Review: Samsung CLX-6260FW color laser multifunction printer - gomeshattond

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Skillful's Rating

Pros

Superior photo quality
Automatic duplex impression and scanning
Fast performance on Mack platform

Cons

Basic paper capacity seems scarce for the price

Our Verdict

Imposing impress quality is the highlight of this small workgroup unit. Hotfoot and features are able. Toner costs range from average to a young pricey.

Everything concerning the Samsung CLX-6260FW color laser multifunction ($1,000 as of 11/28/2012) has class. The appearance and controls, the output, and eventide the software program are ordinal-rate. Yet break, the CLX-6260FW wakes up quickly and performs its tasks with skill. Fitting watch ove the toner costs, which can be a little valuable.

The CLX-6260FW has all the connectivity about situations require: Wi-Fi, USB, and gigabit ethernet. The unit is pressurized via a 4.3-inch touch screen, and the menus and options are arranged intuitively. As the CLX-6260FW faxes, a numeric keypad is present for dialing phone numbers as easily as entering four-digit secure printing PINs. In addition to the usual strike down and other buttons, there's also an Eco button that switches the printer into thriftiness mode where it uses less toner– particularly apropos with this unit.

The CLX-6260FW comes standard with 512MB of memory, and it's upgradeable to 1GB. There's likewise a USB-to-parallel-port option for $100. The specified monthly duty cycle is 60,000 pages, and the unit carries a one-year warranty. The provided software supports all the chores of which the CLX-6260FW is equal to (copy/fax/print/scan), every bit substantially as email and Cyberspace printing process. There's besides scanning directly to social media sites and even conversion to e-Books.

The CLX-6260FW seems a bit short in standard paper capacity, even for a small workgroup. The bottom cassette holds 250 sheets, and the multi-purpose tray that folds down from fitting above it holds 50 sheets. The output signal tray, which is slightly claustrophobically situated beneath the top-mounted image scanner, holds 100 sheets. An affordable $189.99, 520-sheet, bottom-decorated auxiliary tray is available to increase totality content to 820 sheets. The ADF (automatic document feeder) holds 100 sheets. Deuce-sided (duplex) impression and scanning are both to the full automated.

Mac users win the speed game, for once: The CLX-6260FW is posted better-than-common speeds on our Mac program testing, only upright average speeds on our PC platform testing. Text and monochrome documents exit the unit at an aggregate 12.6 pages per minute (ppm) on the PC and 12.9 ppm on the Mac. Snapshot-sized, 4-past-6-inch photos print at 3.3 ppm to plain composition, and at about 1.25 ppm to laser glossy paper. Happening the Mac, our distort PDF newsletter printed at 6.4 ppm, and a full-page gloss photo at 1.6 ppm. Copies exited at 4.5 ppm. Skim speeds were also decently libertine.

Black output from the CLX-6260FW is astute and then whatever–as good, or better than you see from any printer in its class. The color output is also exceptional for a laser printer, with a realistic, albeit somewhat low-keyed pallette. Completely in all, you'rhenium not promising to complain about anything that exits this printer.

The toner costs for the CLX-6260FW range from mediocre to pricey, so IT'll pay back to shop around. Based on the average retail pricing data provided by Samsung, the standard-sized, 2,000-Thomas Nelson Page black pickup sells for about $64, or a reasonable 3.2 cents per page (cpp). The $79, 1,500-page chromatic, magenta, and yellow cartridges puzzle out to 5.3 cpp apiece. That totals 19 cents for a standard four-vividness page, which is a littlle costlier than average. Better deals are to be had with the intoxicated-capacity $141, 6,000-page illegal, an low-priced 2.3 cpp; and the $132, 3,500-page color cartridges, 3.8 cpp each, for a tote up of 13.7 cents for a four-colouration page.

The Samsung CLX-6260FW has nice as its speed, output and features, making it a solid choice for diminutive workgroups. Toner range reasonably above and below average. The HP LaserJet Pro 400 Color MFP M475dw has a similar features and a lower unit Leontyne Price, only its toner is a trifle more dear.

Correction: This article was corrected to reflect average retail pricing for the toner cartridges or else of list pricing. As a result, costs per page are lower, which raises the product's overall rating.