As you can gather it from the header, Samsung CLX-6200FX is a printer that has some additional functions: copying and scanning. (You may actually call it a multifunction copier or scanner as well.) Those are most regular modern offices require from a printer, so let’s have a closer look at every of these functions.

Printing

According to manufacturer’s specification, the CLX-6200FX can print as fast as 20 A4 or 21 letter pages per minute in both color and black-and-white. The real-life speed, as it always happens, is a bit slower – 18 ppm, which is an average result.

Another speed factor is worth mentioning – the warm up time. It takes about a whole minute for Samsung CLX-6200FX to make first print. Way too long for a modern printer.

The printing quality can be assessed as good. The text is crisp and readable, though may look a bit fuzzier compared to that of competitors’ models.

Color output is better than average with good color reproduction. An eagle-eye viewer may find a little banding on high-resolution color prints, but this artifact is not consistent and really takes a lot of staring to detect.

Network printing and direct printing from a USB-drive are supported.

Copying

The copier features allows doing all the things a little office photocopier can to do: edge-erase, collation, zoom, etc. You can also select what type of original (image, text, etc.) you have. The copying resolution is fixed at 600×600 dpi.

A copy made from a printed off image was good but a little grainy.

The copying speed for text originals is the same of printing – 18 pages per minute.

Scanning

The scanner is capable of up to 36-bit 600×1200 dpi of optical) or 4800×4800 dpi enhanced resolution when used in TWAIN mode. The resolution is adjustable between 100 and 600 dpi for scan-to-USB/PC/e-mail modes.

Samsung CLX-6200FX can scan documents and save them directly onto the USB drive. You can also scan a document to a networked computer having installed the SmartThru software. File formats supported include PDF, BMP, TIFF and JPEG..

Pressing the “Scan” button will prompt a dialogue on the 2-line LCD when you can set mode, resolution, destination, and so on. While PDF and JPG output worked fine, it seemed to have some troubles with TIF output as the resulted file was impossibly small.

The printer is rather heavy (100 lb.) and requires a sturdy place to put it on. Optional features include duplexing automatic document, optional hard disk and wireless print server functionality.

The printer comes shipped with the standard yield Samsung toner cartridges (2500 black or 2000 color (cyan, magenta, yellow) pages. There are also high-yield toners which yield 5500 (black) or 5000 letter-sized pages (CMY). At TonerCartridgeDepot.com you can buy Samsung CLX-6200FX toner cartridges of both standard and high yield.

According to annual research of FORTUNE magazine in the field of business reputation, Xerox was named the most admired company in computer industry in 2008. Xerox hit the top from its 5th position it hold previous year.

FORTUNE magazine in association with Hay Group consulting firm have surveyed CEOs, directors and analysts of several organization to assess 1400 companies for such criteria as innovation, long-term investment and global competitiveness. Xerox has been ranked No. 1 in computer industry for the use of corporate assets, quality of management and social responsibility.

Click the picture to view Xerox’s rating at FORTUNE.com

Anne Mulcahy, CEO and Chairman of Board, Xerox, says it is the team, the brand and the innovation being the most valuable assets that the company was ranked so high. She also noted that Xerox invests heavily into these resources, develops them, and is aware that every company employee contributes to the reputation of the company on the market.

“We are tremendously proud to receive such an assessment from the business community. It reflects Xerox’s old traditions of providing high quality services, developing global technologies and responsibility for the employees and the society”, adds Anne Mulcahy. “It is also important that recognition of Xerox as the most admired company in the industry raises the bar in our future work.”

“A company that effectively works and keeps its good name for 75 consequent years, in times of stability and in times economic slowdowns, is respected a lot more than a company that succeeded during economic boom.” And there are grounds for that”, says Geoff Colvin, chief editor of FORTUNE, in his review of the survey. “The harder a reputation is earned, the more valuable it is.”

In Toner Cartridge Depot store you can find over 500 toner cartidges for Xerox laser printers.

Konica Minolta, a leading supplier of cutting-edge print and network technologies, presents a full color printer magicolor 7450 II GA designed for work in creative workgroups. Advertisement agencies, design and art studios can now easily implement their ideas with wide range of graphical capabilities of this printer.

