“Samsung Electronics has reached a deal to sell its new Swan monochrome laser printer (ML-1630, US$199) and Logan multifunction printer (SCX-4500, US$269) exclusively at Apple retail stores. The stylish new printers will be [exclusively] sold at Apple’s 160 stores nationwide until Jan. 2008,” The Digital Chosun Ilbo reports.
“‘Apple suggested the exclusive sales of Samsung’s new printers at its retail stores,’ a Samsung Electronics official said. ‘Apple is charmed by their sleek design and convenient user interface,'” The Digital Chosun Ilbo reports.
Full article here.
[Attribution Macworld UK. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Too Hot!” for the heads up.]
Lets hope they arnt junk and the toner doesnt cost 5x the printer cost.
Well they look better than most printers – which isn’t saying much.
Now if Apple sold black cube Macs it’d be a perfect match…
Amen, eMax!
I think they are quite Fugly. Sorry.
I’m getting Xerox because they no longer need toner cartridges. Just cubes of wax ink.
HP would have been the best choice for printers. IMMO
Their customer service is excellent, they have always been consistant with Mac drivers and such.
The only problem is they like to bundle their complete software package with the printer, want root to install, don’t react fast enough to OS changes/updates. Security with thier software has been a issue.
Also of course the big blowout at HP, and HP now a PC competitor to Apple.
HP basically took over IBM’s place in the corporate PC market, Apple doesn’t play corporate but consumer. So there is peace.
I would like that printers where aluminum and black like the new imac because they would make a good relacion with airport extreme base station.GO APPLE!!!
I have re-baged Samsung (Xerox) laserprinter. It has served me well over the years, and I would buy another.
I’m still using the LaserWriter 16/600 PS. It had never any problem, never got any maintenance, prints still a few hundred pages a week quite nicely and is now attached to its fifth Mac.
Let’s just hope they also have MacOS 10.5 drivers for all the multi-function stuff.
Or at least drivers so you can print on them decently with MacOS.
I don’t actually have a printer for my G4-mini, but buying one would be an interesting exercise, probably…
I’ve heard good things about HPs printers – but only about the older ones (LJ40x0 etc.). The newer ones and the multi-function stuff – I wouldn’t touch them.
You want a laser printer get an HP.
Say what you will about everything else that HP sells, but their LaserJets are solid and reliable.
I’ve had an 11 x 17 LaerJet 5000n for 8 or 9 years and aside from toner cartridges and getting a thorough cleaning, have had ZERO trouble with it.
I never have to think twice before I hit Print.
“they [HP] have always been consistant with Mac drivers and such”
Yes, consistently bad. Try to get one of their MFP’s working reliably in a networked Mac environment and you will soon change your mind about the quality of their drivers.
I have a Samsung ML-1450 and the toner carts aren’t cheap however undoing two screws donning a stylish pair of rubber gloves and pouring in a cheap bottle of toner off ebay does the trick nicely. I also get around four refills from one bottle.
Schweet!!!
But as they say on “Will it blend” – Don’t breathe this!!!
Looks handsome.
Needs to be color though.
Alec: I do tech support for a school and we had nothing but trouble with the wax printers. If you have to move it, you have to do a shut-down procedure and WAIT until the wax solidifies. If you don’t, the colors slosh together and you have a big expensive mess to clean up. If your prints get too hot, the colors run. Forget about ever laminating said prints; the colors run together there too. A royal pain in the ass they were, All of us in my dept. are glad they’re gone. The teachers too.
Apple make a remake of the stylewriter and make it come in aluminum or black,PLEASE…
Weird deal.
I think HP’s entry-level color laser the 1600 does NOT have Mac drivers, so they’re not exactly consistent.
I like the word “charmed”. It’s so quaint.
They would be even more cool if they had voice feedback recorded by James Earl Jones.
“Luke, come to the C:50%, M:50%, Y:50% and K:100% side.”
<sound of heavy breathing>
my guess is Apple needs flash so they said the would sell this for a side deal
😕
The old HPs from the mid 90s are workhorse…still use a lserwriter today. The new inkjet multi-funtion are CRAP IMHO. They donot work well with Airport extreme (have to unplug and re-plug in printer and extreme.
Their quality has gone down hill and their cost per print (at least for inkjet) have gone up.
I am looking forward to replacing my HP with this Samsung.
First to the guy who says get HP. You state that based on your 5000n an almost 10 year old printer!!! HP has changed a lot since then. Back then yes, get an HP. Today, not really
To the guy who likes xerox wax ink. Yeah its cool, but it easily easily scratches off the paper. You can’t write on it to take notes, etc.
I have gotten from great photo prints from my 3180 or whatever the model is. However, the fact that I can have it plugged into my airport is a pain in the ass. Not sure what the hell they are waiting for to get network printing to work properly. I like the multi-function stuff because being able to make copies without going to school and paying through the nose is really handy. I guess I’m saying they are better in theory than in practice.