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

The printer works fine, very compact size. I first tried it with NFC printing (from a Samsung smart phone) and that works great! Nearly as fast as USB printing, although you have to install a Samsung printer app on the phone. I had to install the Samsung software on a Windows PC in order to get the printer's wireless configured with a password for my network. Setting up Google cloud printing wasn't hard, but sometimes it prints in 30 seconds, and sometimes it takes 10 minutes! Tried Wi-Fi direct printing, and it found the printer OK, but I gave up waiting for it to finally print. I got it for a receipt printer, and I can't keep a customer waiting for 5 or 10 minutes for the printer to finally receive a print job. Wound up connecting it via the included USB cable to a Linux netbook. The printer works fine under Linux, but the Samsung Universal Print Driver requires you to run a shell script to install it. The wireless printing does work, just be aware that it may be much slower than a USB cable.

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.

So happy with this printer. I have only had it a day but it was VERY easy to set up to print from all my devices wirelessly. The printer is also much smaller in size/footprint than I had anticipated, which makes me very happy. It came with the printer, printer cord, electric cord, and cd print driver. It has a toner cartridge already in place. So far I have printed wirelessly with it from my laptop and my ipad. It has a place where you can tap with your phone to print, but I have not tried that yet. The printing it does is perfect for my needs. I can find no flaw. i read that the drum is included as part of the cartridge and it seems cartridge prices are reasonable compared with like the brother printers which I also considered but had mixed reviews and cost more for wireless printing. Anyways, so far loving this printer. If anything changes, will update my review in the months ahead.

When I first bought this printer and set it up, I thought it was amazing and completely worth it! But after about two months of using it, it's a complete piece of garbage. I probably thought it was awesome because it was a huge space saver on my desk and I loved the idea of printing wirelessly. If I could give this 0 stars, I would! Let me just jump right to point of why this printer sucks. 1. Once it turns on, it takes forever to warm itself up. You have to wait minutes before the power light flashes than its ready to print. 2. Every time you hit print, it always has to find the printer and connect to the printer which can sometimes take more than 2 minutes. And no, it's not my computer because I've had plenty other printers before that would just print off right away! 3. If I'm printing 3+ pages, sometimes it'll print all 3 one after the other but most of the times, the printer just LOVES taking a break in between pages. One will print then it'll wait a minute before the 2nd prints and does it all over again. It's irritating! 4. If you run out of paper during a print, there's no button you can press to tell it that's good to go after reloading and you just have to turn you printer off and back on. Sometimes doing that doesn't do anything at all! Even if I restarted my computer and the printer, the printer will keep saying that there's no paper, when there is paper in it! 5. Majority of the times I can't print at all! Even with the USB cable plugged directly to my computer, it keeps saying the printer is not found. It's definitely not my computer because I've tried it on my brother and sisters as well. Every single time I absolutely needed something to be printed, this printer always failed me. Honestly, spend $40 more and go get yourself an HP1102 laser printer, you'll be a lot happier with that, it's much quieter and it prints way quicker than this piece of junk!

Got this to replace an inkjet that lasted more than a decade. I kind of miss the color, I kind of miss the resolution on graphics, but I don't miss the clogging ink, the paper bleed, the constant cha-cha for head cleaning / tank pressurization, etc. that the old inkjet constantly did. This thing fires up pretty quickly - it slightly flickers the lights plugged into the same power strip a bit so it must be pulling quick slugs of serious current here and there. Graphics could look better but it's fine for general stuff. Paper handling could beat the paper up somewhat less, but it is also fine for general stuff. Printer driver in XP works fine via USB, haven't tried the wireless. Footprint is small, but not that small when the paper feed door is open. The printer itself is fairly lightweight. Comes with AC and USB cords, and driver CD in the box. One of the main draws for me to this machine however is the supposed ease of refilling toner (look it up on the web, it's a snap). I've got a soldering iron hole puncher and some toner left over from another laser printer that died sometime back, so I should be in clover for years to come. Only had it a week or so, will report back if it dies or if toner refill doesn't go as expected. UPDATE : 2015-10-08 The toner low light came on maybe a month ago and I kept printing until there was obvious streaking on the page. The streaking started all at once, so keep an eagle eye on things if you are going the toner refill route. Took the cartridge out today and added some old toner I had laying around. Watched a good YouTube video on it (search for "mlt-d111s refill", it's the one by inkowl). Poked a hole with a soldering iron hole puncher designed for the purpose and added toner. You want to do this over a sink as toner gets everywhere. Wiped the area around the hole clean with a tissue, sealed it with a bit of aluminum tape, took it outside and blew the rest of the toner off. Don't expose the drum to a lot of light, and don't touch it! I stuck the refilled cart in the printer and voila! Black is the new black!

