...) with the Samsung ML1210 at a measly £69.99, no cable (not a problem, have a boxful) and only 1000 pages from the first toner cartridge, replacements £45 bog standard price, £25 Ebay, £12 toner refill, 0.34p per page. I want one.
Fourthly
Two hours later it’s sitting next to the computer, ... Read review
Advantages: Economical to run, cheap, well made Disadvantages: none so far
...first there then.) with the Samsung ML1210 at a measly £69.99, no cable (not a problem, have a boxful) and only 1000 pages from the first toner cartridge, replacements £45 bog standard price, £25 Ebay, £12 toner refill, 0.34p per page. I want one.
Fourthly
Two hours later it’s sitting next to the computer, plugged in, software installed and working beautifully and the space in the loft has been reduced by the footprint ... ...bits of sticky tape that Samsung have plastered everywhere…maybe a tenner cheaper but for all that tape! Not too big, at 329mm wide and 355mm deep it doesn’t hog the desk and it’s beige… beige again…well it matches the rest doesn’t it?
Colourful stickers though.
Driver software installation
Simple. CD in CD drive, click a few buttons and it’s all over. Store safely till it’s time to put this printer in ... more
A laser printer for £70? No way... Yep there it is look, £69.99. It must be crap…you only get what you pay for right? What’s the catch then? No cable, HA! told you so! A short filled starter toner that only prints 1000 pages…I KNEW there’d be a catch…told ya! You bought it anyway? What’s it like then?
Well actually…let’s start at the beginning
First off
I suspect many of you reading this own some sort of printer. Inkjet being the favoured type for home use as lasers are so damned expensive and so big! We started off with an HP printer at home about 10 years ago. It was great but enormous and the ink replacements were around £25, a fortune all that time ago, yes Grandad...yawn. THEN colour came on the scene and I had to have one of those, nice little Lexmark which was great, till I came to replace the ink cartridge, £28…colour and £20… black. Hang on, there’s a new Canon with a £50 refund voucher which makes it…. cheaper than the ink for the Lexmark. Into the loft with you my old son! Make way for the new bubblejet! Now this one stayed on the shelf for quite some time and the ink, at £5 for a piddling little cartridge didn’t seem too bad. Didn’t really print too many pages though and anything with an image on was a bit soggy...and it took an age...and was noisy...and I got sick of it anyway... I rarely printed in colour and hadn’t even used the original photo cartridge.
Secondly
We were in Staples for some unfathomable reason, (something to do with the kids wanting to buy even more coloured pens…again, I think their aim is world domination of the coloured pen market) there are a pile of smallish boxes in the aisle that I can see from the comfortable leather faced executive chair that I’ve almost fallen out of by reclining it too quickly. It says (squint) ‘Inkjet printers for £28’…surely a mistake, the ink costs more than that doesn’t it? Then another pile of slightly larger boxes of laser printers at (squinting even more, further away you see) £79.99. Never?
Thirdly
A quick blast round the web price comparison sites later and Comet come up trumps (a first there then.) with the Samsung ML1210 at a measly £69.99, no cable (not a problem, have a boxful) and only 1000 pages from the first toner cartridge, replacements £45 bog standard price, £25 Ebay, £12 toner refill, 0.34p per page. I want one.
Fourthly
Two hours later it’s sitting next to the computer, plugged in, software installed and working beautifully and the space in the loft has been reduced by the footprint size of a Canon bubblejet.Finally!
This little beauty has to be seen to be believed. It has actually been around for a couple of years so the technology is well proven and the price has kept on coming down although it’s hard to conceive of it dropping a lot further (here’s hoping!).
What’s in the box and what’s not?
You GET a printer, CD with driver software and manuals for you to print, and a short filled toner cartridge. You DON’T GET the cable so buy one if you need one. The ports are parallel and USB so take your pick. I had a few USB cables lying around and chose to use one over the bulky parallel cable I used to use. Much neater.
