If you want a simple but functional laser printer, there are several models under £100, but Samsung ML-3050 is an entry-level printer that has several features that you might expect only further up the price-bands.

The ML-3050 is quite a nippy little machine, which produced our five-page text document in 23 seconds and mixed text and graphics pages, again five of them, in just 19 seconds. This gives it a true top speed of nearly 16ppm which, while a good way short of the quoted 28ppm, it still very respectable for a printer costing under £100. Even the photographic print only took 14 seconds, a graphics print speed of 4.3ppm.

The conclusion is that Samsung ML-3050’s print speed is impressive and print quality is better than from some machines costing considerably more. While Samsung will have to watch the price of its consumables, which now come close to the cost of the printers themselves, the ML-3050 is very good value for quality mono printing.

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