I am married, a father of a 16 year old boy, occasionally grumpy (but not known to bite - as yet!), ...
I am married, a father of a 16 year old boy, occasionally grumpy (but not known to bite - as yet!), middle-aged, bearded, cost-conscious (tight), bespectacled, but nonetheless quite friendly
Member since:10.07.2007
Reviews:3
We bought our Samsung ML1510 quite a few years ago from ebuyer.com, when my wife was doing her BA in English and Combined Arts. At the time she needed a reliable printer with a prodigious rate of output for all the essays and literary critiques, not to mention the dissertation. Previous to that we had used an Epson inkjet, but this cost us a lot of money with replacement cartridges as attempting to refill them was a messy experience and none-too-successful at that. I can't remember the exact price we paid for the ML1510, but I recall it was on offer and was certainly less than £60. The bizarre thing is that replacement toner cartridges can cost as much, if not more than the device itself! However, it pays to box clever here as you can actually re-fill the carrtidge with toner, which is quite easy to source from the web. Eventually you will have to get a replacement cartridge and I have usually got these from Cartridge World (who recycle/re-condition your old cartridge). The prices are still somewhat steep for a re-conditioned one at around £35, but at least you can refill them with toner several times before they eventually expire.
The print quality is very good and we have used it in "Toner Save" mode all of the time. We find this to be quite acceptable for all our needs, be it my son's homework/projects for his impending GCSEs, my wife's University work or indeed just for our run-of-the-mill correspondence.
The drivers that were provided with it work fine for Windows XP and it is also instantly recognised by Ubuntu Linux, with no further configuration needed.
One minor criticism is that initially I used to find it somewhat fiddly when loading in more paper, as sometimes if you didn't get the positioning just right it would fail to pick up the paper when you attempted to print. However, with experience, I now manage to get this right most of the time and have discovered that it is best to just half fill the paper tray. Of course this may be just me not the printer! Another slight niggle is that it tends to be a bit noisy when you switch it on initially as it "warms up". However, it has proved to be an excellent workhorse over the last few years and I sincerely hope it continues to be for several more years to come.
I have indicated that picture quality and colour sensitivity are poor. This is of course a black and white laser printer, but the drop-down menus in the "Specific Criteria" section unfortunately do not give you a "not applicable" option.
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