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Samsung ML-2851ND Monochrome Laser Printer $105 at Office Max
OfficeMax.com has the Samsung ML-2851ND Monochrome Laser Printer for $105 with free shipping. The ML-2851ND can help reduce costs with its monthly duty cycle of 30,000 pages and TonerSave mode that can extend the cartridge life up to 40%. | HP HP Officejet 6000 Color Inkjet Printer $40  Discuss (0) |
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#1
luckylane - Posted 11:29 am PDT 10/18/08 (73 Posts)
from OfficeMax.com - "The ML-2851ND is the world's smallest network mono laser printer with automatic 2-sided printing"
#2
kaivamei - Posted 12:39 pm PDT 10/18/08 (135 Posts)
excellent printer. works well with both pc and mac (I have both on the network we print from). great print quality, good software. very good price for it, too.
#3
dave_c - Posted 1:44 pm PDT 10/18/08 (7546 Posts)
Good value printer, prints better/faster than their $50 AR alternatives and bulk toner is available to refill these. Main drawback is the cartridges use a reset chip which means you have to buy a new one with the bulk toner which drives the price of bulk toner up to about $35 vs about $12 for the equivalent # of pages otherwise.
That's for 5K pages worth. However, the drum on these will likely last for longer # of pages vs refills than on the $50 Samsungs too so you won't have to buy a new replacement cartridge as soon to get a new drum when the original wears out. Ultimately it's not going to be much more expensive to use and is a nicer printer with internal paper storage and larger cartridges like other larger printers have, plus the networking and memory upgradability are a plus (if it uses standard SODIMM?).
Now the stupid part - Samsung claiming "world's smallest" as if that is a feature. Smallest basically means it is shorter, meaning a tighter paper path that won't tolerate thicker paper stock as well, when there is no reason to make it so short because it's not as if having it shorter would allow you to stack something on top of it permanently. Shorter is worse than taller when it comes to printers.
That's for 5K pages worth. However, the drum on these will likely last for longer # of pages vs refills than on the $50 Samsungs too so you won't have to buy a new replacement cartridge as soon to get a new drum when the original wears out. Ultimately it's not going to be much more expensive to use and is a nicer printer with internal paper storage and larger cartridges like other larger printers have, plus the networking and memory upgradability are a plus (if it uses standard SODIMM?).
Now the stupid part - Samsung claiming "world's smallest" as if that is a feature. Smallest basically means it is shorter, meaning a tighter paper path that won't tolerate thicker paper stock as well, when there is no reason to make it so short because it's not as if having it shorter would allow you to stack something on top of it permanently. Shorter is worse than taller when it comes to printers.
#4
BerthaJean - Posted 5:57 pm PDT 10/18/08 (178 Posts)
Does this Samsung printer suffer from the same problem in its TCP/IP stack that some of the other Samsung network printers do where it has issues if you have multiple subnets on your network? We had an ML-2571n at work that we'd have to restart and reinitiate communication with the print server about every two weeks because it would stop talking to the network. We finally decided it wasn't worth the hassle and converted it to a standard printer hooked up via USB to a PC and bought a Brother brand network printer to take its place.
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