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The Samsung CLP 500 printer is an elegant and functional machine. The price tag runs around $249. This is a great return on your investment if you need a high quality and a fast color laser printer for your office. It will be able to do pretty much anything you want with the Samsung CLP 500 toner producing the gorgeous results you’ve been looking for in a user-friendly machine.

The first feature that strikes your interest is its high performance speed. Black and white pages are printed at 21 ppm (pages per minute), while color prints at 5 ppm. This makes it the fastest printer in its league. Start up, like most printers, is not as fast, but this should not be a problem.  If you know you are going to have to print in a few minutes, just switch it on and let it warm up.

Connection speed is also a plus in this model. It comes with USB 2.0 cables that double the speed of the previous USB 1.1 alternatives. A nice surprise is the complimentary IEEE-1284 parallel port included, certainly a nice detail. Unfortunately, the dual wired/wireless network card is optional. It is by no means a required feature, but I do love an office with as few cables as possible.

One of its greatest selling points is that it has automatic duplexing. In English that translates to being able to do double-sided printing. This does slow it down, but you will save money on toner and paper. This feature makes printing booklets and guide manuals easy, just tell your printer what you want to do and staple the center of the end result to enjoy your professional looking booklet. However, make sure that when you use it in this mode, you do not try to pull the page out before it has finished duplexing. I say this because the printer has a somewhat strange way of letting the paper out and then dragging it all the way back to finish the process. I would recommend walking away and letting the printer do its job.

Technology-adverse users will love this easy to use printer. A built in LCD window with printer menus and options comes standard, which makes printing all that much easier. Compatibility with PC and Mac is not an issue, a nice extra for offices that use both operating systems.

It is quiet for a laser printer, but if you are a Mercedes and Audi-type owner who was willing to pay for near-complete silence when drive, you might want to invest a little more in a different machine. However, with normal business noises what they are, you shouldn’t be bothered at all by the 48 decibels of noise it creates.

Operating the printer is very simple. The guts of the machine are easily accessible through convenient side panels that allow you to access what you need.  This makes RAM expansions and repairs easier to carry out. It comes, as all printers seem to do, with a complimentary toner.  Don‘t expect more that 1,500 pages, or a few less at high quality.

The printing resolution is at 1,200 dots per inch and comes with a four color toner system. The memory is also more than adequate at 65 MB of random access memory (RAM), which can be expanded to 192 MB for hardcore users.

All in all, at $249 the Samsung CLP-500 printer is a great deal for businesses that are looking to buy a high performance printer at a reasonable price.

The Samsung CLP 500 printer toner cartridges is certainly high performance, producing prints any office will be proud to claim.  Replacing the Samsung printer toner cartridge is simple and easy as many reputable sellers online have printer toner cartridge at amazing prices.