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Samsung CLP-300 Reviews

Samsung’s new CLP-300 colour laser is touted as the smallest colour laser in the world, and we agree with that claim. This smart-looking printer has been designed the ground up as an entry-level colour laser for professionals. The printer has just a single button and four LED indicators—one for each toner. The paper tray holds 150 sheets and juts out from the bottom. The toner car-tridges are small cylindrical tubes and slide into their respective grooves—the black cartridge is bigger; good, considering it will be used more. The photo conduc-tor drum can be removed, and the printer uses a carousel mecha-nism—each colour has to be devel-oped on the same drum in four different loads. The printer can be connected to a PC via USB, but you can also get the CLP-300N, which adds an Ethernet port for network print-ing. Installation was a breeze, and all you get is drivers and a status panel called Smart Panel. The sta-tus window is fairly informative, and pro-vides realis-tic toner usage. The driver is fairly com-prehensive and has numerous options to play around with. Samsung claims a speed of 16 pages for black, and the printer achieved 14 ppm. Our laser printer test docu-ment, consisting of six pages, was printed in 1 minute and 40 sec-onds—and hence falls just short of its claimed 4 ppm for colour. The photo document took 36 seconds to print; the delay can be attrib-uted to the carousel mechanism the printer uses. The Combi-docu-ment was printed in just 29 sec-onds—a fair speed. On the quality front, the Samsung CLP-300 saturated the black, killing vividity. Reverse-text (yellow on black) showed traces of black. Finer details were repro-duced perfectly, except in the areas immediately surrounding dark areas of the printout. Colour gradation was also good, but we’ve seen better...The printer costs Rs 15,500, and the four cartridges retail at Rs 10,500. The black toner is rated to give 2,000 pages, but the colour cartridges manage only 1,000 pages. The cost per page is similar to what’s on offer from compet-ing vendors. Overall, Samsung’s CLP-300 offers decent print quality, acceptable speeds, and reasonable pricing. However, keep in mind that this printer will not do jus-tice to graphics-heavy work.
Specifications:
16 ppm (black); 4 ppm (colour); 300 MHz; 32 MB memory (max); 24,200 pages duty cycle; USB 2.0; 150-sheet paper capacity; manual duplexing...

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