Samsung Color Laser Printer (CLP-620ND)

Well, to me, printers are like good wine. Some crops (or models in this case) are excellent, while some crops are very bad. I don't know what gives, but that's my experience. And when the manufacturers discover that a particular crop gives a damn good performance for the price point, they quickly stop and upgrade(?) their product to next model number and the new model is no longer as good. Why do old electronics last forever and the new ones seemingly can't wait to commit suicide?

As a Creative Design Director, I had the pleasure of owning and using many different color laser products. Ranging over the years from 2 Lexmarks, 1 Brother and of course 4 HP's. Lexmark was always too dark, developer didn't last long, created banding, curled papers and noisy. Brother broke down too quickly. HP's were fairly good but over the years, I am sorry to say the quality went down drastically; the plastics got thinner, toners didn't last long, parts squeaked, colors were washed out. So...Read more

This printer is inexpensive for what it does. The toner is not inexpensive - not over-priced, just expensive. The print quality is very good; the printer is fast. It warms up fast if left in "sleeping" mode. I wanted quality, not speed especially, and am satisfied.

I purchased this printer in July of 2010 as a replacement for my old multi-pass Minolta 2400W. While I'm a light user (I only average ~300 pages/month) my printing tends to be centered on batches of 100 pages or more which makes the speed of a laser printer a huge advantage over an inkjet. I chose the Samsung because it looked like a bargain at less than $300 for a single-pass color laser with a duplexer and the reviews at the time were good.

The reviews were right. This printer's great. It warms up quickly and spits our very high-quality prints. I use 22-pound or 24-pound paper and the duplexer isn't phased. I've put more than 2,000 pages through this and not a single jam. Colors come out bold and there's no banding. The duplexer alone is a fantastic feature if you end up printing a lot of drafts for review or if you just want to save some paper. The printer also handles heavy glossy paper well and I've used it for business cards as well without any issues...Read more