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With the price of inkjet printers reaching levels where they’re practically giving them away it was inevitable that someone would offer a budget colour laser printer that everyone can afford. Samsung have done this with the CLP-300n, it’s designed to offer colour laser printing to the home and small business using by having a low purchase price and economically viable running costs. Samsung CLP-300n toner cartridges are slightly different from the standard Samsung toner cartridges in that they are smaller and yield fewer pages. Resembling yogurt pots more than printer cartridges the black toner yields 2,000 pages while each of the colours (cyan, magenta and yellow) yield 1,000 pages. The result is a reasonable cost per page of 2p for mono and 9p for colour prints. One of the reasons the toner cartridges are so small is so that they fit in the machine itself because it’s amazingly compact considering in packs in so much, in fact it’s the world’s smallest colour laser printer. It still packs a good punch when it comes to print quality though, monochrome documents are clear and sharp with good contrast and colour documents are equally good quality. The overall build quality of the CLP-300n is very good for an entry level printer and operating noise is quiet. The CLP-300n is network ready and can neither be connected to network via Ethernet or used with a single workstation connecting via USB.