Recently I needed to purchase a new printer for my home office. The most important requirement was that it be wireless as the four members of my household have laptops.
I considered the Brother MFC-J615W printer, which is pretty cost effective to run, but I decided that I wanted a laser printer so that I could print letters and other businesses documents while at home.
I came across the Samsung CLX-3185FW printer on sale for $199.00 and decided to give it a try.
The unit is surprisingly quite compact and fit perfectly on my computer table.
The setup instructions were very clear and I had the wireless setup complete within about 15 minutes. I was also able to set it up on my husband’s Mac with the touch of a couple of keys, once I had shared the printer on our network.
My first project was a mail merge of labels. The Samsung took the labels with no problem and was quite quick, printing the black labels at 17ppm. They were ready in no time.
I also did some colour photocopying and this was at 17cpm, a very good speed for colour copying…and the colour quality was very good.
The unit also scans up to 4800 x 4800 dpi enhanced and faxes up to 33.6 Kbps
Some of the other unique features of this printer are:
- One touch wi-fi setting lets you connect quickly and easily
- One-touch eco copy button lets you combine four documents into one document, saving you valuable time
- Easily fits onto any size of desktop while leaving plenty of room for you to get your work done. Dimensions: 13.55”(H) x 16.38”(W) x 14.88”(D)
- One-touch eco print button saves paper while the default toner mode makes saving toner effortless
- Engineered to be whisper quiet, generating a noise level of as low as 46 dBA while it’s printing
- Samsung’s AnyWeb Print software lets you easily select, drag, and drop content from different web pages onto a printable scrap board
- Always know the status of your print job with navigation feedback LED pattern
The toner cartridges are not the largest, nor are they expensive. The black cartridge yields 1,500 pages and a remanufactured cartridge is only $37.99. Colour cartridges will give you 1,000 pages each and a remanufactured cartridge is only $33.99.
This is a pretty good printer for the money and the cost of the consumables. With an acceptable print speed, wireless capabilities and size, it is perfect for a home office setting.
Does anyone else have this printer? Share your thoughts on it with me! On this blog, you’ll get commentluv. This is a great opportunity to leave a link back to your own blog when you leave feedback.
Until next time,
Karen
i just got one of this beauty and i love it , great machine easy to use , just what i needed
Hi Jeff,
Glad you are enjoying your new printer
Karen
Hi, hope somebody will read this, we got this printer a few days ago, nice, easy to setup, only issue we have is with the color printouts, the pictures come really dark and the options to modify the settings are not exactly helpful, wonder if anybody knows any way to reset the colors so we can get nice printouts.
Thanks.
Good Morning Herbert,
You would be best to use a inkjet printer to print photographs. The CLX-3185 is a great printer for documents, brochures, etc., but the best quality photos come from an inkjet on photo paper.
Hope this helps
Karen