Samsung ML 1510 - laser printing for the home

Advantages: Very compact, fast speeds, excellent quality, Cheap
Disadvantages: Can you think of any!?

...-------------------- Laser printers use toners as opposed to catridges, its simply a powder based printing method as opposed to water based inks. Toner for the ML 1510 cost about £20 each and these will print well in excess of 5,000 pages each. You can also use the samsung toner saving application which supposedly reduces toner usage by up to 40%. But such modes really only be applicable to businesses, as im sure 5,000 print outs will be well enough for home use, you'll find yourself replacing the toner catridge little more than once a year. Another thing to consider with laser printers, is the drum unit. Drums need to be replaced every 20,000 or so pages, and cost more than the printer itself in some circumstances. I've never had to buy a new drum for the samsung yet however you can expect them to be in the £30 - £50 price range. ---------- Design...

gusgusrule 25.08.2004 · Read review
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Samsung ML 1510 Laser

Advantages: Small and easy to use
Disadvantages: Costs more to buy a new toner than the printer

...manufacturers are waiting for Vistas' release next year and as such would not work. The specs for the toner say it will print around 2000 pages before running out but the 1510 includes a Toner Saving Mode which helps to increase this a bit. Unlike an inkjet cartridge Tomer is actually a dry powder so it won't dry up if you don't use it within a year. It costs around £60 for a new toner which is more than the printer so it would seems more practical to get a whole new printer leading to the question - What do I do with it then? You can buy bottles of Toner refills from eBay for around £5 last time i looked, however Samsung along with many other manufacturers these days integrate the toner cartridge into the Drum unit which normally lasts 3 cartridge changes before failing so eventually you will have to change it whatever you decide. This...

JCrichton 09.05.2006 · Read review
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SAMSUNG ML 1610 - NICE LITTLE PRINTER

Advantages: neat, small, fast
Disadvantages: doesn't have an integral paper tray

...We have been after a small mono laser printer for a while and once we had bought the laptop computer we wanted a printer that was a bit more portable and easy to use. My husband is a self-employed courier and he prints his invoices out each week and we also need to print out his accounts and vat returns each quarter. Also we print flyers and needed a laser printer because of ink smudging on the ink-jet. We settled on the Samsung ML1610 mainly because of its cost. I did a google search and this came up as a cheap but good model. TECHNICAL STUFF +++++++++++++++ It prints up to 16 A4 pages per minute with 150 mhz processor for immediate printout. 2mb RAM installed. It is classed as "ultra light" being 5.5kg in weight. Easy to use and maintain, front access for toner cartridges and paper insertion. Toner save button...

kismet 08.03.2006 · Read review
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Laser printing on the cheap

Advantages: Robust and dependable with admirable longevity
Disadvantages: Slightly noisy on start-up

...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...

blartyguts 03.01.2009 · Read review
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Fab for lots of text printing!

Advantages: Far cheaper than an inkjet for black & white stuff
Disadvantages: Toner is very expensive but you can use refills!

...During the first year of my masters course I found that I was having to print out about 100-150 pages a week in handouts for our "problem based learning" classes which, as you can imagine, became rather costly on my other printer - an HP Photosmart 7150 - so I decided that the time had come to consider a laser printer. I had a quick google around to see what kind of things were sensible prices and with decent reviews, and then wandered over to ebay. I was lucky enough to find a Samsung ML-1510 for around £40 on ebay, which I snaffled up quickly! It came with a toner cartridge but NO USB CABLE (which is stated on the box and was also stated in the auction) so you'll need to get one of them! Although it is not "plug and play" compatible, installing the drivers is a piece of cake, just pop the disk in and it's done! It is...

waterbaby999 13.05.2006 · Read review
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Samsung ML-1520 Monochrome Laser Printer

Advantages: Fast printing and easy set-up.
Disadvantages: Quality suffers when large quantity is printed at once.

