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Samsung CLX-2160 product overview

August 20th, 2009

The Samsung CLX-2160 is a compact colour laser MFP that promises lots of features for a small price. The CLX-2160 is advertised as the world’s smallest multifunction colour laser and it’s not hard to believe when you see it in the flesh. Its size and purchase price make it ideal for small businesses and home offices but looks closer you find that it is quite expensive to run. Samsung CLX-2160 toner cartridges are not expensive to buy they cost about double that of a set of your average inkjet printer cartridges but they print a lot less than normal Samsung toner cartridges and this increases their cost per page ratio. Black printing is ok at 1.8p per sheet but colour is expensive at 8.7 per sheet printed. This is still a lot cheaper than you will get from any inkjet printer and the same is true for the printing speed of the CLX-2160, black is impressive at 16ppm (pages per minute) but colour has a less impressive 4ppm. The reason for the slow colour printing is a direct result of being a budget printer, Samsung have used a single imaging drum to keep the costs down and this have an adverse effect of performance. The quality of print produced by the CXl-2160 is slightly disappointing and not what you expect from a laser printer, it colour prints are especial poor with images looking grainy and dull, black printing is fine but this is a colour laser printer so it really needs to be reasonably good at both types of printing. This lack of quality justifies paying a little bit more for something that offer a lot more in terms of printing performance.

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