Customer Rating: 
Summary: Samsung SPP-2040
Comment: This is a great little printer. I bought for my wife who does a lot of scrapbooking and puts it through its paces. The picture quality is amazing and its a breeze to use. It prints a 4x6 print in about 60sec or slightly less. Very versitile printer for an amazingly low price (Amazon had the best price)Very happy with this purchase and would strongly recomend this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pictures Now!
Comment: I bought this yty and went home and started printing away. Its alot of fun. I took the 'worst' of the photos to work and showed it to colleagues. Not one of them thought it was from a computer. The quality is like getting them developed. It may take a minute to print but you can choose a bunch and print them and just let the printer do its thing. So don't think you have to sit over the printer while it does each one. However, you can only do 20 at a time. I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because a) there was no cable to connect to PC (this is available only in some countries) and I think its beyond stupid to sell such a product and not throw in a cable (fortunately I have one which I use with my exterior hard drive), b) the directions in the box are practically non-existant. The booklet has little info and is in a zillion languages. Better to keep in english and make the book more extensive, and c)There is a USB port but the machine will not read a memory stick. You have to play around with it but once u get it then you'll fall in love with this little gadget. Samsung though needs to lower the price of the paper and ribbon. Their profit margin on the accessory must be through the roof. Overall I highly recommend. However if you take lots of pictures and don't consider it a hassle to drop files/films off to be developed then this is a waste of money. Personally I don't have the time to take my files to be developed so I love it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great photos, but software too slow
Comment: We bought this printer several months back. It prints beautiful photos, generally well-balanced colors and of a good quality. The final layer is waterproof and fingerprintproof, so it is great for making prints to share with friends and family (especially kids)
The only problem with the printer is that when you put in a memory card, it takes a long time to browse the photos. This is not a problem if you have a small memory card, but with a large collection of photos on a card it is impractical to browse the photos quickly enough, and even going from one photo to the next takes quite a few seconds. The onscreen menus for editing/changing photos is also quite limited. The best way to use the printer is to download the photos off your memory card onto a computer, select the ones you want to print, and dump them onto another memory card. Then, insert that into the printer and press the PRINT-ALL button.
A final note: this printer uses a special type of Samsung cartridge and Samsung paper that you have to buy as a bundle. You should only purchase this printer if you live in a place geographically close to a supplier that stocks it for a reasonable price, otherwise it is a hassle.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing, fast results though not exactly Macintosh friendly
Comment: Everything about this printer is great, including the packaging. Though I am not one to be hung up on something as small as packaging, I would have to say they did an elegant job with this product. It even reminded me of similar packaging you would find in Apple brand products. Anyhow, setting this printer up on a Macintosh can be difficult. If you are running Mac OS X 10.4 you may need to download and install an updated version of the Common Unix Printing System, better known as Cups. Otherwise, you may be stuck with a "printer not responding" message. After I learned how to fix the printing issue everything was smooth sailing. For one, it's a dye thermal printer so you don't have any inkjet cartridges to become clogged resulting in bad prints. After sending the print command, It quickly sucks the paper back and forth four times, each time laying down a different layer of dye until your left with a final print which is indistinguishable from a lab quality print. One other issue is the fact that you have to set up your document using the Page Setup dialog box or your printer will somehow think you are printing on 8.5x11 or some other size that it doesn't accept. Be sure to set it to "Postcard" or "Poscard Borderless" AND set the page orientation. Anyhow, besides the couple small issues I am more than happy with this product. You can produce beautiful prints quickly and easily that will wow yourself and friends.
Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent for the price
Comment: This is great for families and amatuer photogs who want a quick way to see their work. As good as drug store prints and right when you want them. Software is easy to setup and use. Printer is quick and so far dependable. Be aware that when hooked to an xp pc, for some reason, the software switches the samsung to the default printer. So after a printing session check to make sure you're usual printer is on line again. Other than that small quirk, no problems at all.
