Samsung SCX-4725FN Network Laser Multifunction Printer, Copier, Fax, Color Scanner

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 20.2 x 18.3 inches ; 30.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 31 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MS44AC
• Item model number: SCX-4725FN
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 18, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
A convenient all-in-one device, the Samsung SCX-4725FN is a multifunction printer, copier, fax machine, and color scanner. Its printer functions allow you to print sharp text and graphics at speeds up to 24 pages per minute. This machine lets you fax directly from your PC or copy and scan with distinctly professional results. Other features include 1200 x 1200 dpi print resolution for text and photos, a first copy pint time of only 10 seconds, zoom and shrink copier functions.

Scanner abilities include TWAIN and WIA standard color CIS Scanning abilities. With a 2 x 16 line LCD display and 32 MB of memory, this printer comes with USB, FireWire, and Ethernet 10/100 Base TX (network compatible) connectivity. This printer supports duplex printing and copying. The operating system compatibility for this unit includes Windows 98, Me, NT4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.3 and later, and various Linux systems (via USB interface only) including Red Hat 8.0-9.0, Fedora Core 1-3, Mandrake 9.0-10.2, and SuSE 8.2-9.2.

Product Description
Imagine all the attention that makes your office exclusive.Toner Save Mode of the SCX-4725FN reduces toner consumption by up to 30%, giving you more print outs per toner cartridge. This mode not only remains the print quality, but also saves papers for draft copies.Store a few functions as 'Favorite Copy'. Instead of requiring multiple steps to select copy options, pressing the 'Favorite Copy' button requires only one step to complete the assigned special copy. As fast as it gets.SCX-4725FN sends a fax document directly from your PC through SmarThru software. You can just sit and watch everything being done.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best thing going, June 21, 2008

By	Baldini (Peachtree City, Georgia) - See all my reviews

I purchased this product strictly because of the price. It is wonderful. Scans are easy. Just use a program to acquire the image with the supplied twain driver, which by the way, is a nice piece of software. And fast. Got my samsung hardwired to my network. My wireless laptops can print to it no problem. Wakes from sleep fast, prints fast, and its quiet. Nothing to complain about. It really is like having a full blown office machine in your home.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Does everything perfectly, May 21, 2008

By	David S. Midler "reldim" (Atlanta GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We needed to replace a 5 year old Xerox all in one and decided to go with the Samsung 4725FN. The price was hundreds below everything we looked at from HP, Lexmark and Xerox and we're extremely happy with our purchase. The unit prints very quickly from our mixed Mac and Windows network and the print quality is superb. Setup took less than 5 minutes without looking at the manual. Overall, we highly recommend this printer. The only negative is that you may have a bit of trouble locating toner locally so be sure to keep extras on hand, since you can't just run over to the corner office supply store and expect to see it on the shelf. Overall a great printer/fax/scanner at an amazing price.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this machine, August 21, 2008

By	V. Muccioli - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Although I did not buy it from amazon, I feel this is the best place to review it. I bought this printer cheaper than it probably should have been. There was an easyrebate involved. So I was thrilled about that.
When I got the box opened it took about 5 minutes to set it up. I installed the drivers and everything was up and running in no time. It was a real breeze. I have it set up via USB connection, so I cannot comment about its network capabilities. I did run a series of tests on its scanning however.

There are a couple of different parameters to set for the scanner. There are the resolution and color settings. For resolution, obviously the higher the resolution, the finer the image. If you are scanning text however, it doesnt require very high resolution. I found all the text on my utility bills legible at 200dpi, just one setting above the lowest resolution. A 2 page document takes up roughly 200kb in grayscale mode when saved as a PDF. IT TOOK ABOUT 5 SECONDS TO SCAN A PAGE THROUGH THE DOCUMENT FEEDER.

2 things surprised me when I scanned this document in the other color modes (true color, 24-bit color, black and white):
1.) The file size remained about the same across all color modes.
2.) The scanning time became much longer for the other color modes.

There is an OCR program included with the software and it requires a resolution of 300dpi, which doesnt make a huge difference in file size or scanning time. But when the OCR program is finished and the document is saved in word format there is a HUGE difference. My 17 page lease took up a mere 285kB when converted to word format. You should only run the OCR programs on pages that are just text though. Running OCR on documents that contain alot of pictures or on poor copies can be problematic. For that just save the scan as a PDF and you'll be fine.

In the first 3 hours of owning this beauty, I had scanned every important piece of paper in my apartment. I even scanned all of my notes for a current semester at an Ivy League university.

I love this machine, and so will you.