“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.]
These are already available online at the Apple store. Monochrome only, nice looking. The -4500 is 17ppm printing/copying.
fingerprint and dust magnet
These look almost as spiffy as my NeXT printer.
-jcr
These look almost as spiffy as my NeXT printer.
-jcr
I wouldn’t be even a little tempted if my LaserWriter 4/600 could be put on our house LAN or run under OSX. As it is, we run OS9 on a beige tower just to service it. We have several thousand pages of ‘ink’ in the closet, waiting to be used … it was a gift from a school that was upgrading. Old … but reliable.
Dave
i like the word “quaint”, it’s so charming.
until steve jobs tells me otherwise, i think they’re ugly.
I’ve got 2 Samsungs that sit useless as Sumsung decided not to issue new drivers starting with Panther I believe. The printers where all of a couple months old at the time. Periodically I look for updated drivers and nada. So until I know there are Leopard drivers I’d wait on buying any Samsung printer, cool as they look.
When my HP Laserjet 5MP died a few years ago, I went on a search for a replacement.
Long story short, I discovered Ricoh makes a line of laser printers. They are built like tanks. Have true Adobe Postscript Level 3 (HP, Brothers and others have all developed clones), cost less than HP equivalent and their toner cartridges last much longer than any other I’ve had dealings with.
The downside, you usually have to get them from copier dealers rather than the usual retail outlets. Or on-line as I did.
The huge advantage of Postscript, while Ricoh offers OS X even OS 9 drivers, Postscript will always work from OS X, even if a printer maker doesn’t upgrade their drivers for new versions.
“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.”
there drivers are awful! have you ever (tried) to use an hp scanner with a Mac? heaven forbid you want them to actually make their products work….
Can anyone suggest a printer for printing on CDs, either laser or inkjet? Thanks.
dmv:
Here you go:
http://www.discmakers.com/duplicators/products/cd_printers.asp
I’ve been wishing for a while now that Apple would make an all-in-one laser printer. I have an Epson that’s really mediocre. It’s noisy, slow and clunky. But worst of all, the software sucks bigtime. It’s a mismatched hodgepodge. That’s where Apple could excel. The thing got decent reviews by the computer magazines. I gotta quit believing those clowns.
dmv: Look at the Canon Pixma MP760. Using one for 2 years now. Perfect printing on CD’s (small and normal size), Very good scanning (film, platen, slides) Good Mac-drivers and software.
You might want to look carefully at the model though, USA-models have functions disabled from what I recall, but it’s easy to ‘break into it’s functions’ by pressing some key-sequence and changing it’s area-code. After that, (change it to Asia), you got access to all its functions.
It’s an inkjet, but delivers perfect printing, scanning and everything you might need at home or in the office.
Don’t have a new airport to run it on the network (USB-printer) but running it from a G4-mini makes it available to all other networked computers, both PC’s and Mac’s in our mixed network.
Hope that helps you a bit.
>>”Weird deal.”
Agreed. Seems very un-Apple to have an exclusive deal for selling printers. Things change I suppose. Back scratching?
Apple. the Samsung of the computer world.
I’ve been wishing for a while now that Apple would make an all-in-one laser printer.It’s noisy, slow and clunky. But worst of all, the software sucks big time. It’s an ink jet, For me I’ve always been looking for the good quality ink jet were I can save money too.
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delia
It’s an inkjet, but delivers perfect printing, scanning and everything you might need at home or in the office.
Don’t have a new airport to run it on the network (USB-printer) but running it from a G4-mini makes it available to all other networked computers, both PC’s and Mac’s in our mixed network.
Hope that helps you a bit.
Sep 22, 07 – 12:15 am
Thanks for providing such information. nifwjre