Samsung CLP-415NW laser printer

[Gary Jones]

Hi

I'm thinking of purchasing this printer as I'm sick of messing with
ink cartridges. It is supposed to work with Postscript 3 so should be
OK with MW's PS3 driver.

It's not very fast and doesn't do duplex but these things don't bother
me. It does have built-in wifi which could be really useful.

Does anyone have any positve/negative comments about these having
used/bought one?

Thanks
Gary

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Gary Jones

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

Some years ago I bought a colour laser printer fairly cheaply. But a
few months later when the inks started to run out, I found that a full
set was going to cost more than I had paid for the printer. A year
after that I gave the printer away as the inks were just too expensive.
And I then bought a Kodak which costs a lot less per annum for ink,
though it does not do PS printing.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org
for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

[Alan Adams]

In message <mpro.mlmb7g0p...@powys.org>

You can save a lot of money by refilling cartridges.

Lasers use two different methods. The cheaper ones generally replace
the photoconductive roller, associated corona wires etc and the toner
hopper and waste collection as a single unit, usually called a
cartridge. These can be refilled, maybe half a dozen times, before the
photoconductive roller wears out. As the roller is an expensive
component these cartridges are generally expensive items, as you've
found out.
It is CRITICAL when refilling to empty the waste collection
compartment, otherwise toner leakage and streaking occur. Some
commercially sold refilled cartridges have this problem. I have found
the ones from Viking Direct (Office Depot brand) to be reliable for my
HP - I don't know whether this is true for all makes from this
supplier.

The more expensive lasers use separate toner hoppers, which are
basically tubes of toner. These are cheaper to buy, but it can still
be worth refilling them. They tend to be easier to refill.

Refilling (and emptying) instructions are available from some
suppliers of bulk toner powder.

Finally, beware of cleaning up toner spills with a vacuum cleaner.
Sometimes the very file particles are not stopped by the filters, and
redecorate the room!

As a rough estimate, buying refilled cartridges is around half the
price of manufacturers branded ones, and refilling your own around
half of that cost (i.e. a quarter of a new one).

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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
al...@adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

[charles]

In article <97bc064053...@iyonix.adamshome.org.uk>,

but, as I found, the colours of re-filled ones doesn't always match the
manufacturer's original. You can get strange results

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From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

[John Rickman Iyonix]

Alan Adams wrote

> You can save a lot of money by refilling cartridges.

I bought a Samsung 550CLP Colour Laser Printer from CJE in 2006. Since
then it has printed the Gaydon Parish magazine every month. At a rough
estimate it has printed 150,000 A4 pages. It is still using the
original drum and transport belt.

It has separate toner cartridges which I refill using supplies bought
from U Refill Toner uk. There has been no discernable deterioration in
print quality.

Savings in print costs in the 7 years are of the order of 2500 pounds

John

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John Rickman - http://www.gaydon.org.uk/