Samsung - Printers CLP-320- 17/4PPM-32 MB Printer

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Good for documents with charts and diagrams in color. Photos are not as good as a good inkjet printer. OK for photos which are part of documents, but not a first choice for presentation quality photos. Photos printed using Linux are not nearly as good as those printed from Windows - presumably a more primitive Linux driver, which gives dark, high contrast photos, somewhat "posterized"Other than replacing toner cartridges, this is a disposible machine. One part of the printer termed an "imaging unit" is about $150 as a replacement part, for a printer which on sale can cost as little as $100.

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The printer prints perfectly. Haven't changed the starting toner yet after 5 month of printing university stuff. Please note that the printer produce a strange flickering of the lights in my apartment when it is in the "heating" cycle. Very annoying as it does this for 10 sec every 3 min until it goes back to sleep.Please note that when it prints in color, the paper goes through the drum 4 time each page.

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Bought this to replace my ink eating inkjet printer. It was really nice. A good size for this kind of printer. What I first noticed when I opened this was that the USB port was quite loose, but it did work. The paper tray is a pain because every time I needed to refill paper, the tray's "settings" get moved around. The light flickering is annoying, but just turn it off when you don' need to use it. FINALLY, the colour speed is 4PPm, but when I printed some colour stuff, it came out pretty quickly. Overall, very content with this purchase.