I wonder if that's why our Samsung color laser failed? Never used anything but genuine Samsung cartridges, but the blue cartridge developed a leak that we just couldn't get rid of. Replaced with a Canon B/W that has been rock solid.

Is there an easy way to identify these cloaked Samsung printers? Like a different model number or something?

Not sure whether there is any systematic way to identify them.

I've been looking for a cheap b/w laser for my parents and have found HP LaserJet 135/135w. It looked very familiar, and behold, it is a rebranded Samsung SL-M2070w that I have in the office.

Hardware-wise, it is actually a nice printer. Software-wise... It works in Linux, but you have to install the binary-only uld driver. For MacOS it is more interesting: printing is not a problem, scanning in B/w is also OK, but scanning in Image Capture/Preview in color into PDF produces garbage output. What works is scanning in color into TIFF, then stitching and reexporting into PDF manually. The alternative, the EasyScan Samsung software no longer works in Catalina, it has 32-bit components.

Edit: from the ppds in the driver package, they are:

* HP Laser 10x Series

* HP Laser MFP 13x Series

* HP Color Laser 15x Series

* HP Color MFP 17x Series

Thanks! That's actually really smart: look at the drivers!

So weird that HP would buy Samsung's printer division but not kill it off.