Samsung’s Laser Printer Workhorse

The ML-03471ND prints 35 pages per minute, full duplexes and saves toner at the touch of a button.

For businesses and consumers who that need a printer to pump out page after page reliably, instead of a raft of extraneous features, Samsung has a new printer that may fit the bill. The company announced its ML-3471ND on Wednesday, a monochrome laser printer designed to be a high-speed low-maintenance workhorse.

Equipped with a 400 Mhz processor and 64MB memory, the printer can push out 35 pages per minute, and delivers the first page in any job in under nine seconds. If saving paper is an issue, it can be set to full duplex mode – printing on two sides of a sheet – with the touch of one button. Toner can also be saved with the press of a button, with an economy mode that should cut back toner use by 40 percent.

Maintenance should be a non-issue: the ML-3471ND can print up to 10,000 pages on one cartridge, and its maximum monthly duty cycle is 50,000 pages. Paper capacity can also be upgraded with a second cassette that holds another 250 pages.

The ML-3471ND is available now through Samsung retailers for $549.99.