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Samsung CLP-500 Review

by Dan Littman

- Samsung's CLP-500 costs only $699, cheap enough to put a color laser in your home office. But to put the printer on a network, PC World added the optional ethernet interface, which boosts the price to $850. Samsung stocks the CLP-500 with a 250-sheet main tray and a 100-sheet auxiliary tray, a more-than-adequate 64MB of memory, and a built-in duplexer as standard equipment. You can boost paper capacity with a 500-sheet feeder for $300. Toner costs run 13 cents per color page, based on our page-yield test--average for the printers in our test group.

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User Reviews for Samsung CLP-500 21PPM 1200 DPI 266MHZ 16MB GDI PARALLEL & USB (Samsung-CLP500XAA)

Reviewed by: saintphd

Duration of ownership: 6 Months

Strengths: Price, Calmness, standard-duplex, decent font and graphic quality, and compatible with REFILL INK

Weaknesses: Photo quality is so-so (but reasonable with plain paper).

Overall Evaluation: I purchase pre-owned CLP-500 6 month ago. Compare with HP and Xerox color laser printers, this one is more calm and hard to notice whether ready or in sleeping mode. Printing speed is quite acceptable: 4+ photoshop color picture printing per minute...which is faster than HP 4500 (less than 2 per min.). Graphic and font quality is equal or slightly better than HP4500. Standard built-in-duplex works fine and I didn't get any jam with that. Further, I replaced used toners with eBay-selling compatible refill kit and It works as equal as the original toner. One complain for me...is picture quality. Also, I didn't try with photo papers but the general quality in plain paper is just so-so though users can improve the picture quality manually. Overall, CLP500 is a good printer with proper manipulation.
Reviewed by: ashtongraham

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: holds a door open

Weaknesses: deteriorating print quality after 15K pages. New toners & spares dont fix it. Samsung "support" unhelpful. Both my CLP-500N have exactly the same poor quality.

Overall Evaluation: AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS. Unless you want something large to hold a door open or a fancy looking step to reach things on high shelves. Better to spend more money & get an HP or Ricoh.

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