Pros: Inexpensive initial purchase

Cons: Very expensive supplies
Does not recycle waste toner
Noisy
Slow to start
Poor driver support from Samsung
Heavy to lift
Huge footprint (takes a lot of space)
Fair print quality
Faulty waste toner level sensor

Other Thoughts: I had this printer for 6 months and it started nagging me about replacing the waste toner tank even thought it only had dust in the botton of it. I replaced it anyway and it still said to replace it. I did some research on this issue on the web and many other CLP-510 series users have run into the same issue. The resolution to this issue (which will most likely mappen) is to dissable the waste toner level sensor all together. This is easy to do with some dissassembly and does fix the issue, but you have to remember to not let the waste toner tank get too full. If you buy this printer make sure you purchase an extended warranty for it. This printer holds truth to the old saying "you get what you pay for".

Pros: At the time few other color laser printers were priced this well- now there are a lot more options and I am shopping them, trying to see if it is worth the price to replace the drum and belt when one or both will probably have to be replaced in another year. This printer does a relatively decent job for a laser on color pictures in the reports I do and is much faster than the inkjet HP I replaced. Naturally the photos are not as crisp, but acceptable. I feel I did save $ on the toner over ink cartridges.

Cons: Drum & transfer belt need replacing after 1 yr at a cost that is seventy percent of the cost of the printer. Drum yield is stated at 50K B/W and 12.5K Color. I doubt I did much more than two k pages of color photos in a year at the lowest resolution. I am the only one using it and have a networked printer that I use anytime I am running several b/w copies. It is faster to print and walk the sixty feet to the other printer, pick up the pages and return to my desk then wait for this one to process the data. In fairness I do not have the fastest USB port on my pc. In any event, believe me, this printer was not overtaxed!!! B/W quality is now where near as crisp as our other laser or our copier. There are only two settings for print quality, lowest is 600 dpi, so you can not set it at a draft/fast draft or default B/W to save toner. And you have to set the paper thickness on some 28# papers and everything over.

Other Thoughts: I would definatly buy from New Egg again, but probably never another Samsung printer.

I have not networked it so I don't know about that capability.

Although I do duplex, I do not do it on this machine because it is slow as the paper has to come out and go back in the printer to print the other side.

While all lasers have larger footprints than inkjets, one other thing that has been a real pain to me, due to my limited office space, is that this printer has to be accessed on three sides to change the toner, fill the regular paper tray and use the special paper tray. There will be no putting this one in the corner.

It also is pretty noisy when warming up and printing, typical of lasers again and I can't really compare it to others because I have never had another sitting at ear level and in arms reach before- definately something to think about if you plan on having it on your desk or cradenza.

Pros: I've had this printer for over a year and it has worked very nicely. I've replaced the original toner only when it was obviously printing bad colors so the 'chip' didn't force me to replace it early as some reported. This is the only printer that has duplex built in for this price.

Manual feed works great as does label printing as long as you specify the paper type when printing.

Cons: I wish the color toner was a bit more glossy rather than being on the 'flat' side but must say I'm the only one in my family that notices.

Pros: Works flawlessly with linux and windows with the supplied driver disk.

Cons: Like most printers on the market today samsung has designed this one to extort as much money from you as possible. There is a chip in each toner that cuts off after a certian number of pages are printed. Although I have not tried this there are people selling replacement chips that will extend the period that the cartrige can be used and possibly refilled.

Also a word of warning if any toner at all gets on the raised part of the toner bottle where the sensor is the printer will refuse to print until you supply it with a new one (like $20) and this may not even fix the problem as after suppling a fresh new one at work after a few days it complained again... I found a solution that works is take your toner bottle out and cut off the 1 inch raised part of it that goes between the sensor, in place of the hole you cut out put some tape preferibly 2in wide. This will make the sensor happy and you will never need to shell out money for a new bottle...

Other Thoughts: Even with the problems with the toner bottle and the chips in the cartriges this is still a very good printer for the price and I very much recommend it. I have 2 of these for over a year 1 at work and one at home.

Pros: When it works, it works respectably.

Cons: Lousy Linux support.
Chipped toner cartridges which just keep a page count, so one page is one page, whether .01% of the page uses a given color or 44%.
The horror of the waste toner tank (see below).

