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Samsung Printer Is A Paperweight
Posted Wed June 23, 2010 12:00 pm, by Douglas P. written to Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Write a Letter to this Company
About a year ago, I purchased a refurbished CLX-3160FN all in one color laser printer/fax/scanner/copier.
Clearing a paper jam a few months back, I gently bumped the top document feeder with my elbow, and one of the hinges snapped. A further examination of these cheap plastic hinges revealed inferior design and material, barely 0.5mm of thin plastic holding them in place, this as brittle as egg shell. C'mon, folks!
With a total page count of less than 2,000 since new, one night this thing started grinding loudly as I tried to print, gave a jam message [location 0,] and went tilt with the blinking red light and obnoxious grinding. The transport was bad. I disassembled and rebuilt the transport, and at that point, there was no more grinding. Paper passes freely through when the imaging unit and transfer belt assembly are removed.
THE TRANSFER BELT ASSEMBLY CANNOT BE PUT BACK INTO THE CHASSIS ONCE IT HAS BEEN REMOVED!
I fought for hours== this is an obvious, and very stupid, design flaw of this particular machine.
Almost new, I want to chuck the damn thing out into the street and watch a truck run over it!!!!
My online research indicates that this is a very common problem. I want Samsung to replaces the machine with my choice of newest models, and give me a full warranty on it, usually one year but sometimes more.
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by PepperElf Posted Sat June 26, 2010 @ 1:29 PM
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"Almost new" ... um refurbished is never new. It may be new to you but it's definitely not new
and they're not going to replace it for you once you've taken it apart
because one you open it and start disassembling it you void whatever warranty you had
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by billt Posted Fri June 25, 2010 @ 3:26 AM
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Without Much trouble, I found the refurbished machine of this model listed for about 130.00. The replacement cartridges list for about 200.00 for all four.
This machine was probably not intended to be repaired cost effectively. You should get the machine back to the person in your company that provided it and ask for a quality machine, such as an HP.
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This machine just became a garden ornament in my landlord's yard.
I will soon be moving, and this lodestone is not one I look forward to be carrying around.
The transfer belt assembly CANNOT be put back into the chassis once it is removed. Support menus on the machine came up in German, which I am fortunate to speak fluently. Das macht nicht-- I purchased a service manual off Ebay for $4, English, and following procedures posted here in America, the transfer belt error could not be resolved.
I just threw the damn thing out my back window into my landlord's weedy over-grown yard. Some of the menus to access tech functions came up in English, and I followed instructions to the very last letter. More came up in German, and I followed it all, to the exact letter.
Your Scheistlichenkaputtgeraten is sitting in a private garden behind the apartment building where I presently live. How DARE! you sell, or market, a product such as this. I would take you to court under 93 A, of Massachusetts consumer protection codes, if not for the fact that I am likely to be returning to Europe by the end of the summer.
Within the European economic infrastructure, you would simply send a technician to my location, and repair or replace a defective consumer product such as this. Here in the USA we have laws relating to buying used cars~~ called "lemon." The French expression for this is le navet, which means "turnip" in English. When Hollywood produces a dreadful movie, this expression also applies. Here, they call it a "flop."
It makes no difference which language one speaks, especially when a consumer oriented product of this nature has been pre-programmed, for sale to a largely Western [Occidental] consumer base of users, only to have the product malfunction soon, if not immediately after having been sold, thus imposing upon purchasers such as am I, very capable of disassembling and rebuilding your entire apparatus, without help, or even a service manual.
I will admit in this case, that I did purchase a service manual for this machine off Ebay, at a cost of roughly $4 US. It helped, but could not, offer any solutions to the horrendous problems this piece of garbage, in my opinion, was engineered to impose upon the unwitting buyer.
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by Retail Veteran Posted Wed June 23, 2010 @ 10:34 PM
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Refurbished machines typically have a 90 day warranty though sometimes they might be longer. The biggest problem is even if your machine was still under warranty, you voided it by taking it apart. I never buy refurbished products, only new. A refurbished product is merely something that was returned as defective and the manufacturer 'fixed'. I don't believe Samsung owes you anything.
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by Donno Posted Wed June 23, 2010 @ 11:01 AM
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Did your online research reveal anything about a company's response once an unqualified technician services a unit?
I don't think they will honor a warranty or otherwise make amends if an end user takes their product apart and can't get it back together.
You are pointing out what you feel is an "obvious design flaw," but based on this description I would ask if you followed the factory repair procedure. Which document did you use, and what step or page number describes a procedure you were unable to perform?
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I'm glad you did online research for your model. Did you do it before or after your purchase?
Good Day
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