When scouting for an office printer it doesn’t really matter what kind of person you’re asking, most of them will suggest some pretty well known names such as HP or Canon. Still, from personal experience, the most encountered printers in small businesses is probably Samsung.




Despite them never being amazing they’ve always provided reliability and little to no page jams or problems. What do most Samsung SCX laser printers that you can find in small offices have in common? They were all pretty affordable, they are all decently fast and most of them seem to be monochrome.

In a world where everyone wants as many features as possible out of one single device, and the most sought after printer type would most likely be the photo multifunctional printer that can do anything your office needs plus print high quality photography, it’s no wonder that the prices of multifunction monochrome printers has gone down a lot.

Samsung’s SCX-4600 for example is an affordable monochrome all-in-one laser that can offer most of what your office will ever need (assuming, of course, you don’t need color printing whatsoever). First of all, the printer is easy to set up and all a user has to do is to connect the printer to a PC (via USB) after which install the driver.

Right on top of the printer you can find the scanner. In front of the scaner lays the control panel that’s pretty easy to figure out. A 2 line 16 character LCD is more than enough for navigating, paired up with a four way navigational key with an OK key right in the middle. Connectivity is in this case limited to the single USB port found on the back and there are no networking functions whatsoever.

As always the printing speeds claimed by the manufacturers, have for some reason nothing to do with what really happens when you’re using the printers. So, while Samsung claims 22 pages per minute for the SCX-4600 in reality it can do about half as that. Apparently the higher the number of pages you need to print (which obviously eliminates the processing time), the higher the speed you’re printing at. While not amazing, the printing quality is more than good for such an affordable printer. Text printing is worthy of being printed by a laser.

Finally, what’s very important about this kind of device is the cost of maintenance. The toner cartridge can be found in either 1500 page or 2500 page versions. The larger capacity one is obviously more economical and will result in printing costs that are average for monochrome laser printers. The 4600 Samsung SCX laser printers are the entry-level, affordable type of printers that will work well in any small or home office where users aren’t very demanding. The only drawback is that you’re stuck with a printer with no networking.

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