Samsung intros ’smallest ever’ color laser printers
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008by Joshua Topolsky, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 10:28AM
We don’t normally get too excited about printers, but when a company claims to have introduced the “smallest ever” of anything, our ears prick up. Apparently, the Korean electronics-maker has distilled color laser printers into their purest, tiniest form with the CLP-315K and CLX-3175FNK, clocking in at 20- and 40-percent smaller than previous iterations, respectively. The printers still sport fancy-pants features, like printing at up to 2,400 x 600 dpi, 32MB of onboard memory, and — at least on the CLX-3175FNK — the ability to print from a USB key. No word on price or availability, or if these will see the light of day in the States.
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