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OVERVIEW:  Many owners of double-duty printers also need to have the ability to handle print requests across a network. While network options can be purchased separately, it’s usually faster to buy a printer built-in than wait for installation. The Samsung ML-3561N provides built-in network support right out the box.

PROS:
The ML-3561N prints fast. It does take almost 50 seconds for the printer to warm up from a cold boot, but once it’s up this laser starts chugging letter-size prints at 35 pages per minute, making it one of the fastest of the ML series. There’s an additional 9 second delay between print jobs and high-resolution printing.

This printer has some serious paper capacity. The ML-3561N comes standard with a 500-sheet cassette tray, capable of holding an entire ream of letter or legal-size paper. The flip-door reveals a 100-sheet multi-purpose tray that can handle transparencies, labels, post cards, envelopes, 3” x 5” postcards up to 8½” x 14” legal paper of various bond weights.

At 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution, the ML-3561N keeps text sharp--even at 6-point font sizes--and does a decent job with graphics. To keep from consuming too much toner, the printer has a 600 dpi resolution with a text-enhance or image-enhance switch.  The Toner Save feature allows for a 40% toner life increase while keeping images clear and readable.

The “N” in ML-3561N is for “network is built in”.  The Ethernet 10/100 Base TX interface makes it ready to support networked computers in an office, department, or a classroom. You can choose between Parallel, USB, or Ethernet connectivity. So, no matter how old or new your computer is, the ML-3561N can handle it.

This laser printer packs 32MB of memory. The ML-3561N can easily handle workloads from multiple computer requests. An additional DIMM RAM slot is available to expand printer memory up to 288MB.

Understanding the printing needs of today’s businesses in providing support for the major software applications, Samsung has installed a full set for print emulators that should satisfy the most diverse office. Emulators include PostScript3, HP PCL6, IBM ProPrinter, and EPSON.

The control panel on the ML-3561N has a multi-line LCD Display, plus buttons that make manual control of the printer relatively intuitive. Through the control panel, printer information, configuration, emulation, and network settings can be done. Administrators can also perform these changes remotely with Samsung’s SyncThru web application.

There are still more options you can add to the ML-3561N. A duplex attachment can be purchased for 2-sided printing. To reduce workload on the printer’s RAM, print jobs can be queued into a 40GB hard disk module. For laptop printing support, Samsung offers a wireless LAN card that supports a, b, and g-band standards. A second paper tray can be stacked under the ML-3561N to provide 500 sheets of additional paper capacity.

CONS:
This is not a small, compact printer. At 40 pounds and a footprint that takes up just over a 2 square-foot area, the ML-3561N will need a permanent and a sturdy place to stay.

The printer produces 55dB of sound printing, idling at 35 dB. To give you an idea of what that means: 60 decibels is the level of typical conversations and 30 decibels is a quiet office. You probably don’t want to have this network printer stationed in a conference room printing when a meeting is in progress. But when placed in the copy room or in the middle of a busy office floor, the noise is barely noticeable.

INK / TONER NEEDS:
The ML-3561N’s toner and drum are integrated in a single cartridge, making it easy to maintain. Right out the box, the printer comes with the standard size toner, able to print up to 6,000 pages.  A 12,000 high-capacity toner option is also available to double the time between toner replacements. This is great for a department or an office with heavy printing demands.

SOFTWARE:
The ML-3561N has one of the better software packages. Not only does it have the basic printing properties for Mac and Linux, but for Windows users there’s an advanced printing section that allows for booklet printing, creating a large poster mosaics, and watermarks.

The drivers also enable 64-bit and Microsoft Server operating systems to be able to use the ML-3561N. This may be considered a no-brainer, but there are printers with software that absolutely will not install on Server 2003 & 2008.

While not the best looking machine in the Brother stable, the Intellifax 2820 is a solid performer.  There are a lot of features in this little package.

If you’re in the market for a fax machine, you can’t really go wrong with the Intellifax 2820.  It offers everything you would expect from a fax machine and more.  It replaces the older 2800 and improves many of the features while eradicating many of its faults.

The new paper feeder is very good, and prevents the frequent jams that plagued the 2800 when printing or faxing.  The fax and print cartridges last much longer, making the per sheet cost much less than previous models.  Combined with the lower purchase price, the total cost of ownership of the 2820 is significantly lower than other equivalent machines on the market today.

As a fax it works very well.  It can transmit up to 15 pages per minute and has an 8 megabyte buffer which can store up to 500 pages.  The paper tray is large enough to hold 250 sheets of paper.  It would be unusual indeed to receive a fax longer than 250 pages, but the buffer is big enough to store twice that if it were to happen. 

Other features include automatic error correction, document resizing, useable phone, fax scheduler, and store and fax.

