today I'll be unboxing a product that I had to buy I've needed a printer for a
while I don't live at home anymore so I can't use my parents printer and I can
only print out so much stuff at work before I get in trouble so I needed just
like a value printer I don't believe in inkjet to be honest unless you must
print out photos at home I can't think of a good reason to buy an inkjet
printer the nozzles dry up if you don't use them in you know a couple months and
then you go and replace them I mean you can refill them but that's a pain so I
got myself a cheap color laser printer this color laser printer is under $200
it's a Samsung CLP 310n it is Network
ready so that means that you don't actually have to plug it directly into a
computer you can just plug it into your uh into your switch or your
router okay I actually don't know much about it beyond the fact that it is a
cheap color laser printer so what I can probably do when once I get it set up is
share with you the results
um in terms of printing I mean I guess
we can look at the specs although I'm not a printer expert so it does up to
2400 DPI that's dots per inch it is ultra Compact and it operates quietly
all of these are very good things for home use that side is not in English
this side appears to be in English Okay so it's high
speed no you thises highspeed USB 2.0
rather it's not highp speed at all it does up to 17 pages per minute in Black
four pages per minute in color that's letter size and wow that's all it really
says about okay well since we're not really going to get any more information
about this printer from the box why don't we open it up the reason I
like laser is because compared to ink toner is well similar in price and
compared to ink toner lasts a lot longer so yeah you're not going to get this
printer for free with your you know uh digital camera that you buy or whatever
you do actually have to pay for a printer but the usable lifespan of it
will be much much longer because you'll
probably get through years with maybe one or two toner refills assuming you
don't do a ton of printing at home all right included cables we
have I'm just going to sort of do this because it's
easier one power C so that's your standard computer power
cable okay that was it and then we have a little um thing in French actually has
no English on it okay it says something about registering your products I can
read French okay uh then we have a quick start guide
that'll be useful because I will want to get started quickly and I have a box
open so naturally there are um investigators who would like to see
what's in the box okay stop before returning this product to the store
please contact support okay you know what other documentation there is a disc
with the driver on it don't install that download the latest from the Samsung
website here is a random piece of
foam okay so let's go ahead and flip this right
over and have a look at the printer
itself you know what's a rating I'd like to see on the outside of printer boxes
how many pages per um C uh toner
cartridge I think that would be a good thing to know because I would actually
buy like a different printer I I'd buy one printer over another one based on
more more pages with one cartridge of
toner that would be useful so this printer actually uses
four separate C cartridges it uses one
for black one for yellow one for blue and one for pink I think it's
magenta cyan and something else it fails
me like I said I'm more of a motherboard and RAM and CPU expert than a printer
expert I just kind of press the button and I hope that something comes out of
it that's the extent of what I know uh
the reason I went with a Samsung printer I don't know if I mentioned this already
but this is something that I did have to buy so uh many of my unboxings are not
products that I paid my own hard earned for but this is one of them is cuz I do
use a Samsung black and white one at work I think it's an ml 1610 it's been
incredibly reliable I've done a ridiculous amount of printing on it and
I've never actually replaced the cartridge so in here we find I guess if you need
to unjam something you would lift this
up okay so that's where the paper comes out presumably there you have a little
flap so the paper can come out on there
uh in here we will find all of our toner cartridges
so you can see that the black one is clearly larger than the colored ones
because they're going to assume that you do a lot more black printing than color
printing they have a little instructional thing on how to replace
your cartridges right here and uh let's see if we can figure it out really quick
okay so you pull in it oh that was easy okay so there's the
black toner cartridge remember that when you buy uh a laser printer or an inkjet
printer they usually come with starter cartridges so
um yeah they're usually not actually
full oh what's this oh weird so this has
like some yellow gunk in it I have no
idea what that's for so I'm going to actually have to read the user manual if
you can tell me what this is for then uh please do anyway I'm going to go ahead
and put my toner cartridge back in all right let's see if we can find some
other features of this here Network
printer so this appears to be the paper loading
tray there we go so we load in our a4l
paper it looks like it takes a variety of different sizes depending how you
want to adjust it and then you just go ahead fold it over
and Chuck that in there hopefully it
goes in a little bit more easily than it seems like yeah there we go all
right and wow what is this
I don't know okay well here's more access to the
inside of guts of the printer just in case you need it here's our interfaces
so there's your power button power input uh 1000 Ethernet like you need gigabit
on a printer and then you've got a usbb
connector for data if you do want to hook it up directly to your
computer here you have that button that's basically the something went
wrong but I fixed it button so if you run out of paper it'll probably flash
some kind of light you put in more paper press the button and it should resume
printing if it works like my printer at work does it says oh here it has a lift
handle cuz it is quite heavy so if you are going to lift this printer you
should lift it by the lift handle so I'm going to go install it now thank you for
watching my unboxing of the CLP 310
color 310n rather color laser printer from Samsung