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OVERVIEW:  For 2-sided color printing, copying and scanning in a networked office environment, it’s the Samsung CLX-6200. A full-house, all-in-one color laser printer that not only offers scans, copies, and printing, but also direct USB flash drive printing, duplexing and network connectivity.

PROS: 
The husky, 77-pound CLX-6200 has a height of 26”, with compact, square features that allow for placement without additional space. Sitting on a sturdy, low table, the height and size of the CLX-6240 is just right for someone standing next to it to manually use the on-screen display for making copies or to scan.

If you like buttons over a touch-screen display, you’ll get your wish with the CLX. All print, copy, and scanning can be performed without the need for a computer. The control panel on the CLX-6200 provides functions for the copier and scanner. To save on color toner, the “Black Start” button allows printing in B&W.

USB flash drive portal Scan to USB, printing from USB (TIFF, BMP, JPEG, PDF, PRN files). Information stored in the CLX-6200 memory can be backed up and restored using a USB Flash drive. The CLX also allows you to delete, format, or list properties of your USB drive.

A 50-sheet automatic document feeder can handle the copying, and scanning of your 2-sided originals, be they in color or in Black and White. On the front, a 100-sheet multi-purpose paper flip-tray handles papers and envelopes of various weights and types.

The CLX-6200 can print up to 21 ppm on single-side paper, with 7 ipm on both sides. 2400 x 600 dpi resolution with single-pass color printing allows color printing to be as fast as in B&W mode. Manual color registration adjustments can be performed to correct some minor alignment issues the printer has.

Having built-in Ethernet network support and a hi-speed USB, this multifunction is right at home either in the middle of an office floor or connected to a secretary’s computer. The built-in 256MB of printer memory enables the CLX-6200 to easily handle workloads as a network printer. To reduce workload on the printer’s RAM, print jobs can be queued into an optional 80GB hard disk drive.

Understanding the printing needs of today’s businesses in providing support for the major software applications, Samsung has installed print emulators that should satisfy the most diverse office. Emulators include PostScript3, PCL5 & 6, plus Samsung’s own proprietary print emulation. If you ever had to do try to print Adobe graphics on a color printer without PostScript, the “ghost” images that appear from transparency and drop shadow effects can drive you nuts.

CONS:
It takes 49 seconds for the CLX-6200 to warm-up, with up to 25 second delays between print jobs. Fortunately this Samsung series has single-pass color printing, keeping total job times reasonable. In operation, the 4-in-1 produces 54dB of sound and 32dB when idle. Think of 54dB as the sound of low conversations and 30 decibels as a quiet room.

For this to be the top of Samsungs CLX-6000 series, Samsung skimped on the cassette tray. A 250-sheet paper tray is woefully undersized for where this printer is likely to be used. It’s typical for even a small office to go through a ream of paper in a single day.  If your office or department is going to depend heavily on this printer, it would be a good idea to buy the 500-sheet second tray.
Colors can be oversaturated and show a slight misalignment. The in maximum resolution, color prints on the CLX-6240 won’t be as sharp as with the higher resolution monochrome lasers.

Software support is weak for Mac OS; having to rely on Mac’s OS or 3rd party software for scanning functions and advanced printing features.

INK / TONER NEEDS:
Just like with color inkjet printers, when it comes to color laser printers, print yield is sacrificed for color printing. The CLX-6200 requires 4 toner cartridges—one for each of the CYMK colors.
Out of the box Samsung includes the standard 2,500-page yield black cartridge, and three 2,000-page yield color cartridges, one for each color (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta).

The cartridges can be purchased separately, especially if the black toner gets depleted at a higher rate than the other colors. High-yield combo-packages are available to save costs at 60% more capacity.
Other consumables you’ll need to consider purchasing are waste toner containers, and replacement of the Paper Transfer Belt every 50,000 pages.

SOFTWARE:
Being a multi-purpose printer, one would expect the software to provide all the functions across multiple computer platforms.  The software in the CD-ROM is primarily for Windows compatible machines. For Windows users, the SmartThru software provides the most features, supporting not only scanning and printing, but offering an advanced printing section that allows for booklet printing, creating a large poster mosaics, and watermarks.
The Linux software package is not included with the CD and has to be downloaded from Samsung’s website to support printer and scanning functions. The Linux Unified Driver Configurator software allows for scanned images to manipulated and edited.
For Macintosh users, the CD-ROM has a couple of basic drivers for printing and a TWAIN driver for scanning. There is no additional software support: you either must have a 3rd party application that manages scanners or use the Mac’s own Image Capture (only available on Mac OS 10.4.7 and higher).
To remotely change network printer configurations and notifications, Samsung’s SyncThru Web service allows printer changes to be made using your IE, Safari, or Firefox browser. The software is not part of the CD and has to be downloaded from Samsung’s web site.

