Dell Laser 3100cn Printers – The Able Small Business Printer
The Dell 3100cn printer is a fair priced unit designed for a small office. This printer costs approximately $500, which is a considerable price for its features and performance. You can also customize this model, but it may be quite expensive. The Dell 3100cn printer toner cartridges is what you want.
This device can take up a lot of space because of its four individual Dell cartridge. It is also a very heavy, weighing a hefty 53 pounds. In addition, the multipurpose tray expands when you pull down the printer’s front panel. If space is your main concern, this printer is not for you.
This printer has 2 paper trays. The tray on the top can store 250 sheets, while the multifuctional tray holds 150 sheets. The output tray can be customized to hold 550 sheets for $230 approximately that makes it a total of 950 sheets. The Dell 3100cn printer also includes a $200 duplexer that can be added as part of your upgrade options.
The machine has a blazing fast 400 MHz processor. It also includes a 128MB memory that can be upgraded to 1 gigabyte. A built-in Ethernet port is available if you want to connect this printer to a work group. However, you can also take advantage of the optional wireless adapter, which cost around $150. A USB and parallel port can is also available on this device.
The package is shipped with a 5,000-page yield cartridge and 4,000-page version for the color cartridge. You can also replace them with high-yield versions. A 5,000-page black cartridge cost $76, but you can get an 8,000-page version for $110. For the color cartridge, a 4,000-page type is available for $120, but you get an 8,000-page one for only $215. Using the high capacity versions can save you a lot of money. In fact, black prints are only 1.4 cents and 9.4 cents for colored ones.
This unit has the capacity to print 23 pages per minute for black. For monochrome graphics, it can print at an amazing 22 pages per minute, which is one of fastest we have seen in a for printer under the same price range. However, color printing was a bit slow. It can only print 13 pages per minute.
The machine was able to print quality black text documents, but the letters are not as dark. The result was closer to dark gray. The same problem also happened when printing monochrome graphics. Areas that were supposed to be jet black came out as dark gray. As for it color printing, the result is somewhat mediocre. Blurriness and fuzzy edged were apparent when printing small letter. This made printing bar codes next to impossible. When printing photos, the color gradient showed some signs of banding. The printer used too much red, which resulted to weird looking prints. The Dell 3100cn printer using Dell 3100cn compatible toner has a 1 year warranty.
HP Color LaserJet 2550L Printer – Cut Back On Price,Not Quality
The HP Color LaserJet 2550L printer is an inexpensive laser printer using HP Color LaserJet 2550L bulk toner that has reached the end of its production by HP. This printer produces a large number of color prints. Although no longer available new, it can be found used in several places.
The printer is somewhat boxy and two tone gray in color. It is very light in weight and compact. The four HP compatible toner are arranged in a carousel that helps to save space over many other printers.
The low initial cost is the greatest advantage of this printer. Even when purchased new, it was one of the least expensive color laser printers for its day. To lower costs, HP designed the machine to be adjusted through the software rather than install an LCD screen in the printer.
This particular printer did bring about some complaints. First, the lack of a paper tray and second the cost and number of consumables that the machine required.
Without the optional paper tray, paper must be fed through a slot located behind a front panel on the machine. This panel must be kept open to keep paper loaded. Some purchasers felt that this exposed the inner workings of the printer to too much dust. In addition, consumers often find it difficult to locate the optional paper tray.
The HP Color LaserJet 2550L printer has a separate drum that must be replaced on a regular basis. Once consumer has reported replacing the drum three times in fifteen months. The cost of the drum is about one third of the cost of the printer new.
Consumers find that toner cartridges must often be replaced before empty. The printer employs a technique that uses print count to determine when a toner cartridge needs to be replaced. Thus, even when using the printer in the black print setting, the counter for the color cartridges counts down with every print made. Once the counter reaches the zero mark, the toner cartridge must be replaced for the printer to work. This has consumers replacing toner cartridges that may be over half full.
Prints that are produced seem to be mediocre and the speed is quite slow by today’s standards. Even black prints are only produced at 12.1 ppm. Color prints slow the machine down even further to 3.1 ppm. Color of the prints is also often off and must be adjusted to get true to life color. Black prints however are excellent.
The HP Color LaserJet 2550L set a standard that brought the prices of both black and color laser printers into the range of ink jet printers so that they could be affordable for many home computer users. While consumers may find many of these used machines being offered at low prices they should be warned that the cost of consumables and the fact that they must be replaced even when not empty makes this a less than desirable printer. It is also important to always have HP laser toners on hand. Printer toner cartridges is the ink that the printer uses to print your documents. You can purchase HP Color LaserJet 2550L compatible toner online or in stores.