First impression
It’s a well-made bit of kit. The case is strong, no flimsy flexible floppy doors here, as you find out when inserting your toner, which, incidentally is a piece of cake. Just slot it in there, close the front and you’re ready to print. After you’ve removed the thirty or so bits of sticky tape that Samsung have plastered everywhere…maybe a tenner cheaper but for all that tape! Not too big, at 329mm wide and 355mm deep it doesn’t hog the desk and it’s beige… beige again…well it matches the rest doesn’t it? Colourful stickers though.
Driver software installation
Simple. CD in CD drive, click a few buttons and it’s all over. Store safely till it’s time to put this printer in the loft with the others...UNLESS you need the128 page manual. I must confess to not reading manuals until such time as a.) I have exhausted all possible means of solving the problem OR b.) broken something. Either print it out or save it somewhere on the hard drive for future reference. You never know when you’re gong to have to admit defeat! I had to look up printing an envelope…you have to press the demo button to get the manual feed to work, illogical captain but work it does! The driver interface is pretty basic but it does everything you'd expect, paper size, type, layout etc with no fuss or bother.
Features
Demo button Press for 2 seconds to get a demo page, even if you’re not connected to a PC, which verifies the printer is working OK. (Also press to get manual feed to operate, doh!)
Toner Save Get 3500 pages at 5% coverage over the bog standard 2500 in return for slightly less density of image, I can’t tell the difference so I get 3500 pages, whoo hoo!
Cancel/Reprint button One press cancels the job in case you’ve sent the wrong thing by mistake; quicker and easier than trying to get Windows to stop the job. After you’ve got the one you want you can hit the button again to get another copy, in case you want to keep one yourself, even if the PC is turned off.
Formats Prints any type of paper, card or envelopes up to A4. USE LASER LABELS and envelopes though, it fuses the toner at 200 degrees C and will melt normal adhesive all over the giblets of your new toy. Normal paper returns to an upright storage bin on the front but there is a neat little ‘mouth’ along the front edge, which you open to let envelopes/card out of. Too stiff to go round the corner see.
Warranty. 1 year. BUT 1 year on site warranty! Can you believe that one then? I can’t get to grips with it yet. On site warranty, laser, £69.99. What is going on? I’m gonna wake up any minute aren’t I…
Specification and Size
Speediness? 12 ppm Quality? Resolution 600x600 dpi How Big? W 329mm x D 355mm x H 231mm How Fat? 6.5kg How Brainy? RAM 8mb Racket? 35dB standby, 47dB printing. (Pretty quiet, dB means bugger all to me as well…) Life Expectancy? Toner life 2500 pages standard, 3500 pages toner save Paper Store 150 pages
Well then, can I recommend this machine?
It’s obviously the absolute budget end of laser printing but that doesn’t mean the quality isn’t there. Features like the toner save button aren’t just gimmicks either, I can’t tell the difference between high and low resolution so the TS button remains pressed. Even tiny 6pt fonts are clear and sharp, no fuzziness at all. So YES. It’s a belter. The output from my office HP lasers are no better and the old 4 series are worse!
Inkjet costs
Given the ludicrous situation we all face when replacing ink cartridges which cost more than new printers this has to be the way to go. My printer graveyard is too full already to contemplate buying any more inkjet machinery. I can’t throw them away because they work, it wouldn’t be right. I can’t give them away, new ones cost less than the ink, and so they gather dust…madness! AT LAST I am free from this cycle of expensive waste, well at least until the price of the colour lasers drop below £200…not as daft as it sounds!
Advantages: compact, fast, quiet, high quality prints, Price, reliability, toner save feature Disadvantages: can take a few seconds to warm up, Integrated toner and drum cartridge
...allowed me use of her Samsung ML 1210 Laser print and I was suitably impressed with both the quality of print and the printer itself. ** INSTALLATION **
I am told the printer is very easy to install. Physically the printer comes almost intact - the only piece you need to install is a translucent blue plastic holder for output paper to rest against. It doesn't come with any cables other than the power cables so you'll need to buy your own USB or ... ...PRINTING **
The Samsung ML-1210 prints like a dream. According to the manufacturer it prints 12 ppm but quite honestly it seems faster to me. When I was printing the pantomime scripts i.e. large documents or multiple copies of smaller documents e.g. fliers & posters, I didn’t find myself twiddling my thumbs or staring at the printer waiting for it to get around to finishing the job. It prints quietly and without a fuss. It never jammed with A4 paper, ...
