Samsung ML-2010 Mono Laser Printer

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 11.8 x 8.5 inches ; 17 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 18 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0009ZHF2W
• Item model number: ML-2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (127 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 28, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

It's the fastest printer in its class, but it never breaks a sweat. The Samsung ML-2010 laser printer packs fast, professional-quality printing at up to 22 ppm into a compact footprint. Suitable for any home or small office, it gives you top-rated performance, easy-to-use features and a stunning design.

Fast and economical printing without sacrificing desk space It's the fastest printer in its class, but it never breaks a sweat. The Samsung ML-2010 monochrome laser printer packs fast, professional-quality printing at up to 22 ppm into a compact footprint. Suitable for any home or small office, it gives you top-rated performance, easy-to-use features and a stunning design.

Compact, stylish design With a small 14-by-12-inches footprint, the ML-2010 is barely larger than the sharp, crisp documents it prints.

Fastest in its class With 22 ppm (letter) print speed and a first page out time of less than 10 seconds, you won't have to wait.

Economical Our TonerSave feature extends cartridge life by up to 40%, while still producing high quality prints.

Simple Setup You'll be up and printing in just a few mouse clicks. You don't even have to restart your computer.

Simple Usage Front access panels makes changing toner and adding paper a snap.

Samsung Reliability More than 20 years of design and manufacturing experience has led to document imaging products known throughout the world for their outstanding reliability.

Feature include:

• Up to 22 ppm print speed
• First page out in less than 10 seconds
• Ultra-compact and stylish design
• Up to 1,200 x 600 dpi effective resolution
• 150 sheets input, 100 sheets output
• 5,000 pages per month duty cycle
• TonerSave extends cartridge life up to 40%
• USB 1.1 connectivity, compatible with USB 2.0
• Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux

What's in the Box: Printer, toner cartridge, power cord, CD-ROM, quick install guide, paper cover, user manual.

Product Description

It's the fastest printer in its class, but it never breaks a sweat. With its sleek design and ultra-compact footprint, the ML-2010 laser printer looks good in any home or small office, even at the end of its most action-packed days. Whatever the workload, it always delivers unparalleled productivity. Print speeds up to 22 ppm are simply unmatched in the class. And even at full speed, every document features sharp text and graphics with 1200 x 600 resolution. For added efficiency, TonerSave mode increases toner yield by up to 40% with the press of a button. You can save even more paper by easily printing two or more pages on a single sheet. Or, print transparencies, labels, envelopes and more, directly from the 150-sheet input tray if you'd like. There's also a convenient Cancel button to stop a print job instantly. Getting set up is quick and easy, too. Just connect the ML-2010 to your computer's USB port, install the software with just four clicks of the mouse and you're ready to go. Changing the toner is also a one-step process. Although, with a 3,000-page yield, it isn't something you do very often.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Huge backward leap for Samsung-Don't buy this printer., May 22, 2006

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KA "kursad_a" (White Plains, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung ML-2010 Mono Laser Printer (Office Product)

I have been a very satisfied user of a Samsung ML-1210 laser printer for several years. Samsung really had made a reputation for manufacturing top-quality inexpensive laser printers, and my ML-1210 was a prime example of Samsung's attention to design and usability. So when I urgently needed a new laser printer after a recent move, I could not wait until my ML-1210 arrived with the rest of my belongings, and bought an ML-2010 immediately. After all, it was a Samsung design and probably an improvement over my trusty ML-1210.

What a huge disappointment. When I go through the reviews here at Amazon, I noticed that the majority of people praise the printer for being inexpensive. These people obviously never used a previous generation Samsung laser printer, because there actually was a time when Samsung made quality inexpensive printers, and there actually were inexpensive Samsung printers that were excellent in every aspect. Unfortunately the ML-2010 is not one of these good Samsung printers.

