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Small laser printer?
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The_Mage18
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I'd stear you clear of smaller lasers if I could. Most of them tend not to be laser but LED to attract toner to the transfer drum (reduced quailty, grainy output) or, like with HP's L series laserjets, have known issues. The L series the paper feed mechanism constantly pulls multiple pages and jams and nearly every HP tech you talk to will tell you get a new printer, it's not worth trying to fix.
The Okidata Okipages are nice and small but theyr'e not laser, they use LEDs to charge the drum. While quieter and smaller, they don't have the same resolution by any means. HP does have some smaller units but they're still larger than your average inkjet.
The Okidata Okipages are nice and small but theyr'e not laser, they use LEDs to charge the drum. While quieter and smaller, they don't have the same resolution by any means. HP does have some smaller units but they're still larger than your average inkjet.
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i have an hp laserjet 1012 and i love it, small, quick, quiet... we have about a hundred of them at work also and have only had issues with one that i think was possessed by the devil lol
I'm a recent convert to the Samsung printers myself... I have the SCX-4100 (the multifunction printer/copier/scanner) that I purchased for $200 (I also had a $50 mail-in rebate, which is cool, but I haven't received it yet... 
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(Where was I? Oh, yeah...) Anyways my printer works fine. Good text output and it's somewhat faster than most inkjets (but it's nowhere near as fast as professional/business laser printers). It also does a good job at making copies and it's not as loud as some of the reviews posted have mentioned. Despite it being a monochrome printer, it does a good job on image quality, but don't use it on photos.... The scanner function can scan pictures at 600dpi and does a good job at printing them out, but it sucks when it comes to copying pictures.) The dimensions are about 16"L x 18"W x 10"H, which is larger than most basic and mid-grade inkjets, but are smaller than most of the HP LaserJets. My only problems are that it has a crappy software interface, I don't like Samsung's idea of a paper feed "tray", and it takes at least a minute for it to come out of its Power Save function.
Samsung also makes a standalone monochrome printer that is priced at $150, but I believe that the SCX-4100 is worth the cost. Here's Samsung's SCX-4100 page, and here are some more detailed specs.
).(Where was I? Oh, yeah...) Anyways my printer works fine. Good text output and it's somewhat faster than most inkjets (but it's nowhere near as fast as professional/business laser printers). It also does a good job at making copies and it's not as loud as some of the reviews posted have mentioned. Despite it being a monochrome printer, it does a good job on image quality, but don't use it on photos.... The scanner function can scan pictures at 600dpi and does a good job at printing them out, but it sucks when it comes to copying pictures.) The dimensions are about 16"L x 18"W x 10"H, which is larger than most basic and mid-grade inkjets, but are smaller than most of the HP LaserJets. My only problems are that it has a crappy software interface, I don't like Samsung's idea of a paper feed "tray", and it takes at least a minute for it to come out of its Power Save function.
Samsung also makes a standalone monochrome printer that is priced at $150, but I believe that the SCX-4100 is worth the cost. Here's Samsung's SCX-4100 page, and here are some more detailed specs.