The Marmot’s Hole

11 Comments

1. dda
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 4:52 pm | Permalink

   Two things you don’t get with this printer:

   1. that chick isn’t part of the package
   2. Mac OS X/Unix/Linux compatibility

   Only works on Windows. Samsung had ONE printer, a long time ago, that worked on Mac and Unix, complete with compatible printer ports, Postscript, etc… and advertised as such. I bought it, and it worked well enough.

   When I came back to the shop I bought it from, around a year later, they denied having ever sold that machine, didn’t know what toner cartridge it needed, and even phone calls to Samsung’s HQ took a while to confirm such a printer ever existed…

   0_0

2. dissidentdave
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

   Were there printers in that big photo? While I saw the orange toenail polish, I completely missed the printers.

3. mjw
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 5:51 pm | Permalink

   That was nice of the blog to reprint the Samsung press release in its entirety.

4. mins0306
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

   Were you referring to the female model in black or the black looking cube thing? ;-D

5. Brendon Carr
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

   It looks good, but it’s not all that much of a design breakthrough. In fact, it appears very much to be a refinement of the basic design of the early 1990s NeXT Laser Printer. Essentially the same, but adapted to today’s paper-handling capabilities.

   And Windows-only GDI drivers are an endemic Samsung limitation.

6. MigukNamja
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 7:58 pm | Permalink

   NeXT was way ahead of its time, design-wise. The NeXTStep desktop was gorgeous.

   As for Samsung, their drivers have always been horrible and are still horrible.

   Samsung hardware - great.

   Samsung drivers and user interface - horrible.

7. Ut videam
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

   A quick spot check of mono and color laser printer specs on Samsung’s American website reveals support for Mac OS X and various flavors of Unix. The driver download pages seem to back up this claim.

   Of course, not owning one of their printers, I can’t testify to the quality of said drivers. But they do appear to be available.

8. dda
   Posted September 6, 2007 at 10:18 pm | Permalink

   OK, cool then — but I’d rather try it our first before buying

9. Zonath
   Posted September 7, 2007 at 12:05 am | Permalink

   Yeah, they look nifty enough, but how are they at printing?

10. ElCanguro
    Posted September 7, 2007 at 12:12 am | Permalink

    ‘Do you (two) come with the printer?’

11. seouldout
    Posted September 7, 2007 at 12:40 am | Permalink

    Will make for a lovely brick if it isn’t so hot at printing.