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
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i can only print out so much stuff at work before i get in trouble so i needed
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just like a value printer i don't believe in inkjet
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to be honest unless you must print out photos at home i can't think of a good
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reason to buy an inkjet printer the nozzles dry up if you don't use them in
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you know a couple months and then you go and replace them i mean you can refill
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them but that's a pain so i got myself a cheap color laser
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printer this color laser printer is under 200 it's a samsung clp 310n it is
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network ready so that means that you don't actually have to plug it directly
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into a 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
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beyond the fact that it is a cheap color laser printer so what i
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can probably do once i get it set up is share with you the results
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um in terms of printing i mean i guess we
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can look at the specs although i'm not a printer expert so it
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does up to 2400 dpi that's dots per inch
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it is ultra compact and it operates quietly all of these are very good
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things for home use that side is not in
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english this side appears to be in english okay so it's high speed
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no it uses high speed usb 2.0 rather it's not high speed at all it does up to
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17 pages per minute in black four pages per minute in color that's letter size
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and wow that's all it really says okay well
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since we're not really going to get any more information about this printer from
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the box why don't we open it up the reason i
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like lasers because compared to ink toner is
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well similar in price and compared to ink toner lasts a lot
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longer so yeah you're not going to get this printer for free with your you know
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digital camera that you buy or whatever you do actually have to pay for a
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printer but the usable lifespan of it will be
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much much longer because you'll probably
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get through years with maybe one or two toner refills
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assuming you 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
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because it's easier one power cable so that's your standard
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computer power cable
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okay that was it and then we have a little um thing in french
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it actually has no english on it okay so something about registering your
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products i can 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
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and i have a box open so naturally there are
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um investigators who would like to see what's in the box
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okay stop before returning this product to the store please contact support okay
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you know what other documentation there is a disc with the driver on it don't
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install that download the latest from the samsung website
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here is a random piece of foam
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okay so let's go ahead and flip this right over
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and have a look at the printer itself
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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 card uh toner cartridge
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i think that would be a good thing to know because i would actually buy like
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a different printer i buy one printer over another one based on more
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more pages with one cartridge of toner that would be useful
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so this printer actually uses four separate cards cartridges it uses one
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for black one for yellow one for blue and one for
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pink i think it's magenta cyan and
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something else it fails me like i said i'm more of a
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motherboard and RAM and CPU expert than
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a printer expert i just kind of press
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the button and i hope that something comes out of it that's the extent of what i know
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uh the reason i went with a samsung printer i don't know if i mentioned this
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already but this is something that i did have to buy so uh many of my unboxings
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are not products that i paid my own hard-earned dollars for but
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this is one of them is because i do use a samsung black and white one at work i
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think it's an ml1610 it's been incredibly reliable i've done a
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ridiculous amount of printing on it and i've never actually replaced the
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cartridge so in here we find i guess if you need to
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unjam something you would lift this up
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okay so that's where the paper comes out presumably there you have a little flap
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so the paper can come out on there
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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
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really quick okay so you pull on it
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oh that was easy okay so there's the black toner cartridge remember that when
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you buy a laser printer or an inkjet printer
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they usually come with starter cartridges so um
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yeah they're usually not actually fall
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oh what's this oh weird so this has like some yellow gunk in it
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i have no idea what that's for so i'm gonna actually have to read the
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user manual if you can tell me what this is for then please do anyway i'm gonna go ahead
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and put my toner card back in all right let's see if we can find some
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other features of this here network printer so this
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appears to be the paper loading tray there we go
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so we load in our a4 letter paper it looks like it takes a variety of
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different sizes depending how you want to adjust it and then you just go ahead
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fold it over and
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chuck that in there hopefully it goes in a little bit more
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easily than it seems like yeah there we go all right
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and wow what is this i don't know
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okay well here's more access to the inside of guts of the printer
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just in case you need it here's our interfaces so there's your power button
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power input uh 100 Ethernet like you
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need gigabit on a printer and then you've got a usb b connector for data if
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you do want to hook it up directly to your computer
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here you have that button that's basically the something went wrong but i
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fixed it button so if you run out of paper it'll probably flash some kind of
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light you put in more paper press the button and it should resume printing if
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it works like my printer at work does it says oh here it has a lift handle
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because it is quite heavy so if you are going to lift this printer you should
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lift it by the lift handle so i'm going to go install it now thank you for watching my unboxing of the clp
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310 color 310n rather color laser
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printer from samsung