HP Samsung SL-M2020W/XAA Wireless Monochrome Printer

Light, small desk space footprint, fast monochome printing, and wireless. I literally can't ask for anything more. This printer replaced an HP 6600 all-in-one whose ink would dry up after 4 days of no use. We were blowing through money on toner due to that issue. We realized we needed nothing more than basic black an white printing and the M2020W came to our rescue like a knight in shining armor except for it's a printer sans armor. The finish on the plastic is matte also.Set up was snap, used the CD that was included but there is a website you can go to as well that downloads a file and works the same way. Total set up time was about 10 minutes. Wireless works great from across the house and there is also a cloud printing feature which is excellent and quite useful at those random times when you need to print something at home from somewhere else.The printer itself is super basic, no scanning, no faxing, just printing. The page feeder holds about 100 pages. Print speed is quick and quality is solid. Black and white for the win. There is one Toner module to swap when it's empty.Some other thoughts:-Amazon sells this for $83+tax. Replacement toner is $43+tax for brand name. Staples sells the printer alone for $129.99 and the same toner there is over $60.-This is a laser, toner won't "dry out" like inkjet style printers

After years of using a inkjet printer which I was happy with. I just got tired of buying all that ink. The ink got more expensive and refilling it myself was just not worth my time. Saw another Samsung model printer being promoted on one of the technical blogs I frequent. They were sold out. Amazon was also sold out, for the same price. This Samsung model was "suggested" so I checked out the reviews and decided to purchase for the price given! I also purchased the Samsung toner as well. I know, I know...there are off name brands that were offered cheaper. But for my first time I purchased the Samsung toner.The printer had a toner, setup CD and the USB cord included. The instructions were quite clear and easy to set up.I have a Apple IPhone 6 Plus and an IPad 2. I also have a Dell very, very old laptop.I did not plug in the printer to warm it up as instructed. I inserted the CD and followed the step by step instructions. When it came up to go wireless or USB. There was also a step where you could set up with the USB "temporarily and after setup disconnect USB." I chose that one. Followed every step, there was a point where you "Power on-connect USB" etc. and then at the "Finish." I disconnected the USB from my laptop to the printer. I checked if the Samsung was listed under printers on my Dell laptop and it was! I only had to check it as my "default."Then I checked my IPhone 6+ and there it was after I "searched for printers" and then I printed a test and it worked perfectly! I then checked my IPad2 and again there was the printer! Printed a test page and was successful.I did not download any app into my IPhone or IPad...there was no need too. The Apples just picked the printer up! And as I said before my Dell did the same.The printer is very compact and takes no space at all. It also goes to sleep after a time. But I completely turn it off when I am done using it. And the best part is the "Eco-printing" step that you can use before you print so as to save toner. It prints in grayscale!I was also very satisfied when it prints normally. The black toner works very well.Some reviews have complained on the cost of the toner. But it is not a game stopper for me,12,000 pages vs 300 in black or grayscale.

