Samsung 510N Printer – Vivid Printing In An Inexpensive Package
Samsung seems to have done their homework on their Samsung CLP 510n printer using Samsung CLP 510n toner. It is impossible to cater for all tastes and requirements, but if you have an office and want a fast, reliable and high quality printer at a great price, at $120 this is a great option. The printer is targeted at small to large business offices that want a great printer at a low price. This version is a rework of the CLP 510s with improvements on the chip, rate of pages per minute printing, both mono and color and some small hardware updates.
There is one thing you need to understand from the start about this printer. It is not designed for home users. The printer is big and a bit more expensive if you are used to printers designed for the casual consumer. For a color laser printer it is actually very affordable.
Because a beast it is. To give you an idea, the box it comes in weighs around 88 pounds. It comes with four toners, basic cables and a manual.
What are the changes? Samsung has improved the speed of printing and upgraded the processing chip. Page per minute printing performance has jumped from 21 ppm to 25 in mono and from 5 to 7 in color. This is a significant improvement that impatient office workers will appreciate. The increase in printing speed is also felt when duplexing, which is a few seconds faster both in black and white and color. In case you were wondering what duplexing is, it is double-sided printing. If like me you like to save money and time and had trouble flipping and turning the pages to get it to work properly, you will appreciate this.
The other big change from the previous models is its chip. The PowerPC processor of previous models has been changed to a Samsung SPGPm processor. However, the previous models could hold nearly twice the amount of RAM and were one decibel quieter. The change in the price tag had to be felt somewhere I guess. It is worth remembering that this printer only costs $120.
The new CLP 510n has great image quality, although not if you are expecting picture perfect quality. If you were planning to use the office printer to get your holiday snapshots you might be disappointed. However, although not picture perfect, they are still very good.
The only issue clients might have is the price, as it is pricier than many of us expect to pay. However, for a color printer it is actually cheap and cartridge maintenance is surprisingly affordable. You can expect to pay around one hundred dollars for mono cartridges and one hundred and twenty dollars for color cartridges.
Samsung seems to have a great combination with the CLP 510n printer. It is very affordable, as office color laser printers go, the image quality is excellent and so is the speed. Businesses with this baby in their office should not have to spend much money at the printers unless they need a special job. The only disadvantage is that the quality of the printing and the colors are not the picture perfect quality we are used to from some specialized photo printers. Unless your business is printing pictures this is not going to be a problem. All in all, for price, speed and quality this printer is a great buy.
Everything else printed is perfect, however, largely due to the Samsung CLP 510N toner cartridge used by this machine. Samsung Toner Cartridge always tops the charts in performance. Great toner cartridge shows on the printed page and that is a large part of the face of your business.
