Samsung CLP 315W Color Laser Printer
Samsung CLP 315W Color Laser Printer
Vibrant, professional color is now within reach. The compact, CLP-315 and network-ready, wireless CLP-315W can easily fit in small places. Each stylish printer features a black control panel and delivers dynamite color at 4ppm with sharp laser text at 17 ppm.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars This is a great little color laser printer!!
The Samsung CLP-315W is an affordable, superior light-duty color printer. It’s easy to set up on the WLAN if you can follow instructions, accessible from all my computers, and prints great images in beautiful color that’s waterproof. Only minor drawback is it takes a bit of time to warm up (less than a minute), but that’s no problem for home/small business use. It beats the heck out of the several HP inkjets I’ve wrestled with over the past couple of years. I’ll not go back to them anytime soon - the Samsung is all we need now.
4 Stars A terrific little printer with an odd little (occasional) whistle…
I really like my CLP-315W. I didn’t have any of the problems setting up the wireless network that others have mentioned … I am operating Vista. I just installed the software, linked it to my wireless router, and I’ve been in business ever since.
One odd thing I’ve noticed that isn’t addressed anywhere in the manual or online: about every eight hours or so it emits a high-pitched electronic sound, a kind of whistling, that lasts about a minute or two, then stops. Weird. It’s not terribly loud - but it will call your attention to it.
I love the small footprint, the elegance of the design, and the quality of the printing. It’s fast, once it warms up for the first time. I like being able to monitor the toner levels from right on my desktop. Like the first reviewer, I will wait to judge the consumption of the toner — one set of replacements costs about as much as the printer.
But when I think back to a $2000 tractor-feed daisy-wheel printer that sounded like a machine gun … just fifteen years ago … this little box that sits on my desk and wireless gives me perfect color-laser copies? It’s a bit of a miracle.
4 Stars Great printer, great price, terrible manual
Our TV is a Samsung, so we thought we’d try out this printer b/c of the price. Print quality is pretty good, setup is quite easy, and it’s very quiet. It’s also a networkable printer (Ethernet and WiFi) so it was a no-brainer on which one to get.
The only “gripe” I have w/ this printer is the wireless setup–it is not very easy to do and the manual wasn’t as detailed as it should have been. Basically, the printer uses 802.11b/g to connect to your wireless base station.
The easiest way to setup the printer that I’ve found is to do the following…
Install the software (Mac or Windows)
Change the IP address to a static one on your network that is compatible w/ your router (ex. If your router is 192.168.1.1, then make the printer 192.168.1.2).
Set the gateway to point to the router(ex. 192.168.1.1).
Restart the printer, and you’re in business.
This was NOT how it was explained in the manual… it ended up taking longer following the instructions in the box, than it did to just do it myself. I’m no genius, but you can tell that the people who wrote the manual were not the people who were using it, or had done it so many times that they forgot a few steps.
Excellent printer, just tread lightly when setting up the network/wifi connection.
5 Stars Wireless! Best price:quality out there 09/2008 imho, even compared to monochrome
I was suspect at first due to price and brand, but after looking around for a printer for about a month–considered Dell, HP, Brother–I finally settled on this one. I was a little biased because one of my criteria was wireless printing. But in that regard, it is a breeze to set-up with your existing wifi network, and if you don’t have a wireless router you can set it up ad-hoc if you have a wireless card in your laptop/desktop, which is fully explicated in the instructions. The quality is great for my purposes, and fully customizable B&W and so forth, and the aesthetics of the object itself are much cleaner than most printers i’ve seen: small footprint, black chassis, quite slick. We’ll see how long the toner cartridges last… I’m not a heavy user so this seems to be perfect for the price-range, and I was originally going for a laser monochrome printer. It’s Energy-Star too, so rest assured, every page printed is only killing 1/1000th of a baby seal, or similar.
5 Stars Good Printer and Easy Set-up
I really like this printer. It arrived today and I immediately pulled it out of the box and started to set it up. I used my Macintosh to set it up without problem. I installed drivers on the rest of the computers in the house (2 PCs, 3 Macs) and pointed all the computers at the Samsung on the wifi network. Worked like a charm. Relatively quiet and fast. Colors are vibrant. The only drawback is that the text isn’t as sharp as I I thought it should be, but it is not terribly noticeable. In all a great printer.
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