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Hardware Reviews January 2001 • Vol.9 Issue 1 Page(s) 23 in print issue |
Samsung ML-4500 | ||
 If you've been itching for a laser printer for your home but were scared off by high prices, Samsung has come to your rescue. The company recently released the ML-4500 laser printer for the low, low price of $199. As you might expect, Samsung had to make some sacrifices to get the printer down to this price level, but on balance, it's a pretty good product. The ML-4500 has a 35MHz processor and comes with 2MB of RAM. However, you can't upgrade the amount of RAM, so that 2MB is as good as it's going to get. The printer also is limited in its connection options; the only choice you have to hook it up to your computer is a parallel cable. This lack of a USB (Universal Serial Bus) connection may be a turn-off for some users. On the plus side, the ML-4500 is a pretty small printer. It measures 9 inches high x 13 inches wide x 13.9 inches deep and weighs in at a mere 13.7 pounds. The ML-4500 also has a somewhat smallish paper tray capacity of 150 sheets, but that should be enough for home use. This printer has a maximum resolution of 600dpi (dots per inch) and prints at a maximum of 8ppm (pages per minute), which is quite good considering the ML-4500's price tag. It doesn't support any fancy PDLs (page description languages) or PostScript, but it is compatible with the major Windows operating systems, including Win9x, Windows 2000, and Windows NT. Our test results prove the ML-4500 packs some good punch. It printed the first page of our 10-page text file test in 20 seconds. That's a little slower than average, but not too bad. It printed the entire document in 1:27. The PowerPoint test results were similar: the ML-4500 printed the first page in 19 seconds, and the entire three-page document in 33 seconds. The results from our Photoshop test were also impressive. The ML-4500 printed the image in only 26 seconds. Granted, this was at a resolution of 600dpi rather than our preferred resolution of 1,200dpi, but it's still respectable. In addition, the image quality was pretty good. In fact, the appearance of all the documents we printed was excellent. Fonts, charts, and graphics were crisp and clean. If you've been dying for a laser printer but couldn't afford one, this is your product. It's not a top-of-the-line laser printer by any means, but dollar for dollar, it's very good indeed. by Michael Sweet
$199 Samsung (201) 229-4000 http://www.samsungusa.com
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