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When you think of a colour laser printer you probably think of a big machine, but the new budget colour laser printer from Samsung is only slightly larger than an your average inkjet printer. It also only costs slightly more than an average inkjet printer. The Samsung CLP-300 is designed to fill the gap between an inkjet printer and a laser printer is terms of speed and monthly print cycle capabilities. Running costs follow the same pattern with the cost of Samsung CLP-300 toner cartridges retailing at a slightly higher price than a set of inkjet printer cartridges but offering a far better cost per page ratio. There are also remanufactured Samsung toner cartridges available which are made by third parties and offer significant savings over the genuine Samsung products. The CLP-300 is not designed for heavy monthly print cycles and this is evident from the 150 sheet capacity of the paper tray and the smaller than average cartridges, which appear to resemble large yoghurt pots. The black toner yields about 2,000 pages, but the cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges only yield 1,000 pages each (with 5% page coverage). The quality and speed of the print the CLP-300 produced depends what you’re printing, it performs brilliantly when printing black with clear and sharp results at a rate of 16ppm. Colour printing is where the CLP-300 struggles slightly the quality is still good on thing like graphics but high resolution images are less impressive and a speed of 4ppm is a little slow, having said that 4ppm is a lot faster than any inkjet printer can manage with same print quality. The cherry of the cake for the CLP-300 is the build quality, its feels solid and very well made with no signs that it is a budget entry level colour laser printer.