Anyone seena  decent laser printer going at a bargain price?  I`ve had a 
look for the samsung, but can`t find it for the nice cheap price.  Ideally 
looking to pay about 50-60, not for heavy use, maybe 1000-2000 pages a 
year maximum.

Anyone got any suggestions for a decent printer?

Thanks!

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"Simon Finnigan"  wrote in message 
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> Anyone seena  decent laser printer going at a bargain price?  I`ve had a 
> look for the samsung, but can`t find it for the nice cheap price.  Ideally 
> looking to pay about 50-60, not for heavy use, maybe 1000-2000 pages a 
> year maximum.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions for a decent printer?
>
> Thanks!
>


PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap Samsung.  We 
got a ML-1520 for 60 for light office work and the built quality is 
appalling.  When ever the paper tray is disturbed (ie putting more paper in 
the tray) the printer thinks there is a paper jam and it makes a terrible 
thrashing of gears when it feeds paper.  The built quality is cheap and 
poorly designed although the print quality is good and lookalike refills for 
the toner are 8 a time.

I nearly got one for myself at home and am so glad I didn't.  Whether we've 
been unlucky with the one at work, I don't know, but I do know it will be 
going back to Currys before the warranty expires in March (probably well 
before March the way it is going).

Our next laser printer will be an HP of some sort...

Staples (Basingstoke) had some of the Samsung lasers on clearance. Saw them 
last week - think they were 50 with 3 years warranty.

Worth checking with your nearest store.


"Simon Finnigan"  wrote in message 
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> Anyone seena  decent laser printer going at a bargain price?  I`ve had a 
> look for the samsung, but can`t find it for the nice cheap price.  Ideally 
> looking to pay about 50-60, not for heavy use, maybe 1000-2000 pages a 
> year maximum.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions for a decent printer?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> 
> PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap Samsung.  We 
> got a ML-1520 for £60 for light office work and the built quality is 
> appalling. 


As in all things YMMV but I bought a cheap Samsung 1210 for 50 quid and 
have been delighted - I think I have had one paper misfeed in c6000 
sheets. A couple of times it has printed a little skewed (because I 
didn't fill the paper bin properly) and in manual duplex mode I 
sometimes get a slight toner smudge on the top edge but they are about 
all I can fault it for.

Given the refill price and print quality I wouldn't hesitate buying 
another.

Brian

"Roland Rat"  wrote in message 
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>
> "Simon Finnigan"  wrote in message 
> news:3m9fjuF1610skU1@individual.net...
>> Anyone seena  decent laser printer going at a bargain price?  I`ve had a 
>> look for the samsung, but can`t find it for the nice cheap price. 
>> Ideally looking to pay about 50-60, not for heavy use, maybe 1000-2000 
>> pages a year maximum.
>>
>> Anyone got any suggestions for a decent printer?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap Samsung. 
> We got a ML-1520 for 60 for light office work and the built quality is 
> appalling.  When ever the paper tray is disturbed (ie putting more paper 
> in the tray) the printer thinks there is a paper jam and it makes a 
> terrible thrashing of gears when it feeds paper.  The built quality is 
> cheap and poorly designed although the print quality is good and lookalike 
> refills for the toner are 8 a time.


I don't know if the 1520 is substantially different to the 1510 (apart from 
using a different toner), but my 1510 has been completely reliable.  Build 
quality is as good as many far more expensive printers, I've had only one 
paper jam (which was my own fault for trying to feed it heavily creased 
paper) and I've never suffered any "thrashing" of gears.


> I nearly got one for myself at home and am so glad I didn't.


You're missing out on a great little printer IMHO that's dirt cheap to run 
with toner refills running at about 8.


> Whether we've been unlucky with the one at work, I don't know,


I suspect you have been unlucky given how many people I know that have 
bought these.


> but I do know it will be going back to Currys before the warranty expires 
> in March (probably well before March the way it is going).


I'd take it back now personally.

BTW, to the OP, some Staples branches have stock of the 1510 or 1520 for 
circa 39.

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Pipex Text wrote:

>> PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap
>> Samsung.  We got a ML-1520 for 60 for light office work and the
>> built quality is appalling.
>
> As in all things YMMV but I bought a cheap Samsung 1210 for 50 quid
> and have been delighted - I think I have had one paper misfeed in
> c6000 sheets.

>
> Given the refill price and print quality I wouldn't hesitate buying
> another.
>
> Brian


I'd second that.  I've never had any serious problems with mine until I 
retired it in favour of my Samsung colour printer.

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:20:01 +0100, "Roland Rat" 
wrote:


>
>PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap Samsung.  We 
>got a ML-1520 for 60 for light office work and the built quality is 
>appalling.  When ever the paper tray is disturbed (ie putting more paper in 
>the tray) the printer thinks there is a paper jam and it makes a terrible 
>thrashing of gears when it feeds paper.  The built quality is cheap and 
>poorly designed although the print quality is good and lookalike refills for 
>the toner are 8 a time.


I think you have a faulty one. My ML1510 has been excellent.

sponix

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:28:07 +0100, JB wrote:


> Pipex Text wrote:
>>> PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap
>>> Samsung.  We got a ML-1520 for 60 for light office work and the built
>>> quality is appalling.
>>
>> As in all things YMMV but I bought a cheap Samsung 1210 for 50 quid and
>> have been delighted - I think I have had one paper misfeed in c6000
>> sheets.
> 
> 
>> Given the refill price and print quality I wouldn't hesitate buying
>> another.
>>
>> Brian
> 
> I'd second that.  I've never had any serious problems with mine until I
> retired it in favour of my Samsung colour printer.


