The Samsung CLX-3175FN’s main feature is certainly its tiny footprint. Even if it possesses a 10/100 Ethernet port, its small hundred and fifty sheet paper tray signifies that the CLX-3175FN is best used as a personal printer.A two-line LCD display screen lets you navigate menus and also change settings. It has a limited number of options, which means that it’s easy to navigate. If you’d like full control, you need to make use of the web interface, which is similarly convenient to use. We were thrilled to find features like IP filtering, which will allow you to restrict use of the printer to specified addresses on your local network, along with a fax phone book.It is the sole colour laser printer within this price bracket with a 1200×1200 dpi scanner. Sad to say, scan speeds relatively slow. We have to wait around twenty one secs for a preview scan, while a 300dpi A4 page got about a minute and 22 secs. The scans looked detailed though a bit dark. The scanner interface can communicate with the MFP with a network connection. The main window presents a number of important presets and then a button expands to provide a selection of scan options.Print quality appeared to be superb, with full, intense colours, sleek shading and fine detail. Illustrations and business graphs were bright and solidly coloured, and photo-quality images had precise shading with very little grain. Print speeds appeared to be somewhat slow, at 14.6ppm for a mono text document and 3.8ppm for colour, however our first mono page emerged in a quick twelve seconds, which is helpful when you print only a few pages at a time.The CLX-3175N’s major draw back is difinitely its high print costs. The toner cartridges for the CLX-3175 has a small capacity with the black cartridge (CLT-K4092S) rated at 1,500 pages and the three colour cartridges (cyan, magenta & yellow) at 1,000 pages, thus the cost of replacing them soon mounts up with heavy use. As these types of cartridges are the latest addition to the array of Samsung toner cartridges it’s hard to find any compatible cartridges as of the moment. But in due time we could expect this situation to change and lead to a more affordable printing costs. However, if you’ll only use it once in awhile, it’s a great value, with a TCO of only £366, but heavy users could spend thousands. However, if you wish to print excellent colour and need to have a personal printer that is not going to use up a lot of space, this is definitely a perfect Budget Buy which in due time can be less expensive to run.