Spring Drives

Inkjet printers may be the dominant printer for home / small offices, but there has always been a gap that needed to be filled between an inkjet printer and a colour laser printer. The Samsung CLP-300 looks to be that printer, it priced right in the middle of the average inkjet and colour laser printer. The CLP-300 is a fully functioning colour laser printer so there are bound to be some compromises and you can’t expect it to have a spec sheet equal to that of a colour laser printer that cost three times as much. The machine itself feels solid and well built, it amazing compact and going on its small size you wouldn’t know it’s a colour laser printer; this is thanks mostly to its unique Samsung toner cartridges which look more like small Pringles tubes than printer cartridges which slot neatly behind the front panel and sit horizontally in the machine. The four Samsung CLP-300 toner cartridges each print 1,000 pages with exception of the black which prints 2,000 pages which works out at a cost of 1.8p per page black and 8.7p for colour. The CLP-300 has a maximum resolution of 2,400 x 600dpi and text printing is very crisp and sharp as are the images and graphics. Another reason for buying laser printer is speed and the CLP-300 delivers on this to, it’s true to its official figures and prints 16ppm in mono and 4ppm in colour. Overall the Samsung CLP-300 does exactly what it says on the tin so you know exactly what you’re getting before your buy and that not something you can say for a lot of printers.