Other Thoughts: Most laser printers send waste toner back into the cartridge from whence it came. This printer sends it into a waste toner tank, that you're expected to replace. The sensor that says when said tank is full is flaky at best, and has caused many people difficulty.

Pros: Dirt Cheap. Next comparable printer would probably cost you at least $xxx or more. That being said you get what you pay for.

Cons: We purchased 6 of these as an ISV and they are not worth the money they save you in the down time you will experience. Perhaps it would be worth it as a home printer but this is not business quality. As far as print quality it is mediocre; fine for text and syntax coloring but I would not put any presentation graphs/charts through it. Toner is chipped and will all run out simultaneously on you while it is far from empty.

Other Thoughts: I have had some horrible experience with them but I am still hesitant to complain too much because of how cheap they are.

Pros: Value!! Full color laser, fast (especially for B&W only). Works like a charm as a network printer ("N" option). The duplexer is wonderful.

Despite negative comments about print quality, I find this more than acceptable for business printing (spreadsheets, documents), but it certainly isn't the highest quality output around either (and you don't get to that level until you shell out big $s!).

Cons: Large compared to small B&W lasers (but this is true of all color lasers).

It certainly isn't a photo printer, but it isn't sold that way either.

Other Thoughts: Updating memory was a snap with a Kingston KTM059/128A (sells for about $40).

This was a wonderful upgrade to my B&W which failed recently.

Pros: Cheap. Duplex printing is fantastic at this price. Fast on all black pages. Almost never jams.

My wife was not happy when I bought this for our home a year ago. However, we have made lots of brochures and fancy letters. It was a great investment.

Cons: Color speed is slow. Any color on a page requires a different paper path through the color cartridges.

Does not handle card stock.
Takes awhile to warm up. However, it is fast once it gets going.

Other Thoughts: The toner catridges are expensive but you can replace the toner yourself for much less.
I replaced the toner cartridges once. Now, I just refill.

The toner waste tank has to be emptied and cleaned. Alternatively, you can purchase a new replacement tank. However, the price is ridiculous.

We have only had a few jams. Those mostly came when we tried using card stock.

We print between 500-2,000 pages per month.

Pros: Fast output

Cons: The text and color print quality is very poor. The color is not accurately reproduced.

Other Thoughts: I am shocked at how bad the print quality is with this printer. The text quality is not crisp as you would expect even from a low-end laser printer. Any color picture is fuzzy at best and the color reproduction is barely passable. Really, I don't know what Samsung was thinking when they released this to an unsuspecting consumer market. Check the reviews of this printer elsewhere, there is a very common thread among all of them. Stay away from this one.

Comments: We reviewed all the lasers on the market and this one stacked up the best. Yes it falls a little bit short on high quality color printing, ie. for photo's, but for general graphics, text, reports and brochures it works fine.
When you add the auto duplexing feature (at no cost) it is way above competition on price.
Only complaint, networking set up, which we achieved, is not clearly documented. Also if you print brochures, business cards, etc. you need to let theprintout sit a few minutes or more prior to touching, but if you've used lasers maybe that is common knowlege.
Overall it works well and is extremely well made and priced.

Comments: This printer costs me about 10 cents a page. The toner cartridges have a smart chip that automatically shuts off the ink at about 3400 pages. If you use any color on it at all it counts as one page for all toner colors. 320 bucks to replace all the cartridges every 3400 pages...you do the math. Samsung support actually hung up on me when I called to complain.

Comments: If you want cheap color with lots of features, 510n is for you.
Is relatively small, quiet and preety cheap in use (replacing the toners)

In terms of quality - it's AVERAGE. Text could be better, photo - well, it's laser so don't expect great photos.

That said, I had some problems with it in terms of print quality.
1) Debris sometimes appears out of nowhere,
2) Loose toner appears A LOT, I'm not sure if I got a bad model, but it happens 20% of time and it can really be a pain in the a.s . I have to reprint a lot because of this.

