Samsung CLP 500 Printer – Budget-Friendly Color Printing Expert
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 Samsung CLP 500 toner producing the gorgeous results you’ve 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.
The feature that is making this model a must get for offices is its duplexing capability. Duplexing refers to double-sided printing and the Samsung CLP 500 printer does this for a price you will struggle to match. Duplexing is not fast, but it is a greener and cheaper alternative to single side printing. With this special feature creating great catalogues and brochures with a professional look and feeling is easy. The method the printer uses to turn over and reprint the second side is a bit strange. You will see what I mean – just make sure you do not try to tug at the page until it has finished.
Technology-adverse users will love this easy to use printer. A built in LCD window with printer menus and options comes standard, which makes printing all that much easier. Compatibility with PC and Mac is not an issue, a nice extra for offices that use both operating systems.
It is quiet for a laser printer, but if you are a Mercedes and Audi-type owner who was willing to pay for near-complete silence when drive, you might want to invest a little more in a different machine. However, with normal business noises what they are, you shouldn’t be bothered at all by the 48 decibels of noise it creates.
Special care has been put into making it easy to open, a great extra if you want to upgrade its RAM yourself. Cartridges are also easy to change, which is good, because as with most printers the cartridge included will only print around fifteen hundred pages. New cartridges claim to print from 5,000 to 7,000 pages depending on which setting it is used.
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 at $249 is a great buy for small businesses and demanding users who want high quality, speed, low noise and duplexing features without the high price.
The Samsung CLP 500 toner cartridge is certainly high performance, producing prints any office will be proud to claim. Replacing the Samsung printer toner cartridges is simple and easy as many reputable sellers online have printer toner at amazing prices.