I helped my friend set this up for their chromebook. This means I needed to set up google cloud printing. It wasn't particularly easy, but I think I figured it out. Read on to figure out what I needed to do..Before all that stuff, the printer itself is very small, and seemed to print well. We printed out a few things.. some test pages and a few multi-page recipes. But that was about it. I was pleased with how it worked. Hopefully it serves my friends well. I'll definitely hear about it if it causes problems in the future.It does have a few quirks. The weirdest thing is the power button light.. The power button light is ON when the printer is in "POWER SAVE" mode.. which essentially means the printer is OFF, but on stand-by. When the printer is ON and ready for printing, the power button light is OFF, but the "WPS" button light is on. Beats me.. But that's that.Next up is that "Power Save" mode I just mentioned... The printer essentially turns itself off during "power save" mode, and according to the manual, you must press the power button to wake the printer back up! I think that means you CANNOT wake the printer by printing, for example, from a different room in the house (everything is wireless, right? Shouldn't I be able to leave the printer on and print to it when I want??) NOT THIS PRINTER! And guess what! The default amount of time before the printer goes into Power Save mode is ONE MINUTE. That's pretty stupid... That's REALLY stupid. Seriously. 1 minute! You can change this value in the printer setup (see below), but the value must be between 1 and 60 minutes. You can't just leave the printer on at all times. I tried setting it to zero, and it gave me an error. I eventually left it at 30 minutes, as that seems pretty good.. Any printing should be able to be done within 30 minutes, or else they can walk back over to the printer and turn it back on.NOTE: This "time before power save" setting is very important for cloud printing!!! 1 minute is TOO SHORT for cloud print to even work, it seems..Okay! Let's get to business.. First things first: Setting this printer up with a wireless network! This is kind of straightforward, but weird. The directions come with the printer, but they aren't exactly elaborate. There are 3 ways to do this.1) Using WPS, which I didn't do. My friends don't have a WPS enabled router, so that was a no go. I'm also not particularly sold on WPS, so I probably wouldn't have used it.2) The manual (which you can download online) indicates you can use your computer to create a network, to have the printer connect to, to set it up.. I didn't do this either.3) Download (or use the included CD-ROM) the installation software (for Windows or Mac) and during the first few steps of the installation (no need to actually install the drivers, in the case of setting it up for cloud-printing only), you are prompted to plug the printer into your computer via USB, and then you can give the printer the wireless network/password you want it to connect to. This is the option I used. It's a good thing I had my laptop, because this option cannot be done with a chromebook! I was a bit skeptical about it, since i didn't want to install the software (not my printer, no need to install the drivers..), but it was very easy, and I was able to cancel the installer after this step, and everything worked just fine.OK, At this point, the printer was on the network! Time to connect to the printer! Alriiight! Wait a sec.. what's the printer's IP address? The manual states you can print out a network configuration info page by holding down the WPS button for more than 10 seconds.. I did this.. Nothing. The printer makes a printing noise, like it's going to print something, but then nothing happens.. Then if you try again, it prints out printer configuration info, but nothing about the network.. YarrgggGG!!! SOOoo, then I connected to the router and looked up what IP address the printer got. That worked!You connect to the printer by a very simple and very easy to use web interface, similar to connecting to a router. Just the printer's IP address into the URL area of a web browser. Once you've got the printer pulled up in a webpage, click on "Login" in the upper right corner, and you login (with default admin/password, which happened to be "admin/sec00000" if I recall correctly.. This info is available in the manual and on the Cloud Print setup page (available through Samsung's website.. I searched for setup google cloud print m2020w" and found the page.). You then are logged in, and you want to click on "Settings -> Network Settings". Then from the left menu, select "Google Cloud Print" and then hit Register in the right panel.. Hopefully that should get you registered! A google URL should pop up, and you click on that while logged in with a google account! (or do as I did, where I emailed that link to my friend who will actually be using the printer.) Pretty much, whoever will be using the google cloud printer will want to go to that link while logged into their google account. Really, this part is very easy! Alright!HOWEVER, WE'RE NOT DONE YET!!! We need to change the Power Save time!! Select "Settings -> Machine Settings", and from the left menu, select the first item, I believe.. I think it's just General Printer settings. "Power Save" is the first option. For me, it said "1". This is the number of minutes (of inactivity) before it goes to sleep (more or less turns itself off). Change it to 20 or 30, at least... you'll find out why in a moment!!OK! So you've got Google Cloud Printing set up! Great!! BUT WHAT'S THIS?! Google is reporting my printer is "offline"?! But my printer is definitely turned on! What's going on here!!?? 1 or 2 of 2 things might be happening here...1) It seems as if this printer doesn't automatically connect to the google cloud print service.. It takes about 10-15 minutes after it's been turned on until it starts printing anything from google cloud print.. YUP, you read that right! Have something queued for the printer, turn the printer on, and about 10 minutes later, the printer prints it. Bam! I didn't time it exactly.. but it's something like 10 minutes. It must be set up to periodically connect with the service and see what's in need of printing... Remember how the default "Power Save" time is 1 minute?! If that's left at 1 minute, the printer turns itself off before it ever even attempts to get google cloud print info!!!! You have to change that value to use google cloud print!!2) Router settings must be set correctly too allow google cloud print services to communicate with the printer!! A couple things seem to need to be enabled here! If you don't have a firewall built into your router, you might be fine.. However, you probably want to make sure port 5222 is being forwarded to your printer's IP address. Also, you want to make sure "Ignore anonymous requests" (or something like that) is NOT enabled (in the firewall area of the router, probably). You do NOT want to ignore those requests. This really isn't anything scary to worry about.. I found that when that was enabled, the printer would print after about 10 minutes, but according to google printers status, the printer NEVER came online / was available.. it always just showed as "offline". Once I disabled "ignore anonymous requests", the printer appeared as being available IMMEDIATELY once it started printing google print stuff (which was about 10 minutes after it turned on). It showed as being online, and if you printed anything after that 10 minute point, it would print IMMEDIATELY. No waiting 10 more minutes, etc...Soo, something wacky is just going on, where the printer doesn't connect to google cloud print for a while, I guess.. But once it does connect, and you have the right router settings set up (to pass info along to the printer), the printer is fully online and instantly available until it goes to sleep (into "Power Save" mode). So, you definitely want to change that "Power Save" mode to at least 15 mins, etc..Once these options are setup, the printer seems to behave just fine, but again, it takes about 10 minutes before it connects to the google cloud print servers/service.. Kind of annoying, if that's your only option for printing and you're in a hurry. I have no experience with printing using the printer drivers from a local network, etc.. I imagine it just prints instantly and works just fine.