I have to admit that the installation is much easier and Samsung has to be given credit for attention to Mac and Linux compatibility(Just use Samsung ML-1710 drivers for Linux). But this is about the only good feature of the ML-2010. In my opinion, its shortcomings are:

-NOISE. The reviewers who complain about the noise are right, folks. We're not exaggerating, this printer emits an incredible sound during the warm-up period, and a very noisy cooling fan keeps whining for minutes. In contrast, my ML-1210 was ultra quiet. Samsung engineers really dropped the ball here: I believe the addition of the noise cooling fan was due to the unnecessary push for the impressive 22ppm printing speed and the hot printing engine necessary for these speeds.
Dear Samsung marketers: In case you couldn't figure this out with your fancy MBAs from leading US and Korean universities, let me be the first to explain to you that the people who buy a sub-$100 laser printer DO NOT care for the 22ppm printing speed. They just want a quiet laser printer with high quality output. Which brings us to the second shortcoming:

-MEDIOCRE PRINTING QUALITY: What's up with the GRAY text? Even in the 1200dpi quality setting and darkness set to maximum, the output from this printer is fuzzy and gray. Something went horribly wrong during the design of this printer, and you can tell by the print quality.

-BAD DESIGN: I will not even dwell over the fact that the design is ugly: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and honestly a laser printer does not have to be a Le Corbusier masterpiece. But the poor design of the printer impacts usability: The printer literally spits out printed pages at the (unnecessarily high) speed of 22 pages per minute, and unless you deploy the ungainly paper retaining extension, the pages will not stay on the printer and will simply fall off, resulting in a mess of unordered pages. Why did Samsung have to change the design of the paper path? My ML-1210 could easily print a hundred pages and retain them on the printer, in order.

In short, the ML-2010 is not the well designed, inexpensive Samsung printer that the company was well known for making. Please do not reward Samsung by buying this poorly-designed printer. Samsung has proven that they could deliver excellent printers in the past, but the ML-2010 is a total failure. I recommend an HP printer or even a used ML-1210 instead of the ML-2010.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fits the bill for a limited budget, October 19, 2005

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N. S. Burk (NH, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung ML-2010 Mono Laser Printer (Office Product)

My wife prints her students' papers at home so it was time to dedicate a laser printer to the task. For our limited budget, this fits the bill quite nicely. Pros/Cons: It doesn't support USB 2.0 and the long warm up time is kind of frustrating ("Did I click print??? Oh yeah, there it goes.") Once it gets going, the pages come out quickly. It is louder than most other laser printers, but not louder than some ink jets. And yes, the room lights flicker when it fires up. No joke. Not worth the price without a rebate, and the price seems to be on the rise. Samsung has replaced this with a later model, and I can only hope that they'll support this one for a full lifecycle (although the cost of toner replacement rivals the purcahse price of the printer!). You can also get a Dell laser printer for around $99.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ok Printer, December 27, 2005

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Brent - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung ML-2010 Mono Laser Printer (Office Product)

I recently received this printer from another store. Not sure if it was the shipping or something else, but I ended up spending half an hour cleaning the excess toner spilled out of the cartridge.

My previous Laser printer was a Lexmark e210. I had to replace it because it was printing badly due to whatever reason and the cost of a new cartridge was more than what I would pay for this Samsung.

Some have complained about light text. It helps if you set all the printers preferences to their dark settings. And in the advanced section, you can tell it to print all text in black which helps the most. I'm satisfied with it after changing those settings. It also is slightly noisier than my previous Lexmark e210 printer, but its only noisey while printing.

There IS banding when trying to print photos. I know its not a photo printer, but was hoping that it wouldn't do that (banding) considering it has 1200dpi print. That is a negative for me, and after checking some online reviews, they have stated the same thing. I also can't tell any difference between 1200dpi and the 600dpi setting, but maybe its just me.

The price of this printer is cheap if you get it on sale with a rebate, that it almost makes up for the negatives. I will use my Canon IP4000 inkjet for the excellent quality stuff (photos and higher quality prints). HP probably still makes the best Laserjet printers, but you have to pay more for it.