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 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 it uses high speed usb 2.0 rather it's not high 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 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 lasers 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
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 cable so that's your standard
computer power cable
okay that was it and then we have a little um thing in french
it actually has no english on it okay so 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 card uh toner cartridge
i think that would be a good thing to know because i would actually buy like
a different printer i 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 cards 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 dollars for but
this is one of them is because i do use a samsung black and white one at work i
think it's an ml1610 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
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 on it
oh that was easy okay so there's the black toner cartridge remember that when
you buy a laser printer or an inkjet printer
they usually come with starter cartridges so um
yeah they're usually not actually fall
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 gonna actually have to read the
user manual if you can tell me what this is for then please do anyway i'm gonna go ahead
and put my toner card 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 a4 letter 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 100 Ethernet like you
need gigabit on a printer and then you've got a usb b 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
because 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