mysteryshopper2 26.06.2004
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I'm reviewing the Samsung ML-1210 for your reading pleasure. A laser printer that is not a recent model I admit but this printer has been in our possession for some time so it can't be all that bad. THE PRINTER
The printer itself is rather bulky (32.9cm x 35.2cm x 22.9cm) with it being an older model and obviously laser printers usually are bigger in size. It holds 2500 pages of A4 and has 2 options as to where you want your paper to come out. If ... ...out tray however for smaller documents there is a flip tray at the bottom that can be pulled out to allow the paper to come out there. To be honest I don't see the advantage of this and generally just use the normal tray provided. The printer doesn't look anything fancy, it's kind of an off-cream colour (more so now its a little nicotine stained, ooops) with a grey plastic piece sticking from the output tray so when your document comes out it remains ...
Jaynestep 05.07.2005
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Advantages: Fast and economical Disadvantages: Can sometimes play up!
Recently I found that I was producing an unusually high volume of urine. I was also producing large volumes of documents that needed to be printed off. I found that not only was the inkjet that I used was not the quickest printer to be invented, it was also not the most economically friendly, it seemed to drink ink faster than a fat bloke eats pies in a pie shop after being on a diet for two weeks/days/minutes. (Incidentally the printer, an HP PSC1210, ... ...printers- see my review on it for more info).
I had thought about buying a laser for general printing, where there was not a need for colour, however the price had always put me off. Recently though, the price of laser printers has come down, the cheapest being under one hundred quid, possibly even about the seventy quid mark. The ML1210 was in a Boxing Day sale, reduced to fifty quid, so that is when I bought it. I have since seen it reduced to ...
somebodyrandom 08.06.2004
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Advantages: Very simple to use, reliable, excellent print quality Disadvantages: tempermental software
...long time, I brought a Samsung ML1210 Laser Printer.
The problems with the inkjet printers usually stemmed from their flimsy plastic mechanisms- pieces snapped off and springs stretched, snapped or simply fell off. Further the price of the cartridges were astronomical, especially the colour cartridges that never seemed to last very long.
At the time of my transition to Laser printing, the majority of my printing consisted of essays for my degree ... ...World I noticed the little Samsung ML1210 at a price of just under £169.00 (this was in 2002), and promptly purchased it.
MY SAMSUNG 1210
The most attractive thing about the Samsung 1210 is its simplicity: there are very few moving parts to go wrong. The drum (usually the most expensive part of the printer to replace in the laser printers) is integrated with the toner, which means that every time you get a new toner you get a new drum! This maintains ...
saulsmum 24.08.2006
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Advantages: - cheap price; economical; good, clear print in text mode; fast; reliable Disadvantages: - no printer cable; no printed manual; print quality for photos & graphics not good
...user. I chose the Samsung ML-1210 as it was a good price and it had consistently good reviews on the internet. Dabs.com offered the printer for the cheapest price (£85 all inclusive), so I ordered through them and they delivered within 3 days – very good service and I’ll use them again. The printer box was lighter than I expected and it was very well packed. The printer looked and felt like good quality and it was all very easy to install. ... ...I’ve had the Samsung ML-1210 for about 3 weeks now, printed about 150 pages and have had one minor jams (was the paper’s fault not the printer’s) or any other problems. It prints fast and the quality of the print is very good for normal text. Photos and graphics are not very sharp, but then I very rarely use it for this purpose. A full toner cartridge at about £50 is supposed to last for about 2500 pages at normal quality and 3500 ...
salsablue64 02.10.2003
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The Samsung ML-1210 brings a new level of performance to the home or small office. Its 12 ppm engine and 66MHz CPU deliver a faster printing speed than ordinary laser printers in its class. With its 600 dpi resolution, the ML-1210 produces a sharp output. Its one-piece integrated toner and OPC Imager are environmentally friendly and easy to install. The Samsung printer is perfect for your home or office needs with its fast printing speed and excellent quality.
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