Samsung CLP-315W Color Laser Printer

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 15.3 x 9.6 inches ; 30.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 31 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001BXS45I
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: CLP-315W
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (156 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 22, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Vibrant, professional color is now within your reach with the compact, wireless Samsung CLP-315W color laser printer. This easy-to-use workgroup printer fits easily into an office network and look good while working quickly and quietly. This stylish printer also features a black control panel and delivers full-color printing at 4 pages per minute (ppm) and sharp monochrome laser text at 17 ppm. Along with its great design and compact size (just a 15.3 x 12.3-inch footprint), it's network-ready via both Ethernet and Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) as well as able to connect to a PC using USB.

The compact, wireless Samsung CLP-315W easily fits in small places.

Samsung's exclusive NO NOIS print engine is the same print engine found in its bestselling color printers, providing you quiet operation and simple-to-replace toner cartridges. It will load up to 150 pages at a time, and pumps out 17 pages per minute on monochrome print jobs, and 4 per minute at full color. There's also a document auto-loader that can feed a stack of 15 pages through the scanner portion of the machine automatically. It offers a maximum resolution of 2400 x 600 dpi and delivers the first (monochrome) print out in 19 seconds.

Specifications

• Print speed - black: Up to 17ppm with first page out in less than 19 seconds (from Ready)
• Print speed - full color: Up to 4ppm, with first page out in less than 26 seconds
• Memory: 64 MB
• Duty cycle: Up to 20,000 pages per month
• Print language: SPL-C
• Networking: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and 10/100 Ethernet
• PC connectivity: USB 2.0
• Input capacity: 150-sheet semi-cassette tray
• Two-sided printing: manual
• Media sizes: 3 x 6.3 inches to 8.5 x 14 inches
• Media types: Plain paper, envelopes, transparencies, labels, card stock
• Operating system compatibility: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, Linux
• Power consumption: less than 350 watts printing, less than 10 watts on PowerSave
• Dimensions: 15.3 x 12.3 x 9.6 inches (WxDxH)
• Weight: 24.3 pounds

Product Description

Vibrant, professional color is now within your reach with the compact, wireless Samsung CLP-315W color laser printer. This easy-to-use workgroup printer fits easily into an office network and look good while working quickly and quietly. This stylish printer also features a black control panel and delivers full-color printing at 4 pages per minute (ppm) and sharp monochrome laser text at 17 ppm. Along with its great design and compact size (just a 15.3 x 12.3-inch footprint), it's network-ready via both Ethernet and Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) as well as able to connect to a PC using USB.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

100 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I expected., May 15, 2009

By 

tamacn (LaConner, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung CLP-315W Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

Purchasing supplies for my inkjet printer was running up the $$$. Remembering the old days when we had the office Laserwriter, reminded me how many prints you could get on one cartridge.
We stopped by the local Office Max to see what was available. I thought I was in the market for a mono laser printer. The knowledgeable sales person showed us the 315. I asked him to print a couple of pages and was satisfied with the output. I would have purchased it on the spot, however they didn't carry the 315W... and I wanted a wireless printer.
This gave me time to come home and check it out on the net. The reviews ran the gamete from "Great" to "Don't buy". After consuming reviews till I was dizzy, I decided to place my order on Amazon. I had the printer in 3 days...all in good order.
After trying it out for a few days here is what i Have found out.

Negative reviews. I really don't get this... Anyone who has been around laser printers knows that inkjet photos are far superior. I didn't purchase this with great color printing in mind. I'll use my Canon inkjet for that.

Set up for WiFi is very difficult. This I completely agree with. I have a Mac (long time user) and I finally had to give up and call Samsung.

Samsung tech support is worthless. I think they finally got tired of hearing this. I talked with a bright young fellow who nursed me thru the WiFi maze. Come to find out my cable has a dynamic IP and is always changing. He helped me switch it to a static IP. After that it worked perfect. Yes, he even knew all about the Apple Airport router. I would give wireless setup a try, then call before you blood pressure gets too high. It was a good experience.
After I got the printer going, I was able to connect my MacBook immediately.

Smell on start up... Yes it does, but by the next day it was gone.

Print quality poor. I don't get this one. If you are printing monochrome, It's as good as most laser printers. If you are printing a jpeg image that has black type in it... the image is seen as color and you get some haloing around the letters. Some documents are fine some are poor. I lay out my printed matter with this in mind and get great looking prints.

