Snazzy Samsung: A Laser Printer With Style

摘要

The crop of low-end mono-chrome lasers we tested thismonth is more diverse thanyou'd think. Two share thesame low price but other-wise differ dramatically. TheSamsung ML-1630 looksmore like a mother ship thana printer, while the HP Laser-Jet P1505 looks like it wasstripped for spare parts. TheML-1630, however, is actual- ly the sparer ofthese two designs:It takes only letter-and A4-size paper,and its input trayholds just 100sheets. Its tonercosts, at 3 cents perpage, are high. TheLaserJet P1505 haspricey toner, too,but it's superfast rare for a printer this inex-pensive. It averaged 26.1pages per minute when gen-erating our text documents,and just under 10 pages perminute when outputtingphotos (though the photoquality is poor, even for amonochrome laser).