Comments: I'm very pleased with the Samsung 510N. I have it servicing both a PC with Windows XP and my 3 Imacs running OS X over a network and it prints from both systems flawlessly. My only hesitation is the supplies cost. My other office printer is a Xerox Techtronix Color Printer and its supply cost is also high so I guess you just have to live with that if you want color printing. I'm hoping that this printer will last a good long time for us. It is a smaller footprint than the Techtronix which is very good for us as we are working in limited space.

Comments: This Printer DOES NOT hold legal 14inch paper. The specifications say that it prints up to 14inch legal size. This is true, it can but only through the side feeder. The add on 3rd paper tray is ~$300 and does not list the paper sizes it supports, neither do the specs for the standard tray the printer comes with. Its letter and A4 only if you are wondering, for both the standard and the ~$300 addon tray. After confronting samsung directly about this they admited their is no way to load 14" legal paper into a paper try for everyday printing, nor will their be a legal size tray for these 510 series in the future. So if legal size printing is something you need to do on a regular basis this printer is not going to do what you want. You wont find out anywhere but here or like I did, after you open the box. I sugested to the people at samsung that they should list the paper sizes supported by the main and ~$300 addon trays, im sure they will get right on that :( Other than not being able to print to legal paper except as a special side load job its a great printer as all the reviews will reflect. However its useless for the purpous it was purchased for (printing ~1000 pages a month on legal paper) so 2 out of 5 for not including some basic details of its specifications that lead to an unfortunate purchase, no fault to newegg. samsung themselves do not list any additional info beyond whats listed here.

Comments: This printer is awsome. Easy to use, prints in HIGH quality, Another wonderful product from Samsung!

Comments: It is indeed quiet, and the feature set is impressive for the price--especially the duplexer. One can easily ignore the hernia-inducing weight in view of that feature set. The output is very nice.

What one CAN'T ignore is the horrid Linux support. Samsung refuses to release data needed to write an open source driver, so you're shackled to their proprietary driver, which only supports 600 dpi, doesn't work and play well with Ubuntu's sudo-only scheme for doing administrative things, doesn't integrate with existing printer administrative software, and simply refuses to work with Fedora Core 4. (My wife's Fedora Core 3 computer suddenly started having the CUPS server dying regularly after I installed the Samsung driver on her computer.)

The driver is flat out broken. Output of a C source prettyprinter that generates PostScript prints fine on another laser printer, but winds up missing large chunks on the CLP-510N. Some images print out on the CLP-510N under Linux as large black rectangles.

Mechanically, it doesn't work well with card stock--the shorter path still curls the paper bigtime, and if it sucks it back into the duplexer, which is hard to make it stop doing, card stock is a guaranteed jam. You have to be very careful to tell the printer the kind of paper it's printing on, which is a big change from our other laser printer, which cheerfully takes envelopes and card stock without complaint. Once we got the card stock to go through the Samsung without a jam, we saw toner not adhering to it and had to give up on it.

Comments: Good printer for basic print jobs. My only gripe is poor color rendering in the blue scale. Also it seems unable to correctly print on glossy laser paper. Besides these, I do like the results from the printer. Good value.

Comments: For the price you can't go wrong with the CLP510N. Print quality if excellent, though its not meant for photographic prints it is good for nearly everything else. If you want to reproduce photos buy a cheap inkjet printer otherwise, this printer packs in many of the features you'd expect to pay extra for if you purchased another brand. Way to go Samsung.

Comments: For the price you only pay this printer has everything you could want. Not only does it have standard features that are often options on other models, but it also allows you to controll every single aspect of your prints from the printing properties. If you want a color laser network printer for a low price, this is the way to go.

And as always, my order was shipped quickly to my door a day earlier than what they quoted. Thanks Newegg & Fedex, you make a great team.

Comments: Ease of use. After Comparing the CLP-510 to other printers at a store I can not name but visited in real life, the CLP-510 had the best price-point for the quality of the prints.

For the extra $$$ I opted out for the "CLP-510N" or network model. This has been a blessing! Having set up network printers in the past I was expecting to find a difficult time in setting this up, I could be not more wrong.

Setup was little more then hooking it up to the TCP/IP and letting the DHCP do its magic. The admin web interface is very well laid out and again easy to use.

If you have a small office and are looking for a good Color Laser Printer for every one to use, this is a no brain-er.