As well as being a standalone fax, the 2820 can also work as a printer.  The same laser that produces the quality faxes can also produce decent quality print.  It isn’t as fully featured as a dedicated printer, so would be more suitable as a backup machine.  The reproduction is decent enough for text and diagrams, but doesn’t really handle images too well.  But then it isn’t designed to.

The Intellifax 2820 works out of the box.  Just plug it in, configure it and then let it do its work.  If you want to use it as a printer, you will need to connect a computer to it, via the built-in USB port.  It comes with a cartridge to get you started which will last for around 1500 pages.  Replacements are reasonably inexpensive and can be ordered online quite readily from places like Quikshiptoner.

The Intellifax 2820 is designed to be a fax first, and multifunction second.  The laser fax is great, is quick enough for most demanding users, accurate enough for important documents and has enough memory and capacity for all but the busiest offices.  The printing is okay, and once connected via USB to a computer is a respectable alternative to a standalone printer.  While the toner isn’t the cheapest on the market, it will last longer than the competition due to the Brothers efficiency.

Those who work in a small or home office, looking for a dedicated fax with a few extras can’t go wrong with the Intellifax 2820.

OVERVIEW:  Unless it’s your job or you’re a student, most people don’t use their printers on a regular basis. If you have an inkjet printer at home and haven’t used your printer in a couple of months, the ink has dried and likely needs to be replaced. Toner for laser printers starts out as dry ink, allowing for a longer shelf life and lower printing costs. This makes laser printers the ideal solution for the casual printer user.  But until recently the high price of laser printers placed them out of the home consumer’s reach. Now, Samsung has the ML-2240: a monochrome laser (that’s the “ML” in ML-2240) printer designed for the casual printer who doesn’t want a printer that takes up a lot of space.

PROS:
The 150-sheet pull-out multi-purpose paper tray has an adjustable tongue to handle paper sizes from postcard-size 3” x 5” up to legal-size 8 ½” x 14”. On other printers having two paper trays, the most their multi-purpose trays can hold is 50 pages. Since both trays are combined on the ML-2240, the printer has almost three times the holding capacity for printing on envelopes, transparencies, and card stock.
Following a similar design found with many inkjet printers, Samsung has the ML-2240 with a pull-down paper tray. This tray can be folded back up when the printer is not in use to save on desk space.
Samsung printers come with a Toner Save mode. In the case of the ML-2240 it saves up to 30% toner with good quality prints, increasing the toner life to almost 2000 pages.

For an affordable, bare-bones laser printer, the ML-2240 prints extremely fast. After the initial warm-up time, letter-size paper prints at about 23 pages per minute.  In operation, the ML-2240 produces 51 dB of sound, and 33dB in standby. 54dB is the sound of low conversations and 30 decibels you can think of as a quiet office. The noise won’t be annoying unless you’re spooling off a 100-page blog from the Internet non-stop. But at 23 pages per minute, you’re likely run out of paper before the noise gets on your nerves anyway.
Having a maximum resolution of 1200 x 600 dpi, the ML-2240 is great for printing text and simple graphics. Photographs will have a more grainy quality, and if you are a stickler for details the ML-2240 resolution may not have the sharpness you desire. But even in Toner Save mode, printouts are still clear and readable.

Unlike parallel, the printer’s USB interface makes connections easy across different computers, laptops, and platforms. While the USB printer cable is not included (a typical practice among all printer companies), buying a USB printer cable today is still a lot cheaper than buying IEEE 1284 parallel cables for older printers.
Another nice feature Samsung provides is software support for the “Big 3 OSes”: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Now you don’t have to be locked to one operating system just because your printer only supports one.

CONS:
To start, the ML-2240 takes from 9 to 19 seconds before printing commences. This only becomes a problem if you’re in a rush to get something before you run off to work. Just think of the ML-2240’s longer warm-up time like the old vacuum-tube T.V. sets. If you ever heard your parents or grandparents talk about how long it took TV’s to “warm-up” when they were kids, this printer will give you have a rough idea what they went through.

If you have an older computer that had only 2 USB ports and a parallel port, you will have to sacrifice one USB device because the ML-2240 only has a USB connection. However, there are “Parallel to USB” adaptor cables being sold by various vendor to enable your computer to use its parallel port for USB printers.
As expected for a printer of this size, Samsung only installed a fixed 8MB RAM for the ML-2240. 8MB is fine for text printing, but large Adobe files and graphics will fill up the ML-2240’s memory and will slow printing. There is no PostScript or even the standard HP Printer Control Language (PCL) emulator. Instead Samsung uses a proprietary printer emulator. Most users won’t notice any changes in the way things print, unless they use a lot of advanced features in any high-end graphic or photo editing software.

The ML-2240 only has a 150-sheet tray capacity, requiring frequent refilling if you’re a power printer. But again, the ML-2240 is designed for the casual printer user, not for a classroom or office workload. For casual printing, the tray capacity is plenty.

There are no options on the ML-2240 for expansion of memory, paper capacity, or network capability. Remember, this printer gives you the bare necessities.

