Samsung CLP-310N Colour Network Laser Printer Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today I'll be unboxing a product that I had to buy I've needed a printer for a
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while I don't live at home anymore so I can't use my parents printer and I can
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only print out so much stuff at work before I get in trouble so I needed just
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like a value printer I don't believe in inkjet to be honest unless you must
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print out photos at home I can't think of a good reason to buy an inkjet
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printer the nozzles dry up if you don't use them in you know a couple months and
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then you go and replace them I mean you can refill them but that's a pain so I
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got myself a cheap color laser printer this color laser printer is under $200
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it's a Samsung CLP 310n it is Network
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ready so that means that you don't actually have to plug it directly into a
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computer you can just plug it into your uh into your switch or your
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router okay I actually don't know much about it beyond the fact that it is a
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cheap color laser printer so what I can probably do when once I get it set up is
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share with you the results
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um in terms of printing I mean I guess
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we can look at the specs although I'm not a printer expert so it does up to
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2400 DPI that's dots per inch it is ultra Compact and it operates quietly
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all of these are very good things for home use that side is not in English
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this side appears to be in English Okay so it's high
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speed no you thises highspeed USB 2.0
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rather it's not highp speed at all it does up to 17 pages per minute in Black
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four pages per minute in color that's letter size and wow that's all it really
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says about okay well since we're not really going to get any more information
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about this printer from the box why don't we open it up the reason I
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like laser is because compared to ink toner is well similar in price and
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compared to ink toner lasts a lot longer so yeah you're not going to get this
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printer for free with your you know uh digital camera that you buy or whatever
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you do actually have to pay for a printer but the usable lifespan of it
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will be much much longer because you'll
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probably get through years with maybe one or two toner refills assuming you
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don't do a ton of printing at home all right included cables we
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have I'm just going to sort of do this because it's
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easier one power C so that's your standard computer power
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cable okay that was it and then we have a little um thing in French actually has
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no English on it okay it says something about registering your products I can
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read French okay uh then we have a quick start guide
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that'll be useful because I will want to get started quickly and I have a box
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open so naturally there are um investigators who would like to see
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what's in the box okay stop before returning this product to the store
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please contact support okay you know what other documentation there is a disc
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with the driver on it don't install that download the latest from the Samsung
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website here is a random piece of
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foam okay so let's go ahead and flip this right
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over and have a look at the printer
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itself you know what's a rating I'd like to see on the outside of printer boxes
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how many pages per um C uh toner
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cartridge I think that would be a good thing to know because I would actually
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buy like a different printer I I'd buy one printer over another one based on
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more more pages with one cartridge of
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toner that would be useful so this printer actually uses
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four separate C cartridges it uses one
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for black one for yellow one for blue and one for pink I think it's
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magenta cyan and something else it fails
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me like I said I'm more of a motherboard and RAM and CPU expert than a printer
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expert I just kind of press the button and I hope that something comes out of
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it that's the extent of what I know uh
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the reason I went with a Samsung printer I don't know if I mentioned this already
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but this is something that I did have to buy so uh many of my unboxings are not
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products that I paid my own hard earned for but this is one of them is cuz I do
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use a Samsung black and white one at work I think it's an ml 1610 it's been
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incredibly reliable I've done a ridiculous amount of printing on it and
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I've never actually replaced the cartridge so in here we find I guess if you need
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to unjam something you would lift this
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up okay so that's where the paper comes out presumably there you have a little
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flap so the paper can come out on there
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uh in here we will find all of our toner cartridges
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so you can see that the black one is clearly larger than the colored ones
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because they're going to assume that you do a lot more black printing than color
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printing they have a little instructional thing on how to replace
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your cartridges right here and uh let's see if we can figure it out really quick
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okay so you pull in it oh that was easy okay so there's the
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black toner cartridge remember that when you buy uh a laser printer or an inkjet
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printer they usually come with starter cartridges so
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um yeah they're usually not actually
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full oh what's this oh weird so this has
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like some yellow gunk in it I have no
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idea what that's for so I'm going to actually have to read the user manual if
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you can tell me what this is for then uh please do anyway I'm going to go ahead
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and put my toner cartridge back in all right let's see if we can find some
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other features of this here Network
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printer so this appears to be the paper loading
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tray there we go so we load in our a4l
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paper it looks like it takes a variety of different sizes depending how you
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want to adjust it and then you just go ahead fold it over
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and Chuck that in there hopefully it
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goes in a little bit more easily than it seems like yeah there we go all
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right and wow what is this
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I don't know okay well here's more access to the
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inside of guts of the printer just in case you need it here's our interfaces
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so there's your power button power input uh 1000 Ethernet like you need gigabit
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on a printer and then you've got a usbb
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connector for data if you do want to hook it up directly to your
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computer here you have that button that's basically the something went
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wrong but I fixed it button so if you run out of paper it'll probably flash
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some kind of light you put in more paper press the button and it should resume
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printing if it works like my printer at work does it says oh here it has a lift
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handle cuz it is quite heavy so if you are going to lift this printer you
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should lift it by the lift handle so I'm going to go install it now thank you for
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watching my unboxing of the CLP 310
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color 310n rather color laser printer from Samsung