Samsung ML 1210 Laser Printer

Pros: compact, fast, quiet, high quality prints, separate envelope and paper feeds, pretty good cost/page
Cons: no Jaguar drivers, can take a few seconds to warm up, terrible support website

The Samsung ML-1210 is a very fine, very cheap laser printer. It uses an upright feed and upright output tray so it's very compact (with a penalty that it extends upward quite a bit), it prints very quickly, the toner cartridges last a very long time,...

Pros: Fast, 8mb memory, Toner Saver and Energy Star Compliant, Low Noise Level
Cons: None in my epinion.

Can't afford that new HP printer around $400? Why not buy the Samsung ML-1210, it's basically the same as an HP, in fact, I'd bet it really is an HP. Allow me to explain.

As an ex MicroCenter employee, we serviced many printers, dot matrix,...

Pros: Cost. Reliable. OS 10.2 and Linux support. Fantastic!
Cons: Duplexing issues. Slow PostScript printing.

How can one fall in love with a printer? Well, I guess you can't but when something exceeds your exp ...

Pros: Incredible value, black text print quality.
Cons: No color or photo printing.

Having suffered through an Epson inkjet printer (color stylus 800) for several years, I decided to try out a laser printer for my home after noticing the entry level market that has developed. The Samsung ML-1210 is everything my Epson piece of junk...

Pros: Low price, toner saver, compact sizem reprint button
Cons: some toner flaking if you print on the backside, no postscript support

I bought this printer mainly because I needed a printer that was compatible with Mac OS X, and I read some other reports on the net that Samsung had working drivers for Mac OS X 10.1. I got it for only $149 minus a $50 rebate = $99 from Fry's...

Pros: Affordability. Reliability. Ease of use.
Cons: No color printing.

Pros: Solid software/drivers; very very fast
Cons: Occasional black streaks (1 page in 50); case and connectors are flimsy.

The biggest point in favor of this printer is that (when I was researching, in Oct 2001 time frame), this was the only affordable laser printer. It is a simple laser printer with very impressive prints. I have not explored its gray-scale, image rendering...

Pros: 12PPM, USB, low price, nice software features.
Cons: NO MS-DOS mode printing support! No USB or Parallel cable included.

This printer is currently #1 at C-Net's $300-and-under list. I bought it because it was $200 and I think very highly of Samsung monitors. I also had to buy a USB cable. After both of those and 2-day air shipping, total spent was $228.

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Pros: Inexpensive, uses cheap toner, trouble free.
Cons: No color printing.

Why I purchased the Samsung ML-1210:
My first printer was the old Cannon bubblejet BJ-200. This thing was amazingly reliable and stable. I replaced it thinking I needed color. So I purchased an Epson Color 640 Stylus Inkjet. I hardly used it but I...

Pros: cheap, fast, reliable, laser
Cons: doesn't ship with printer cables, have to print the manual yourself, demo button

I bought this printer in September and have been printing happily for four months now.

The printer doesn't ship with any cables (except its power cord), which means that if you don't already have a cable, you'll need to factor in an extra $20...

Pros: Great text quality
Cons: none so far

I am a law student. I print out about 50 pages of pure text a day. All my life I had used inkjet printers for home use because I was worried about the price and the mulitple parts you needed to worry about with a laser printer... i.e. toner, developer...

Pros: Low price, USB compatible, small size, fast printing, low noise standby
Cons: Unacceptable quality for colored text, buggy software installation

I own this printer now for 7 months and basically I think you get what you pay for. It prints standard black text documents very clean and very fast. However when the text is colored, then it is unable to interpret the color correctly and the text...

Pros: Great print quality, fast printing (once it gets warmed up and going)
Cons: Somewhat long warm-up time on first page

I've always had a home laser, so when my LaserJet 5P started failing I went to the market looking for a good replacement.

I found the HPs to be too expensive and not manufactured as well as they once were. I looked pretty seriously at the...

Pros: Cheap Cheerful and Small
Cons: Double sided printing gets a bit dirty with toner. 8mb memory is not expandable.

What i'm about to write is pretty much summed up in the pros and cons. Probably the best printer in its price range. No doubt about that. However it wasn't built or designed by HP, but is a 3rd generation printer. That means it has taken the 'engine'...

Pros: Easy to use. Good resolution. Quiet. Quick. Comparably inexpensive.
Cons: It's not color??? Haven't really found a con yet.

I just purchased this for $170 from J&R music. I had absolutely no problems setting it up. I have run about 40 pages and am very happy with the results (speed/quality). It has not passed the test of time yet, but if it continues working the way it is...