The printing system is based on the well-known magicolor 7450, a printer with numerous international awards. The new magicolor 7450 II GA features high printing speed (25 pages per minute), standard memory (768 Mb) and maximum monthly duty cycle (up to 120 000 impressions). The Magicolor 7450 II GA can optionally be equipped with a hard drive of 40 Gb.
With a full set of printing scenarios, magicolor 7450 II GA provides image and document printing in various formats and modes.

Flat color print technology guarantees a photorealistic details and soft color gradients at high speed of printing, thus proving a high level of printing that meets expectations of professional designers. The performance and the speed of the machine allow small workgroups to cut the cost of a impression without compromising the quality. The printer supports paper media of various densities (64 to 256 g/sq. m.) and formats (A6 to A3++).

The multipurpose 250-sheet paper tray and 100-sheet manual feed tray can be used to feed thick paper, stickers and many other media. The standard 350-sheet input paper tray is expandable to 1,850-sheet capacity with optional additional trays. And installing a duplex unit allows double-sided and booklet printing on up to 256 g/sq. m. media.

Just like any other Konica Minolta printers equipped with Emperon print controller, magicolor 7450 II GA features a complex, yet easy to use PageScope printing tools control panel that facilitates print setup and printer management.

Besides, magicolor 7450 II GA incorporates PhotoART-9600™ Technology that guarantees excellent images and vibrant colors. The Konica Minolta’s smart graduation system, Automatic Image Density Control, provides color homogeneity of every printout. The magicolor 7450 II GA uses an exclusive Konica Minolta’s technology, the Simitri color polymer toner. This toner enables accurate reproduction of image detail, halftones and color, and enhances the quality of printouts, making them more vivid, sharp and smudge-resistant. An ICC-based color matching system provides an automatic color control. Magicolor 7450 II GA supports direct print from a digital camera using PictBridge.

Features interfaces:

• Gigabit (10BaseT/100BaseTX/1000BaseT) Ethernet
• Bidirectional IEEE 1284
• USB 2.0
• PictBridge

Compatibility:

• Windows: 2000, 2003, XP, XP64, Vista 32/64
• Macintosh: OS X 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, OS 9.1 (and above)
• Linux: Redhat v9.0, SuSe v8.2 Netware: 4/5/6 (and above)

First thing you should know about Samsung SCX-4725FN is that it is a multifunctional printer. This mean you can do numerous actions — print, copy scan and send faxes — all from a single device.

Having learned that, let’s see what’s more there is.

The SCX-4725FN is marketed as a network device. The manufacturer says that with this printer you can “be fully connected with all of your departments and enjoy the easy-to-use, network-enabled solutions that the SCX-4725FN offers”, that’s not quite so. While you can easily print over the network, there’s not support for network scanning and faxing. You have to connect it through USB if you want to use it full.

Speaking of scanning. Color scanning option is not supported, too, so you are limited to black-and-white document scans only. However, for somebody this limitation won’t be critical.

One of the most important features SCX-4725FN has is toner save mode. When active it reduces toner consumption by up to 30%, giving you more print outs per Samsung toner cartridge. Despite the manufacturer’s claims of retaining the print quality in toner save mode, the printouts do look really toned down.

Another point of notice is long warm-up time. It takes the printer several minutes to get ready from stand by mode.

But there’s also a bright side: Samsung SCX-4725FN offers a bunch of copying options.

First, clone copying. This feature enables copying the same image in reduced size on one printed page.

Next is favorite copy feature that allows making specialized copies easily. You just store a few functions as “Favorite Copy.” Instead of requiring multiple steps to select copy options, pressing the “Favorite Copy” button requires only one step to complete the assigned special copy.

With auto-fit copying you can expand a small image to fit the printed page and double sided copies can now be put on one side. The latter copying function allows you to consolidate copies without hassle or wasting time or paper.

It’s also worth mentioning that SCX-4725FN is ENERGY STAR compliant. This means you are assured that your Samsung model is helping the environment by using less energy while saving you money.

Another way to save money with this printer is to buy Samsung SCX-4725FN toner cartridges in TonerCartridgeDepot.com.