Samsung ML-1740

Basic monochrome laser printer a solid choice for text-heavy small offices.

Lots of bang for the buck. The 17-ppm, 600-dpi engine yields both fast performance and better-than-usual photo quality for the price.

Text and graphics quality are somewhat below par for a 600-dpi monochrome laser printer.

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Lots of bang for the buck. The 17-ppm, 600-dpi engine yields both fast performance and better-than-usual photo quality for the price

Text and graphics quality are somewhat below par for a 600-dpi monochrome laser printer

The Samsung ML-1740 is a lot of printer for the price. The 17-page-per-minute (ppm) engine cranks out pages at high speed and at 600 dots per inch—a higher resolution than most personal lasers. Output quality could be better, but it's among the best...

Inexpensive; good text-printing quality; sleek and small; easy to set up.

On the slow side; comes with a limited toner cartridge; lacks Mac compatibility or an option to expand memory.

Samsung's affordable ML-1740 home-office laser printer is cheap enough for an impulse buy but too limited for serious office work.

Aside from the power switch at the right rear, the only user control is one button on top which serves to cancel a print job, continue a manual-feed job, or toggle the toner-saver mode that promises to stretch cartridge life by up to 40 percent by...