Samsung CLP 315W Color Laser Printer Review

Samsung CLP 315W Color Laser Printer Review Tiffany: Hi there and welcome to Neo-Fight.TV the technology show for the not so geeky. My name is Tiffany Young. Ben: And I’m Ben Freedman and today we are looking at a lot of us for some reason. Tiffany: What has come between us? Ben: A printer, a laser and working a lot of Samsung stuff today. I don’t quite know how that’s work out but just how it works out and the first thing that were looking at is this which is the Samsung CLP 315W. Tiffany: W? Ben: Color laser printer and I’m going to tell you. Tiffany: Nice. Ben: You know way back when, when I was first getting into computers and my brother was going to the University of Calgary in Canada. They had the Apple laser printer. It was the first laser printer that ever came out. Do you know how much that thing was? Tiffany: A lot. Ben: $6000.00, it was actually more expensive than the Mac. The Mac was only about 4000 back then at the least and this was 300 DPI, black and white laser printer. Tiffany: Wow. Ben: Like four pages per minute or something. Tiffany: Ah, four pages per minute. Ben: And now you can get a black and white laser printer for about 60 bucks. Tiffany: And a good one for about 150 at Costco? Ben: That’s right. Tiffany: And real good. Ben: Yeah, with like networking and stuff. But let me tell you about this bad boy. First of all, full color. Tiffany: Nice. Ben: Full color laser printer, built-in networking. Is that USB and not only use it networking with the wire but it’s a Wi-Fi networking. Tiffany: Oh wow. Ben: So let me tell you, once you get it set up which takes a little bit of time. You have to get set up just like go through a manual set up thing. It’s a little issue. You may want to like call your friend or your neighbor’s grandson, your six-year-old grandson. He knows all about computers getting stuff. But once it set up, you can put this anywhere. Put this in a closet. Put it your laundry room as long as you can see your router you know somewhere in your home all of your computers can print to it. Tiffany: And my biggest issue with color printers is these cartridges and how much it cost to refill and how fast they really are? Ben: That’s a very, very good question. So first of all, let me show the results that it comes up with. Here’s a picture of my grandparents and my kids that we print. It’s not quite photo quality but it’s not bad. Tiffany: No, the picture with the quality. Ben: Yeah, it’s not bad. It’s for greater color. Yes that’s right. Laser printers aren’t the best to printing photos. Ink Jets getting through better and what I’m going to do is to show people how fast it prints. I’m going to print the test page if I could get it. Just press that stop and hold it down for about five seconds. It will now print its test page. Not too loud. Can you hear what the volume is? Tiffany: No it’s very quiet. Ben: Yeah, it’s now printing its test. Tiffany: That begins. Ben: It prints like a bunch of—I can’t remember how many pages a minute it says but you know for color laser printer, it’s a good home machine or even a small business machine. Here it comes out. Take a look at that. Tiffany: Now—oh look at that, it got a nice that looks. Ben: Yeah it was a demo page of course it’s good with that. Tiffany: Right, really does a nice stuff. Ben: Yeah. Tiffany: Does it do—now this just as printing, no scanning. N Ben: No scanning, no copying, nothing like that. Now if you have a scanner? That scanner will print to this printer but —yeah. The nice about cartridges, it is funny this printer is under 200 bucks. Tiffany: Is it the cartridges that cost a lot of money then. Ben: So, strange as you say that, it takes four cartridges that each cost about 50 bucks. Tiffany: The cartridge is a $50.00 each. Ben: Each so to get new cartridges for this printer is 200 bucks. You almost like buy a whole new printer. Now the cartridges, it comes with I didn’t see this in the manual because the manual is kind of hard to read and by the way when people are doing this, the manual is tiny and if you want the big manual it’s on a disk. Do you know I’m talking about? Tiffany: Sure. Ben: If like a quick start guide and then the manuals are in this—so who wants to put the disk came through with manual. You just go to the quick start guide. Tiffany: Yeah, hopefully if ever you having a good day. Ben: That’s right. So the cartridges, it comes with probably are not full. They are probably like 50% cartridges so when you do buy a new set that lasts longer but they all go in here. Tiffany: Yeah, can you refill this? Ben: I’ve heard about refilling this cartridges but I’ve heard that the results are mixed. Tiffany: Okay. Ben: Have you had an experience refilling cartridges? Tiffany: Well, of course that all the printers that I seen to pick they don’t refill them. Ben: They just won’t? Tiffany: They don’t start the brand. Ben: Have you ever brought the generic ink like this not the brand name? Tiffany: I’ve tried but it doesn’t really work out either. Ben: What do you found? Tiffany: Well, with HP they’re only generic. They