The Samsung CLP-300 is the first printer to offer full colour laser printing on a budget. A few years ago colour laser printers where far out of reach of the small office and home user not just because of their purchase price but also their running cost in terms of their printer cartridges. The Samsung CLP-300 toner cartridges consist of four small Samsung toner cartridges which print 1,000 pages for each of the three colours and 2,000 pages for the black and they cost about the same as two sets of cartridges for your average inkjet printer. When you consider that they print about 10 times what an average inkjet cartridges can print they are very good value for money in comparison. Removing the CLP-300 from the box you realise that Samsung have done a very good job designing the CLP-300, it’s so compact that you won’t guess that it’s a colour laser printer as it has none of the usual bulky characteristics and it’s not much larger than a lot of mono laser printer son the market. Installing the printer is easy, it’s a case of plugging in two cables, inserting the cartridges, installing the driver software onto a PC or MAC. When you first switch on the CLP-300 and it starts is warming up process the noise level is very low and this continues even when the CLP-300 is printing. The paper feed is smooth and the speed is very close to the official 16ppm claimed by Samsung when printing text documents (a lot of others company exaggerate o these figures). Print quality when printing text and graphics is better than expected but when printing photos the Samsung CLP-300 shows a few signs of weakness with some grainy results, but it was never designed to be a photo printer so you can’t expect it be produce inkjet quality photos. Overall The Samsung CLP-300 is a great little printer prefect for printing large projects containing text and graphics.