Samsung ML-2250 Monochrome Laser Printer

Samsung ML-2250 Monochrome Laser Printer
Manufacturer: Samsung
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Samsung ML2250 is an affordable alternative designed for the demands of small to medium business workgroups. It features fast print speeds up to 22 ppm for great productivity. Fast USB 2.0 and IEEE-1284 parallel ports allow easy connectivity for both Windows and Linux computers. Enjoy highest paper capacities in its class, including a 250-sheet cassette, 100-sheet multi-purpose tray and optional 250-sheet cassette. Sheet sizes - Cassette - A4, A5, Letter, Legal, Executive, Folio, ISO B5, JIS B5 / Multi-Purpose Tray - A4, A5, A6, Letter, Legal, Folio, Executive, ISO B5, JIS B5, 3 x 5, Monarch No.9, No.10, DL, C5 / Special Media - Transparency, Labels, Postcard, Envelope Adding an optional ethernet print server allows this model to be used with a LAN home or office network

Average customer rating:

For light use only
Looks great but has serious design problem: Printer gets hot very quickly, resulting in paper getting stuck frequently...
Solid, but it's not great
Printer delivery
So happy that I threw out my ink-jet!

Samsung ML-2250 Monochrome Laser Printer

Manufacturer: Samsung
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Personal Computers

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Samsung ML-2250 Toner Cartridge
Netgear FWG114P 802.11g Wireless Firewall with USB Print Server
Netgear USB Mini Print Server (PS121)
Samsung ML7300N Laser Printer
Samsung ML-7300DA Toner / Drum for ML-7300N (10K)

Product Features:

Up to 1,200 x 1,200 dpi effective output
Up to 22 ppm print speed
16 MB RAM, upgradeable to 144 MB
Standard 250-sheet paper cassette, 50-sheet multipurpose tray
USB 2.0 and parallel interfaces, optional networking

ASIN: B0002JC21E

Product Description

Samsung ML2250 is an affordable alternative designed for the demands of small to medium business workgroups. It features fast print speeds up to 22 ppm for great productivity. Fast USB 2.0 and IEEE-1284 parallel ports allow easy connectivity for both Windows and Linux computers. Enjoy highest paper capacities in its class, including a 250-sheet cassette, 100-sheet multi-purpose tray and optional 250-sheet cassette. Sheet sizes - Cassette - A4, A5, Letter, Legal, Executive, Folio, ISO B5, JIS B5 / Multi-Purpose Tray - A4, A5, A6, Letter, Legal, Folio, Executive, ISO B5, JIS B5, 3 x 5, Monarch No.9, No.10, DL, C5 / Special Media - Transparency, Labels, Postcard, Envelope Adding an optional ethernet print server allows this model to be used with a LAN home or office network

Customer Reviews:

For light use only.......2007-06-25

This product is best for those who have only an occasional need for a few copies. It is very noisy, gets very hot after 20 copies, curls the paper severely making 2 sided copying difficult, and paper jams are the rule rather than the exception if making more that around 10. We are also experiencing a lot of garbled jobs at times that waste paper by spewing out incomprehensible jabber on paper. When it does work, on small jobs, it is fast and the print is clear. Right now we are experiencing an inability to obtain a compatible toner cartridge at either Office Max, or Office Depot. We are exploring an on line purchase of toner, but we needed copies yesterday. I would not recommend this for anyone unless the price and foot print are a perfect fit. I think most of us under-estimate our printing needs and, when the time comes for an moderate sized job, you will find yourself with a lot of wasted time and paper.

Looks great but has serious design problem: Printer gets hot very quickly, resulting in paper getting stuck frequently..........2007-05-20

I bought this printer 2 months ago after doing couple of days of intense survey to find a printer that is cheap and reliable. The reviews I read, on various reputed websites, regarding this printer were mostly positive. Apart from the fact that the printer's graphic printing is below par, the text printing according to various reviewers was very good which is actually true. In addition printer, according to the manufacturer's provides cartridge for around 4000 pages which is great amount for an individual user.