only make generic and they have films that sort to deal with the stores that they want so that HP cartridges. Ben: I have here a generic kind. Tiffany: That was only in office Mac, that’s the only place I tried. Ben: Right. I’ve tried that and we’ve buy the generic cartridges and I find it the prints don’t look as good. You know people have that faces have a red thin or green tinge. It doesn’t look as good as the original ink. You’ll notice that, here the four cartridges and then the bigger one down here the fourth one and what’s kind of nice about is that they all right here in the front. Tiffany: They’re big cartridges. Ben: Yeah, you just pull it and that’s the way it is. You can just take this and pull them out. For instance, there is the yellow cartridge. Tiffany: Why do you think that you need to refill those, it isn’t too expensive? Ben: Well, I think so and you probably can't refill it but the problem is this with the one they ship you is probably only half full. Tiffany: Right. Ben: But it is easy to take them out and again you just slide this back in like that, close it up and boom you’re ready to go again. Tiffany: So do you how many pages approximately and then you actually since a little squirt cartridges. Ben: No I should have looked that up. Tiffany: That’s right? Ben: Yeah. Tiffany: I’m just curious. Ben: Darn. Tiffany: Well, from new little math on cost of value. The last of a year you know? Ben: But the fact is this, if you’re looking to get into a color laser printer with Wi-Fi network and built-in, that is fantastic 195 bucks. I mean it’s hard to go wrong with that when it used to be 6000 bucks for a black and white non-network to both. Tiffany: Do you imagine? Ben: Imagine I was there. Tiffany: They couldn’t buy next to their big, black cell phones? Ben: That’s right. Hey, I’ll go to my list, the printer needs more paper. Tiffany: It is good. It is all good. That is so nice. I like it. Ben: So I think I give this a five out of five. You know it’s not the perfect laser printer. It is not as fast as some of the other ones. It’s not quite as crisp with some of the more expensive ones before 195.00. I don’t see how you can go wrong. Tiffany: Well, mine should be how often I got to replace cartridges if that $200.00 to replace it and that would be a little scary for me if I had to replace it every three months. Ben: For the $200.00 sure you got a couple a couple of thousand pages it’s the one that it comes with that I think I probably are only half full. Tiffany: But Wi-Fi, yeah five out of five. Ben: Five out of five Tiffany, five out of five for me. That is 10 out 10 for the Samsung CLP 315W Laser Printer, an amazing value for totally connected network printer. Tiffany: Absolutely. Ben: And we’ll be right back after this, so please stay tuned. And we are back in the second spotlight today. We’re looking at another Samsung product as luck would have it although it’s from a completely different branch of Samsung. Tiffany: So cool looking. Ben: Yeah, how to use the laptop. You know hard drive on your laptop. Tiffany: Which one? I got an 80? Ben: Three laptops. Tiffany: Or 250 and a 250s and 80. Ben: And I don’t know about you but it used to be that 250 were plenty of room. You can get everything on 250. Tiffany: I tell you it’s not plenty of room. It’s 80. Ben: 80? Tiffany: It’s horrible. Ben: 80 is barely in. Tiffany: You can’t keep anything on that. Ben: We have to upgrade your hard drive. I'm sorry about that. I’ve got bigger hard drives around here. We’ll upgrade your laptop hard drive. You know we’re doing a lot of video editing. I was feeling confine inside of my 250. So I went out looking for. Tiffany: Catastrophobic? Ben: Yeah, I was like— Tiffany: Give me some space, room to breath. Ben: Exactly. So, I was looking for something to spend and I noticed that Samsung has just come out with this hard drive right here. This is the Samsung Spin point M5 500 Gigabytes, 500 Gigabytes. Tiffany: And look how little it is. Geez. Ben: Yeah and it’s for your laptop. Tiffany: It’s so little for— Ben: This goes inside. Now, what’s this clear plastic do you think you might ask? Tiffany: Yes, if it goes inside. Ben: That’s right. So I actually put this inside this case. Tiffany: Storage. Ben: This is the case that turns in into a USB drive. Okay so if you got— Tiffany: I know you can do both. Ben: I mean you can do both. Tiffany: You say what? Ben: Here’s what I did and here’s what I recommend everyone does because Alex Lindsay by the way, is the guy who says if in a couple of episodes ago we couldn’t figure it out who it was. It doesn’t exist in two places, it doesn’t exist. He is big on backing up. Tiffany: Forest falling on the trees they make sound. Ben: Can you see that too? Tiffany: No, I have no choice at it exactly but— Ben: So what I did is I bought two of these and I took one and I put it in my laptop and I took the other one and it’s inside. I took the other one and I put it in this clear plastic case and I tell you, I love this case too because you can see the drive’s inside and on the bottom it’s got this big heatsink that keeps