The Samsung CLP-315W is a full color laser printer with built-in wireless connectivity that makes it easy to link several computers to the printer over a network. The compact CLP-315 series is one of the smallest in its class and the individual cheap toner cartridges save money by giving you the option of replacing each one separately.
The CLP-315W uses three color and one black cheap toner cartridge. These cheap cartridges are lightweight and easy to remove and replace using the color-coded tabs. Each cheap cartridge only comes in one capacity of 1,000 pages. These cartridges can by cheaply purchased for about $40. Since the black and color cartridges cost the same, we can estimate that each page will cost about 4 cents to print. Samsung is also limited by the number of pages it can print per month. The CLP-315W’s duty cycle number is about 20,000 pages.
Relative to other similarly priced color laser printers, the CLP-315W is significantly slower than the pack in both black and white and especially color prints. It scored 13.15 pages per minute for plain black speed, slightly faster than the Dell 1320c. The CLP-315W also takes the longest to spit out any kind of color document, scoring a measly 3.64 pages per minute for color graphics and 4.07 pages per minute for color text. The rest of the units in the comparison lineup finished printing in less than half the time in both categories.