where to locate laser lense in samsung printer

In article , ss writes

Sounds like a worn out (scratched) image drum, not worth the effort.

Buy a true office mono laser printer next time, not one designed to be sold in Currys, JLP and bleed you dry for the consumables.

I rather like this one. Emulates everything and networkable.

Samsung ML-3710ND A4 Mono Laser Printer

Replacement toner cartridges (capacity 2000, 5000, 10000) are here.

FWIW I don't think £126 for 10,000 sheets is that scary.

(Printerland do free delivery & discount through Quidco)

HP change the drums with the toner and I think this is a good idea as toward the end the lines were apparently getting quite plain to see. Brian

In article , Adrian C writes

I'm a fan of printerland too, well, that is after I asked them to stop trying to sell me original toner at silly prices. For the printers themselves though, top rate.

Sammys are getting a rep for only accepting original toner now with dire warnings of firmware updates on old models introducing a block on copy carts too.

I'm a long time fan of OKI and I see PL have an entry level B401dn for

No probs with copy carts and the ones at consumablecafe are under 20quid with VAT & post (2.5k pages).

The higher end models benefit from taking 10k carts but at higher initial cost for the printer.

Also, our purchase claimed 5k carts too but I'm pretty sure they were light so that's one to look out for. As we use copy carts at low cost then it wasn't worth making a fuss over.

Get a LaserJet 5M off eBay. Mine cost £35 IIRC, and is still banging away several years later.

I've had my 4M+ since 1995....and in fact now have two, plus a few spares (cough). Last two cost £6 the pair off eBay.

I`ll bear the above info im mind if required. The current laser cost me zilch bought a compatible toner cart have refilled a few times and up until now been running good. I`ll order another cart.

Yep, if budget is important and potential faff with ongoing maintenance is not a problem then that works.

These days we just need it to work . . .

What ongoing maintenance? I've thrown away 3 inkjets in the same period as I've had the 5m. Occasionally I put a new toner cartridge in it. They're as reliable as a hammer.

Exactly.

I was still using an Apple Laserwriter (Mark I) up to around 6 years ago. It was still working, but it had got very difficult to persaude modern postcript drivers to generate output which would run in the printer's 1Mbyte memory (not expandable - DIL chips soldered onto the 68000 processor board).

I bought a small HP laserjet 1022n (n = networked) after that which has worked fine. However, I've seen several writeups claiming that was about the last generation of robust printers HP sold.

I bought an HP photosmart printer for another member of the family at around the same time. The hardware seems to be good quality and has never let us down, but the software which came with it is terrible - buggy and more concerning with spamming you with adverts for refills than it is with being functional, and it renders the auto-sheet feeder scanner useless as it seems to leak the memory from each scanned page and therefore dies after a few pages. The printer driver itself is fine, if you can get it installed without all the other crap (something the installer tries hard to stop you from doing).