However, I did notice by the time the first black toner ran out, I have also ran out of paper. Since I bought a ream of 500 sheets in the beginning and I printed mostly double-sided, the first black toner did lasted almost 1000 prints. Which confirmed what the manual claimed.

I am pretty happy with this printer. The printer has been very useful for letters, resume, etc. Almost one year and a couple of hundred sheets later, it’s still going strong; no paper jams, no cleaning of interior (yet), quality is still as good as the first print, and still on the first set of toners.

It does an adequate job of printing colour materials; you can see for yourself from the posted picture above. And yes, the colour gradient did looked smooth.

However, for colour images, I wouldn’t recommend it. Why? I think the colour lacks vibrancy. It’s not vivid, even on high grade glossy paper. The various ink based colour printers easily beat this laser printer hands down. Ink based printers are as cheap or cheaper; so if your primary usage is printing colour images, this is not the printer to get.

I am interested in buying this printer, so I hope you can tell me what’s your opinion after almost one year of usage… I need it just for home use, nothing to much… Are printed images looks smooth? I mean, how gradient fill will look like? I hope there is no visible boundaries between to shades of colors… I hope you’ll understand, cause I don’t speak English very well…
BTW, I’m using Windows XP, so drivers wouldn’t be a problem (I hope).

Also, in my country that printer now costs about $160… so, should I wait for CLX-3175FNK? It has scanner and fax, printing directly from USB flash, and scanning to it, works without PC… There is no prices yet, but it can’t be to expensive, right?

/thx/

Could u tell me where you bought it?

I noticed improvements in the new driver (compared to the one from the printer installation CD):

1. It no longer includes the Samsung Smart Panel application. I consider this an improvement, because the application did not work in Ubuntu.

2. Printing directly from a jpg file now works. No need to convert to pdf any more.

3. Print quality for natural photo has improved. The colour is more natural, and noise defects around some edges have been removed. But I still wouldn’t recommend this printer for photo prints. This possibly a technical limitation of a laser printer. An inkjet based printer would do a much better job.

http://www.samsung.com/ar/consumer/detail/support.do?group=printersmultifunction&type=printersmultifunction&subtype=colorlaserprinter&model_nm=CLP-315&disp_nm=CLP-315&language=&cate_type=all&dType=D&mType=DR&vType=&prd_ia_cd=06010200&model_cd=CLP-315/XBH&menu=download

Or look at the samsung webpage. I must say I printed a photo of a human face (photo downloaded form intenet so no very big) on plain paper, with draft settings and 600 DPI. The colors are realistic and impressive. Try it youself. The results were not the same with the opensource driver.
Also text output seems better with the samsung driver.
Check the latest version, I think it has better quality than the one that cames with the printer on CD.

Once installed, the printer is set up like any other printer in Ubuntu, just choose the samsung driver that is called something like CLP-310.

After two months using the printer, a few hundreds prints, I am quite please with the printer. Definitely worth it, since it’s so cheap.

Nothing to say about black-white printing; it’s just like other laser printers I have come across. Good speed, quiet, and did not encounter any problem.

Colour printing is good for documents, pamphlets, and graphical source.

I tried a few photo prints on glossy paper and was unimpressed. The colour is dull and inaccurate.

There was a driver problem when printing photo (jpg) directly into the printer. This caused an error and the print job was aborted. I have to convert the photo to a pdf file to workaround this.

My unit did not have duplex unit, so I have to manually flip the paper for double sided print. Not a big deal since I don’t print large volume.

After one side was printed, I have to “uncurved” the paper, before printing the other side. Else, there is a tendency for one corner of the paper to be creased during the second print.

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Try them and see if you can make it install the CLP-315 driver which seems to be fixed in the latest version as per some forum discussions I read.
I plan to buy it, what is your opinion after some days using it?