Page 1 of Samsung ML 1520 Laser Printer - back at £49.99 (Dixons/PCWorld)

In case anyone wants one, the Samsung ML 1520 mono Laser Printer is back on sale at Currys and PCWorld for £49.99.

I picked one up from Dixons when they had them in stock a few weeks ago - works well, especially for the price!

I haven`t provided the full URLs, due to a session timeout problem, but if you go through the www.pcworld.co.uk or www.currys.co.uk sites, they can be found there.


F_M

For all you lazy people, its here.

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The original offer last year was for an ML1510 at 40 quid (I got mine from Comet with free postage and 1,000 sheets of A4 for 5 extra quid). The ML1520 is the model that`s replaced the ML1510, but apart from a slightly different colour scheme for the body of the printer, the only difference I can see is that it has more memory I believe.

Doesn`t come with a USB cable, but you can get them dirt cheap at www.ebuyer.co.uk - I also bought toner bottles for refilling them at 3 for 21 quid (cartridges for the ML1510 or 1520 are 40-odd quid or more!).

Overall, very pleased with the printer - use the Toner Save to double the life of your toner if you do a lot of printing. At 50 quid, the ML1520 is still worth getting. Oh, and it`s well supported in Linux via CUPS (choose the ML1510 if the 1520 isn`t listed) - a doddle to set up and the Linux driver (comes with CUPS - don`t even have to bother with the CD that ships with the printer!) has pretty well every feature that the Win XP driver has.

This item was edited on Thursday, 27th January 2005, 22:51

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For all you lazy people, its here.

:p Doesn`t work Mr Smart Ass

I bought one of these, but I`m a tiny bit worried about the cost of a replacement toner cartridge - any ideas on how to do this cheaply?

Buy toner and refill the cartridge. I`ve found it not as messy as refilling injets.

Take a look here - this was just the first link Google came up with, so hunt for best prices.

Sorry, Just trying to be helpful! ;)

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Any tips for refilling the ML 1510? The cap has a very flimsy rim that looks easy to damage, plus the plug look well embedded in the cartridge case making it difficult to extract.

Thanks for the re-filling Tip, Just realised my printer isn`t on it`s last legs, it`s out of Toner!!!!

Doh!

Glad i didn`t throw it away!!

Well, F_M is a silly old twit, really for recommending this machine to you for this reason :

After buying the ML1520, I then purchased a toner refill bottle from Consumable Cafe. However, now the that the toner is getting low
on the machine and print quality is deterioating, I attempted to refill the toner.....but can`t!!

On looking at the Consumable Cafe`s website, this message has appeared (not sure when) :
"WARNING this toner powder will NOT fit the new ML1520 which requires a polyester based toner which is not available in the UK!"

CC have a compatible toner - model ML1710D3 - for £50 (the price of the now out-of-stock printer!), that it says fits both the ML1510
and the ML1520 but I`m not sure if the ML1710D3 toner actually does fit both ML1510 and ML1520 - I`ve emailed CC to find out!

Anyone got any ideas on how to inexpensively keep the ML1520 running?

:-(

This item was edited on Sunday, 6th February 2005, 11:01