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Vibrant, professional color is now within your reach with the compact, wireless Samsung CLP-315W color laser printer. This easy-to-use workgroup printer fits easily into an office network and look good while working quickly and quietly. This stylish printer also features a black control panel and delivers full-color printing at 4 pages per minute (ppm) and sharp monochrome laser text at 17 ppm. Along with its great design and compact size (just a 15.3 x 12.3-inch footprint), it's network-ready via both Ethernet and Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) as well as able to connect to a PC using USB. 
The compact, wireless Samsung CLP-315W easily fits in small places. | Samsung's exclusive NO NOIS print engine is the same print engine found in its bestselling color printers, providing you quiet operation and simple-to-replace toner cartridges. It will load up to 150 pages at a time, and pumps out 17 pages per minute on monochrome print jobs, and 4 per minute at full color. There's also a document auto-loader that can feed a stack of 15 pages through the scanner portion of the machine automatically. It offers a maximum resolution of 2400 x 600 dpi and delivers the first (monochrome) print out in 19 seconds. Specifications
- Print speed - black: Up to 17ppm with first page out in less than 19 seconds (from Ready)
- Print speed - full color: Up to 4ppm, with first page out in less than 26 seconds
- Memory: 64 MB
- Duty cycle: Up to 20,000 pages per month
- Print language: SPL-C
- Networking: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and 10/100 Ethernet
- PC connectivity: USB 2.0
- Input capacity: 150-sheet semi-cassette tray
- Two-sided printing: manual
- Media sizes: 3 x 6.3 inches to 8.5 x 14 inches
- Media types: Plain paper, envelopes, transparencies, labels, card stock
- Operating system compatibility: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, Linux
- Power consumption: less than 350 watts printing, less than 10 watts on PowerSave
- Dimensions: 15.3 x 12.3 x 9.6 inches (WxDxH)
- Weight: 24.3 pounds
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 Just what I expected. |
| Review Date: May 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: tamacn, LaConner, WA United States |
Purchasing supplies for my inkjet printer was running up the $$$. Remembering the old days when we had the office Laserwriter, reminded me how many prints you could get on one cartridge.
We stopped by the local Office Max to see what was available. I thought I was in the market for a mono laser printer. The knowledgeable sales person showed us the 315. I asked him to print a couple of pages and was satisfied with the output. I would have purchased it on the spot, however they didn't carry the 315W... and I wanted a wireless printer.
This gave me time to come home and check it out on the net. The reviews ran the gamete from "Great" to "Don't buy". After consuming reviews till I was dizzy, I decided to place my order on Amazon. I had the printer in 3 days...all in good order.
After trying it out for a few days here is what i Have found out.
Negative reviews. I really don't get this... Anyone who has been around laser printers knows that inkjet photos are far superior. I didn't purchase this with great color printing in mind. I'll use my Canon inkjet for that.
Set up for WiFi is very difficult. This I completely agree with. I have a Mac (long time user) and I finally had to give up and call Samsung.
Samsung tech support is worthless. I think they finally got tired of hearing this. I talked with a bright young fellow who nursed me thru the WiFi maze. Come to find out my cable has a dynamic IP and is always changing. He helped me switch it to a static IP. After that it worked perfect. Yes, he even knew all about the Apple Airport router. I would give wireless setup a try, then call before you blood pressure gets too high. It was a good experience.
After I got the printer going, I was able to connect my MacBook immediately.
Smell on start up... Yes it does, but by the next day it was gone.
Print quality poor. I don't get this one. If you are printing monochrome, It's as good as most laser printers. If you are printing a jpeg image that has black type in it... the image is seen as color and you get some haloing around the letters. Some documents are fine some are poor. I lay out my printed matter with this in mind and get great looking prints.
Toner... You can find pretty fair prices on the web. I've decided to give refilling a try. It doesn't look to difficult. It sure beats the cost of replacing the cartridges. We'll see what happens.
Instructions. Print out the PDF manual. Pretty good info there. The printed matter that comes in the box is next to useless.
There is plenty to be said on the plus side. How can you beat a color laser printer for $200?
I'm very satisfied with the quality of the printer and the looks of the printed page. Now let's see how much the cost per page drops. |
Wireless! Best price:quality out there 09/2008 imho, even compared to monochrome
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| Review Date: September 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: H. Meyer, NY, USA |
| 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. |
Good Printer and Easy Set-up
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| Review Date: September 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Anthony J. Robertson, Lansdowne, PA USA |
| 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. |
Best color laser value
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| Review Date: March 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jack Rice, California, USA |
I didn't have any of the problems I've read on other reviews here. Setup was a breeze....if you follow instructions. Start with the printer wired to the network. Install the software on your pc. Open up the printer in the software. Then, assign an IP to the printer (it assigns its own, but you can change it). Then, if your wireless router is encrypted, give the WEP string to the printer, so it can access the wireless network. Then, disconnect the network cable, and you're wireless. You need to install the software on all computers that use the printer.
In operation, the wireless printing is seamless. When asleep, the printer takes a few moments to warm up, then prints. The results are terrific on plain paper, and photos are good on laser photo paper (do NOT use inkjet photo paper), though photo inkjet printers are better than color lasers. I have no problem with the paper tray sticking out in front. It's easy to grasp and pull out and intuitive to load with different-size paper, including envelopes. The toner has a smell when it heats up, but it's not unpleasant. Use a bayberry candle if it bothers you.
This elegant machine has a small footprint and a nice, dark color. Oh yeah, did I mention the incredible price? It seems only a few years ago a network color laser (forget wireless!) would set you back thousands. Of course they want you to buy in, to sell you the consumables, but if your output is that of the typical home user, this won't be a big deal. |
Owned about 1 year: Once setup, ZERO hassles
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| Review Date: December 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Troy Wolf, KANSAS CITY, MO United States |
I got SICK of paying $30+ for inkjet cartridges, printing maybe 2 sheets, going 1 month without printing, then finding the cartridges dried up. Yeah, my cost per page was like $15 or something. Argh.
I wanted color, laser, and wireless. Not many options, and I'm generally a Samsung fan. The ONLY issue I had with this printer was setting up the wireless via DHCP did not work as described. (I'm a computer programmer with a lot of networking experience.) I ended up using a cross-connect ethernet cable to my laptop to get it setup originally. The good news is that this procedure was in the manual...or did I find it on Samsung's website? In any case, the instructions worked.
Since then, I've had absolutely zero issues. I print from a Windows XP Pro laptop and a Windows XP desktop. The printer just always works. I've not had a single printing problem. We don't print a lot--just a few times a month. I think the quality is great and the colors are good. It's NOT a photo printer, but in my opinion, photo printing at home does not make sense from a quality or economic standpoint unless you have a need for immediate photo printing and cannot wait 3 hours after uploading to Target, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, etc...
The wireless network connection has never failed. With the wireless--the only way I've ever used it--you can put the printer anywhere you have an electric outlet. It does not have to be close to your desk or computer. We keep our printer tucked in a corner in the basement and print from computers on the 1st and 2nd floor.
I've owned dot-matrix, laser, and inkjet printers for over 15 years. It's all about hassle for me. This printer has been hassle-free. I highly recommend it. |
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