Samsung Color Laser Printer (CLP-315)

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 17.4 x 14.6 inches ; 28.7 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: B001A1PQTS
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: CLP-315
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (103 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 22, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product DescriptionVibrant, professional color is now within your reach, thanks to the CLP-315 color laser printer from Samsung. This compact unit can fit comfortably on a corner of your home office desk or bookcase to help preserve space. It features a rich, piano-black control panel and delivers vivid color, fast printing speeds, and truly quiet operation.

The Samsung CLP-315 color laser printer offers: Output up to 2,400 x 600 dpi Speeds up to four ppm in color Speeds up to 17 ppm in black and white A 360 MHz processor and 32 MB of memory A quiet "No Nois" print engine

A black finish helps this printer blend into your workspace. View larger.

You get vibrant, professional color.

Fast, Professional Results
The CLP-315 works fast, so you can spend more time enjoying and sharing results, and less time waiting for output. Speeds up to four ppm (pages per minute) in color and 17 ppm in black and white, and a first page out time of less than 14 seconds in black and white and less than 26 seconds (both from ready mode) for color keep things moving at a brisk pace for quicker turn-around.

The printer offers output at up to 2,400 x 600 dpi (dots per inch), making it a snap to impress colleagues or clients with sharp, easy-to-see text and graphics. For added convenience, the CLP-315 prints on a variety of media, including envelopes, labels, card stock, and transparency papers (pre-printed, glossy, punched, or recycled).

Exclusive "No Nois" Technology
Loud machines can cut into the productivity of your workplace by distracting everyone. The CLP-315, however, boasts incredibly quiet operation, thanks to the "No Nois" print engine, the same one found in Samsung's best-selling color printers.

This engine provides truly peaceful operation and easy-to-replace, small-size toner cartridges for a more pleasant, and efficient, office environment. Additionally, the CLP-315 has a small footprint of 15.3 x 12.3 inches, which means it can rest most anywhere, or be moved from place to place without difficulty.

Product Description

Vibrant, professional color is now within your reach, thanks to the CLP-315 color laser printer from Samsung. This compact unit can fit comfortably on a corner of your home office desk or bookcase to help preserve space. It features a rich, piano-black control panel and delivers vivid color, fast printing speeds, and truly quiet operation.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for, March 27, 2009

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Robert A. Lime - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Color Laser Printer (CLP-315) (Office Product)

You get what you pay for! You are buying the cheapest laser printer on the market. IF you want the best quality, the fastest printer, the highest paper capacity, etc, you will not find it with the cheapest price tag. With that being said, I had realistic expectations with this printer, and they were fulfilled. I print about 100 pages a day to market to my clients. Works fine. if you have high expectations, spend twice the money. It's a simple as that.

78 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, December 2, 2008

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

I bought this printer on an amazing Black Friday $99 deal thinking that it would be more economical than my inkjet for printing out the 360 pages I needed for my family's holiday newsletter. It was an unfortunate mix of good and bad...

GOOD: Small, looks nice, great price, toner relatively inexpensive, quiet, hooking it up to the Mac was a breeze. Full page photo print on premium laser paper was the best I've seen on a color laser, not as good as an inkjet running photo paper, but much better than an inkjet using plain paper.

These are all great plusses, but it wasn't all rosy.

BAD: When refeeding the paper back into the hopper to print on the back side, the printer jammed every couple of pages. The added friction of the toner on the bottom side really messed with it. The paper curled a bit and I tried to flatten as best as possible, but it kept on jamming.
Text: I thought the text was not as sharp as it could be and when I compared it to the text output from my cheapie monochrome Brother laser, I was blown away at how much more refined the Brother was. I did not get a chance to try the Samsung in monochrome mode to compare the difference, but in color mode, no contest whatsoever - slightly blurry and way oversaturated. It also printed with some odd white dot artifacts around all the high-contrast edges when I tried to use premium glossy LASER paper in it - had to stick with the mid-range paper instead of the high-end paper.
My biggest shock was how quickly the toner disappeared. I was printing a newsletter with a few small photos on each page, maybe 25% coverage, and two of the toners were completely dry after 250 pages and the other two were very low. I imagine that if I was printing full-page photos, which was my original reason for buying it, I would have been lucky to get 100 pages out of a toner set. At $150+ for a toner set, this works out to well over a buck a page for full-size, and around 50 cents for my newsletter-type stuff, a far cry from the 15 cents per page that Samsung claims. This was no longer an economical printer by any means, so after a restless night sleep, and a bit of guilt over using most of the toner, I reluctantly decided to return it. Between the double-sided jamming, barely acceptable text quality, and the high cost-per-page, I just couldn't live with this printer. (To be fair, the printer came with "starter" cartridges, and I hoped I could chalk its thirst up to that, but then I found out that Samsung's starter cartridges really have 70% capacity, so that didn't help much.)

