Samsung CLP 300 Mini Personal Color Laser Printer

List Price: $266.99 Discount Price: Too low to display

Features:

• Portable and robust color laser printer
• Up to 2400x600 dpi print resolution
• Prints up to 17 ppm black and up to 4 ppm color
• Speedy USB 2.0 connectivity
• Easy toner changes and quiet operation

Accessories:

3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $201-$500 - Repair

Customer Reviews:

Works Great! [Posted on 2008-08-23]
After a couple years I finally replaced the Magenta and Yellow cartridges. I replaced the cyan and black a couple months ago. I have never had a problem with this printer and for my purposes the color/text is great. I have used it for a variety of items (cards, envelopes and paper) and it has always performed well. Looking at the other reviews I wonder if there is an overall quality issue with Samsung (I guess I got lucky if there is) or a user problem issue. I went from a laser brother black printer (which gave out on me after a year) and jumping up to the Samsung laser color 300 printer has been great. I have an Epson 2400 for fine prints and a Epson 200 to print disc covers but I use the Samsung mostly for daily printing needs---web pages, pdf files, excel etc...and it is a great little printer---especially for the price...it is the easiest printer to replace cartridges for and while it will cost $100 to replace them all it is well worth it since they last almost two years with normal use (70-100 sheets a week)

Pretty Good Quality [Posted on 2008-09-04]
I got this printer for school over a year ago and have been pleased with the results. Here's the rundown:

Pros:
+It installs its drivers within a few seconds. I upgraded my laptop, which now uses Vista, and plugged it in the USB slot. I was printing within a minute.
+It is fast. It takes maybe 20-25 seconds for it to warm-up after you assign it a task, but after that it spits out black and white documents in a second; full-color pages take up to 25 seconds.
+It is quiet. Unlike the jerking sounds of inkjets, this one just has a low humming sound.
+It's small. It's one of, if not THE, smallest *color* laser printers that I've seen.
+Good design for toner cartridges. They are even easier to replace than inkjets, if that can be believed.
+Dependable. I have yet to have it jam on me.

Cons:
-Toner supply. I print out full-color pictures with some regularity and the toner seems to take a drastic drop after every picture, around 2-5% for each one. And those toner cartridges aren't cheap.
-Picture quality. I don't really mind it, but it does not blend gradients together well. Or just blend in general. The results remind me of vector art. The color is vibrantly bright and the darks dark; they just stay separated.

VERDICT:

This is a good, affordable, dependable printer for a student's or office's needs, assuming that you are not a photography major or printing company.

Lemon [Posted on 2008-09-13]
I loved this printer, I loved the compact size, I liked the toner cartriges, I liked the print quality; however once the rubber piece that pulls the paper from the printer tray wears...this printer is a basically a paperwight.It will not work again. Mine lasted eight months. I did not even use up all the toner! THIS IS A VERY COMMON PROBLEM FOR THIS PARTICULAR PRINTER...BEWARE!

Constantly Jams [Posted on 2008-09-19]
This is one of the most frustrating printers I've ever owned. Picked it up at Staples about a year ago because it was on sale and thought it would be good for the kids to use. (If I had it to do again, I'd spend another $100 and get something in the OKI C5100 / 5200 series -- those things are workhorses and mine hasn't jammed in the four years I've had it.)

The Samsung now jams just about every time a piece of paper is fed through. My guess is a bad quality rubber paper pickup is to blame. I tried some professional roller cleaner and it helped a little. Beware...

Jams all the time >_< [Posted on 2008-10-07]
When this printer actually works, it's great and takes 2 secods to print a page, but it constantly jams. I've had it for under a year and now it jams at exit and no matter what I do (trust me, I've done everything) nothing works. I wish I read the reviews about it before purchasing.

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