Date: September 8th, 2002
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: Samsung Canada
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COMPANY PROFILE

Head Office Corporate Information

Samsung delivers management reform through New Management to maintain high international competitiveness. SAMSUNG is dedicated to contributing to mankind's quality of life. The year 2000 will be declared as the First year of Samsung Digital Management to speed up the digitization of all areas of management with an ultimate objective to become a leader in the digital age of the 21st century. Samsung has continuously improved its financial structure by increasing profits, reducing costs, and enhancing brand image. SAMSUNG's stability and development potential are universally recognized.

Canadian Corporate Information

After only a decade of growth since first entering the Canadian market in 1987, Samsung Canada, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, has emerged as the market leader. We are growing in Canada by about 20% per year and continue to build a strong presence in every market we enter. Operating as part of Samsung's Americas group, our Canadian operations gain considerable competitive advantage from Samsung's local Americas R&D, manufacturing, and technical support. Samsung Electronics in Canada focuses on consumer electronics and information systems products. Consumer electronics began in Canada in 1987, followed by IS in 1992. The information sales division has grown 61% since 1992. Samsung has introduced a wide range of IS products into the Canadian market, which include hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, fax machines and monitors enforcing its leading market position and fast year-over-year growth with a strong local presence and reseller network to serve Canadian consumers from coast to coast. Samsung is building a strong presence in Canada as it has all over the world.

PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

Picture this, you are a university student, you have worked on your 500 page thesis to graduate from your doctorate program at Harvard and all you need to do is print it out. You have two options, the inkjet that prints at about 4ppm and which would print your document in about 2 hours and run out of ink half way through, or you could upgrade to the latest technology in printing with the laser printer and have the same document done in half an hour with sharper text and no delays other than a paper reload after 270 sheets. I don't know, but I think the choice is pretty clear.

Today I will be reviewing a sample from Samsung which will increase your printing efficiency along with the added bonus of having the sharpest text in the industry. I know, you will be saying "Hey! I can buy an inkjet for practically nothing and it can print colour!". Well, true, you can, but wait until you replace your cartridges a couple times (Huge Cost!), you will wish that you spent a little extra money on a Laser printer and face it, how much colour printing do you really do unless you are a graphics artist. I myself, "was" a inkjet printer user. But, with my first true introduction to laser printing, I have never looked back.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

I need a better black and white printer, what would this make and model give me feature wise...

- 15PPM (Fast!)
- 600*600DPI (Face it, it's only black and white)
- 8MB (100 Pin Type SDRAM)
- Operational Systems:Window, Linux, Mac
- 270 sheet cassette feeder
- Toner Capacity: 6,000 pages at 5% coverage (Try to get that out of a tiny ink cartridge)

PRODUCT PICTORIALS

Ok, the only way to go now is to show you actually what you get physically when you buy this printer..

As I have found with all Samsung products, they are packaged very well.

You also receive the powercord, the driver CD, a warranty card, a real handy installation guide (I actually used this one) and a toner cartridge.