SAMSUNG LASER ML-1610 - 39.99 was 79.99 (CLOSED)

bargaingirl

is'nt the samsung lazerjet a mono printer I like to print in colour too for photos etc or are all lazerjets mono!!!! I dunno doh!!!!!!!!!!

pthomps

Link to the Samsung now seems to have been removed from the Comet website....

Twosheds

AirCooledHeaven wrote:

Well I've studied my 1610 cartridge and it doesn't have a refill hole like the earlier models unfortunately.

this place seems to offer a refill service for £15 for the ML-1610:
http://www.topinks.co.uk/acatalog/ML1610_TONER_CARTRIDGE_REFILLING_SERVICE_ML_1610_.html

cello57

bargaingirl wrote:

is'nt the samsung lazerjet a mono printer I like to print in colour too for photos etc or are all lazerjets mono!!!! I dunno doh!!!!!!!!!!

All cheaper laser printers are mono. Colour laser printers are available but cost about £250 for a VERY slow one. Expect £350 for anythng decent - and most of them have FOUR cartridges to replace . . .

I'd stick to inkjets for low volume colour -although these too are expensive to run unless you refill cartridges and all that palaver.

bargaingirl

hey cello57, thanks for that!!! I know nothing.... just found a great buy Lexmark Z735 as recommended by slugbreff great dpi and only.... wait for it...£24.99 delivered and if you use greasypalm get cash back too... now thats what I call a bargain from bargaingirl

lancasterchelsea

refilling ML 1610 is very quick and easy takes about 5 mins
bottle of black toner costs £4 to £9 ( depends how many bottles you buy) each bottle enough for 4500 pages
there is a very helpful website with diagram and instructions
take cartridge out of machine by folding handle
hold over newspaper..... at one end there are 2 screws..... take them out
lever off the endplate........ you cannot go wrong
lever out the stopper
shake and pour toner into cartridge lots of care...... don't spill
stopper back in, endplate on, 2 screws in
good shake..... the cartridge !!!
back in takes 5 mins

fordy86

offer finished

amberklene

We have several of these in the workshops for printing job sheets. They are cheap and cheerful as everyone has stated. The Comet deal is typical of the price you can get them for if you shop around though.

Text quality is poor comapred with an expensive laser printer and I have seen better text from some ink jets. first page print time is slooow while the thing warms up.

Not sure if this is the model thats USB only, their is a version with an LPT port - but gives lots of trouble with XP - USB is fine though - most odd.

Finally as some have already mentioned, it is shipped with a very lightweight toner cartridge which includes the drum/roller assy. It can cost more than the initial price of the printer to replace, expect less than 1,000 sheets from the included cartridge. Some people appear to be happy with the quality of the refill kits you can purchase - never tried one myself.

fox2319

lancasterchelsea wrote:

refilling ML 1610 is very quick and easy takes about 5 mins
bottle of black toner costs £4 to £9 ( depends how many bottles you buy) each bottle enough for 4500 pages
there is a very helpful website with diagram and instructions
take cartridge out of machine by folding handle
hold over newspaper..... at one end there are 2 screws..... take them out
lever off the endplate........ you cannot go wrong
lever out the stopper
shake and pour toner into cartridge lots of care...... don't spill
stopper back in, endplate on, 2 screws in
good shake..... the cartridge !!!
back in takes 5 mins

I've got one of these but have been struiggling to refill it. Can you point me to a site which describes the refill procedure (with piccies) or tell me which end you unscrewed, they've bth got 2 screws on, and how you know which plate to lever off?

Ta

Jeff

Daft_Monkey

It's a lovely little printer. Rather quiet too, and resonably fast. We bought it for work (accounts department) several months ago. I think we got a discount on it, we got it for about £32 from Microdirect (they don't stock it anymore).
It came with a toner cartridge for 1000 pages (normal one is for about 3000). It also has a save toner function that reduces toner consumption, so cartridges can last for longer.
I was very tempted to buy one myself at the time, but as I have 3 inkjets and an old laser, could not see the point.
The girls in the accounts department liked it so much, one of them had a dream about buying one!