With the way to the economy is at the moment everyone is looking for ways to save money and if you need a new printer you maybe looking at the budget end of the market. Always take care and do a little research before committing to purchasing anything because what may seem like a bargain can turn into a money pit in terms of the cost of replacement printer ink cartridges. One such printer is the Epson Stylus D92 for which a set of printer cartridges cost exactly the same as buying the printer. Also do so research to find out there are cheaper alternatives to the genuine ink cartridges available for the printer your considering, compatible Epson D92 ink cartridges cost 60% less for example. Don’t take the figures on the spec sheet at face value, some spec sheets can be very creative with the true facts, the official specs of the Stylus D92 say that it can print twenty five pages per minute but this is in draft mode where the print is barely readable. In the real world the Stylus D92 print speed is 2.5ppm in standard quality mode, nowhere near the official 25ppm. As a result of makes the D92 a very slow printer and probably unsuitable for anyone who needs to print 10 pages or more on a regular basis and if you were to buy the printer needing this capability and without doing your research you will have wasted your money.
The Samsung CLP-300n colour laser printer is suited to a wide variety of customers including home users, small businesses and even students who may currently use an inkjet printer. One of the main problems with colour laser printers is their high priced printer cartridges but the CLP-300n is different, Samsung CLP-300n toner cartridges are much smaller than the usual Samsung toner cartridges and although these seems they yield less pages it also means they are affordable. The network ready CLP-300N is the smallest colour laser printer in it class and it not hard to see why when you see it in the flesh. The unit features NO NOIS™ system which helps give the CLP-300n is super quiet operating noise level. The overall build quality of the CLP-300n is very good considering its price tag and the fact that it’s a entry level budget printer. Print quality is also a nice surprise, we were not expecting a lot from the CLP-300n in terms of print quality despite its impressive 2400 x 600dpi print resolution, but it really does print some great result for all types of documents from basic text documents to beautiful full colour prints. Almost everything has a weakness and the CLP-300n’s is print speed, monochrome speeds are pretty good at 16ppm but colour speeds are lacking at 4ppm. As mentioned previously the CLP-300n is very compact and while this is great for desktop space saving it also means there not a lot of room for a decent sized paper tray and as a result the paper tray of the CLP-300n has a capacity of 150 sheets. This and the slow colour printing speed lead to a conclusion that the CLP-300n is not best suited to heavy work loads on a regular basis but it still has a number of great features that make it a great budget solution to a variety of users’ needs.
