Colour laser printers are usually found in large offices as a workhorse for a large work group of users, but Samsung aim to change that with the CLP-300n and open up laser printing to the home and small business user. The cost of the printer cartridges is one of things that make colour laser printers not viable to low volume users but the Samsung CLP-300n toner cartridges have been redesigned to suit these needs. They are smaller and yield fewer pages so they cost less to buy and still maintain a pretty good cost per page. There are also compatible Samsung toner cartridges avaible which can save 50% on the overall running costs of the CLP-300n. The printer is fully network ready with a built-in Ethernet port which enables it to be connected to a network and shared between numerous PCs. Printing speeds of monochrome documents is good, 16ppm is the official figure and the CLP-300n gets surprisingly close to this figure in tests. Colour printing speed is less impressive however, colour documents can be print at a maximum rate of 4ppm which is very slow for a laser printer (but still a lot faster than any inkjet). Print quality is very good for what is basically an entry level printer, all types of prints are sharp and clear, whether your printing a basic page of text or high resolution artwork graphics. The CLP-300n is said to be the world’s smallest colour laser printer and that’s not hard to believe when you see it in the flesh, it has a footprint not that much bigger than your average inkjet printer and should fit on the smallest most cluttered of desks.