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imagine style and power condensed. The Samsung ML-2851ND small office network monochrome laser printer combines a compact and stylish design with the speed and strength of a larger printer. A powerful 400 MHz processor and 32 MB memory delivers first-page-out in less than 8.5 seconds followed by print speeds up to 30 ppm. Up to 1200 dpi resolution ensures page after page of sharp graphics and text. Increase productivity and save paper with its built-in automatic duplex. The ML-2851ND can help reduce costs with its monthly duty cycle of 30,000 pages and TonerSaveTM mode that can extend the cartridge life up to 40%. Working hard and looking good. With the Samsung ML-2851ND small office laser printer, it¿s not hard to imagine.
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Technical Details
- Monochrome laser printer produces up to 21 ppm for efficient office use- Prints single sheets in 8.5 seconds and 100 pages in under four minutes
- TonerSave mode that extends cartridge life up to 40 percent
- Durable monthly cycle of 30,000 pages for small office use
- Measures 14.3-by-14.5-by-8.3-inches
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By LifelongAtheist (Northern New Jersey, USA)
This is a very good printer. It's fast and the output looks great. The built-in duplexing is terrific and has saved me a great deal of paper. There's one problem - it goes to sleep after a period of idleness and I can't wake it up without turning it off and back on again, which is inconvenient. I posted a question to Samsung about this but haven't heard back. Other than that, I recommend it.
By M. Rixman (Colorado Springs)
About me: I'm a college student, this printer sits in my bed room. I may not put it through the ringer like a small office would, but I do quite a bit of printing with it
Also, I used to test printers (and other electronics) as my job. I've seen many printers in my day that I thought were poorly designed, and only a small few that I thought were well designed. This one tops that second list.
I planned on reviewing this printer once the starter cartridge ran out, but it's been three reams of paper and almost a year since I've got it and It's still going strong. In all that paper and all that time I've had only one jam--which was easy to fix and probably a result of my sloppy paper-input methods.
After owning an inkjet for years--a $100 printer that was burning a hole in my wallet via cartridges--I am so glad I went for this printer. It's worth the initial investment for sure.
The duplexer works like a charm, a feature I don't expect at all on printers of this size.
The network capabilities are exactly what I needed. Keeps my USB ports empty, everyone in the house can use it, works for the Windows and Linux machines in the house, I love it.
It's no photo printer, but I don't need it to be
It's not quiet, but I don't need it to be.
Amazingly, the bundled CD included the necessary .ppd file for me to set this up in Ubuntu (worked automagically, by "set this up" I really mean "get the duplexor to work"). This NEVER happens, I was expecting a struggle--printer software is one area that machines shackled to Windows seem to have a particularly heavy advantage. I was so pleased to find that this was a 1 minute setup regardless of the operating system in question.
By J.W.
After using our work horse Apple Laserwriter 360, which never gave us a bit of trouble, for over 12 years, the Samsung ML-2851ND was a HUGE disappointment. We specifically bought it because it was advertised as being able to handle card stock. This printer can't even print envelopes well. If you use the manual feeder in the standard mode, the envelopes are completely crinkled. And when you "load the paper with the side to be printed on facing up, open the rear cover and pull the guide of both sides down" to avoid the crinkles, as instructed in the manual, the print smears. Card stock isn't even an option. We've had nothing but jams. After the latest jam, the printer won't even work and the trouble shooting information in the instruction manual is useless to solve the problem. Our IT guy had nothing good to say about this printer, which should have been our first clue. I guess you get what you pay for.
By Scott Sonnier
Six months and one tray of paper into use of this product and I am receiving the "Open Heat Error : Cycle Power" message. Unable to beat this problem and nothing is published about this problem. I think I have already lost this printer.
By GT Rider (L.A., CA USA)
I had to buy a laser printer in a hurry to replace a previous laser printer that finally quit working. Because I am a student again, I had to really narrow my search criteria for the replacement printer out of cost consideration. The printer had to be a laser printer, fast, network-ready and, of course, low-cost. After searching various review sites including Amazon.com, I finally concluded that the Samsung ML-2851 ND printer most closely fit what I was seeking.
In no particular order, these are my likes and dislikes about this printer:
Likes: It's fast! Of course, I am used to a 12 ppm laser, so just about anything in the market today would seem speedy compared to it. The warmup time required after the printer wakes from sleep mode is very short compared to other printers I have used over the years.
The duplexer is a great feature for a printer at this price level. In order to bring the cost of production in line with the street price of the printer, I wonder if Samsung might not have used a cheaper, less reliable transfer roller in their duplexer? Time will tell...
It is quiet. I can barely hear this printer in operation and often find myself going to check it just to make sure the print job was processed. I guess that could be seen as a drawback, but I like the quiet of my house when it's just me and the dog working on my school homework.
Built-in Ethernet spared me from having to get another print server for my home network.
The Mac setup is easy if you are familiar with configuring a network printer. But, in the course of setting up this printer for a mixed Windows and Mac LAN, I did find a few little issues I didn't like.
Dislikes: The printer network settings allow for DHCP, but the driver looks for the printer by IP address only. This is a major issue if you want to let IP resources be managed by a DHCP server because of the number of network appliances on a LAN segment. Leaving the printer on in order to keep the IP address leased to the printer is not an option. It appears that when the printer goes into sleep mode for power saving, it doesn't request the re-leasing of its assigned address. If you are intending to use this printer on a network using the TCP/IP protocol, the only way you are going to get reliable network operation is to assign this printer a static IP address.
The Mac driver is already built into Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard). Nothing in the User's Guide indicates this, nor were there any notes on the Samsung support web site about this. Using the install CD that is provided with the printer is not recommended except to install the Samsung Smart Panel. On the Mac, this utility isn't that useful.
Speaking of Smart Panel, I don't like that it automatically loads for the Windows driver when the computer is booted. I have not found a way to disable this feature. Fortunately, you can tell Smart Panel not to load on computer boot in the Mac version.
The printer preferences in the Windows driver are not as well implemented as I believe they could be. For example, enabling duplex printing does not necessarily enable duplex printing. The user also has to select if the duplex print should follow the long side or short side of the paper. In the Mac driver, duplex printing is a simple check box option.
Even though this printer has multiple feed paths (Paper Tray 1, Paper Tray 2 [optional], Manual Feed), the driver will only allow envelopes to be fed through the manual feed slot -- one at a time. For someone who is used to printing envelopes from my address book without having to go to the printer every time a single envelope needs to be printed, this is a big disappointment.
Print output seems a little light unless the printer is set to 1200 dpi with the toner save option disabled. I have been playing with these settings to see if there is a way to tweak my documents without giving up maximizing toner cartridge life.
Most of the dislikes are minor for me. I do wish Samsung hadn't put a DHCP setting in the printer when their own driver won't recognize the printer if the printer IP address changes. It would have been far better for me if they had simply instructed the user to set a static IP address and forget it. That would have saved me a few days of network issues.
Overall, I like this printer. It has met my most critical needs with a couple wants tossed in for good measure. It is a lot of SOHO printer for the price. Time will tell if the toner cartridges have enough print life to justify a higher rating for this printer.
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