Slim And Stylish, The Samsung SCX 4500 Printer Is Great!
Even though we have seen great reductions in the footprint of most electronic devices in recent times, PC, mobile phones and televisions included. We have been yet to see printers designed with this in mind. Most of them still tend to be bulky lumps of plastic which appear to have been assembled cheaply. At least this has been the case until the Samsung SCX 4500 printer and Samsung SCX 4500 Toner was produced.
Inkjets have certainly not done very well and at really cheap prices of below the $100 mark it hardly seems worth replacing ink cartridges when they run out. Laser printers on the other hand have done better. Samsung seem to have a much more responsible outlook when it comes to designing their equipment. They offer products that are reasonably priced as well as good designs.
Their genius in design shows in the slim yet incredibly stylish 4500 Toner. The footprint is a cool 15.5 x 6.5 x 13″, with dimensions like this on offer, this printer will fit virtually anywhere. This design marvel is a full function printer, scanner, copier. If you are looking for a stylish product, this is the one to get. It is also very quiet which makes it even more attractive.
Touch sensitive controls feature on the control panel, and although the settings are limited, you have to take the good with the bad. SmartThru software is used for some of the printer functions and for scanning and this can be installed on Windows XP in as little as 5 minutes. You need to have your own USB cable as the printer does not come complete with this. Make sure you have purchased one, or that you have one available from an old printer. One you have set your MFP up, it requires very little warm up time and a printed page can be copied in about 10 seconds.
The paper tray is concealed below the printer itself and does not hold a great deal of paper, but if small design is what you are looking for, then you will have to live with refilling it regularly. The price tag is around $300 and for this amount of money your print quality is not going to be fantastic, but it is adequate.
Grey-scale printing is more than passable and the scanner function although slow is a good quality optical resolution at 600 x 2400 dpi. Toner plugs are also easy to remove and install.
The Samsung SCX-4500 is a more than adequate printer for home use, but it is not recommend it as a networked printer for office work, it does not have a built in Ethernet. Although if everyone in the office has their own printer, it is also fine. Users are also not able to print from a USB drive and it does not have a card reader. It is also not terribly fast at 16 pages per minute out-put, which places it behind some of the competition. However these slight flaws are easily overlooked as this MFP is so stylish, and sometimes style demands certain trade-offs.
Summary: If it is a cool printer you are looking for then you will get cool with the Samsung SCX 4500 Toner. For the best possible print quality and efficiency you must make use of Samsung SCX 4500 toner plugs, this will ensure your printer has a long life as well as keep it reliable.
