With its high-resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi print resolution, this Samsung ML-2250 laser printer delivers professional-quality text and graphics at up to 22 ppm print speeds! The ML-2250 features 166 MHz RISC processor, a standard 16 MB memory, and USB 2.0 and IEEE-1284 parallel ports.
Samsung ML-2250
One of the brightest deals on a small-office black-and-white laser printer, the Samsung ML-2250 prints fast enough for one person or a small workgroup, and it matches top-notch text with solid grayscale graphics. Bargain hunters who like the $225 price tag will appreciate the penny-per-page toner replacements--some of the cheapest cartridges we've seen.
Encased in a shiny-white and matte-gray plastic shell, the Samsung ML-2250 covers a 15-by-18-inch swath of your desk--15 by 25 inches with the sturdy auxiliary tray opened. It stands 11 inches high, which is as small as workgroup-capable lasers come. Sturdy handgrips along the bottom edge make it easy to move the printer around the office, and the main 250-sheet tray and the 50-sheet auxiliary feed let you keep letterhead or envelopes on hand. However, the control panel's two status lights and cancel button don't track what's in the trays, so you have to know what's there before you print, or your spreadsheet might end up on a stack of envelopes. For longer print jobs or workgroup printing, you'll need to add a 250-sheet second tray for $149. A rear exit lets stiff or delicate paper pass straight through the printer without going around the bend that leads to the main paper output, and the rear exit has a support to catch finished print jobs so that they won't fall to the floor.
The Samsung ML-2250 has both a parallel and a USB 2.0 port, so sharing the printer in an office demands investing in extras, starting with a $199 Ethernet interface or a $249 Wi-Fi link. The printer comes with 16MB of memory, plenty for one person but a potential bottleneck for a workgroup. Dropping a standard memory module in a slot in the back of the machine will boost the memory up to 144MB. Setting up and running the ML-2250 was a snap in our tests.
Samsung's setup poster covers the basics adequately, and its onscreen PDF manual animates the most common tasks. The idiot-proof driver installation requires little more than inserting Samsung's CD. The ML-2250 hides no unwelcome mechanical surprises: you won't burn your fingers when clearing paper jams or scrape your knuckles when removing the toner cartridge. Unfortunately, Samsung doesn't provide Macintosh drivers for the ML-2250, but Linux users get seven choices.
Samsung Ml 2250 Printer Driver
Samsung pitches the ML-2250's engine at 22 pages per minute (ppm), but CNET Labs' tests tracked text printing at 16.5ppm and grayscale graphics at 14.1ppm. That's slower than similar printers, such as the Lexmark E322n, which rolls out text at 21ppm and includes an Ethernet NIC but costs double the price. We couldn't find anything to criticize about the ML-2250's clean, crisp, and distortion-free letters. Grayscale graphics are also impressive for this laser printer, with fine detail and only slight dottiness on photos, though a few of the lightest and darkest gray shades were missing.
Before installing this printer driver Samsung ML-2250, read the following precautions:
- Before starting the installation of drivers, connect your printer Samsung ML-2250 to your computer, and that the printer is powered On.See your printer manual for details.
Important! Do not turn printer off, remove cables, or unplug the printer, or interrupt it in any way during the driver installation process. - Close virus protection programs or other software programs that are running on your computer.
- You must have full-control access to ML-2250 printer settings to carry out aninstallation. Before starting the installation of drivers, log in as a member of theAdministrators group.
- If you have an earlier version of the Samsung printer driver installed on yourcomputer, you must remove it with the uninstaller before installingthe new driver for Samsung ML-2250.
- Click on Download Now and a File Download box will appear.
Select Save This Program to Disk and a Save As box will appear.
Select a directory to save the driver in and click Save.
Locate the driver file using Windows Explorer when the download has completed. - Running the downloaded file will extract all the driver files and setup program into a directory on your hard drive.The directory these driver are extracted to will have a similar name to the printer model that was downloaded (i.e., c:ML-2250). The setup program will also automatically begin running after extraction.However, automatically running setup can be unchecked at the time of extracting the driver file.
- Open the Printers Window (Click Start-Settings-Printers).
- Update the printer driver if it was previously installed
- Right click on the printer and select Properties from the pop menu.
- On the General tab, select New Driver.
- Click on the Warning Box that pops up.
- A printer listing box will appear. Select Have Disk.
- Another box Install from Disk appears.
- Click the Browse to locate the expanded files directory (i.e., c:ML-2250).
- Click on the file ending with .inf .
- Click Open and then Okay and let driver files install.
- Add the printer ML-2250 if it hasn't been installed yet.
- Click Add New Printer
- Follow the instructions of the Add Printer Driver Wizard.
Search and consult the Readme file for additional installation drivers instructions for your printer Samsung ML-2250.