I have restrained myself writing a negative review but the problem started only 10-12 days after I bought this printer. Apparently the paper has a habit of getting stuck in the machine while printing. When this happened first couple of times I thought it was accidental. However, this has been happening much more frequently and it has now come to a point that it takes me an hour sometimes to get the paper removed from the machine as it gets all torn while coming out and most of it is stuck inside.

The reason for this is, from my understanding, that the Samsung ML-2250 model gets very hot which affects the paper printing and paper gets all severely crumpled when it comes out.

After re-reading other reviews more carefully, I realized that quite a few folks had same kind of problem related with this printer. That is why in my opinion, although this printer looks fantastic from the outside, it has some serious mechanical design problems.

For people who already have this printer, my suggestion would be to open the back lid for printing paper. Apparently when the machine gets too hot (~380-400F) its easier to get paper come out un-stuck if the back lid of the printer is open but the trade-off of doing this is that the paper comes out from back than the proper front side.

Solid, but it's not great.......2007-01-31

The printer is fairly quick for its class, although it slows down a bit when you use it at 1200dpi. Text output is crisp 600 or 1200dpi. The toner save function lightens the text, but it's OK for general use. For resumes and correspondence, turn off toner save AND go to advanced settings and darken the text too. I found that even with toner save off, the text was lighter than what I'm used to with expensive HPs. Graphics just plain suck, so please stay away from this printer. The warm-up time is quite long, especially if the weather is cold, ie. I have my desk near the window, so it's a little drafty, so it takes more than 45 sec to warm up, a little unnerving when it normally takes about 10 sec. This printer is quite loud in it's warm up too, but not terribly more so than your regular workgroup printer. This printer get hot, and a little disturbingly so. Haven't had a problem with overheating, but it does worry me occassionally. Because of the high heat, the printer tends to put out an strong odor, like what you're used to with a laser printer, but it's much stronger. I had only one paper jam while I've had this printer for 5 months. But the paper jam was very difficult to clear, some of the rollers were locked in position, so I had to use good old brute force to rip the paper out. The manual feed tray is very convenient, but I found that lower quality envelopes tend to get wrinkled even when you print thru the pass thru. The problem is that some cheaper envelopes are not perfectly square, and this printer seems to really like flattening the paper, so any imperfections will be "ironed" out, but then you have this wrinkled edge when it comes out the back. Also had a problem with smearing with some envelopes. Some of the toner did not stick properly and I'm not sure why this happened. Maybe it was my cheap envelopes again. Another gripe is that this printer does not have a low power standby mode. In other words, do not leave this printer on all the time, because it uses a LOT of electricity even just when it's sitting there on doing nothing. I checked this using a Kill A Watt meter, and to my surprise, this thing was drawing a lot of current just sitting there. And the fan keeps whirring when you leave it on too. I am not a huge fan of the white glossy finish, but at least it's not bad looking. So in summary I bought this printer because of the text print quality and the claimed high toner page count (which I have yet to verify cause I haven't printed nearly the claimed 10K on toner save). But I truly hate that it's loud at warmup, gets very hot, smells bad when printing and uses a lot of electricity. Personally I would buy an HP next time, which is what I was upgrading from.

Printer delivery.......2007-01-23

shipping was very slow ans very slow to get confirmation of shipping but the broduct did arrive and is working well at this time.

So happy that I threw out my ink-jet!.......2007-01-05

I have had this printer for about four months, and it is a joy to use. I print word processing documents and web pages, and they look great. I have not yet used up the toner cartridge which comes with the machine.

After suffering with poorly performing ink jet printers, I gave up color and found performance instead. This printer is not particularly picky about how I load the paper. It has not (to date) jammed on me at all. And the printer doesn't care how often I use it-- I get the same results no matter what I do. I am astonished to have such a reliable machine at this pricepoint.

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