Dell’s 5100cn Printer - Versatile. Fast. Economical.
Aug 31st, 2010 by fashion reporter
The Dell 5100cn printer is a printer that many home businesses and small businesses would find very useful for their office and home needs. It is a reliable printer that has good features. It is able to handle regular one sided printing jobs with ease and even high speed printing jobs. The 5100cn color laser printer toner has the capability to handle double sided color printing as well.
This printer has the ability to load multiple paper trays to handle large printing jobs. This is extremely helpful since reloading paper will not be necessary very often during a large printing job. It holds standard paper and legal paper. A fold down tray is provided with the printer adding one hundred fifty more sheets to the capacity of the default tray.
It can handle standard paper sizes to legal paper size. In addition, it has a multipurpose tray that can handle envelopes and folders. This creates a functionality that is not found with ordinary and similarly priced printers.
Trays can be added to the functionality of the printer. The option of purchasing paper trays that can hold either five hundred sheets or one thousand sheets is available for those who require this printer to perform large volumes of printing. These are features that rival those of larger, more expensive copiers. You can use the duplexer, which comes standard with the 5100cn, to print document that are double sided.
The Dell 5100cn is very economical and cost efficient. This printer, unlike others, does not cost much to run. Black ink will cost around 50 dollars and color will cost only around 160 dollars. You will see an output of around 8000 copies for color printed pages and for black and white printed copies, you can expect around 9000 copies produced by the printer.
Good performance is the result of various tests on the printer. It is very quick and for monochrome printing, you can expect about twenty one sheets per minute. For color, you can expect around 6 sheets per minute. Although the color print rate is a little low, it still is comparable to other printers at the same cost.
System installation for this printer is much easier than other printers. Addressing the printer with its own IP address is not only a provided feature but is easy to do. Adding to its functionality is the two USB and parallel ports.
The 5100cn printer web based administrative software works well for a small business that utilizes only a few printers. The image quality of the printer is very good and it will go through paper quickly to make large printing jobs quick and easy. The size of the 5100cn makes it very easy to place in tight spaces so it does not utilize too much office space.
The Dell 5100cn printer with Dell Color Laser toner is an economical printer for any home or small office. It is quick to handle large or small printing jobs. It has good image quality for both black and white copies as well as color. The ability to have its 5100cn color laser printer toner make two sided copies without complication is an added benefit to its functionality.
