Samsung ML 1740 Printer Features and Samsung ML 1740 Printer Technical Details
Features
Technical Details
600 x 600 dpi resolution
Up to 17 ppm print speed
66 MHz processor, 8 MB memory
Toner save mode reduces consumption up to 40%
USB and parallel ports; PC and Linux compatible Product Details
Product Dimensions: 2 pounds
Shipping Weight: 16 pounds
Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
ASIN: B0001WW3G6
Item model number: ML-1740/XAA
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Review 1
Good value, October 23, 2004
By K. Gittins (CA USA)
I needed to replace my ancient basic Brother laser printer (which at the time many years ago, cost over $500 as I recall).
Samsung had the reputation of relatively low-quality in the past, though they have been more committed to quality these last few years. I overcame my initial "brand aversion" after reading a few good reviews here and elsewhere.
So far, I've haven't printed very much (as expected) but I did just print out a 131-page instruction manual on some cheap grocery-store brand paper stock without a hitch.
Not particularly quiet, but that is not a concern of mine.
A couple nice features that I'll probably never use include being able to print a "watermark" such as "Sample" or "Confidential" on the first or all pages, rotating the print, and shrinking to fit the page.
One option I recommend is the "toner saver mode", accessible from the interface or a button on the printer. Although you get a "starter" toner cartridge, replacements go for about $79, though re-charged ones might be available for less.
I scavenged a USB cord from my scanner, and hooked it up that way although there is a parallel port option. You need your own cable in either case.
Supplies:
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Samsung ML 1740 Toner Cartridge
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Remanufactured Samsung ML-1710D3 Premium Toner Cartridge (Black)
Original New OEM Samsung ML-1710D3 Premium Toner Cartridge (Black)
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Review 2
How Low Can a Laser Go?
June 3, 2004
By Eric Grevstad
Two-tone color schemes must be out of fashion; last year's Samsung ML-1710 personal laser printer had a white case with beige faceplate, but this year's ML-1740 is all ivory.
But saving money is always in style: While its predecessor stuck to the longtime entry-level laser price of $199, the ML-1740 costs a thrifty $150, while adding a parallel as well as the older model's USB interface. That means Samsung has undercut Konica Minolta's $180 PagePro 1350W (reviewed in February) as, to our knowledge, the least expensive laser you can buy. If you're still using a slower, costly-consumables inkjet printer for big, black-and-white text jobs, you have only yourself to blame.
For the record, Samsung doesn't just skip lunches and go without HBO in order to come in $30 under its rival's price; the PagePro offers higher resolution -- 1,200 by 600 dpi -- than the Samsung's 600 by 600 dpi engine. On the other hand, the ML-1740's single-sheet or -envelope feeding slot and flip-down rear panel give it a straight-through path for special media which the 1350W lacks.
And while Konica Minolta's printer advertises a speed of 22 pages per minute, the Samsung -- rated at a more modest 17 ppm -- equaled or narrowly beat it in our stopwatch tests, printing the same files from the same Windows 2000 desktop. A 20-page Microsoft Word document, for example, took 1 minute and 22 seconds, two seconds quicker than the PagePro.
Just Like a Real Printer
Like its ML-1710 and higher-resolution ML-1750 predecessors, the Windows- and Linux- (not Mac-) compatible ML-1740 takes little more desk space than a few reams of the copier paper you use with it -- the printer is 8 inches tall, with a footprint roughly 15 inches square.
It shares those printers' best feature: a big-printer- or copier-style, pull-out paper drawer at the bottom, for easy loading and smooth feeding. The drawer holds 250 sheets of letter- or legal-sized paper (for the latter, you must push a latch and pull out a plastic guide that leaves the extra three inches actually sticking out of the back of the printer).
In a nice detail, a plastic pin at lower right sinks in its slot to indicate at a glance when the drawer is getting empty. Like the printer's 8MB of memory, however, its paper capacity can't be expanded -- no second drawer is available.
Unless you're using the special-feed slot, paper travels upward and over to arrive face down on top of the printer -- where, despite a folding plastic prop, sheets start sliding off the stack a little before you get to the advertised output capacity of 50 pages.
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