The Samsung CLP 500 printer is an elegant and functional machine. The price tag runs around $249. This is a great return on your investment if you need a high quality and a fast color laser printer for your office. It will be able to do pretty much anything you want with the CLP 500 toner cartridge producing the gorgeous results youve been looking for in a user-friendly machine.
Speed is a great selling point. It has been improved from previous models. The black and white printing speed is set at 21 pages a minute, while color will take 5 pages per minute. Starting time, like most printers, is a little slow, taking a few minutes to warm up and be ready for action. This is not really a disadvantage if you can remember to switch it on a couple of minutes before you use it.
Connectivity is supercharged for this model. Unfortunately the wireless network card is optional, but apart from that you will love the transfer speed of the USB 2.0 and the standard IEEE-1284 included in the box. If like me you enjoy the luxury of not having cables all over the place, you might want to invest a little extra in the wireless capability.
One of its greatest selling points is that it has automatic duplexing. In English that translates to being able to do double-sided printing. This does slow it down, but you will save money on toner and paper. This feature makes printing booklets and guide manuals easy, just tell your printer what you want to do and staple the center of the end result to enjoy your professional looking booklet. However, make sure that when you use it in this mode, you do not try to pull the page out before it has finished duplexing. I say this because the printer has a somewhat strange way of letting the paper out and then dragging it all the way back to finish the process. I would recommend walking away and letting the printer do its job.
It is easy to operate too. The built in LCD window makes copying, printing and duplexing a breeze. It is also compatible with PCs and Mac, great for dual platform offices.
At only 48 decibels, the printer is by no means noisy. It makes the typical noises of a color laser printer, but you would have to be very picky to care as it is quieter than most.
The printer is easy to open and changing cartridges is not at all complicated. As usual with new printers, the complimentary Samsung CLP laser toners will not print more than 1,500 pages, so you might want to buy one soon and have it on hand.
The printing resolution is at 1,200 dots per inch and comes with a four color toner system. The memory is also more than adequate at 65 MB of random access memory (RAM), which can be expanded to 192 MB for hardcore users.
The Samsung CLP 500 printer is a good buy for your small to large business that wants high quality at the great price of $249. It meets the needs of most small to moderate offices and makes an exceptional personal printer, especially when doing photographs.
This high quality for a good price extends to the CLP 500 replacement toners. Online retailers offer many types of Samsung printer toner cartridge, as well as toner for other brands, at such amazing prices it makes any printer ready to be used to its full capacity.
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