OVERVIEW:  In that traditional American sprit of entrepreneurship, more and more people today are setting up their own small businesses: be it in a leased office, in the garage, or in a spare bedroom. And with every small business, there is a need to keep expenses down while you’re starting up. The older sibling to the ML-2510, the Samsung ML-2570 offers higher resolutions for sharper B&W prints, more print memory, and decent paper capacity, all packaged in a neat, compact size.

PROS:
This monochrome laser (that’s what the “ML” in ML-2570 stands for), occupies an area just over one square foot on your desk or shelf.

This laser can accept a range of paper weights from 16 to 43# for both paper trays, giving its owner a wider range of paper choices than some other printer brands would allow. However, for manual 2-sided printing (you’re flipping the paper over yourself) use 20-24# weight paper to save yourself some grief.

When you flip open the door on the front of the ML-2570, it reveals the 250-sheet paper tray. The single-sheet manual feeder is above the main paper tray, for printing labels, cards, and transparencies (and make sure to use transparencies that are “laser printer safe”). The main tray can handle a variety of sizes: from postcard (3” x 5”) to legal (8 ½” x 11”). The ML-2570’s larger paper and toner capacity makes it ideal for people who rely on printing throughout the day or an office having multiple computers sharing a single printer.

For such an affordable laser printer, the ML-2570 prints extremely fast. After the initial warm-up time, letter-size paper prints at 25 pages per minute, making this one of the fastest of the ML 2000 series.

Having a maximum resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi, the ML-2570 is great for printing text and B&W photos. The Toner Save feature, only available in it’s 600 x 600 dpi resolution, still produces printouts that are clear and readable.

For small-press desktop publishers using Wintel machines, Samsung’s software CD gives advanced printing features, like booklet printing and large-format poster creation. Sorry Mac and Linux users-- you’ll have to find those features in whatever publishing software you are using to get the same results.

As your business grows, the ML-2570 will still be able to meet your print needs.  With 32MB of non-expandable RAM, the ML-2570 can handle larger print jobs and multiple jobs (if shared or networked with an optional adapter). Understanding the printing needs of today’s businesses and the software applications and suites they often use, Samsung has installed PostScript and PCL6 emulators, as well as their proprietary SPL.

It’s nice that Samsung recognizes there are other operating systems than the one from Redmond. Samsung provides software support for the “Big 3” (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux). Now you don’t have to be chained to one operating system just because your printer can only support one.

An external network attachment will give the ML-2570 the ability to be a network server. But without a way to increase the printer’s memory, the ML-2570 will struggle with simultaneous job requests. For the cost of the network attachment, you can upgrade to a more powerful network printer.

CONS:
This is not so much a problem with the printer, just with the printer’s users. One disadvantage to the ML-2570’s smaller size is many people think it can be wedged anywhere without regard to its ventilation needs. To keep from cooking its internal parts and to prolong the printer’s life I would recommend (1) don’t put the printer where the air-vents are going to be blocked (leave 3” - 4” clearance), and (2) turn the printer off at the end of the day. (Remember what your mother would tell you about turning the lights off when you leave a room?)

In start-up, wake-up, and in operation, the ML-2570 produces 53 dB of sound, and 35dB of noise in standby. Think of 53 decibels as the sound of low conversations and 30 decibels as a quiet office. While 53 decibels may not be loud, it is if the printer is sitting next to you chugging off 50 pages.

The ML-2570 has a 25 second wake-up delay, with a 9s delay between print jobs.  A long delay when you turn on the printer in the morning isn’t a big issue, but the ML-2570 goes automatically into a power-saving sleep mode when it’s inactive. Add all this up and the 25 ppm speed boost is lost with all the delays.

INK / TONER NEEDS:
A big disappointment is the ML-2570 ships with a toner cartridge that’s only 1/3 full. This so-called “starter cartridge” prints about 1000 pages, or 2 reams of paper. So it might be a good idea to go ahead and buy the full yield toner the same time you buy the printer.
The ML-2570 will use the same toner cartridge as the ML-2010, with a standard yield of about 3,000 pages, or six reams of paper.
The Samsung does not offer a high-capacity toner for the ML-2570.

