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Samsung’s ML-1640 must be pretty close to the limits on low budget criteria and usability. Designed as a personal printer for home use, it’s about as useful as a printer can get. The “black box” is about the size of a medium size breadmaker and when it is closed, it takes up very little room. To print you need to unfold the output paper support from its top surface and fold down the front flap, which becomes the paper feed tray. This can take up to 150 sheets of 75g/sm paper. If you want to leave the printer ready to print, you will have to leave the tray open, without a paper cover to protect it from possible dust. Most entrylevel printers include a detachable cover.

Samsung provides a combined drum and toner cartridge with the ML-1640 and this includes a long, articulated handle, with which you manipulate the cartridge to the back of the printer, inside the case. It’s important to press it firmly in on the left-hand side, or the machine reports a lack of cartridge. A standard cartridge for the machine has toner for 1,500 pages but, like many other suppliers, Samsung provides a starter cartridge in the box - this one runs for just 700 pages. Providing starter cartridges is more excusable in inexpensive machines such as this, but Samsung should make the toner capacity plainer on the box.

Quality of printed material, regardless if it is text, graphics or images, is quite well. There are some hardly noticeable lines on printed material when higher resolutions are used, but these defects are more a result of thorough search for faults than true defect that average user will ever notice. It seems that after all analysis and testing, ML-1640 turned out as solid product that is worthy of attention of users that need cheap device for small printing jobs that don’t expect fast printing speeds and top quality printing results.

On the other hand, this product like all other devices from the same category should be avoided for printing jobs on monthly basis. In case of Samsung ML-1640 one page will cost you about 3 euro-cents when you start using standard cartridge. If we assume that you print 7 pages per day for 6 months period, you will spend one starter and one standard cartridge which will cost you around 125€.

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In our times we are already used to Solar energy being tried (not always succesfully) on various fields. Vehichles is one of those fields. Energy saving is important and it seems to be a key factor in helping our future out of the consequences of the global warming. A British company is slowly succeeding in designing a solar powered rickshaw that can come on the market soon. Rickshaws are a very well known Indian mode of transport coming with three wheels.

In contrast to not very civilised uses of traditional rickshaws, this new types will be palatable even to human rights activists. The only catch is that the new Rickshaws will cost 22,000 rupees compared to 8,500 rupees for a traditional rickshaw. Efforts are being put into further reducing of the price. Indian government still needs to arrange the details of paying for the solar charging stations. Questions like who will be charged for the use of electricity also still haven’t been addressed.