The Samsung CLP-315 is an economically priced colour laser printer, and is perfect for the home or home office. Using the quiet, Samsung exclusive, No Noise print engine for quiet printing, it has the same engine used in Samsung's best selling colour printers. It includes drivers for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Vista x64, Linux, and Mac OS X 10.3 through to 10.5. It uses a USB interface, and comes with a Samsung 360 MHz processor and 32 MB RAM. The Samsung CLP-315 prints cards, transparencies, envelopes, and labels from a minimum size of 3"x6.3" to the maximum size of 8.5" x 14". It prints at a speed of 17 pages per minute black and 4 pages per minute colour, with resolutions up to 2,400 by 600 dpi for both black and colour printing. It required four cartridges, and prints up to 1,500 pages between refills. The cost of printing is comparable to most of the higher priced laser printers on the market.
Design
The Samsung CLP-315 is an elegant printer with a piano black control panel. It is one of the world's smallest laser printers, with a footprint measuring 15.3" x 12.3" x 9.6", so that it fits easily into small spaces. It has a 150 sheet input tray, and a 100 sheet output tray. Featuring duplex printing, pages are easily removed from the output tray and fed back into the input tray without having to flip or turn them for printing. This printer is extremely energy efficient, which means it uses less electricity, so you can save money and do your part to protect the environment. Also, Samsung has designed this printer so that replacing Samsung CLP-315 toner is an easy and stress free task.
Advantages
The Samsung CLP-315 is inexpensive; uses Samsung's No Noise print engine for quiet printing to eliminate the distractions caused by many other printers. It is perfect for small spaces and the Samsung CLP-315 toner provides bright colour graphics and is energy efficient.
Disadvantages
Only one paper tray; no fold out tray for manual feeding; does not include Wi-Fi like Samsung's next model, the CLP-315W; prints slower than many other printers.
