Samsung CLP 550N

Advantages: Good Price, Small Package
Disadvantages: Small paper tray and no manual feed

...a network version of the same printer the CLP-300N this is slightly more expensive but does allow the software on your PC to be able to monitor the cartridge levels and other consumables life, this cannot be done using the USB interface over the network using a print server like a HP JetDirect. -----------Conclusion----------- I have been very impressed with the Samsung CLP-300 printer it produces really good quality prints for black and white, for photo printing the quality is reasonable and good enough just to show people a quick picture but not good enough to print photos for your album. I would recommend this printer for anybody that wants low end colour laser printing capabilities. For the price it is very good value, the consumables are also very reasonable.... Read review

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Advantages: Price, Simple change of toners
Disadvantages: Relatively slow print speeds, Toner costs

...Normally I am not the greatest Samsung fan after my little episode with its <a href="http://www.ciao.co.uk/SamsungP10XTD1600FingerprintReview5680459">P10 laptop</a>, but here is my story for this. Being a graphic design student, I needed a printer that would print out designs on just about any sort of paper quickly and beautifully. I'm glad that CLP-300 didn't disappoint me...not yet anyway. Being the world's smallest colour laser printer, and winning the reddot design award in 2006, I really had hoped for something not to disappoint. Initially, it was definitely the price that caught my attention to this printer; as cheap as around £130 or so and you can already get CLP-300, this machine looks very simple and built from ground to make this printer so low-cost. Not to mention other attractions such as OSX-compatibility (woohoo... Read review

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Advantages: A very cheep machine
Disadvantages: A terrable printer all round.

...I've had my CLP 510 from Samsung for just on 12 months so I feel I have gotten to know it quite well...in this time, I've only printed a total of 13,576 pages - thats the TOTAL from 12 months of use, NOT per month - this is very light use. I mainly use it for printing text with graphics included on the same page...not photos, just drawings etc. I'll start by saying that the prints per min quoted by samsung in a joke (most manufactures quoted specs relating to this probably are). The output quality is average for a 1200 x 1200 dpi machine. Text is fine, but the colour graphics output is not good at all. (I've previously used a 1200 x 1200 Kyocera machine which had exelent output for graphics). Trying to colour match / calabrate this machine is also hopless - I even use a moniter spyder etc to get my colours right. I basicly had... Read review

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