The CLX-2160N is one best and most recent offerings from Samsung. It's a multifunction unit which means it can do more things than just print. In addition to being able to print in full color, it also scans and copies in color. It packs a lot of power into such a small footprint. In fact, it's one of the smallest of its kind in the world today. Printers that do more things than just print are known affectionately as MFP devices. Check out Samsung CLX 2160 N toner.
MFP is a short term for multi-functioning printer, which means it has different functional qualities. The Samsung CLX 2160N printer has qualities such as a color laser printer, a scanner, and a copier. Like most Samsungs printers this printer does not have a fax function (reasons will be stated below). It is definitely not a cheap kind of printer, however you don't need to take out a loan to buy one. Note that the N in the product title of Samsung CLX 2160N means that this is a network-ready product. It can be used by all computers on that same network simply by plugging it directly into a router (a network switch like device).
The printer is an inexpensive entry into the color scanner/printer/copier market but don't forget about the toner - the consumables. Toner is the powdery substance that comes inside something called a cartridge. In the copying/printing process, an electrostatic charge is placed across the paper and super hot electric filament melts the toner in very price locations. Put all those locations together and you've got text or a picture or whatever you're printing/copying.
A black and white printer/copier uses a single color Samsung toner. Guess what color it is? Good for you. Black's the right answer. But color printers have 3 more toner colors. Do you know what those are? In layman's terms, they could be described as blue, yellow and red. The names used in the printing business are a lot cooler. Instead of blue, you have Cyan. You get the picture. Some older printers use a single cartridge for each color. In a unit this small, the colors come in a single package. This printer punches out documents at 4ppm in A4, (that's the size of the paper). That's a very respectable number for a printer of this size. Times vary between mono (B&W) and color mode. Mono is much faster at 14 seconds from start to finish. Color takes longer. 26 seconds round trip.
Scanning is another way to describe paperless printing. You put what you want to 'scan' into the document feeder. Push a button and voila. The scanner function copies the page into a digital image. Now you see on your screen what's on the paper-in full color. This little baby does 1200x500 which gives you a very detailed, very sharp image. Output can be sent to USB/Folder/Application or the network. In other words, you can send the image anywhere you want to send it.
The copy has two different speeds. Slow and fast. Sorry, just joking. One speed is for Color and the other for mono (black and white). Again, the speeds are very similar to the printing function. In color mode you get 4ppm for an A4 sized document. In B&W you get 16ppm for an A4 document. These are pretty impressive numbers for a machine of this size. Measuring from a standing start figuratively speaking, you wait 18 and 45 seconds respectively for the first copy to print out.
Sorry. Samsung just couldn't fit the fax function into the little guy. Fax needs a little more space and Samsung wanted to keep this machine at the size you see it now. Plus, faxing costs a bit more and they wanted to keep the price at this point too. Hey, you can always scan and email an image to a fax forwarding service. They're dirt cheap and incredibly persistent if the person you want to send a fax to has one of those on/off fax machines.
A Samsung CLX-2160N printer is costly (again, everything is relative), compared to the big bulky printers but as they say, comparing apples to apples, there isn't an apple out there to compare this unit to. I guess it comes to down to what you want and what you're willing to pay for it. The price varies from a high of around UDS$420 to under USD$200 the last time I looked at Egghead.
MFP is a short term for multi-functioning printer, which means it has different functional qualities. The Samsung CLX 2160N printer has qualities such as a color laser printer, a scanner, and a copier. Like most Samsungs printers this printer does not have a fax function (reasons will be stated below). It is definitely not a cheap kind of printer, however you don't need to take out a loan to buy one. Note that the N in the product title of Samsung CLX 2160N means that this is a network-ready product. It can be used by all computers on that same network simply by plugging it directly into a router (a network switch like device).
The printer is an inexpensive entry into the color scanner/printer/copier market but don't forget about the toner - the consumables. Toner is the powdery substance that comes inside something called a cartridge. In the copying/printing process, an electrostatic charge is placed across the paper and super hot electric filament melts the toner in very price locations. Put all those locations together and you've got text or a picture or whatever you're printing/copying.
A black and white printer/copier uses a single color Samsung toner. Guess what color it is? Good for you. Black's the right answer. But color printers have 3 more toner colors. Do you know what those are? In layman's terms, they could be described as blue, yellow and red. The names used in the printing business are a lot cooler. Instead of blue, you have Cyan. You get the picture. Some older printers use a single cartridge for each color. In a unit this small, the colors come in a single package. This printer punches out documents at 4ppm in A4, (that's the size of the paper). That's a very respectable number for a printer of this size. Times vary between mono (B&W) and color mode. Mono is much faster at 14 seconds from start to finish. Color takes longer. 26 seconds round trip.
Scanning is another way to describe paperless printing. You put what you want to 'scan' into the document feeder. Push a button and voila. The scanner function copies the page into a digital image. Now you see on your screen what's on the paper-in full color. This little baby does 1200x500 which gives you a very detailed, very sharp image. Output can be sent to USB/Folder/Application or the network. In other words, you can send the image anywhere you want to send it.
The copy has two different speeds. Slow and fast. Sorry, just joking. One speed is for Color and the other for mono (black and white). Again, the speeds are very similar to the printing function. In color mode you get 4ppm for an A4 sized document. In B&W you get 16ppm for an A4 document. These are pretty impressive numbers for a machine of this size. Measuring from a standing start figuratively speaking, you wait 18 and 45 seconds respectively for the first copy to print out.
Sorry. Samsung just couldn't fit the fax function into the little guy. Fax needs a little more space and Samsung wanted to keep this machine at the size you see it now. Plus, faxing costs a bit more and they wanted to keep the price at this point too. Hey, you can always scan and email an image to a fax forwarding service. They're dirt cheap and incredibly persistent if the person you want to send a fax to has one of those on/off fax machines.
A Samsung CLX-2160N printer is costly (again, everything is relative), compared to the big bulky printers but as they say, comparing apples to apples, there isn't an apple out there to compare this unit to. I guess it comes to down to what you want and what you're willing to pay for it. The price varies from a high of around UDS$420 to under USD$200 the last time I looked at Egghead.
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