SOFTWARE:
The ML-2570 has one of the better software packages. Not only does it have the basic printing properties for Mac and Linux systems, but for Windows users there’s also an advanced printing section that allows for booklet printing, creating a large poster mosaics, and watermarks.

OVERVIEW: Mr. Cheapskates finally allowed the company to replace the old dot-matrix printer, 9.6K baud fax, and mimeograph machine. Now it’s up to you to find a replacement that can keep up with the times, take up less space (because you shared office space the previous machines), allow for expansion, and of course at a price that might make your boss give back the 1972 cost-of-living pay increase. Let the Samsung SCX-6322DN 4-in-1 multifunction laser printer speed you back to personal financial recovery.

PROS:
If you don’t want to turn on the computer every time you want to make a copy, a fax, or e-mail a scan, you don’t have to.  The SCX-6322DN has a full control panel with an on-screen menu for printer setup and operation without the need for software. A traditional QWERTY keyboard as well as a numeric keypad allows for text and number entries. Twenty programmable keys allow for 1-touch dialing for up to 40 fax numbers. An address book function allows for more frequently used fax numbers to be stored and retrieved, speed dialing of 240 numbers. To protect unwanted access, fax pages can be stored in 8MB memory; a 4-digit security password can be activated to allow authorized users to print the stored faxes. A pass-through external phone jack on the back of the printer allows for plugging a telephone or an answering machine. Finally, the SCX-6322DN has a “junk fax barrier” to reduce the amount of unsolicited faxes.
The Duplex Automatic Document Feeder (DADF) allows copying or scanning of up to 50 2-sided originals. The SCX-6322DN can also perform 2-sided printing reducing time and costs.
This printer has some serious paper capacity. The SCX-6322DN comes standard with a 550-sheet cassette tray, capable of holding over a ream of letter or legal-size paper. The flip-door on the side of the printer reveals a 100-sheet multi-purpose tray that can handle transparencies, labels, post cards, envelopes, and to 8½” x 14” legal paper of various bond weights. If that’s not enough, a second 550-sheet cassette can be stacked to provide over 2 reams of paper input capacity

The color scanner portion of the SCX-6322DN is compatible with TWAIN & and XP/Vista’s WIA standards, allowing scans to be sent via e-mail, FTP, or SMB.  Copy options include changing image magnification from 0.25 to 4 times the original size, and up to 999 multi-page copying. Printing speeds after a 13 second warm-up are about 23 pages per second.

The “N” in SCX-6322DN is for “networking”.  Having built-in Ethernet network support, parallel, and a hi-speed USB, this multifunction is right at home either in the middle of an office floor or connected to a secretary’s computer. The built-in 64MB of printer memory enables the SCX-6322DN to handle printing demands from multiple computers. Administrators can manage the printer’s settings remotely using Samsung’s SyncThru web service.
Offices that use Microsoft and Adobe software will appreciate the PostScript3 and HP PCL6 print emulator drivers.

CONS:
This 4-in-1 is one of Samsung’s noisier multi-function printers. In operation, the SCX-6322DN produces 65dB of sound and 40db sitting idle. To give you an idea of that means, 60dB is the sound of normal conversations and 40db is the sound level of whispering. 

Being a multi-purpose printer, one would expect the software to provide full functions for all the computer platforms Samsung claims it supports.  Software support for Mac OS users is limited to printer drivers. Any scanning done through a Mac requires the user having to buy 3rd party software to use it, such as Adobe Photoshop or PhotoDeluxe.

INK/TONER NEEDS:
The SCX-6322DN has separate toner and drum to help reduce overall consumables costs. The standard 8,000-page starter toner and drum cartridges are included in the box. The drum unit will need to be replaced ever 20,000 pages—which is about the same time the DADF rubber pad will need replacing.

SOFTWARE:
The software in the CD-ROM is primarily for Windows compatible machines. For Windows users, the SmartThru software provides the most features, supporting not only scanning and printing, but offering an advanced printing section that allows for booklet printing, creating a large poster mosaics, and watermarks.

The Linux software package is not included with the CD and has to be downloaded from Samsung’s website to support printer and scanning functions. The Linux Unified Driver Configurator software allows for scanned images to manipulated and edited.

Only the print drivers and basic features are available for Mac OS users.
To make network printer configurations and notifications easy, Samsung’s SyncThru Web Service allows printer changes to be made using your IE, Safari, or Firefox browser. The software is not part of the CD and has to be downloaded from Samsung’s web site.