This is the cheapest colour laser printer listed by Amazon, but the 44 reviews there all gave it 4 or 5 stars. It might not serve for heavy business use, but should suit someone looking for something cheaper and more reliable than an inkjet.

Ink replacements may seem expensive, but they print about five times as many pages as inkjet cartridges: the cost seems to be about 2 pence per page.

The manual that's supposed to be on the supplied CD was not there, but it can be downloaded from Samsung's support site. My distro did not have any Samsung drivers, but a driver with an installer is available from Samsung. I just had to unpack it and run the "autorun" script as root.

I've printed some text and graphics on some old paper originally bought for a dot-matrix machine and the results were good.

A good little printer for home or small business use. Its probably the cheapest colour laser on the market. I use it at home for normal printing of text and photos. Its output is very good, the toner is reasonably priced and Samsung are linux friendly as far as downloads go. They have one common problem that you need to keep an eye out for, the rubber strip on the feed roller shifts and slips when the machine has been left on for a long time, the glue that secures it melts or softens causing slippage of the strip which in turn gives paper feed problems. It happened to me, so I replaced it with a better quality strip and its been o.k. since. All in all a decent little printer at very reasonable cost.