this nice and cool. Tiffany: That’s nice. Ben: So there’s no fan and because there’s no fan— Tiffany: Insulation. Ben: That’s right. You can power it right from the laptop if you want to plug it in. So you plug in this USB cable. Tiffany: And no issues with power. You don’t need two USB’s to power it. That’s truly amazing. Ben: Not just one USB because there’s no fan in here, it doesn’t take up much juice. It’s got like I’d say the heat sink. This case is from a company called “Other World Computing” or OWC, 30 bucks per case. So I bought too the hard drives and one case from Other World Computing and I took one of them and put them on a computer. One of them is here and I ran a little backup program and basically every night, I just plug this in and it backs up and the next day unplug it and then I plug it in and it backs up and it’s done. Tiffany: So are you telling me that by using time machine, they use the time machine to back up? Ben: Well, that’s a good question. So and yeah that’s the Macintosh back-up program but I don’t use time machine. I’ll tell you why. A time machine doesn’t create backups that you can boot from. I want to have time machine puts all your files into a new zip file type of thing. Tiffany: Right. Ben: They’re all there but then if you add more files little keep adding more and you’ll keep like your last 10 versions of stuff like it’s good for a mental backups. In fact, the best thing for time machines is to have a drive that’s two or three times bigger. Tiffany: Right Ben: So if you have a 250 Gig hard drive, it’s good you have a terabyte size. Tiffany: Yeah. Ben: Time machine drive and that way you’ll keep two or three versions of each file. Tiffany: That sounds like a little excessive. Ben: Well it is. What I have is a 500 gig inside and a 500 gig here and I have a cloning program. I actually use a part about super duper. Tiffany: I like that name. Ben: That duplicates your hard drive. Tiffany: That’s super duper. Ben: It’s super duper and it actually duplicates your hard drive and this one is for windows as well and then right thing this is a bootable copy. So let’s say something crashes on my hard drive of the computer. I can open it up, take that hard drive out, put this one in and it will boot from that hard drive. Tiffany: Nice. Ben: That is not happening with time machine. Tiffany: Okay, so super duper. I’ll have to look at that one. Ben: There’s a little called a carbon copy cloner which is also nice that works with a couple of programs. Tiffany: Are they expensive? Ben: 20 or 30 bucks. Actually, carbon copy cloners are free if you don’t mind watching ads. There are ads that play while you're backing up. Tiffany: So you’re downloading? Oh, backing up they play? Ben: Yeah this will add up some flash machine. Tiffany: Real quick, how do you feel about the virtual back-ups? Were you actually backed-up to a server that’s over there? Ben: Well, like over the internet? Tiffany: Yeah. Ben: Only two problems with that. One problem is it’s slow. Tiffany: Right. Ben: So here back you have 100 gigs. That’s going to take you days Tiffany: Right. Ben: Two is and usually those services somehow will give you 5 gigs or 10 gigs but usually don’t give you a hundred gigs. It’ll give you some. It’s great for like super important files. Tiffany: Almost like putting 60,000 bucks? Ben: You know how safe your file, seriously. No, seriously this is happening I'm sure where you back up your files and when they go under and then where are your files. Tiffany: It was totally safe. You know what I you know totally have thought it to be funny we did this semi-cord sole storage where it used toward that left cord from when you have babies and I was always wondering is that really going to be there when I need it? I mean how do you know which plug cords themselves or yours? You know what if they get lost and you’re paying storage be this all time but it is the same. Ben: You pay like months or yearly? Tiffany: Yearly. Ben: How much does it cost? Tiffany: Couple of bucks a year. Ben: Couple hundred and what like cryogenically frozen stem cells? Tiffany: Exactly. They say they are although I’ve never seen them. They’re virtually out there somewhere but you know. Ben: Everything is like you know— Tiffany: I believe in science so— Ben: They give you something? Tiffany: I've watched it. Didn’t you? Ben: I did, Scary Movie. Tiffany: Yeah that is right. Ben: Anyway, so that is the Samsung Spinpoint M6 Drive which I give a five out of five too and is in this wonderful case, the OWC which I also give it five out of five. Tiffany: I love it. Yup, five out of five for me too and I can not complain about that. Don’t we have two five out of five? Ben: Sorry? Tiffany: Two five out of fives? Ben: That’s right. The printer was five out of five too. Tiffany: Wow. Ben: So that’s five out of five for me five out of five for the Samsung Spinpoint 500 gigabyte drive in the OWC case and let us know what you think about that. Send us some e-mail at www.neo-fight.tv. Tiffany: Or—go ahead. Ben: Leave us a comment. 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