Summary: Samsung SPP-2040
Comment: This is a great little printer. I bought for my wife who does a lot of scrapbooking and puts it through its paces. The picture quality is amazing and its a breeze to use. It prints a 4x6 print in about 60sec or slightly less. Very versitile printer for an amazingly low price (Amazon had the best price)Very happy with this purchase and would strongly recomend this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pictures Now!
Comment: I bought this yty and went home and started printing away. Its alot of fun. I took the 'worst' of the photos to work and showed it to colleagues. Not one of them thought it was from a computer. The quality is like getting them developed. It may take a minute to print but you can choose a bunch and print them and just let the printer do its thing. So don't think you have to sit over the printer while it does each one. However, you can only do 20 at a time. I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because a) there was no cable to connect to PC (this is available only in some countries) and I think its beyond stupid to sell such a product and not throw in a cable (fortunately I have one which I use with my exterior hard drive), b) the directions in the box are practically non-existant. The booklet has little info and is in a zillion languages. Better to keep in english and make the book more extensive, and c)There is a USB port but the machine will not read a memory stick. You have to play around with it but once u get it then you'll fall in love with this little gadget. Samsung though needs to lower the price of the paper and ribbon. Their profit margin on the accessory must be through the roof. Overall I highly recommend. However if you take lots of pictures and don't consider it a hassle to drop files/films off to be developed then this is a waste of money. Personally I don't have the time to take my files to be developed so I love it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great photos, but software too slow
Comment: We bought this printer several months back. It prints beautiful photos, generally well-balanced colors and of a good quality. The final layer is waterproof and fingerprintproof, so it is great for making prints to share with friends and family (especially kids)
The only problem with the printer is that when you put in a memory card, it takes a long time to browse the photos. This is not a problem if you have a small memory card, but with a large collection of photos on a card it is impractical to browse the photos quickly enough, and even going from one photo to the next takes quite a few seconds. The onscreen menus for editing/changing photos is also quite limited. The best way to use the printer is to download the photos off your memory card onto a computer, select the ones you want to print, and dump them onto another memory card. Then, insert that into the printer and press the PRINT-ALL button.
A final note: this printer uses a special type of Samsung cartridge and Samsung paper that you have to buy as a bundle. You should only purchase this printer if you live in a place geographically close to a supplier that stocks it for a reasonable price, otherwise it is a hassle.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing, fast results though not exactly Macintosh friendly
Comment: Everything about this printer is great, including the packaging. Though I am not one to be hung up on something as small as packaging, I would have to say they did an elegant job with this product. It even reminded me of similar packaging you would find in Apple brand products. Anyhow, setting this printer up on a Macintosh can be difficult. If you are running Mac OS X 10.4 you may need to download and install an updated version of the Common Unix Printing System, better known as Cups. Otherwise, you may be stuck with a "printer not responding" message. After I learned how to fix the printing issue everything was smooth sailing. For one, it's a dye thermal printer so you don't have any inkjet cartridges to become clogged resulting in bad prints. After sending the print command, It quickly sucks the paper back and forth four times, each time laying down a different layer of dye until your left with a final print which is indistinguishable from a lab quality print. One other issue is the fact that you have to set up your document using the Page Setup dialog box or your printer will somehow think you are printing on 8.5x11 or some other size that it doesn't accept. Be sure to set it to "Postcard" or "Poscard Borderless" AND set the page orientation. Anyhow, besides the couple small issues I am more than happy with this product. You can produce beautiful prints quickly and easily that will wow yourself and friends.
Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent for the price
Comment: This is great for families and amatuer photogs who want a quick way to see their work. As good as drug store prints and right when you want them. Software is easy to setup and use. Printer is quick and so far dependable. Be aware that when hooked to an xp pc, for some reason, the software switches the samsung to the default printer. So after a printing session check to make sure you're usual printer is on line again. Other than that small quirk, no problems at all.