By Ben Pate

The Dell Laser Printer 3100cn has a reasonable price, strong performance, and good image quality. It is a network printer that comes with a 250 sheet paper drawer as standard equipment, making it even more of a value. The Dell 3100cn is a flexible printer with many of connectivity options and support for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. This printer comes with a standard 64MB of RAM that can support a small office with about 10 people. Be sure to also look for Dell 3100cn toner.

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 only has three front mounted buttons below the LCD screen; they are the menu, cancel, and select buttons. The select button is surrounded by four way arrow keys. This makes adjustments into a menu choosing method, and some of the functions and adjustments require a few steps rather than on push of a button. This can be daunting for some, but it really is easy to learn.

The Dell 3100cn has a weight of around 72 pounds which is not a light weight, but with the high quality output, and the fast grayscale speeds the weight of the machine is just a number of little consequence. This color laser printer does a high quality printing job; the color graphics are exceptional, it has photographic detail that you might expect from an inkjet printer.. The black text printing, which is most commonly used in office settings, is superior. The Dell 3100cn has a grayscale text speed of 22ppm which proves that this Dell is well suited to a heavy text printing environment, like a small office setting.

The Dell 3100cn's print quality is exceptional. Black text is crisp and readable even with the smallest sized fonts. Grayscale graphics have even gradients and fine, sharp details. Color text was good. For a laser printer, the color graphics and the photographs were high quality, and have great color matching with smooth gradients.

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