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432 reviews
Jun, 2025
alaTest has collected and analyzed 432 reviews of Samsung ML-1210. The average rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the reliability and noise. The usability and price are also appreciated, but many are negative about the paper handling.
performance, price, usability, noise, reliability
paper handling
We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Samsung ML-1210 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 76/100 = Good quality.
Consumer review (amazon.com)
alaTest has collected and analyzed 375 user reviews of Samsung ML-1210 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.8/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. Reviewers really like the design and noise. The usability and price are also appreciated, whereas there are mixed views on the size and reliability. There are some critical reviews about the paper handling.
performance, price, usability, noise, design
paper handling
90% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.
Expert review by (pcworld.com)
WHAT'S HOT: For a low price of $199, the Samsung ML-1210 presents buyers with a bargain. It produces reasonably clean black text that looks better at larger sizes, and also does a very nice job on narrow parallel lines. The ML-1210 comes in a stylized,...
Expert review by : Sean Captain (pcworld.com)
This laser printer from Samsung hits the sweet spot for home office users in terms of price.
Expert review by (pcmag.com)
The Samsung ML-1210 scores a bit better than the Lexmark E210 on output quality. Text is crisp enough to be easily readable even at 5 points for some fonts. As with the Lexmark printer, lines are clear in graphics and black fills are solid. Again,...
Expert review by (pcstats.com)
With a resolution of 600dpi and an average toner life span of 2,500 pages (at 5%) it makes an attractive option for the home.
Printers are one of the few computer peripherals which carry a continued cost of ownership. Unlike scanners and speaker systems, printers require cartridges to regularly be replaced. The cost of toner divided by the number of pages (at 5% coverage)...
Expert review by : Eric Grevstad (hardwarecentral.com)
It's also one of our few gripes about the ML-1210: While a refill toner cartridge (about $70) is rated for 2,500 pages of normal printing, hitting the two-C-note target obliged Samsung to put a cheap starter cartridge, good for only 1,000 pages, in the...
Expert review by : HardwareCentral (hardwarecentral.com)
Except for the toner-save button, the only controls on the printer itself are the handy-dandy one-page demo-printout button (also used to start each page of a manual-feed job) and a button to cancel a job in progress. Tapping the latter also reprints...
Consumer review (epinions.com)
The Samsung ML-1210 is a very fine, very cheap laser printer. It uses an upright feed and upright output tray so it's very compact (with a penalty that it extends upward quite a bit), it prints very quickly, the toner cartridges last a very long time,...
compact, fast, quiet, high quality prints, separate envelope and paper feeds, pretty good cost/page
no Jaguar drivers, can take a few seconds to warm up, terrible support website
Consumer review (epinions.com)
I bought this printer in September and have been printing happily for four months now.
cheap, fast, reliable, laser
doesn't ship with printer cables, have to print the manual yourself, demo button
Consumer review (epinions.com)
I have owned this printer for 7 months. The 'demo' toner cartridge that comes with the printer is supposed to last 1500 pages. I always have the 'toner saver' feature turned on, and have already printed over 2000 pages on this first cartridge. A...
Excellent text printing, longlasting toner, no paper jams ever, small footprint, separate envelope feeder
30 second warmup from sleep mode
Consumer review (epinions.com)
The biggest point in favor of this printer is that (when I was researching, in Oct 2001 time frame), this was the only affordable laser printer. It is a simple laser printer with very impressive prints. I have not explored its gray-scale, image...
Solid software/drivers ; very very fast
Occasional black streaks (1 page in 50) ; case and connectors are flimsy
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