( 5 reviews )
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Posted: Jul 31 2009
I don't think I've ever written a review before on Amazon. At least not that I can remember. But I wanted to write about this printer. Geesh. How hard is it to make a good printer now a days? It would appear like it's nearly impossible if you have been through the agony of the HP experience. I could write a small book on the problems I've had with HP printers over the years. I vowed to give up on HP when I bought a new printer. Enter the Samsung CLX-6200FX. It took me all of about 5 minutes after getting it out of the box, to print something. If it were an HP, I would have had to endure 20 to 30 minutes of software installs. One after the other. They try to install everything they can, most of which you'll never use. With this, I put the disk in, clicked a couple of times, told it that the printer was hooked to my network and voila... I was printing. Did the same install on 3 of our other computers in the house, all hooked into my wireless router. (Actually, one of our computers is wired into the router and the other three are hooked via wifi t o the router. It's relatively quiet. It only takes a few moments to warm up from being asleep. Print quality is just fine. It feels solid. Not cheap. It weighs a TON. Be prepared to have either a tall man to lift it out of it's box or to be creative and break down the box with a knife to get to it. It's really heavy and not easy to get out of the box with the box intact. I especially like that the software allows me to fax a document from my computer, just by selecting the fax driver when I go to "print" it. The first time you do it (if you're accessing it via a router) you have to make it "find" the printer but it only takes a second or two. Then you can fax away. AWESOME. (You have to have the machine hooked to a phone line, of course.) I just can't tell you how nice it is to have a good quality printer that doesn't try to install the space Shuttle's operating system when installing the driver. Quick and easy and very smooth. Thanks, Samsung. Incidentally... I was stationed in Korea 20 years ago and Samsung was thought of as a REALLY cheap electronics maker that made crap (Goldstar and Samsung = cheap crap.) Oh how that has changed. Samsung is probably THE premier international electronics company now. Probably even better than Sony, for the most part. (IMHO)
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Posted: Apr 19 2009
Decided I needed a multi-function color, printer, fax, copier, and foolishly bought this thing. What a mistake! Takes forever to warm-up and print that first page. Color printing is below mediocre. Also, the fax constantly interrupts my phone calls, or won't let me make a phone call because it keeps interrupting with a fax signal. Samsung's customer service (a joke) tells me that all their printers are equipped with analog technology rather than digital, which most phone companies use, therefore if I want uninterrupted phone service I have to have a dedicated fax line put in. This makes no sense to me, as the unit allows you to program it for a shared phone line. Of course, allowing you to program it that way, doesn't mean it's going to work, does it? Huge, expensive mistake. Don't buy Samsung!!
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Posted: Jul 1 2008
I loved this printer. I had it for two months when a storm came through and took it out. The same storm also took out my phone, satellite receiver, internet router, and internet antenna. Samsung informed me that they don't cover "acts of nature." The jerkwad on the other end actually tried to compare it to a car (which - if a bolt of lightning took out the main computer - would be covered under warranty). So while I loved the printer, their complete lack of coverage on stuff like this guarantees them that I will never buy a Samsung product again. Just like I told them - they can get bent. So the printer gets five stars. But their service gets one. Oh yeah. Of everything that was damage in the storm, Samsung was the only company to not cover their product. Nice.
