Samsung CLX 3175 toner cartridge and drum

The Samsung CLX3175 multifunction printer uses four individual 409 toner cartridges and Cartridge Concept offer them here at discount prices.

Samsung CLX-3175FN Review

The Samsung CLX-3175FN's main feature is certainly its small footprint. Despite the fact that it possesses a 10/100 Ethernet slot, its small 150 sheet paper tray suggests that the CLX-3175FN is suitable as a personal printer.

A two-line LCD screen enables you to get around menus as well as change settings. It carries a limited number of options, and so is easy to use. If you'd like full control, you wii have to make use of the web interface, which is similarly convenient to use. We were pleased to find features such as IP filtering, which allows you to restrict use of the printer to selected addresses on your local network, along with a fax phonebook.

This is the only colour laser printer in this price range that have a 1,200x1,200dpi scanner. Unfortunately, scan speeds isn't that fast. We had to wait around 21 seconds for a preview scan, and a 300dpi A4 page took one minute and 22 secs. Scans looked detailed though a bit dark. The scanner interface can communicate with the MFP through a network connection. A main window presents a number of important presets and a button expands to provide different scan options.

The print quality were outstanding, with full, intensive colours, sleek shading and fine detail. Illustartions as well as the business graphs were bright and solidly coloured, and the photo-quality images had precise shading with little grain. Print speeds were somewhat slow, at 14.6ppm for the mono text document and 3.8ppm for colour, however our first mono page surfaced in a fast 12 secs, which is advantageous should you print just a few pages at a time.

The CLX-3175N's biggest draw back is its high print costs. The Samsung CLX-3175 printer toner cartridges has a small capacity with the black cartridge (CLT-K4092S) only rated 1500 pages and the three colour cartridges (yellow, cyan and magenta) at 1000 pages, therefore the cost of replacing them soon mounts up with too much use. Since these kind of cartridges are a new addition to the array of Samsung toner cartridges there are as yet no compatible cartridges available. However in due time we could expect this problem to change and this would lead to lower printing costs being achievable. If you only put it to light use, however, it's great value, with a TCO of just £366, but heavy users could possibly spend thousands. However, if you want to print excellent colour and need to have a personal printer that is not going to occupy too much space, this is a great Budget Buy which in due course can be less expensive to run.