Excellent laser printer, economical, cheap, sleek design.
The starter cardtridge is what you get with the printer. It's only good for 700 pages. The STANDARD(normal) cardtridge is good for 1500 pages.
No USB Cable supplied
Shipping to
postcode 3000, $12
postcode 2000, $16
postcode 5000, $16
postcode 4000, $18
postcode 6000, $21
postcode 7000, $23
77 is the normal price for this model,
66 + 12 = 78.00, not bad if you cant make it to any major chain and compare price othrwise this is no deal .
Another thing to note with this printer, when the toner runs out throw it away the new toner is more/same price as the printer.
It's sad that rational economic behaviour requires us to create more e-waste. Has anybody tried toner refilling for this cartridge?
Still trying to find a refill for this machine i have 2x 1640 and the 2240 the chip on the toner makes it hard and most wont give you a refund it it doesnt work.
You are right it is sad about the pollution :)
The starter toner lacks the chip and is limited to a set number of pages. To bypass this you either need to short 2 pins and then downgrade the firmware on your printer if you have upgraded it (here).
Or there is a modified firmware on http://blog.sahat-tambunan.com/2009/11/28/reset-ml-1640-and-… that should not require shorting out any pins.
It is also meant to be possible to rollback the firmware which should also reset the pagecount.
I'm still within my first 700 pages and have not tried either of these method.
rational economic behaviour
Samsung ML1640 with 700 page toner $60
8.57 cents per page.
Genuine Samsung MLT-D108S 1,500 page toner $75
5 cents per page
Non genuine 1,500 page toner $50
3.33 cents per page.
Keep buying a new printer if you want however in an economic sense it is hardly rational when each page you print costs you more than buying another toner.
cartridge world will refill them.
I bought this printer after the last OzBargain offer ($74 inc postage).
The printer itself is not bad. Text quality is pretty good but if you look closely you'll notice the text isn't totally smooth. Photographs or anything printed in greyscale looks rather poor, with visible banding and dithering being a bit uneven. Pumping up the resolution doesn't help. Yes, the toner cartridge was well shaken before insertion.
Every time you print the feeder paper tray has to be opened and end stopper adjusted for A4 paper. That's the price to pay for a very small printer. Leave the tray open and it'll gather dust.
Printed pages coming out of the printer have a habit of not falling cleanly into the tray, so every now and then the user needs to prod the paper to stop it catching on previously printed sheets.
On the upside the printer is dirt cheap, fast, and takes only a few seconds to heat up. I will never use an inkjet for basic documents again.
Leave the tray open and it’ll gather dust.
Its only dust, i'd leave the tray open!
I dont really see it as a space saving design, if you want to print you still need the space for the paper tray to fold flat.
I think the big advantage to it is the reduction in packaging, materials to make the printer and reduction in shipping volume.
The paper tray for those who dont know
http://www.westcom.vn/GL/datafiles/setone/12421236832856.jpg
wow! i hadn't realised that laser printers had become so cheap, hopefully soon we'll see colour laser around this price