This is a very good and inexpensive laser printer that works well for just printing. It would be even better if they added a scanner to it without having to alter the size if that were possible. Overall it works for what I needed: small, inexpensive laser printer for home, but there are a few issues I have with it. Here is my full take on the product. I've had it for about 2 months. SIZE: Printer is very small. My home office space isn't very large so I thought to have the printer right up against the wall on a shallow shelf, but because of where the power cord gets plugged in there is about an inch of space needed between the wall and the printer. If the power cord was on the side of the printer this would have fit PERFECTLY onto the space I have available. PRINTING: It's fast. I can't imagine having an ink jet printer as part of your home office if you need to print a lot of documents. My only issue with the printing is if you are printing a lot of documents they will fall over each other after the 2nd or 3rd printed document. There is nothing at the top to keep them from falling on the floor so if you need papers to stay in order you need to watch them carefully and grab them as they come out. PAPER SIZE: The tray table is great if you only have to print letter sized documents. I'm in real estate and I often have to print leases and other legal documents on legal sized paper so that means standing there watching to make sure the paper doesn't fall onto the floor as it's being fed into the printer and as it comes out from being printed which is time consuming. FEATURES: Cannot rate it's "tap & print" feature has I have not used it but if/when I do I'll come back and edit the review.I also cannot get it to print wirelessly even though I followed the instructions exactly. I have to use a cable which is fine, but was really looking forward to not having cables everywhere. There are also two documents with instructions that are the same but slightly different. One seems to be the shortcut version. It was a little confusing at first but I just went with the long winded instructions to be sure, yet wireless printing still wasn't happening :-(

Ever since middle school, when i heard about laser printer technology, i have be wishing i could have one, but they were always so expensive. The technology has finally gotten to the point that they are cheap enough for anyone to afford. I popped my laser printer cherry in March of 2015, and i already remember it fondly. It was a warm, sunny, Florida day in the middle of March and i was in need of a new printer for work. I decided that since i wanted to get a laser printer, i would take my time, and do a bit of research and looking around. After All, your virginity isn't something you just throw at the first handsome printer to catch your eye. i had always been a fan of Samsung, having a Galaxy Note 3, 32" HD TV, Washer and dryer had made me quite familiar with the brand. So as I wandered the isles of various technology and office supply stores, nothing seemed quite good enough to give myself to. Then it happened. I was in my last stop for the day, an Office Depot with a fairly small selection of, mostly, Ink Jet printers. Tired and disappointed, my head hung low as I shuffled to the end of the isle, and toward the exit. Out of the corner of my eye, for only an instant, I spied what appeared to be the Samsung logo. As my head slowly turned, i already knew i had found it, the printer i had been searching so hard and long for. Cautiously, I approached the beautiful grey goddess, and after gently tracing her curves with my fingertips, pressed her 'test print" button. The low whir of all the parts awakening, and working together brought a smile to my lips, which then parted with a gasp as sheet of paper was pulled up into her body, and seemingly instantly, out the top in bold black and white. The speed and quality surprised me, and i knew i must have her! So i pulled up newegg.com on my phone, and searched for a better price. I found it. I gathered her sister up in my arms, in her nice square box, and escorted her to the register. Office Depot price matched the newegg price, and I brought her home. Set up was a simple 10 minute process start to finish, including making it WiFi accessible. The very first print job was 50 invoices, which would have taken my old printer nearly 30 minutes, was completed in under 2. We've been happily together since. And that's when i came here to buy a second printer for work. Seriously could not be happier with it.