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Samsung CLP-300 – Good bad or ugly?

Colour laser printers have always been far too expensive to purchase for the average home or small office user and their performance is far beyond what these users would need. The Samsung CLP-300 is a new type of colour laser printer aimed at these users specifically. It costs about the same as a good quality multifunction inkjet printer but offers superior print speed and can handle a much high monthly print cycle. Running costs in terms of cost per page are better to, Samsung CLP-300 toner cartridges cost about twice as much as set of your average inkjet printer cartridges much yield around 5 times as many pages. There are also remanufactured Samsung toner cartridges becoming available for the printer which costs around half the price of the genuine OEM products and make the CLP-300 as very cheap printer to run. The first thing you notice about the CLP-300 is it size, it so small it could be mistaken for a standard mono laser printer and not much bigger than an inkjet. Because the CLP-300 is designed for moderate volume users it doesn’t have a huge paper tray like normal laser printers only a 150 sheet capacity one and the printing speeds are lower than a normal laser printer but also better than you will find any inkjet doing in the real world. Black printing seems to be the CLP-300 strong point in terms of both speed and quality, printing in black it can produce excellent clear sharp results with an impressive speed of 16ppm, colour however the speed is reduced to 4ppm and the quality suffers when you are printing anything more than graphics. Overall it is a good printer that suits it purpose.