On 2/4/2014 12:38 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:16:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 2/4/14, 8:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/3/2014 7:20 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
F.O.A.D. wrote:
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My next purchase will be a decent printer. I've had no need for one for
years. Anything I needed to print I would just send to my wife and she'd
print it on her laser printer. However, I have been recently retained
to do some consulting work related to the business I was in and will
need to get a printer. Her laser printer is not wireless, (I don't
think) so I can't use it on the home network. I should check that though.
I noticed most people now are using Adobe PDF files for most things.
All the communications and documents I've received so far from the
company I am working with use it. I noticed you can now subscribe to
it's use for something like $19/mo. Might do that rather than buy the
software.
Got this for Christmas:
http://tinyurl.com/kffxlzj
Here's what Consumer Reports had to say about it:
CR's Take
For an all-in-one black-and-while laser printer, this Samsung is not only cheap to buy, but it's
also inexpensive to operate and print. It's a bit short on features, but it has outstanding overall
performance.
Highs
• Excellent text quality
• Very fast printing black text
• Very good monochrome graphics quality
• Excellent copy quality
• Auto feeder can scan or copy a stack of pages
Lows
• Less versatile than most
Detailed test results
PRINTING. The Samsung SCX-3405FW prints using laser technology, which picks up powdered 'toner' on a
roller and fuses it to the paper with heat. It prints black-and-white text with excellent quality,
as we've come to expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very quick, 12 pages per minute,
costing 4.4 cents per page. Its black-and-white graphics printing is very good for reports,
newsletters and web pages.
SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. Copying
performance was excellent, producing copies very close to the original. There's an automatic
document feeder to let you copy or scan a stack of pages in one operation.
CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen.
CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable, or to your network
router either wirelessly with Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable. This model has built-in faxing, can
store incoming faxes if the paper runs out, and can send faxes from an attached PC. You can print
directly from smart phones and tablets (Android apps or Apple AirPrint) over your Wi-Fi network.
That's an amazing price for a laser printer that also scans and faxes.
What do you pay for branded toner carts and how many prints do you get
from each?
http://tinyurl.com/kkmz8yj
The Samsung *is* a good deal but unfortunately I'll need a color laser
printer. They are not all that expensive either but probably lack the
copy and fax features. Who uses fax anymore?
I'll be making presentation material for handouts and will color to
fancy them up a bit.