Customer Reviews

Samsung Monochrome Laser Printer (ML-1630)

5 star:		(33)
4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

If you're tired of beige or gray cheap-looking plastic printers, you'll love this shiny new offering from Samsung.

Very low profile and paper comes out the front so you can stack items on top of it during use.

Samsung doesn't offer a higher capacity toner cartridge but you can get one from checksnet that prints more pages and can be used for making checks.

Excellent print quality & quietest printer I've ever owned.

This is my second Samsung (my previous model was a 1200 series which lasted 8 years and was eventually donated to our local school)

The ML-1630 is just stunning for a monochrome laser printer under $200. The look is unique, but as the title says, the quality is what you would expect from a home laser printer.

The characters are crisp and the graphics are perfect (2 settings, standard and above). It is very quiet, plug-and-play, can be shared without any issue on a local windows network. You get one year warranty which can be extended by another 3 months once you register your product online.

The only issue we got was with the paper. We were using recycled paper (which is quite thin) and sometimes the paper would be a little wrinkled. By switching to normal paper (Stapples), the problem went away.

I bought this printer as a supplement to my HP OfficeJet 5610 All-in-One. The Samsung ML-1630 laser is a very quiet monochrome laser printer. Print quality is excellent for text. Also the price per page for text is very reasonable. Printer is very quiet and prints text pages quickly.

Only mediocre for printing graphic images (such as coins) that are colored. The change to gray-scale comes out a little dark.

Pros: Very small foot-print, very good looking printer, low cost per page.
Cons: Color graphics come out dark when converted to gray-scale.

I bought this printer as a replacement for a 5 year old Brother printer. Although I had read reviews saying it did not work well wirelessly, I decided to give it a try based on otherwise good reviews.

At first all went well. As a printer it is excellent. Great print quality, and quiet.

However, it does not work well with Airport ever since I upgraded my OS to 10.5. It will do one print job, then freeze. I have to reset Airport for each and every print job. This is a real pain when I am working wirelessly, which is most of the time.

It still works fine if plugged directly into my MacBook Pro via USB.

Wireless is a futile effort. I've read numerous blogs on the problem, and solutions are temporary at best.

If you plan to use this printer plugged directly into your computer, then it is a good buy. If you plan to use wireless with a PC, I have heard that works but can't confirm. But don't buy if you plan to use wirelessly with a Mac.

One other minor inconvenience: the paper tray is rather small, and holds about 50 sheets. If you print lots of large jobs, I'd consider another printer.

After a glitch in my Canon Pixma printer which caused me to break the thing with frustration, I found myself in the not-so-unique position of buying a new printer. I wanted something that could print speedily, looked nice, and didn't cost a lot per print. Yet at the same time I wanted to be able to scan. After due consideration, I think I came to best decision: buy a scanner and a simple monochrome laser printer. Before I tell you why I liked the Samsung ML-1630, let me say that I initially tried a Brother HL-2170w. That printer was easier to setup than others had me believe, but it consumed so much energy that my lights flickered with every print. Alas, I decided to buy this printer. What I like about it is that it is sleek, it doesn't consume a whole lot of desk space, it is quiet, and it works! No jams so far, and I'm 1000 pages in. The bundled cartridge is roughly half the capacity of a new cartridge, but I'm easily going to get more than the 1000 page estimate. In addition, the setup was so quick and easy that my 80 year old grandmother could do it, no problem. The directions were on a giant sheet of paper, basically plug it in, install driver disk, and go! If you're sick of all the software bundles from the likes of Canon and HP, you will be pleased with Samsung. In short, buy this printer if you need to print out a lot of basic monochrome sheets. Don't buy it if you want a feeder, print a lot of card stock, need to scan/duplex/copy, print photos, fax, etc. It does one job but it does it well.

I was looking for a laser printer for most of my documents, which don't need any color printing. I was also looking for something that looked halfway decent on my desk, and I found it with the Samsung ML-1630.

It's a quick 5-minute setup, with the only thing you really have to do to the printer is slip in the printer cartridge. Then you turn it on, connect it to your computer, and install the software from the CD.

I installed it on a Vista laptop, everything worked great, then shared that printer on my home network. I wirelessly connected to that shared printer from a remote Windows7 laptop, and it installed the printer drivers and printed easily. I was actually quite surprised it all worked, to be honest.

The printer is quiet and prints documents perfectly. As other commenters mention, it doesn't hold a ream of paper, but for my home office, it's more than I print in a week. It looks fantastic, too.

The only thing missing is built-in wireless, but I'll make do.

It's small, it's sleek and fairly quiet. Of all the printers I have had in the past, this is certainly the best. It hasn't let me down yet, and based on the other Samsung products I own, I don't foresee it doing so anytime soon. The only gripes I could see anyone having is the fact that the paper tray is smaller than most other printers. It doesn't bother me, but it may bother those who would prefer a larger tray. But that is all I can think of, I love this printer!

I agree with other reviewers - this little printer is sleeker looking on your desk than in the photos. It's quiet and prints very quickly (especially compared to my old ink jet). I am a full-time PhD student and often print 30+ page articles or drafts of papers - what a time saver! I haven't been able to tell how long the ink cartridge lasts yet - but hopefully longer than ink jets. Overall, a great little printer - sleek design, love the blue LED lights, prints quickly and quietly. Don't hesitate!

I purchased this printer in October, 2009 and it worked ok for about three weeks. When it stopped working with a bizarre error message, Samsung authorized a local repair. It was in the shop for about two weeks, but when I got it home, it still didn't work.

Samsung authorized another repair and a different shop had the printer for about six weeks. The repair shop owner said that Samsung was horrible to get parts and repair authorization from, and pays starvation wages for his labor. When the printer was returned from shop number 2, guess what?! It STILL didn't work... same exact problem.

At the end of my rope, Samsung agreed to replace the printer, but wouldn't guarantee that I would get another ML1630... they would just ship whatever they had in stock! I got a new 1630, and it seems to work ok. But here is the rub - my warranty on my replacement printer is SHORTER than on my original lemon. When I called Samsung, I got zero satisfaction on this issue. I wrote the President of Samsung Electronics USA about a month ago about this and so far, not even a return call or contact of any kind. I have a long memory for lousy customer service and it will be a cold day in a very warm destination before I buy any Samsung product again.

The printer looks sleek. It is a work of art. But the print quality is average. It's not especially fast, but not a turtle, either. Just average. The paper tray is tiny - much smaller than any personal printer I have owned. Samsung requires a fairly large printer driver program installation, which works fine under Windows 7, but it does suck up system resources.

Pros: Beautiful looking, quiet when printing, inexpensive, great print quality, cute little tunes when you turn it on and off.

Cons: Samsung created an elegant and quiet personal laser printer but they blew it by including a noisy little cooling fan. If you print more than about 10 pages, it starts buzzing and moaning and this goes on for about 10 minutes. Very disappointing, bad way to save a few bucks. Would have gladly paid more for a unit with a quiet cooling fan.

One other thing. All laser printers produce ozone. Some of them have filters to keep it from blowing into the room. This one doesn't. The manual says the ozone is harmless, but I wonder.