Samsung CLP-300N put through its paces
Network ready colour laser printers are usually big overbearing machines that sit in the corner of big offices, but the new budget colour laser printer from Samsung bears more resemblance your average inkjet printer. The Samsung CLP-300n is designed to fill the gap between a business inkjet printer and a laser printer in terms of speed and monthly print cycle. Running costs follow the same pattern with the cost of Samsung CLP-300n toner cartridges being only slightly higher than a set of inkjet printer cartridges, but offering a far better cost per page of 2p for black printing and 10p colour. There are also remanufactured Samsung toner cartridges available which are made by third parties and offer significant savings over the genuine Samsung products. The CLP-300 is not best suited to heavy monthly print cycles and this is evident from the 150 sheet capacity of the paper tray and the smaller than average cartridges, which are about the same size as jam jars. The black toner yields about 2,000 pages, but the cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges only yield 1,000 pages each. The print quality of the CLP-300n is great whatever you’re printing, monochrome documents are clean and sharp and colour images and graphics are full of vivid tones. The only weakness the printer has is it colour printing colour printing speed, while monochrome speeds are good at 16ppm colour is measly 4ppm which makes the CLP-300n not best suited for heavy print runs. Apart form the it’s a great little machine prefect from sharing between PC in a small workgroup.