Commissioning went smoothly se. But you have to be extremely careful when unlocking the toner cartridge, do not come with your fingers on the exposure drum (green rolls), which are totally free. I also noticed that two of the four cartridges clearly colored toner residue could be seen even before the first use. That makes me respect. Of later behavior a little suspicious. The printer used as said cartridges that each contain the exposure unit so that flying with every toner container replacement in the garbage :-(
The biggest problem was the virtually non-existent single sheet feeder for me. If you want to print on one sheet of both sides - and I do that quite often - it is very awkward with this printer. There is no separate slot or a flap where you can shove the already printed on one side of sheet to print the second side, but you have to completely pull out the whole tray, fumble the sheet into a guide above the normal paper stack and the paper tray conclude. If that were least flutschig, it would be so bad, but the tray is very "klemmig" and hakelig and has also made a quirk: the pulled-out state of the stack is usually located on the bottom of the tray, and in the inserted state he is on pressed rear end by a metal clamp upward so that the printer can feed the top sheet. This change should go in my opinion, automatically pulling out and pushing in front of him. But it happens all the time that the clip is not just pushed down when pulling out. The result is that the paper tray can not be inserted again in this state, but it somewhere before the end position abuts 5 cm hard, without knowing what the problem is. If one has seen through the whole, one can (on the right side of the tray), press the clip before inserting your finger down and snap it, but all that annoying in the long run. Conclusion in this respect: who prints anyway only one side and the paper tray rare and touching only for refilling, is not necessarily a problem, but who often times both parties (or other than A4 - which you have to that is also out so!) Wants to print : again seriously consider ...
Network: It took me a lot of time to set up the wireless network. Automatic configuration via WPS has in me does not work (neither push-button method still PIN method, each tested with a EasyBox and a Fritz box -> every time only error messages and as icing sometimes here and there a sudden printer standby during the coupling experiments). And the manual setting has first no success. I had connected me via LAN to the printer and configured via web interface the network parameters. The wireless scan showed also good to existing WLANs and accepted WLAN password etc. Just concluded a connection is never. Why? Quite simply, the printer knows seemingly only one IP, and which he uses for either the LAN or WLAN. And since I was connected via a LAN, the WLAN was blocked. So if you to configure the wireless network that the LAN cable pulls out and restarts the printer, you go at once. He then in the same WLAN IP, which he had previously in the LAN. DHCP I did not try, makes a printer also usually not much point. The result is in any case that, if you only want to connect a computer via Wi-Fi (and that will be the rule in this model, otherwise you could just another without wireless company), the connection is virtually dead by LAN in everyday life, as you then always off and plug in and restart should (if I've got overlooked something, I let myself be happy to correct). Via USB, the printer but fortunately next WLAN / LAN simultaneously attached to a computer, so that you could make do with it, share the printer on this computer on the LAN. But then the computer must run if another via LAN wants the printer ...
And yet the following tips to conclude:
- Anyone looking for the default login information for the web interface, can be in the manual looking for a road: admin / sec00000
- The printer "lights" on the network like a Christmas tree, that there are an incredible number of services enabled by default; who is familiar with it, should turn off the unneeded in order to minimize the attack surface for less positive minded contemporaries
- Who is suddenly allegedly connected to an SSID called "PortThru" playing around with the WLAN, do not be surprised; I did not get out on the fly what you want exactly, but it does not is a real power, and is a peculiarity in Samsung devices
Keyword guide: that there is (except for a single A2 sheet Initial Configuration) only on CD. Is environmentally safe meaningful than with other manufacturers that enclose a 500-page tome, which includes 100 languages with 5 pages. But I personally do not particularly like the CD version. "At length," my opinion is different ...
Firmware Update: goes smoothly in itself, but even here lurks a pure Leger: It connects the printer via USB and start the update program that sends the firmware via USB to the printer. Also works fine, but after transferring the printer reports insulting that you can only perform a firmware update, if one activates the admin setup on the printer beforehand. Thank you. So off to the Admin Setup? Do not go, you need to namely the above credentials that apply to the web interface as well as provide for the admin setup the printer. Until I had searched the manual and finally found the Internet, the next quarter of an hour was rum. On the second attempt in any case everything went well.
Scanner: All right, the normal scan program but can only be set a maximum of 600 dpi. Higher I got it just by TWAIN, there can be set up to 4800 dpi (TWAIN: you can install a driver to scan from any other image processing out, for example, with the free Paint.NET). Why the difference? I do not know ... The scans are certainly ok, to 1200 dpi I had also a noticeable increase in the details. 2400 and 4800 you can save but. It should be noted that it is a CIS scanner: The focused, as opposed to a CCD scanner exactly to the level of the bearing surface, so it has no depth of field. In single sheets no problem, but if you scan a book that not all lies in the middle, you get there blurs.
Other individual points:
- Touch-screen on the printer: as far as on-screen menu, but a little stiff (. Partly stronger pressures necessary)
- Noise level: quite loud to, runs now and then suddenly and loudly, and calibrates itself once just
- Odor level: inconspicuous
- Color reproduction: nothing to complain about, looks on paper mean good
- Toner usage: do not print many pages, but it seemed to me the consumption display quite advanced. I've only had two really color pages and a few b / w pages with very small amount of color. Thereafter, the color toner were only 97%. So either the printer actually swallows so much, or is it just a "starter kit" with a smaller toner content at the printer case, or the display is not appropriate.
