Dell 3130CN Color Laser printer reviews – an excellent printing tool for any small office or workgroup

Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 5:55
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dell3130cn If you have a small office or workgroup, Dell’s 3130cn Color Laser Printer is the ultimate tool for you. The biggest advantage of the printer is that it is extremely capable on the performance front and has room for modifications. The printer is tall, broad and extremely powerful. With output speeds of 25.3 pages per minute for plain text, the 3130cn is one of the faster laser printers in the business right now. The output speed for colored graphics is also very impressive at 5.7 pages per minute. The output is also at the same time clean, clear, and crisp. The text is extremely well developed, crisp, and black. The photos come out to be natural and realistic even on simple paper. The printer however lacks a duplexer. That is why it a start up printer and not a perfect one. You can buy a duplexer separately for the printer by paying close to $200 extra.

As far as the input and output is concerned, the 3130cn boasts of a 250-sheet input tray and a 150-sheet multipurpose tray. The printer is open for modifications and this fact is supported by the option of putting a 550-sheet second input tray in the printer. You can easily figure out tasks like loading paper and changing toner on the fly. The printer also has a two-line, monochrome LCD. The navigational buttons present next to the LCD make the task of accessing menu very simple for you.

As the features, 3130cn is provided with one 4000-page black (K) cartridge. The printer also has pre loaded 3000-page cyan (C), magenta (M), and yellow (Y) cartridges. With these cartridges, you just end up paying 2 cents per plain-text page and a mere 12 cents for a page comprising all these four colors. You also have the option of putting high-yield versions of the cartridges that help you in making your printing very economic. Your printing costs can come down to 1.5 cents per plain text page and 10 cents for four-colored page. Overall, the Dell 3130cn is an excellent printing tool for any small office or workgroup.