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The most important thing to check before buying a printer of any kind is the cost of its consumables. This is especially true when buying a budget printer like the Samsung CLP-300n because they are priced cheap and the profit is usually made back through the cost of the consumables. Consumables for the Samsung CLP-300n consist of a single imaging unit, which only need changing every 20,000 pages, a waste toner which needs to changed every 5,000 pages, and of course the four Samsung CLP-300 toner cartridges. The three colour toner cartridges yields 1,000 pages and the black yields 2,000 pages, which are the official figures given by Samsung and these are usually based on 5% page coverage. This gives the printer a cost per page of 2p for black printing and for colour just over 10p. These costs can be reduced by using compatible Samsung toner cartridges that cost half as much as the genuine Samsung printer cartridges. The biggest problem with the CLP-300n is its print quality. Printing plain black text is fine, although it’s a little heavier than most laser printers, but colour graphics appear fuzzy and text printed over colour is far from sharp. Printing speed in mono is pretty average with a speed of 16ppm while colour printing is below average at 4ppm and the CLP-300n has no duplex printing function. The printer has a built in Ethernet card so it is network ready and this a big plus point but overall the Samsung CLP-300n will leave you felling that maybe you should have spend a little bit more on something will better print quality.

Most people surf the Internet looking for information. You want to refinance your house, what’s the first thing you do? Hop on the Internet and read a few articles about refinancing, then check out the going rate at a website like Bankrate.

Let’s say you want to go to a new vacation spot. A friend of mine went to St. Thomas recently. He showed me pictures of the resort where they stayed. It looked great! But what am I going to do before booking a reservation and flight to St. Thomas? Google “St. Thomas” and see what is there, where the good restaurants are, that sort of thing.

In general, people surf for information. Sometimes, however, we surf for other things - Like Money!

Well, if not money, then free stuff (which is the same thing).

It’s completely amazing what you can get for free on the Internet. A quick look at a few sites and I can get free cleaning supplies, free drinks, free shoes, free nights at hotels, free laptops. Basically anything you might buy could end up being given away for free by some company on the Internet.

So, what’s the catch? Why do businesses give away so much stuff for free?

It’s advertising for them. Clorox recently came out with a new mop. How do they get the word out? They offer a free sample. Let’s say several thousand people find out about the free sample, get the mop, and tell their friends. That’s tremendous word of mouth advertising for Clorox. It’s called viral advertising because it can spread like a virus.

Usually all you need to provide the company is your email address and your physical address, if there’s a product that needs to be shipped. Sometimes, you’ll need to participate in what are called sponsor offers.

What happens is this. Company A gets company B to sponsor their offer. (I.e. pay for it.) Then when people sign up for Company A’s product, they are taken to another page where Company B makes them one or more additional offers. Sometimes you can just skip this part. Sometimes you have to participate in at least two of the sponsor offers. It all depends on the company handling the offer.

The only real problem with freebie offers is finding them. For this it is best to have a website to go to. Or even better have someone email free offers directly to you.