The first colour laser printer aimed at the home user the Samsung CLP-300 is no bigger than your average inkjet printer in physical size but does it pack a much bigger punch? The first thing to you notice about the CLP-300 is like its size, the purchase price is not much more than your average multi-function inkjet printer and you later find the running costs reasonable to with a set of Samsung toner cartridges coming in a at very reasonable price. The printer cartridges themselves resemble the small Pringles tubes and there are four in total one for black, cyan, magenta and yellow. Smaller than the usual Samsung toner cartridges means that they print less, 2,000 pages for the slightly larger black and 1,000 pages for each of the colours but still have a good cost per page ratio of 1.8p black and 8.7p colour. Print speed is one of the main reasons people will want to buy a laser printer and the CLP-300 delivers pretty good printing speeds in black (16ppm) but falls down slight when it comes to colour (4ppm), the reason for this is that is using a single drum unit which requires four passes to be made when printing colours and this makes the colour printing take four times are long. The same seems to be true for the CLP-300 print quality it really excels at black printing but colour seams to be slightly lacking, graphics are fine but high resolution photos appear grainy and overly saturated and this isn’t easy to fix though the printer driver software. In general the CLP-300 is a good printer the fits its purpose and is therefore good value for money if it is what suits your particular needs.