By astronomoloco
I purchased this printer after I was no longer able to find cartridges for my ageing inkjet printer. It's vastly more convenient: I just ask for a printout, and out it comes. No need to clean the print head, no problem with dried ink blocking the print head if you don't use the printer for a month, ability to print hundreds of pages on a set of cartridges, faster printing, ink doesn't run if the printouts get wet, deeper paper tray. I've had no reliability issues in the few weeks I've been using the printer. And all for the cost of a couple of inkjet cartridges, or a mid-range inkjet printer for that matter. I'm not looking forward to the toner cartridge replacement costs but the cost per printed page will still be less in the long run.
The printer doesn't do duplex printing, and its colour quality, while good, can't quite match that of a high quality inkjet when producing glossy photos. But print quality is certainly competitive with vastly more expensive colour laser printers.
The printer integrates well with Linux and CUPS. Debian users should note that the driver installer places files named smfpd* in the /etc/rc*.d/ directories on your system, which interfere with the Debian update procedure. The files also launch a printer daemon that consumes vast amounts of CPU time. I fixed this by removing these files and rebooting, as the daemon only serves Samsung parallel port printers, and this is a USB printer.
