Samsung ML 3050 – Able To Print How You Need For Your Home Office
Making use of the Samsung ML 3050 printer and ML 3050 toner cartridge as a pair is easy enough to do, especially at the low price this monochrome laser printer comes in at. Diminutive in size, relative to its competition, it’s also a breeze to move around an office setting, if that’s required.
The ML 3050 has good print speed, at 28 pages per minute of output. It also has a 30 ppm print speed with Letter A-size paper stock. Its print resolution is equally as good 1200 dots per inch, which allows it to deliver print pages that are crisp and clean. There is no visible smearing, bleariness or smudging of any page, either.
This laser printer can be integrated into the workgroup via use of a USB or parallel serial port, which is older-style, but adaptable for older legacy-type systems. It does not come equipped with newer Base-TX 10/100 Ethernet or wireless 802.11 standard interfaces, but this is probably not that big a concern to the kind of smaller workgroups for which the ML 3050 is designed.
As far as operating systems are concerned, the Samsung ML 3050 is able to utilize various platforms. This includes most Windows operating systems in addition to Mac and Linux OSs. For Linux, compatibility with Red Hat and Fedora is offered. This wide array of interoperability will most likely be a pleasure to just about any information technology professional needing to integrate this printer into a network.
Onboard standard memory with the ML 3050 is 16MB. This can be increased up to a maximum of 272MB. Given the print jobs that most units in a network are faced with, it’s pretty much a certainty that the supplied memory, either standard or upgraded, will not be an issue. This is so even if the job has a lot of graphics or super-clear text requirements in its docs and files.
Internal paper holding capacity is okay at the standard level of 300 sheets of paper. There are additional output trays which can be utilized, bringing the grand total to 550 sheets. Given all that, this unit finds itself playing in a higher-class league than most other monochrome laser printers at this price point. It also seems to be fairly rugged, with a monthly duty cycle of 100,000 pages of print output.
The Samsung ML 3050 printer cartridge comes supplied with the printer. This standard version is good for over 4,000 pages of print output before needing to be replaced with a fresh cartridge. An optional higher capacity toner cartridge is also available. It will push print output maximums to past 8,000 pages. Again, if most of print jobs are graphics-intensive, expect that the cartridge will need replacement sooner.
Making use of the Samsung ML 3050 printer and the ML 3050 cartridge is a fairly stress-free experience. It’s easy enough to integrate into an established network, has a low price and fairly high durability, at over 100,000 pages in its maximum monthly duty cycle. Combine that with good print speed – at 28ppm – and all the ingredients are there for a pleasant network printer experience.
