Digital Advocate

The Samsung CLP-300n is the network-ready, colour laser printer designed to bring colour laser printing to the small business and home users. It plans to do this with a small price tag and equally small footprint. Measuring just 39 cm x 34.4 cm x 26.5 cm (WxDxH) is small enough fit of the most cluttered of desks. Running costs are reasonable with the Samsung CLP-300 toner cartridges printing 1,000 pages for each of the colours and 2,000 pages for the black giving an average cost per cost of 10 for colour and 2p for black prints. Compatible Samsung toner cartridges are also available for the CLP-300n and they cost up to 50% less than the genuine Samsung printer cartridges. The printer delivers beautiful colour prints at rather slow 4 ppm (pages per minute) and monochrome prints are sharp for both text and high resolution graphics, with a more impressive 17 ppm print speed. Operation noise is quiet and despite the CLP-300n budget price tag the overall build quality feels solid. Although the monthly duty cycle of 24,200 pages it not really the best printer for heavy work loads, this is evident in the slow colour printing speeds but also in the small 150 sheet paper tray capacity which makes refilling the CLP-300n with paper a regular chore. This is slight blip in the otherwise flawless value for money colour laser printer.