Samsung CLP-415N Color Laser Printer Driver and Software

With its high speed and above-average output quality, the Samsung CLP-415N color laser addresses two of the most important problems for any printer. Add paper handling suitable for light to medium duty use in a micro or small office or workgroup, as well as connectivity options such as Wi-Fi Direct for easy connection to smartphones, laptops and tablets. This is an easy editor’s choice for a small office or workgroup.

Setup, Speed and Output Quality

One of the issues that makes this printer more suitable for a micro or small office than a home office is its size and weight. At 10.4 x 16.5 x 16.8 inches (HWD), you may not want it sitting on your desk, and at 36.6 pounds, you may want help inserting it. However, it’s small enough that you shouldn’t have much trouble finding space for it. Once set up, the setup is standard fare.

Text isn’t quite suitable for top-quality desktop publishing, but it’s light enough for almost everything else, including marketing materials like single-page mailers or tri-fold brochures. The graphics quality is also good enough for basic marketing materials and more than good enough for PowerPoint handouts and the like. Photos are at the upper end of the range for color lasers, which is just shy of actual photo quality. Mount any of the color photos in our tests in a frame behind glass, and it’s hard to tell they were printed on a laser. Again, they are light enough to print your own marketing materials.

Another small feature worth noting is a strange single-sheet feeder mounted on top of the paper tray itself. To use it, you must pull out the tray, insert the single sheet into the feeder, and then reinsert the tray. The process is a bit fiddly, but still easier than replacing all the paper in the tray to print a single envelope or odd sheet of paper, and then having to reload the original stack of paper.

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Conveniences like the single sheet feeder and Wi-Fi Direct for easy connection to smartphones and other mobile devices earn the printer some extra points. However, its main strengths are its high speed and high output quality. If it only provided one or the other along with the level of paper handling it would be worth considering. But what makes the Samsung CLP-415N an Editors’ Choice is that it offers both, so you don’t have to compromise on either.