...I bought this printer mainly because of it's low cost but also because I liked very much it's predecessor, the ML-1510, which my girlfriend owns. It's cheap and very easy to set up. If anyone owns a ML-1510 and thinking of upgrading to the ML-1520, I don't think there's much point. They are pretty much identical in terms of its functionality, but the ML-1520 is more square-ish and is the standard grey colour (more 'manly' if you like). Personally I like the ML-1510 better in terms of looks and is slightly smaller and lighter. The pros. The quality of print (especially if printing text only) is superb, even on the starter toner that's supplied with the printer. I have not printed any photos so I can't really comment on that but I have tried printing road maps from the internet. Again the quality is great and I can clearly nake out...

leo2483 12.08.2006 · Read review
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Samsung ML1210 -the Printer with Personalities

Advantages: Very simple to use, reliable, excellent print quality
Disadvantages: tempermental software

...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 the print quality of the printer. There are no fiddly bits of plastic, no fiddly springs to go wrong - all there is is the heating mechanism which burns the print onto the page. When you buy a new cartridge they are very simple to install, you simply take the old one out and slot in the new one. The whole printer case is much more solid than those of the inkjet printers that I had. Further with a inkjet cartridge...

saulsmum 24.08.2006 · Read review
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Excellent cheap laser printer

Advantages: Low initial Cost & Efficient in ink Use
Disadvantages: Expensive Toner

...As a student who rarely has a need for colour printouts and for the most part, someone who prints out text simply because it's easier to read on paper, a cheap laser printer seemed a great improvement over my, slow, old, ink guzzling ink-jet. The 1510 fit the bill perfectly. At the time it was priced at a bargain £49.99 making it comparable to many inkjets. It's clearly the cheapest and potentially the smallest laser out there. I purchased online so on its arrival I was expecting a flimsy plastic effort. I was very surprised. The pure weight of the machine is an indication of its quality, and it looks good too. The undercarriage type paper tray (250 sheets) is a feature usually left out of cheap models, but extremely useful as it makes the printer look much neater (unlike some of the older models where paper sticks out of the top...

samwolf 25.01.2005 · Read review
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Snap Happy Samsung!

Advantages: Great camera at a great price.
Disadvantages: None at the price, you get a great item for what you pay!

...I bought this camera in ASDA at the incredible price of £75 in a gorgeous chrome silver colour (pictured). I am probably one of the most indecisive shoppers around, so when it came to buying a digital camera, I was thoroughly confused by the choice and newly released technology, meaning every week a new camera with more mega pixels and better zoom and a toaster built in was released! This certainly does not making chosing easy! Well, thanks to the advice of the very helpful assistant in ASDA, I was able to finally decide on the Samsung ES55 and have no regrets! Ok, so how do you chose the right camera for you? It's all about accepting there is SO much variety but making sure you know what you want, that way you can really trim down the choice. Also, pick a reliable brand and as I have been informed, Samsung are one of the best. I had...

Bojack 27.10.2009 · Read review
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Son Of Samsung Got Smaller And Does More

Advantages: Excellent print quality. Print from any PC in house without cables. Smart looking. Compact. Quiet
Disadvantages: Pricier toner than I've been used to. Better networking instructions badly needed.

...I've had two PC printers for several years now. One, a monochrome laser which is our workhorse for basic printing, since this is far and away the cheapest way to print high quality text, and a colour printer (now an 'all-in-one') for when it simply 'has to be colour'. This way, the cheapest man for the job can be selected. Up till recently, I'd been soldiering on with an 8-year old Samsung laser printer connected by parallel lead to my main PC. That'll show you how old it is; when was the last time they sold printers without a USB connection? Just recently this stalwart has started giving me paper-feed problems which don't seem to be curable with a quick wipe of the rollers. Pity really, as I'd got quite a nice line in re-filling the toner via a funnel through a corked-up hole in the toner cartridge! Since the Samsung had served me...

BNibbles 18.06.2009 · Read review
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