On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a link to Samsung's page: > > > http://www.samsung.com/au/products/printerfaxcopysolutions/printerfaxcopyso >lutions/clp_550n.asp > > > I'm thinking about buying one of these printers, they are available under > $800 and they support Postscript and PCL5c as well as the undocumented > (i.e. useless) Samsung Printer Language. They also have a rather low > cost-per-page when you add up the consumable costs (note that the KYOCERA > FS-C5020N has a lower cost per page but you have to print about 40000 pages > to break even, when you consider the different up-front costs, I doubt I'll > print that many). > > Note that the above break-even calculation is based on the presumption that > both printers come fully loaded with toner when you first buy them... but > it's starting to become standard practice to sell printers close to empty. > What makes me nervous is that the Samsung is a lower price for equivalent > specs to just about every other colour-laser on the market at the moment... > is it just good value or am I missing a trick? I'm wondering if they sell > it with no colour toner at all and make you buy your first batch up-front > (which would bring the price in line with the rest of the market). > > Has anyone tried one of these? >
I have one, I believe it to be one of the best value colour laser printers available. It comes with a full set of toner cartridges which appear to be full. Well I just had to replace the cyan toner which had done about 5,000 pages I think. The other cartridges have yet to be replaced. Having a duplexer built in makes dual page printing a dream. To install the software is one of the easiest I've come across which intergrates with CUPS. -- Regards, Graham Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
