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(83 customer reviews) 170 of 173 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic home color laser printer!,
October 9, 2006 J. Whealton (Central Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung CLP 300 Mini Personal Color Laser Printer (Office Product)
I've been looking pretty hard at the sales flyers over the last few months waiting for a chance to score a color laser printer at a price range that doesn't make me have to eat bag lunches for a month to catch up. A local office superstore had two models I was eying, an HP 1600 and this one. They seemed pretty similar in most regards until [...] dropped the CLP-300 100 dollars below the HP. It was time to grab the bargain.
This is the second Samsung laser printer I have in my home office now, the first one being the little ML-1740. I've had that one for better than a year now and it has been wonderful. So I wasn't afraid to try the Samsung CLP-300 because its name isn't as big as HP's. So I get it home and commence to setting it up. As with the earlier ML-1740, it took about 5 minutes to unpack, route cables, plug in the toner packs, and fire it up. It didn't skip a beat and had a test page done in a jiffy. Drivers for the computer went just as easily. Overall a...Read more
56 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Great home laser printer; probably not suitable for business use,
November 6, 2006 Alan Somers (McKinney, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung CLP 300 Mini Personal Color Laser Printer (Office Product)
After much soul searching (and many futile review searches), I decided to take the plunge and purchase a CLP-300. I've been wanting a color laser for a few years, mainly because of frustration with the slowness of color inkjets and the fragility of the prints, especially when they get wet. Even though this printer is at the bottom end of the laser speed range when it comes to color prints, it still outpaces my inkjet by a large margin.
Hardware setup was painless, both mentally and physically. It's not a light printer by any means, but I had little difficulty moving it, unlike most color laser printers that practically need a forklift. After removing four pieces of strapping tape and a piece of cardboard, it was ready to put in place, connect up, and load toner cartridges and paper. One little detail that impressed me about toner cartridge loading is that the cartridges are keyed, with each cartridge having a ridge in a different location along its circumference...Read more
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Small, quiet, Mac compatible - precisely what I wanted,
November 5, 2006 Karl Becker (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung CLP 300 Mini Personal Color Laser Printer (Office Product)
I purchased the Samsung CLP-300 to replace an Epson 740i inkjet that's been in service for many years. My motivations for getting a color laser printer instead of an inkjet:
* Low cost per page, which is common to every laser printer
* Small size - I do not want the printer taking up much physical space
* Quiet - it must be silent in standby mode, and when printing its sound must not aggravate people sleeping in a nearby room like the Epson 740i did
* Mac compatibility
The Samsung plays nicely with my Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.4.8. The drivers install quickly; one quick installer program, open up the Printer Setup Utility, and the printer was recognized as a CLP-300. Printer Features are fairly basic, with Quality choices of Draft, Normal, and Best, and a separate seting for Color or Grayscale. There are also 13 different paper types: Plain Paper, Thick, Thin, Bond, Color Paper, Card Stock, Transparency, Labels, Envelope,...Read more
