Samsung cartridges: initial vs purchased capacities

[Dave]

I bought a Samsung ML-1450 last summer and am delighted with it. Had
the 1710 come out sooner I'd have gotten it because of it's smaller
size. (I don't need the speed/capacity of the 1450 but I wanted the
resolution.)

But my point is that some posts have suggested that roughly $80 for a
3000-page (nominal) cartridge is expensive. But please not that only
the cartridge that comes with the printers is for 3000 pages- and
that's because Samsung only fills it half full. The cartridges you buy
are good for a nominal 6000 pages.

Incidentally, if you can still find SIMM's to increase the memory it
does help. I got a 32-meg one for about $12 bucks and it was a great
addition. I really like the fact that the printer warms up as fast as
it does.

My one major criticism of this printer is that feeding envelopes into
it is a pain in the ass!

Dave

 

[Bill Higdon]

I've never been quite clear on what additional memory does for a laser
printer. I'm running a 10-year-old Epson laser with 2MB of memory,
and it works just fine. What would more memory give me? Thanks!

If your printing lots of graphics/ pictures, you can get better
resolution, or at least with the HP & Lexmarks I've worked with.
Bill Higdon

 

[Steve]

If your printing lots of graphics/ pictures, you can get better
resolution, or at least with the HP & Lexmarks I've worked with.

Ahhh, ok, I almost never print anything but straight text, so I guess
more memory wouldn't mean much.