58 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast, Quiet, Quality, Inexpensive (I don't want to say cheap that can be confused), June 22, 2008

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Timothy J. Piper (Hollywood, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Color Laser Printer (CLP-315) (Office Product)

I recently purchased this printer at Staples in Los Angeles, Ca. I was dismayed that while the printer had been out for near a month (supposedly) no one had reviewed it on any website I could find (tech saavy website or purchasing website such as this). So I decided that even though reviews aren't my normal thing I'd take a shot so everyone else could have a jumping off point.
This is my 3rd printer, first laser. My first printer was a pos hp top loading seriously cheapest printer you could buy during college sort of thing. It sucked. I still have and own my second printer an HP PSC 2410xi photosmart all in one. Why did I buy HP after my first experience? I don't know I think it was a good deal or something. It was a good choice. My only complaint with that printer is one the cost of ink refills, and two the scanner quickly developed a marking on the underside of the glass from the scanner ribbon touching the glass. This is fixable/cleanable but you have to take the entire machine apart to get under there and I'm lazy.
Now to the review you were hoping to read. I work in the entertainment industry and am always printing headshots at the last minute if I need a look I haven't had professionally mass printed. I also print scripts, and from time to time colorful brouchures for projects I work on. The Samsung CLP-315 does all of those things, faster, more efficent, and almost as well (color wise) as my HP.
It is true, the color of my inkjet as a "Photo" does look better than the laser printer, but that is so small a detail I do not mind. I am not using this printer to scrap book, and I won't lose an acting job if I printed on a laser instead of an inkjet. What I will do is save money and time, and with the amazing price on this printer (even better if you lucked out on the model it's replacing the Samsung CLP-310 (which was going for $99 at the time I purchased this one) it's almost stupid not to buy one. I was aware that the CLP-310 was notorious for paper jams. So I spent the extra $100 on the newer sleaker black one (my whole comp set up is black as well and my monitor is a Samsung 24" flatscreen so it fits in well) hoping that they newer model would have some fixes solved such as the paper jam. I haven't had one yet, but I'll update this review if I do. My ONLY complaint so far is about the confusing GLOSSY paper issue. There is a glossy paper option in program pull down menus (it was NOT for the aforementioned CLP-310 and I have read horror stories about that, I'm glad I opted for the 315 in this case), however the option strictly states... GLOSSY PHOTO 160G/M2. I don't know what that is or means, as far as my googling has shown it's paper you buy in the U.K. That is not what I purchased at my local staples. I bought HP Glossy Presentation Paper for Laser printers 34lb 95 brightness when I purchased the printer. So far it has worked fine. I have noticed with this paper the printer does become noiser and a clunking noise is heard. What is that? I don't know. I'm glad I bought the 2 year warranty. With regular paper it prints as quiet as a mouse, that, er prints paper from a quiet laser printer. So I'm not sure if the extra noise is due to the weight of the paper or the glossy aspect of it. Either way it's not my favorite thing about the printer. A drawback is that the printer comes with little documentation, no manual. There is a pdf download on the official website, but I hate pdfs. Seriously samsung. You should include a paper manual.
And now my overview of my already too long review. I've heard awful things about Samsung printers from online research. I know my recent still working HP printer is fantastic (mostly) and the one before it was crap, crap, crap. So here's my stance. I'm a broke actor. If I had $900 bucks to spend on the the top of the line color laser printer with all the bells and whistles from a top company I probably would. But I'm willing to gamble that the newer Samsung CLP-300 series printer is a vast improvement over the previous one, which was amazing at that being the smallest color laser printer and cheapest. It prints quickly, clearly, and colorfully. It's not photograph perfect, but I don't really care about that for this, plus I have my good ole trusty HP inkjet standing by for that rare occasion. (wait my quick overview is growing longer by the second)...
Appearance 10/10
Quietness 8/10
Print quality B&W 10/10
Print quality Color 7/10
Price 10/10

If you're looking for a quality color laser printer for a HUGE bargain of a price you can't go wrong. If you have lots of money to purchase the printer of your dreams, this probably isn't it. But then again you probably have lots of money because you don't squander it on unnecissary things when you can get a good deal at a fair price. ;-)

-Tim Piper (Please hire me for acting work, especially cop shows!!)