[plug] printers (yet again)

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:43:14PM +0800, Kev wrote:

> I'm looking (yet again!) at colour laser printers, with a view to buying 
> one for our small LAN at home.  One which takes my fancy is the Samsung 
> CLP-550N.  In the blurb about this printer it says, under the heading,

Ah, you didn't say it was a network printer, though it sounded likely
from your description.

I'm yet to see a network laser printer without a real built-in
PostScript RIP (and thus, almost inevitably, decent cross-platform
support).

It's always worth linking to the product info page. While not the
vendor's, I looked at this one as I was curious to see how it compared
to the Xerox Phaser 4500.

http://www.i-tech.com.au/products/1231_Samsung_CLP_550N_Network_Colour_Laser.asp

Answer: it's OK, and insanely cheap (especially compared to the Xerox).
I'd want to check consumable prices very carefully, though, and make
sure it has decent quality results, is reliable, and is decently built.
That's a REALLY cheap printer (for a network laser with built-in RIP),
and there might be a reason for it.

-- 
Craig Ringer