SAMSUNG Xpress M2026 Monochrome Laser Printer ML-M2026 Black and White Compact Size Printer

Okay, here's the brass tax, the nitty-gritty...Having used an Epson and a Canon - that swallowed up all my ink - I decided to go for something that was economical, powerful, simple to use and a set-up process that a two-year-old could accomplish. Oh...and wouldn't rob me at mouse point and force me to cough up the dosh everytime I wanted to print out a black & white three-line sentence.I opted for the Samsung because I knew of their simplicity (apart from some of their phones but that's for another review).I will not go into the details but my order that arrived was NOT the one I ordered. It was a bleedin' HP that they sent out. An HP I tell ya! It was a genuine office mistake and I cannot fault the seller. It was just one of those things and I am sure I was the first and probably the last. I don't think I'll ever recover from having another colour ink malarkey in my life.I swiftly sent it back and even more swiftly, the seller sent me my replacement. As a small token of apology the company offered me two holidays a year in the Bahamas (six months each stay) and as much beer as I could drink during the World Cup. How nice of them. They will be disappointed when I tell them I don't..............support England :)Meanwhile back to the printer...This printer is superb for household users and after my initial first test it prints smoothly and extremely quick. It literally took me under 30-seconds to set up and it fits snuggly in a wee corner of the room without bothering anyone.I've even given this printer a name. I called him....wait for it....Sammy. I know, I know, groan, groan but what can you do?If anyone is looking to buy a small, fast, clean, easy-to-use, little fuss that produces great results then look no further. This wee Sammy is a beautyBye-bye Epsom, Cannon, HP and all those other brands. Good riddance and welcome wee Sammy.

Well I am very happy with this wonderful little mono laser printer but before I go into using it for foiling I have to say as I'd left it until now to post a review I am slightly confused!I got this in February this year for £49.61 through Amazon on Prime.But today there is one third party seller selling one that is 'used-like new' for £270 + £7.14 delivery!So please do be aware. The cheapest I can find it online under the HP label (they took it over) is for £70 and I've found an Ebay seller doing the Samsung version for just over £60.00 so if you want this do research well to find the best price.Right onto my praises for this machine:I'd wanted a laser printer for some time so that I could foil my own designs and when I had another look back in February I was amazed to find one so compact (it fits on the shelf of my workstation alongside my Cannon MG7550) and for such a reasonable cost. Glad that I looked back then now!So how compact it is and how reasonably priced it was were both huge bonus points.But also the quality of the prints for text and the speed and the comparable cost of a print to one done on an inkjet are also huge bonuses.So if you want a printer to do mainly text in black only then this is for you and if you don't use the printer often then it is even better because the toner doesn't dry out like the ink in the inkjets does.So now onto foiling:Well, what can I say? I have it set on high resolution and the 'Clear Text' and Edge Enhancement' set on maximum, with 'Toner Save' set to 'off'. This, I've found produces excellent prints on the 160gsm smooth paper I'm printing on that never seem to fail with foiling, even using my £20 Bonsaii laminator and using a sheet of 80gsm printer paper as the carrier!I do DUST though.Most important.I dust the print itself and the back of the foil and the carrier paper. Then 5 mins after that laminator light says go I feed it through and get better results than I could ever have imagined!Are there any negative points to this printer?NoThe only thing is that there are not adequate instructions to get it set up but there are several videos on YouTube to explain how to go about this and with those it was a doddle.I love this printer.

This is a much needed upgrade from my very old Samsung ML series printer of the same size. I think the ML was still working fine and it was just a toner problem, but this SL was actually cheaper than getting new toner for my old one. This looks great for a start, making my old one look ancient and very ugly. It's a nice light grey, with clean lines. It's not an internal paper tray model, which I would've preferred, but it's not a real big issue to have to lower the tray. You just can't store paper in it ready to go unless you don't mind the dust. The paper insertion doesn't seem to be the smoothest, where there's no real recognition that it's aligned properly, but I haven't had any problems so far. The tray also seems to droop downwards a bit too when down.The drivers installed instantly on my MacBook (running the most up to date Sierra 10.12.6). When your computer options are set right the printer achieves super sharp output when using pure black on the document. With greys – like all mono printers – it's more of a cross hatch. I use it mainly for test pages when designing book layouts, with bigger title text often, so I need sharp detail when quickly proofing in the studio and this achieves that perfectly, so it's a fantastic upgrade for me.