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Monday, March 5, 2012

Samsung Monochrome Multifunction Laser Printer (SCX-4826FN)

The versatile SAMSUNG SCX-4826FN multifunction printer can help your workgroup work faster. With up to 30 ppm print / copy speeds, a powerful processor, 128 MB memory upgradeable to 384 MB and PCL6 emulation, you'll reduce printer bottlenecks. Document workflow is improved with a 50,000-page monthly duty cycle, duplex printing for paper savings and time savings, a front USB port that lets you print files from and scan directly to a USB flash drive, faxing directly from your PC and more. All with a compact footprint and a noise level of just 50 dB (printing). Work faster. Work better. The SAMSUNG SCX-4826FN multifunction printer.

Brand: Samsung Model: SCX-4826FN Platform: Windows Format: CD Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 15.56" h x 17.53" w x 16.16" l, 31.97 pounds Versatility is the key to these convenient 5-in-1 laser multifunction printers. Get everyone at work onboard quickly with simple and easy to use GUI screens. Convenient features increase your daily office efficiency. Everyone wants fast printouts, but if the first page out of the printer takes too long, waiting can be very stressful. Energy Saving

Most helpful customer reviews 33 of 33 people found the following review helpful. Excellent value, very good network scanning, a few caveats By A. Schick Pros:-Samsung packs a lot of value into their machines. I paid about $50 less than it is currently going for here.-Network scanning actually works well!; unlike many network MFPs.(Buying a standalone network scanner that works this well would cost more than this machine-though it does not have auto duplex scanning like some costlier devices)-Direct to USB scanning and direct from USB printing might be useful for some.-Duplex printing works well and saves paper- more mid-range printers should come with this feature.(note: if you have ever used a printer with duplexing capabilities before you will have no trouble enabling this feature.)-Most setting are easily configurable with the web interface so that you need not scroll through multiple menus on the machine itself.-Has powerful scan to email features usually only found on high end office machines.-Handles standard envelopes better than I expected.Cons:-Samsung documentation is not for the uninitiated.-By default it installs some not very useful programs (a quicklaunch toolbar and a printer status monitor)-Does not support Postscript (you need to pay a little extra for the Samsung SCX-4828 Laser Multi-Function Printerfor this feature- that's the only difference between them).-For some strange reason you cannot scan to B&W PDF directly from the machine. You can scan to color or grayscale PDF, or you can scan to B&W PDF from your computer, but not directly from the machine. No idea why.-Generally, MFPs do not last as long as regular printers, and are a pain to fix if they break. Think of it this way: If the chance of a printer breaking within 3 years is 1/100, and the chance of a scanner breaking is 1/100, then the chance of a MFP breaking is 1/50.Workarounds:-If you connect this to your computer via USB (presumably you bought this for its network capabilities so you would normally have it connected via Ethernet) you can flash the device with the firmware from the 4828FN to enable postscript emulation. This will undoubtedly void your warranty. You can then manually install the 4828FN postscript printer driver and configure it to print to the correct port. (The only reason I did this is because samsung previously had incorrectly listed this machine as having PS support before I bought it)-If you only need network scanning and printing (not faxing) and do your scanning with programs you already have (such as Acrobat or Omnipage) then I highly recommend installing only the printer and scanner drivers and forgetting about the rest.-A generally good idea with network printers is to configure them to use a static IP address (outside the normally assigned range) even if your network is running on DHCP. This will potentially avoid many headaches down the line.Bottom Line: A great value if you know what you need and know what you are doing. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Great looking printouts and auto duplexing! By J. Roach I agree with the reviewer from May - great little machine (made even better if you know what you are doing). We had no problems installing. Printing is fast and the output is beautiful. We went from a tiny personal Minolta laser printer that had put in a few great years to this for a few reasons. The Minolta was having a few problems that I was sick of dealing with, I was tired of manually duplexing, and we really wanted an auto document fed scanner (ADF). Now I just need to find a program that can automatically OCR and index the documents...I didn't install the indexing software they included, so I guess I avoided that pitfall. I have had the SCX-4826fn a couple of months and love it. I haven't used the fax yet, but that's not what I bought it for. I bought it because it was the only laser ADF MFP with automatic duplexing in a reasonable price range! Nothing else even came close!I only have a

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