Samsung SCX-4300 All in One Mono Laser Printer
Samsung SCX-4300 is an all in one mono laser printer with copier and scanning functions. This mono laser printer has functional design with sleek plastic body that has a practical approach to enhance usability of the printer. It is specially made for home as well as office use and this printer looks smaller than other laser printer from competitor brands. When compared to rich featured model Samsung SCX-4500, this low cost laser printer has some changes but features same design as earlier version SCX-4200. The additional functions such as copying and scanning are an important selling point for this mono laser printer. Samsung SCX is considered to be a successful series in A4 monochrome laser printer category. Samsung SCX-4300 Multi-function laser printer is built with innovative features that accentuate the point of high printing speed and good aesthetics of the printer.
Design:
This SCX-4300 laser printer is fully made with durable black plastic body along with sleek finish and matte coating, which considerably avoids any fingerprint smudges. It is built with 406mm width, which is little wider than the other home laser printer but has the same height and depth when compared to rival brands. The extra width is made in order to include the scanning engine under its chassis. The A4 scanner bed is nicely sits at top of the machine and spreads from left to right side.
This SCX-4300 Compact Laser printer has wider area at the top and has different shape when compared to Samsung SCX-4500 laser printer. The control panel is at the front end, which feature 16 character LCD display without backlight but you can easily see the details under normal lighting condition. There are totally eight control buttons that gives easy navigational path for any print, copy or scan settings. The menu system can be easily accessed along with the display using controls.

Beneath the control panel there is a dedicated paper emerging slot, which comes with pull out to stop emerging paper falling on the desk. Even if you do not pull out the slot the paper would not fall on the desk. The output tray has capacity of 50 sheets. This mono laser printer has large paper feed tray that has the capacity of 250 sheets and it is double the capacity when compared with previous version of laser printer from Samsung. In this paper feed slot you can also find single sheet multi slot for any special printing purpose.
Connectivity:
The entire range of connection ports are placed at the back section of the printer, which includes power cable connection and USB port connection. It is the only connection facility for sharing data.
Printer Maintenance:
You can easily access drum cartridge and integrated toner, which can be revealed by opening front panel that hinges down firmly. This all in one laser printer comes with half capacity starter cartridge and you can expect nearly 1000 pages from this cartridge. You can extend the life of this cartridge until you buy new cartridge by simply activating lesser toner consumption option in the printer. When compared with higher range of laser printers, this Samsung SCX-4300 mono laser printer does not feature additional large paper input tray and optional duplex printing.
Inbuilt Software:
All the printing, scanning and copying operation can be controlled using in built SmarThru 4 software. A separate utility is provided to diagnose the printer problem such as Dr.Printer. The print quality setting is well supported by driver and you can easily handle this driver using simple navigational panel
Performance:
The print quality of this Samsung SCX-4300 Printer, Scanner and copier perform at fair level and not been accentuated with the point of excellence but considerably delivers 15ppm of print speed. Samsung claims the print speed to 18ppm in A4 and 19ppm for letter. The maximum resolution that this laser printer can achieve is 600 dpi with 256 shades of grey and well supported by 8MB of internal device memory.
The darker shade text prints are not up to the mark and it shows some curves and jagged lines that are visible on the text. Business graphs, when printed in greyscale, loses much of its details and looks with stripes on the printed sheet. The quality is not up to the expectation for graph prints with grey shades. The same results apply for photographic prints and it looks like a dot matrix print without details in shadow and darker areas.
Low Running Cost:
The important aspect of this business laser printer is its printing cartridge that cost around £40 and it well supports 2000 ISO pages. The cost per page including paper cost is more economic and comes around 2.7p. This mono laser printer uses normal toner and drum cartridge that keeps the running cost minimal. This cost is normal and applicable for mono laser printer and you are not charged with extra running cost when you use Samsung SCX-4300 multifunction laser printer.
This home laser printer gives balanced performance with scanning, print and copying function, which is suitable for moderate office use and home use. You cannot expect this printer to perform more printing volume of about 10,000 pages per month that is 300 – 400 pages continuously. Even if it does this job then the running cost is expensive. If you are looking for high volume printing capacity machine then you need to look for some high level laser printer that well suite your daily printing needs.
Photocopying:
All the photocopy functions are controlled using command buttons on the control panel. The same document can be taken with 99 copies using the option available in the control panel itself. You can easily perform resizing of documents that range from 50% to 200% from the original document. This mono laser printer has impressive photocopy print speed and shows up single page photocopy approximately in 11 seconds. It would take some extra time when you take photocopy of full sized colour photo. But for such low price laser printer this photocopy speed performance is considerable.
When you take a photocopy of a greyscale print in Samsung SCX-4300, the surface of the image and the text seems to be scrubbed off and not clear. Especially when the greyscale print is printed from the same printer the result looks very bad. The same result could also been seen with other branded all in one laser printers and from other models of Samsung. This effect is due to clash between dot print with scanning technology that comes inbuilt.
Scanning:
The closing door of scanner section that flips opens up to a moderate level and it is fully supported by internal spring mechanism. In case of any paper jam it opens up and gives enough space for easy adjustment. Normally in all laser printer the scanner section will opens up fully and stands in a vertical position but Samsung SCX-4300 does not feature such provision. It has optical resolution of 600 x 2400 dpi and comes with enhanced resolution of 4800 x 4800 dpi.
Verdict:
Samsung SCX-4300 is an honest laser printer with cost effective printing solution. This laser printer performs well in text prints, business graphics and chart prints. Only the photocopies of greyscale shades shows unclear and little scrubbed off. It has reasonable print cost and definitely fit in your budget. If you look for low priced mono laser printer with multifunction facility that gives reasonable running cost then this is your choice for both home as well as office use.
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Samsung SCX-4300 - Technical Specification Table
| Manufacturer | Samsung |
| Model Name | SCX-4300 All in One Mono Laser Printer |
| Printer Type | Office and home mono laser printer |
| Dimension: (W x D x H) | 406 x 375 x 231mm |
| Weight | 9.65 kg |
| Mono print speed | Up to 18 ppm |
| Black print resolution | Up to 600 x 600 dpi |
| Duplex printing | Manual |
| Printer memory | 8MB |
| Supported paper sizes | Thin, Plain, Label, OHP, Thick, Card, Envelope, Bond, Preprinted, Colour Paper |
| Monthly Duty cycle | 10,000 pages |
| Input tray capacity | 250-sheet Cassette, 1-sheet Manual Tray |
| Output tray | 50-sheet Face Down, 1-sheet Face Up |
| Connections | Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port, optional Ethernet 10/100 Base TX |
| Supported operating systems | Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista Various Linux OS Mac OS |





