Dell 5100cn -The Large Office Work-Horse Printer

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By Ben Pate

Dell 5100cn color laser printer has Ethernet capability, two-sided printing, solid paper handling, and has speeds fast enough for small office use. The Dell 5100cn has several paper handling extras as well, which pairs up with the convenience of the Dell 5100cn toner. Dell's print quality is excellent, which is something we have come to expect from Dell. The Dell 5100cn Color Laser will meet your black and white and color printing needs in a cost effective manner.

The Dell has a front panel that when flipped open reveals a 150 sheet multipurpose tray with icons that guide you through inserting paper or envelopes. There is a 500 sheet paper drawer on the bottom of the printer. There is a 250 sheet output tray at the top of the printer, where you can also access the four Dell 1500cn toner cartridges (which have a 9,000 page print rate), or you can open the front to clear jams and change the printer drum.

Set up and installation is quite easy using the standard Ethernet 10/100 BaseT networking protocol, USB, or parallel port. The machine walks you through the setup for networking the printer. The installation CD installs the drivers and also the Dell Color Track driver, and the Dell Printer Web Tool.

The 5100cn is designed to maintain high printing volumes. Dell "Color Track" offers a separate monochrome print driver that allows you to block color printing on an individual or workgroup basis by use of password protection.

The set up is effortless via USB and parallel ports. In addition, Ethernet connectivity equips the printer with enhanced networking capabilities. The 5100cn includes the Dell Toner Management System which is a monitoring program that provides email alerts on toner and paper replacement, which includes low toner, paper out, paper jam and fuser maintenance.

The Dell 5100cn is one of the quickest and highest quality color printers in the market. In monochrome it has an output of 21.1 pages per minute; in color it can put out 6.1 ppm. The grayscale photo prints have smooth tonal variations and ample amounts of detail in the darker areas. The color photos are of fairly good quality with good amounts of detail in the shadowed areas. It delivers professional quality documents at 600x600 dpi with 2400 Image Quality.

The Dell 5100cn is one of the fastest color printers in the market. In monochrome output is 21.1 pages per minute; in color it produced 6.1 ppm. The grayscale photo prints had smooth tonal changes and plenty of detail in the darker areas. The color photos have good detail in shadows, and fairly good quality.

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