this is a very good printer. There were a lot of rebate deals for it last year, but I've seen mostly its newer cousin with rebates this year, so I don't know if it is quite the deal as before.

• Reviewed by: Thumba

  Updated: 11-11-07

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Years

  Strengths: Speed, price

  Weaknesses: Bad reliabilty.

  Overall Evaluation: Died after one year. When you turn it on there is a red indicator for error message always comes suddenly and there is no response.This is my first Samsung Printer.Used to have HP before. Hardly printed 150 pages.

• Reviewed by: goosebumpFLCL

  Updated: 10-06-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:5 Days

  Strengths: Durability, Reliability, Meets or exceeds all entry level B&W office laser averages.

  Weaknesses: Slow first page, uses PC's CPU to render pages. Heavier weight paper/envelope feed causes creaseing.

  Overall Evaluation: I picked this up as refurbished unit for around $70 with a 2yr limited warranty. It's my 3rd B&W laser and I'm rather impressed with it's capability. When you buy a budget small office laser your not expecting great things in quality rather the goal is to get as many pages out of it as cheaply as possible. This unit delivers.The text quality is above average for a budget printer. It does a good job with serf fonts (times) unless they run into the 8pt or lower area and then some serfs fall out or get clipped. When printing documents with highlighted text the gray scales are surprisingly well rendered, the contrast and brightness of the grays even allows for distinctions between yellow and light blue on screen when it's printed as two different tones of gray.Budget printers tend to go cause their moving parts are made with cheaper plastics and gears break, snap or jam. Several of these elements in the 2010 are made of thicker harder plastics and I've yet to have any part failures with 4 weeks of nearly continuous printing.When you print you'll have a bit of a wait time for the first page of the document you sent to it to spit out. Also you'll notice a spike in your cpu usage. This can be a problem for an older machine, my Athlon XP 1800 maxes out on any document over 10 pages of text.The slot loader for envelopes and thicker gauge paper is located above the main paper tray. It's easy enough to feed in envelopes however you can only feed one at a time and the feed is not a strait pass though, it gets bend around some roller heads which can cause heavier weight paper to crease. But this is common among nearly ever budget printer I've seen.Lastly I've noticed some comments about toner. While the strait from Samsung toner replacement cartages are around $70-$80 you can easily find generic replacement toner for half that price. The generic version work just as well as the Samsung's as far as I can tell.Good solid printer. I would recommend a refurbished unit to anybody in need of a cheap workhorse printer.

• Reviewed by: kareterra

  Updated: 09-22-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Years

  Strengths: nice quality prints, lots of paper storage, single sheet use with envelope feeder, fast, ease of use, toner seems to last forever

  Weaknesses: only prints b&w, but that's what you pay for.

  Overall Evaluation: this easily compares with the printers I use in the office setting for ease of use and print quality. I have been happy enough with my model that I purchased a second for my daughter. I bought this thing over a year ago and bought a spare toner to be prepared for when the printer ran out. so far, so good - I just hope toner doesn't expire! I love not having to constantly ask myself if I really need to print something because of the cost of the toner.

• Reviewed by: timjlin

  Updated: 07-29-06

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: Very affordable. Fast printing. Easy to install (on Mac/Windows network using Bonjour software). Small footprint. Toner Saver feature

  Weaknesses: Starter toner cartridge (need to get another one sooner!) No USB cable included.

  Overall Evaluation: Overall this printer is a solid laser printer for the basic low-volume user. If you tend to print a lot of pages, then perhaps another printer might be better for you. I typically print (on average) a few pages a day. Most of my printed pages are for my personal records so I keep the printer on Toner Save mode to length the life of the tone cartridge. Bottom Line: As a low-volume user, I am pleased with my purchase!

• Reviewed by: jbhthree

  Updated: 07-03-06

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: cheap, fast

  Weaknesses: loud

  Overall Evaluation: For $50 after rebate, it is a good value. It's loud, but it starts fast enough that I leave it off all the time, and just turn it on to print.

• Reviewed by: partipilo

  Updated: 05-21-06

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: Low cost, very fast, crisp output

  Weaknesses: None yet.

  Overall Evaluation: Picked this up at Office Depot, its $50 after mail-in rebate. Amazing how Samsung can create a printer this cheap. It's quite fast as well, and the print is very sharp. I don't really see how people are complaining about its noise because I don't hear anything. Like a previous reviewer has mentioned, your typical PC's fans will likely drown out the little fan inside of it.

• Reviewed by: JJakaterina

  Updated: 05-18-06

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: Excellent price; fast; long toner life; small; much quieter than my old Apple Laserwriter Pro

  Weaknesses: None. For the price this is a wonderful grayscale laser printer.

  Overall Evaluation: Price of toner cartridge is comparable to that of other printers so don't be mislead by some reviewers. For the printer itself, this is a reliable, efficient, and very economical unit.

• Reviewed by: soulglo83

  Updated: 05-17-06

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: fast as hell, with ubuntu dapper drake (linux) setup was a snap, and it actually seems a bit speedier than the quoted 22 ppm, even when grayscaling a 24bpp photo; cute, simple design

  Weaknesses: no color, loud, slightly flimsy chassis

  Overall Evaluation: i am a college student who relies heavily on my samsung ml-2010, and have been since december 2005. according to the page counter that prints when i print a test page i am at 1028 pages, still with the default toner cart that comes with the unit (which is rated at 1000). print quality is still consistant even though i must be at the end of the toner's lifespan. needless to say im very pleased with this printer, and the linux support is flawless just plug and play, good work samsung! for $70US this is much appreciated!

• Reviewed by: JimBruno

  Updated: 05-11-06

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:6 Days

  Strengths: Fast printing. Cheap but only average quality printing.

  Weaknesses: Crappy quality unit and jams a lot. Stopped working all together recently and will no longer feed the paper through the printer. No one here in So. Florida will even service it!

  Overall Evaluation: Started having problems after about 50 prints. No longer feeds even with thick paper. Toner saver feature is nice but quality drops big time. Overall just kinda crappy. Will never buy another Samsung printer.

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