Samsung CLP-315/XAA Personal Up to 17 ppm 2400 x 600 dpi Color Print Quality Color Laser Printer

Pros: PnP Drivers, modular ink, color, inexpensive, compact, fast PPM, quiet, and above standard DPI. Overall a good buy for a home office. If you are switching over from an inkjet, this is a good choice.

Cons: Half-sized ink cartridges. Means you will have to re-fill more. It should be noted that re-fills are about once every 1500 pages for Black and once every 700-1000 for color.

Overall Review: When dealing with Samsung tech support, call them. I have had problems with online chat with other Samsung products. I've had no problems with this product.

Pros: Better quality than any cheap four color inkjet I have ever owned. Not better than six color (or more) photo inkjets, but this is not what it is for. Great and easy paper handling including envelopes. Screamingly fast in black and white, not slow in color. INCREDIBLE BARGAIN for folks who print mostly in black and white and only sometimes in color. One could not want more currently in a personal printer, especially if you only print occasionally. I am hoping this lasts as long as the monochrome laser it is replacing. I have gone through five inkjets in that time, all killed by clogging and head failure.

Cons: Supplies expensive, but the cost per page drops with larger capacity replacement cartridges. Comes with partially filled starter toner cartridges. With 6000 color or 20000 black and white copy life for the imaging unit (drum), which is almost the price of the printer, this is the practical life of the unit. This means lots of black and white copies or a few color ones, which you must manually select to preserve imaging unit life. Plan to replace the color toners perhaps twice and the black three times or more with normal use, unless something breaks. Then go printer shopping again.

Overall Review: The fuser element in this or any laser printer draws a lot of current. Don't connect these to UPS's. Turn the printer off when it is not in use, and set its sleep setting to five minutes. Your UPS might beep sometimes with a laser printer connected even if it is correctly plugged into a NON-protected outlet nearby.

Pros: Great price. Small size. Customizable driver. Excellent text, very good graphics, and decent photo quality. As with all laser printers, toner is cheaper compared to inkjet printers, and won't dry out!

Cons: No dedicated path for envelopes or single sheets. Slow printing the first page. As with all laser printers, cannot print photo quality. Has slight banding. SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW: To snap the paper tray in & out, you should hold it by the tiny tabs on the left and right sides of the tray. Otherwise you can accidentally change the paper size of the tray. The following are CONS listed by others that I've found NOT to be a problem: Paper jams (not a problem); odor when printing (this is normal and lasts just for a while); very poor photo quality (you need to tell the driver if the paper is thick, and you can make color adjustments in the driver); cheap paper tray (it's not that bad); draws a lot of current, making lights flicker (this is true of all laser printers, and so they should not share the same extension cord with other devices); expensive toner (the cartridge is expensive, but the price per page is much cheaper than with inkjets), and on par with other lasers).

Overall Review: WOW, WHAT A GREAT PRICE FOR A COLOR LASER PRINTER! The reason I gave 4 and not 5 stars is because it has a bit of a banding problem, especially in dark areas. (Banding is horizontal lines of lighter and darker shades in graphics/photos.) I'm surprised nobody else mentions this. My wife can't see it, so maybe my eyesight is just too keen. Even so, I'm generally pleased with photo quality. Definitely not in the same league as inkjets, but just as good as more expensive laser printers. And is actually better than my inkjet on plain paper. I won't be ashamed of using this to print brochures for my business. I've already printed nice looking letterhead and envelopes (with logo) for my business. I've found that envelopes feed quite well, and don't need to be printed manually as suggested in the user guide. The paper tray holds about 10 at a time. The driver allows you to tweak just about everything for a given job, and then save the settings with a name for easy recall. Nice!

Pros: Crisp color prints that ONLY come from a laser. Color toner is lasting longer than I expected. Warms up really quick (much faster than my previous injket) AND it has a REAL power switch. Off means OFF. The "smell" only lasts about 10 minutes after you print something and then promptly goes away.

Cons: About an inch on each on the margins lose color saturation. It's really obvious if you print solid colors that span the page. Pictures are of course not as nice as my 6 color inkjet but are acceptable.

Overall Review: I printed out some material to go along with my resume for an interview and the interviewers were mesmerized by the printouts. Job hunters / students who want to impress teachers, you can't do better than this for the price!

Pros: Small footprint. Low noise. High quality print. Good speed. This printer can satisfy most needs for a home user. It is a laser printer which means you can print a lot. However, color laser printers are not designed to replace photo printers! They are excellent for color forms, letters, calendars and drawings. Quality of printing for color photos on a good quality photo paper is just OK.

Cons: Very expensive ink (though you'll need new ink only after printing thousands of pages). No manual feed (printer has only a 250 page tray. That's all). No straight feed for thicker materil.

Overall Review: Overall, considering the price this is an excellent choice. It is in the same price range of B&W laser printers so you should consider what you need or like better: color prints or features like manual feed or a straight pathway.

Pros: COST. Good ol' Newegg had it on sale, so I could not resist. The printer is small in size, but produces excellent color documents. It is fast for its size. The color saturation and color temp are perfect using the default settings from the driver disc. I print checks for the business that come preprinted with everything except TO and the amount. It printed the checks perfectly.

Cons: No duplex option, but at that price, who cares

Overall Review: As with other laser printers, it stinks when making copies for a while unit the fuser has been heated a number of times. The smell does go away

Pros: Good print quality, quiet, excellent price, and also very lightweight (for a laser that is).

Cons: At first it has quite an odor. Eventually this dies down. Also sucks up a lot of electricity, but that is hardly surprising and I suppose not a con.

Overall Review: For the price you probably can't get a better deal for a laser printer.

Pros: Price, price per copy, the print quality is good for the price if needed for general color printing, very nice looking machine

Cons: It's a little slow, but again, it was less than $200.

Overall Review: I've seen alot of reviews complaining about it not printing photo quality. If you want photo quality you need to spend more money or get an inkjet that will eat a hole in your wallet as you keep it supplied with ink. This machine does a good job for the pricepoint. The print quality is more than acceptable.