Samsung CLP-770ND Printer Review
The price for colour laser printers start at around £150, but climb rapidly in price as you move from the soho to the workgroup markets. You pay for extra speed, flexibility in paper handling and the robustness to handle higher workloads. The Samsung CLP-770ND is on the menu when you reach the £500 to £600 price range, reduced from its very silly initial price of £1,449.
The printer is not small, with a large, square-cut case, beveled at the front to give way for the control panel and with a slightly peculiar arrangement of main 500-sheet paper tray and fold-down 100-sheet multipurpose tray. When the multipurpose tray is lowered a slot is opened at the front of the printer to let the paper feed through.
There’s an option to fit a extra 500-sheet paper tray making it a total feed capacity of 1,600 sheets, this could certainly keep a busy office going for a while. . The paper feeds outs to an indentation on the top cover of the printer, but despite its large size you will still need to raise a support flap to prevent the pages from falling off the back
The control panel is simple, but effective, with a 4-line by 16-character, backlit LCD display showing all status messages. Since the display is fully bitmapped, it can show text and graphics efficiently. Two buttons placed next to the display screen, the select menu options and the back up the menu tree, and there is a four-way ring of navigation buttons with a big OK button in the middle. At the right of this are the Cancel and Power buttons.
At the rear of the right-hand side of the machine are sockets for USB and Ethernet, which isn’t as neat a location as putting them on the back panel.
Setting up the hardware is simple and easy, which involves inserting the four drum and toner cartridges, one per color. The transfer belt engages in the front cover of the printer and the fuser is reached via a smaller cover on the top.
Print speeds are somewhat lower than those quoted, even when the number of pages of black text was raised to 20 the speed was only 23.5ppm. Printing duplex, which is a standard option, was comparatively quick, with the same 20-side document printing on 10 sheets in 1:31, a speed of 13.19 sides per minute.
The results looked very outstanding, the black text were well-formed with no visible signs of rough edges or toner spatter to distract from a high contrast black and white document. Colour business graphics are also well reproduced, with strong, solid colours and excellent black text registration over colour. From what Samsung claims, the photo reproduction has an improved resolution of 9,600 x 600dpi, which results to a much better colour reproduction. There is fine detail in darker, shadowed areas, which you can’t get in most lasers, plus a wider colour gamut compared to most of its competitors.
There’s two consumables to consider: the four drum and Samsung CLP-770ND printer toner cartridges, which is rated at 7,000 pages each (although the machine is supplied with 3,500-page starter cartridges) and a 50,000-page transfer belt. Totalling these costs results in page costs of 2.13p for black and white and 7.33p for colour. Both these numbers are pretty reasonable, compared to the running cost of the £412 canon lbp7200cdn which comes out at 4.86p and 19.14p. Even though you can get low working costs, the majority of of these come from printers with a much higher selling price. A 7,000 page cartridge for £75 is definitely a good price, these days.
This great and reliable colour laser printer would definitely suit well on busy environments, particularly on large workgroups or small departments, however there’s not a lot to get excited about. It isn’t unduly fast or packed with the latest innovations. It lacks a USB port on the front panel, or password-protected, walk-up print capability.
This delivered excellent results in the most important aspects of a printer. It delivers top quality prints, from straight black text to full-colour photographs, that plenty of lasers have trouble with and also it’s not expensive to run, given its asking price. In general, you get what counts in this £570 colour heavyweight.
Samsung CLP-770ND printer toner cartridges are available here.
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