Early on in its life people printed more than they do today (for various work-related purposes, usually). Overall the use of this printer hasn’t been heavy. Interface: Parallel Port (remember those?) or USB.22 ppm (although it’s more in the 15-16 ppm).I had been leveraging Google Print and my NAS for printer sharing, and Google Print is being EOL’d, so switching printers at the same time as printing methods seemed like a good way to go.Printing has seemingly gotten worse (not necessarily related to the toner potentially being low).

The toner seems to be running out, which is only be the second toner cartridge EVER in this printer (forcing the decision to buy another cartridge).Pieces have broken off from random places in the rollers, sometimes resulting in torn pages.Paper handling (it’s having issues picking up paper from the tray).Well, it has come to that point where the printer is questionable on many fronts, including: “ Choosing to replace, that doesn’t sound very green!” you might say. It was my first foray into a home laser printer (ridding me of inkjet, which was the bane of my existence), and dedicating us to colorless printing since that time, surviving the objections from others in the household. It’s the only printer my now-teenage children have ever known. The ML-2250 has been the workhorse of our family since late 2006 or early 2007 long enough ago that I search for when it was ordered and have no email trail to confirm.

This post starts with me choosing to say goodbye to our Samsung ML-2250 monochrome printer. I’m typing this on a 3rd generation i5 laptop, and I was quite sad when my iPhone 4S died in 2017 (I’ll let you do the math!). Is it wrong to feel an emotional bond with an electronic component? Perhaps it’s my midwest upbringing or my attempt at being green, but I’ve always had a habit of making my electronics last for a very long time relative to most people.

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