Samsung Xpress SL-C480FW Color Laser Multifunction Printer Driver and Software

With the Samsung Xpress SL-C480FW you no longer have to wait for your prints. This printer features NFC and Wi-Fi, so you can easily send jobs wirelessly to your printer from your smartphone or tablet. The quality of text documents is very good and thanks to the high print resolution, even small fonts are easy to read. Use the flatbed scanner or automatic document feeder (ADF) to scan and fax documents.

Print

The Samsung Xpress SL-C480FW prints using laser technology that picks up powdered toner on a roller and fuses it onto the paper with heat. It prints good color photos that are fine for casual users, typical performance for a laser printer. Text quality is excellent, as we expect from a laser printer. Text printing was very fast at 12 pages per minute and cost 5.4 cents per page.

Color graphic printing is ideal for reports, newsletters and websites at 2.3 pages per minute and costs 50.4 cents per page. When color ink runs out, printing stops. It cannot be set to use only the remaining black ink. When the black ink runs out, printing stops. It cannot be set to use only the remaining color ink. The capacity of the main paper tray is 150 sheets, a typical size.

Scan and Copy

Scanning performance was excellent and suitable for all tasks, including archiving photos. It can scan or copy an area of ​​up to 11.4 x 8.3 inches (letter size). Copy performance was excellent, producing copies that were very close to the original. It has an automatic document feeder (ADF) for easy scanning/copying of a stack of pages. Includes optical character recognition (OCR) software to edit scanned documents in a word processor.

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Connectivity and Network

You can connect directly to a PC with a USB cable or to your network router, either wirelessly via Wi-Fi or via an Ethernet cable. Apple AirPrint and Google Cloud Print are integrated to print wirelessly from smartphones, tablets and PCs. You can also install the Samsung app on your smartphone or tablet to print over your WiFi network. This model has built-in fax functionality, can store incoming faxes when paper is low, and can send faxes from a connected PC.

When this section was last updated, the purchase price of the printer was around $215, which is cheap for an all-in-one color laser printer. Toner is consumed during printing. Over time, the costs of printing add up. This printer uses 4 cartridges.