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W
hy would you want to buy a color laser
printer now when they have been around
for some time? Two reasons come to mind:
speed and cost.
Previously, if you wanted a color laser, you needed to
be very patient since speeds were around 4-8 ppm
(pages-per-minute). Not too many years ago you
needed to plan on spending $1000 or upwards for
the benet of color.
Samsung has now come out
with one of the small-
est footprint color laser
printers ever in the Sam-
sung Color Laser Printer CLP-
315. They have overcome
the two biggest issues in
the color laser market—
speed and cost. Let’s ad-
dress each one separately.
Speed
While the Samsung is not the
fastest printer in the market, it cer-
tainly is better than those of just a few
years ago. Samsumg rates this printer at
17 ppm (pages per minute) for black and 4 ppm for
color.
But in the real world, let’s look at actual printing
speeds:
l Black one-page Word letter – 25 seconds
l Color one-page Internet document: 32 sec-
onds.
l Black database 3 page document: 57 seconds
As you can see, these printing times are very respect-
able, probably comparable to a fast inkjet.
REVIEW: Samsung Color Laser Printer CLP-315
By Irv Haas
The Review Guru
Cost
When color laser printers rst hit the market they
were typically around $1000. Now they are typically
in the $250-400 range. The CLP-315 beats them all
with a MSRP of $199.99. This printer can be found
on the Internet for around $150, making it look even
better. If you require a wireless version of this print-
er, that will cost an extra $50 in the CLP-315W.
The down side of the cost equation is that
toner cartridges can override any printer
cost considerations. A set of car-
tridges for the CLP-315 will
cost you well over $200, more
than the actual cost of the
printer itself!
But the real awakening comes
in the cost per page. With Sam-
sung cartridges for this printer,
the black cartridge toner has
enough ink for 1500 pages while
each of the color cartridges have
enough toner for 1000 pages. If
you do the math, the cost is prob-
ably comparable to an inkjet printer.
This is so frustrating since one of the main
benets of a laser printer is to lower your cost per
page below that of an inkjet!
If you note in the photo, these cartridges are small
and narrow so as not to take up much room inside
the printer. The printer itself comes with pre-in-
stalled starter cartridges of 1000 pages for black and
700 pages for each color cartridge.
“No Nois” Technology
Samsung has developed its No Nois technology in
order to make their laser printers quieter. Although
this was a welcome feature, I did not notice much
dierence when comparing the CLP-315 to other
printers in its class.
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