INK / TONER NEEDS:
A big disappointment is the ML-2240 does not come shipped to the U.S. with a full toner cartridge. (Although it’s shipped to China with the full cartridge—go figure.) This so-called “starter” toner  prints about 700 pages. That’s half the capacity of a standard toner cartridge, so it may be a good idea to buy the extra toner the same time you buy the printer.

The ML-2240 uses a toner cartridge with a standard yield of about 1,500 pages, (and about 1,900 pages in toner saver mode).

The Samsung does not offer a high-capacity toner for the ML-2240.

SOFTWARE:
The ML-2240 has one of the better software packages. Not only does it have the basic printing properties for Mac and Linux systems, but for Windows systems there’s also an advanced printing section that allows for booklet printing, creating a large poster mosaics, and watermarks.

The compact design makes the ML-2240 an ideal monochrome printer for light-duty home and personal use. It’s lower yield toner, memory, and shorter duty cycle however makes the ML-2240 impracticable for office use. -- Mel Myers

Recycling is one of the most high profile buzzwords of the modern age.  We all know that resources are finite, and that we will eventually run out of places to dump our trash.

Recycling was once regarded as the pastime for those few green campaigners and not for the majority.  As we all became gradually aware of the impact we are having on the planet, the availability of resources, and the sustainability of our way of life, Recycling is something we have all had to become accustomed to.

In the early days our ability to recycle was limited to a few simple materials, and the re-use was limited to basic plastic bottles or trays.  Now recycling has become much more sophisticated and we can recycle almost anything.  The re-use of materials has also improved immeasurably with new technologies that allow the mixing of recycled and new material and the use of completely recycled materials.

Many industries like those making aluminum drinks cans, paper mills and glass bottle manufactories can use completely recycled materials in the production of new ones.  A recycles drinks can or beer bottle can be back on the shelf in a new form six weeks from being sent to the recycling center.

Printer cartridges, while appearing quite complex, can be recycled.  At the moment 95% of all used printer cartridges are dumped in landfill.  With an average half-life of 1000 years, they aren’t going anywhere for a while.

Printer consumable retailers like Quikshiptoner have taken it upon themselves to promote cartridge recycling.  They realize that the rate at which we dump our trash isn’t sustainable, and that it is the duty of every citizen to recycle as much of their waste as possible.

By making it as easy and as convenient as possible to people to recycle, sites like Quikshiptoner hope that more cartridges will be recycle, lessening the burden on the environment.  Not only does recycling reduce this burden, but it also reduces the need for other resources that make the new cartridges.

The less oil required to make new printer cartridges, the longer the world supply will last.  Combine that with the increasing demand for more fuel efficient cars, will make this finite resource last just that little bit longer.

To go that one step further, Quikshiptoner even pays for the shipping of the cartridge to be recycled.  It really couldn’t get easier than that, and is typical of a company trying to change the way we live, and encourage the increase of recycling.  Paying for the shipping removes another barrier between the customer and the recycling center.

Let us hope that more retailers take this kind of approach and encourages their customers to consider the environmental impact of their lives a little more.

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Samsung ML-2165W Manual - This time we would like to share with you the review from Samsung. Samsung ML-2165W user manual / guide is now available online for download at Samsung website. This Samsung ML-2165W user guide comes in 331 pages in PDF file format with 11.8 MB in size. This Samsung ML-2165W manual will guide you how to use the Samsung ML-2165W correctly. As described at Samsung website, Samsung ML-2165W printer comes with these specification and features:


* Processor (MHz): 300MHz
* Memory: 32MB
* OS Compatibility: Windows 7 /Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000, Various Linux, Unix, Mac 10.4 and up
* Interface: Hi-Speed USB 2.0, Wireless 802.11 b/g/n
* Noise Level: Less than 50 dBA printing, Less than 26 dBA standby
* Duty Cycle, Monthly (Pages): 10,000 pages
* Print Speed (Black & White): Up to 21 ppm in Letter
* Print Resolution: Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi effective output
* Duplex Printing: Manual
* Emulation: Samsung Printer Language (SPL)
* Input Capacity Paper Handling (Standard Cassette Tray): 150 Sheets
* Output Capacity: 100 Sheets
* Media Size: 3″ x 5″ – 8.5″ x 14″
* LCD: LED (Toner/Status)
* Power Consumption: Less than 1.2 W (standby mode), Less than 30 W (ready), Less than 310 W (Peak)
* Product Dimensions: 13.0″ x 7.0″ x 8.5″ (W x D x H)
* Product Weight: 8.8 lbs.
* Cartridge Type: 1-Piece Toner
* Cartridge Yield (Black): 1,500 Pages
* Black Toner Model Code: MLT-D101S

Before using this Samsung ML-2165W, you have to check the accessories supplied, such as power cord, software CD, handset, misc. accessories and quick installation guide.

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