Performance
The Samsung ML-3051ND fell short of Samsung's claim of 30 pages per minute (ppm), but its speed still impressed us. It printed black text at a rate of 19.22ppm and grayscale graphics at 18.16ppm, outpacing the more expensive Oki C3400n and about equal with the more expensive Lexmark C500n.
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If there's one thing you can count on with a mono laser printer, it's excellent text print quality, and the ML-3051ND is no exception. In our tests, letters showed smooth, sharp edges, and were legible down to very small point sizes, about 2.5 to 3 points. The ML-3051ND also excelled with greyscale graphics: it scaled smoothly from darker grays to lighter shades and exhibited good detail in the photo elements. We did see some cross-hatching in the graphic and photo elements, but that's to be expected from a laser printer.
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Edited by Matthew Elliott
Additional editing by Nick Hide
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