Toner... You can find pretty fair prices on the web. I've decided to give refilling a try. It doesn't look to difficult. It sure beats the cost of replacing the cartridges. We'll see what happens.

Instructions. Print out the PDF manual. Pretty good info there. The printed matter that comes in the box is next to useless.

There is plenty to be said on the plus side. How can you beat a color laser printer for $200?
I'm very satisfied with the quality of the printer and the looks of the printed page. Now let's see how much the cost per page drops.

118 of 123 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely dead after 3 years...., September 15, 2008

By 

JuanGuapo (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung CLP-315W Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

** UPDATE **

Having owned this printer for approximately three years (2011), it has always worked until the other day it simply "died" completely. The red light flashes, no print jobs go through. I contacted Samsung via Twitter for assistance and was referred to a local repair shop. Repair shop suggested it was the "main board...and sensors" that needed repair to the tune of $85-$95. Samsung Customer Service via Twitter was helpful but far from understanding. I was asked for the SN# and if I still had the receipt, I gave them all information except the receipt I no longer had....I was told no exceptions can be made, their decision was final, and there was nothing they could do. They were clearly less-than-enthusiastic about standing behind their product or offering to meet me half-way on a repair.

HP sells a comprable Laserjet for $199 MSRP (less on Amazon), it's not worth paying 1/2 the price of a new one to get the old one repaired. I've owned several printers from both HP and Epson, Inkjet and Laser alike, and never had one just up and fail completely or so quickly. I was using an HP Laserjet at my last job that was approximately six years old and never skipped a beat. This printer was very lightly used, sometimes twice a week at most so I cannot say it was from heavy usage. (My inkjet gets more use, actually).

Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting my new Laserjet soon. There's a neighborhood e-waste recycling fair coming up so this thing is getting dumped in a few days.


** Original Review **

Print quality is pretty good, setup is quite easy, and it's very quiet. It's also a networkable printer (Ethernet and WiFi) so it was a no-brainer on which one to get.

The only "gripe" I have w/ this printer is the wireless setup--it is not very easy to do and the manual wasn't as detailed as it should have been. Basically, the printer uses 802.11b/g to connect to your wireless base station.

The easiest way to setup the printer that I've found is to do the following...

Install the software (Mac or Windows)

Change the IP address to a static one on your network that is compatible w/ your router (ex. If your router is 192.168.1.1, then make the printer 192.168.1.2).

Set the gateway to point to the router(ex. 192.168.1.1).

Restart the printer, and you're in business.

This was NOT how it was explained in the manual... it ended up taking longer following the instructions in the box, than it did to just do it myself. I'm no genius, but you can tell that the people who wrote the manual were not the people who were using it, or had done it so many times that they forgot a few steps.

Excellent printer, just tread lightly when setting up the network/wifi connection.

69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Setup ok, color ok, wireless feature ++, buy more toner... now, December 13, 2008

By 

P. Brodersen (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung CLP-315W Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

I bought this on 3 Dec through Amazon. Normal great delivery and packaging. Setup was ok - although minimal instructions like other reviewers have said. Used a Cat5 cable to my router, logged in, changed the IP and pw, and no issues.

Had a bit of trouble with the paper cartridge - didn't realize it stuck out (no pictures indicated that) and it's pretty cheap / thin plastic so I didn't want to use too much oomph. But eventually figured it out and I'm comfortable with putting paper in and out (needed for double sided printing).

Just finished printing 120 Christmas letters with color pics embedded - 2 pages, front and back, so about 450 pages total. And the black toner is hollering "low!" so I ordered another (supposedly 1.5k pages) from Amazon - $43. Seems a bit soon to me, but there it is.

Cyan cartridge now needs "shaking" every 10 pages or so or it doesn't fill in where it should - and the "guage" is still showing 30% available.

In summary:
+ No inkjet nozzles to clean
+ More moisture resistant printout
= Decent color - not inkjet quality (when they're good), but good enough
= Noise is less than my other lasers
= Slowish network awareness - 15/20 secs (and it's 10' from the router)
- Low toner volumn imho
- Toner replacements a bit pricey - same as others, though
- Instructions slim to none, although the included pdf manual is not bad

I'd look around, but might buy this one again if I were looking for the same features. Generally satisfied with reservation.