Thirded, based on my ML-1250 which is now about 3.5 years old, and has
done somewhere north of 2000 pages.

I'm not contradicting those who say their entry-level models may not be
suitable for office use, just that they're fine for SOHO use.

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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:20:01 +0100, Roland Rat  wrote:


>
> "Simon Finnigan"  wrote in message
> news:3m9fjuF1610skU1@individual.net...
>> Anyone seena  decent laser printer going at a bargain price?  I`ve had a
>> look for the samsung, but can`t find it for the nice cheap price.   
>> Ideally
>> looking to pay about 50-60, not for heavy use, maybe 1000-2000 pages a
>> year maximum.
>>
>> Anyone got any suggestions for a decent printer?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap  
> Samsung.  We
> got a ML-1520 for 60 for light office work and the built quality is
> appalling.  When ever the paper tray is disturbed (ie putting more paper  
> in
> the tray) the printer thinks there is a paper jam and it makes a terrible
> thrashing of gears when it feeds paper.  The built quality is cheap and
> poorly designed although the print quality is good and lookalike refills  
> for
> the toner are 8 a time.
>



Errm, so you are using a 50 desktop/home laser in a office enviroment..   
Did you really expect it to perform and take a beating like a 500 Office  
laser printer???

For home use the ML-1510/1520 are perfect printers, cheap to buy, cheap to  
run, and decent mono output, my only problem, is lack of 64bit XP  
drivers...

"Matron"  wrote in message 
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> The only problem I have seen (which seems to be a driver problem) is
> when printing very large documents.  The print run can come to a halt
> suddenly with no error messages.  This has happened 400 odd pages in,
> but as low as 75 odd pages.  If you do print such large docs, provided
> your pages are numbered, you can just restart from the following page.
> Replacing the driver with a Lexmark E210 driver doesn't make it go
> away, but does seem to reduce the problem.


Add some RAM to the printer and try that.

in <GqnMe.90000$G8.88373@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, dennis@home wrote:


> 
> "Matron"  wrote in message
> news:xn0e61v1i9vjgn005@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk...
> 
> 
> > The only problem I have seen (which seems to be a driver problem) is
> > when printing very large documents.  The print run can come to a
> > halt suddenly with no error messages.  This has happened 400 odd
> > pages in, but as low as 75 odd pages.  If you do print such large
> > docs, provided your pages are numbered, you can just restart from
> > the following page.  Replacing the driver with a Lexmark E210
> > driver doesn't make it go away, but does seem to reduce the problem.
> 
> Add some RAM to the printer and try that.


I believe that probably would cure it, but it's so little hassle (and
infrequent enough) that I haven't even looked to see what memory it
takes.


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On Sun 14 Aug 2005 20:56:57, Richard Colton wrote:
<news:dmNLe.88903$G8.19849@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>


>> PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, do yourself a favour and DON'T get a cheap
>> Samsung. We got a ML-1520 for 60 for light office work and the
>> built quality is appalling.  When ever the paper tray is
>> disturbed (ie putting more paper in the tray) the printer
>> thinks there is a paper jam and it makes a terrible thrashing
>> of gears when it feeds paper.  The built quality is cheap and
>> poorly designed although the print quality is good and
>> lookalike refills for the toner are 8 a time.
> 
> I don't know if the 1520 is substantially different to the 1510
> (apart from using a different toner), but my 1510 has been
> completely reliable.  Build quality is as good as many far more
> expensive printers, I've had only one paper jam (which was my
> own fault for trying to feed it heavily creased paper) and I've
> never suffered any "thrashing" of gears. 



I have the same experience:  the ML-1510 is a sweet printer and for 
the 50 I paid, I wish I got too.  I suspect that the other poster 
got a lemon when he got his 1520.

Simon Finnigan wrote:

> Anyone seena  decent laser printer going at a bargain price?  I`ve had a
> look for the samsung, but can`t find it for the nice cheap price.  Ideally
> looking to pay about 50-60, not for heavy use, maybe 1000-2000 pages a
> year maximum.



You will be pleased to know there has been just such a discussion over in
uk.comp.homebuilt:
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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:47:52 +0000, Matron wrote:


> in <GqnMe.90000$G8.88373@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, dennis@home wrote:
> 
> 
>> "Matron"  wrote in message
>> news:xn0e61v1i9vjgn005@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> 
>> 
>> > The only problem I have seen (which seems to be a driver problem) is
>> > when printing very large documents.  The print run can come to a halt
>> > suddenly with no error messages.  This has happened 400 odd pages in,
>> > but as low as 75 odd pages.  If you do print such large docs, provided
>> > your pages are numbered, you can just restart from the following page.
>> >  Replacing the driver with a Lexmark E210 driver doesn't make it go
>> > away, but does seem to reduce the problem.
>> 
>> Add some RAM to the printer and try that.
> 
> I believe that probably would cure it, but it's so little hassle (and
> infrequent enough) that I haven't even looked to see what memory it takes.


I threw a random stick of 72 pin Fast-Page Mode (or was it EDO?) in, and
it seemed happy enough.

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