Dell 3100cn - Look No Further Than This Outstanding Home Business Printer

The Dell 3100cn weighs a hefty 72 pounds, but the great output, and its rapid grayscale speeds outweigh the poundage. This color laser printer does a wonderful printing job; its color graphics are outstanding, with photographic detail that you might expect to get from an inkjet printer, all because of the Dell 3100cn Cartridge. The black text, which is the common use for a laser printer has clarity that ranks among the best in its class. The Dell 3100cn is a sensible buy for a network able printer.

Dell 3100cn toner cartridges are rated for 4000 pages. Replacement cartridges have a price that is very good when you look at the output that it can provide. Those prices should make the 3100cn economical to run. You can stretch costs further by buying the cartridges in packs of four from Dell\'s Web site. They are also very easy to replace.

This Dell Printer has a large 400 sheet paper tray and four 4,000-page toner drums. You can purchase an extra 500 sheet paper tray which will increase the paper capacity. You can also add a \"duplexer\" that allows for two sided printing; with this unit, the driver software lets you shrink several documents to fit onto one sheet of paper.

The Dell 3100cn\'s black-and-white printing is excellent. Text is crisp and is not overly heavy or too light. The smallest fonts remained clear. Line art looks perfect, and grayscale photographs showed sharp details and smooth tonal conversions. Graphics output is quite precise. Text prints at a speedy 17.8 pages a minute. This is a very good speed for this class of printer.

The Dell 3100cn has a 22ppm grayscale text speed, which implies that this printer can compete in a heavy text printing situation, such as in a workgroup. The gray tower of the Dell 3100cn color laser printer is about 21-inches high and has a 16-inch-square footprint. This Dell 3100cn comes with three ports: USB 2.0, parallel, and Cat 5 for network printing. The Dell 3100cn comes with 81 fonts and Symbol Sets, 35 PCL fonts, and 136 PostScript fonts. This permits compatibility with multiple fonts, high end graphics, and certain publishing software.

The three front mounted buttons below the LCD screen: menu and cancel buttons and a select button surrounded with four-way arrow keys turn any adjustment you need to make into an easy to control work panel. Some of the commands and settings may take more than one step, but still for all the functions that it gives you this still makes the Dell 3100cn a good value.