Dell is starting to become a significant supplier of printers in its own right and to supply a small colour laser for a bit more than 220 places it in immediate competition with names such as Canon, HP, Lexmark and also Xerox. It's not only the initial price tag of the unit, however, that ascertains the total cost of ownership.
The 1320c is a large, black and silver cube, although not as huge as a number of its rivals, equipped with angular, practical styling. Whilst the control panel fixed into the printer's curved, front edge does not have any Liquid crystal display, it does possess six indicator LEDs, which display where in the machine there is a problem, might any arise.
The machine may take up to 250 sheets of paper in one tray at the bottom and there's no option for a supplementary tray. A single-sheet feed slot is provided for feeding envelopes or special media and all of the pages exit to the top surface area of the device where there exists a fold-out flap to support longer sheets. At the back is a sole USB socket, as one of the economies in the design is making networking services an option; pretty much the sole option to choose from.
Software installation is very easy since there is merely a print driver as well as supplies management applets, all of which install automatically.
The print driver is actually remarkably advanced, equipped with alternate options for duplex - however disappointingly this is just manual duplex - several pages per sheet and colour profiling. Even though there aren't any instructions to perform manual duplex, should you take out the pages from the output tray and insert them in exactly the same orientation in to the feed tray, all of it works alright.
The print speeds are not especially magnificent, even for a fairly affordable colour laser printer along these lines.
Print quality is by and large fairly good. Black text is dense as well as properly formed even although the printer's resolution at 600dpi is lower than some of its opponents. Solid colour, like business graphics, is in addition generally good however we did observe some moderate mis-registration of black text over-printing colour backgrounds. That said, in typical practice this will not be a problem.
The photographic print was not magnificent, however no worse than from a number of other colour lasers within this price segment. Interestingly, the 1320c made a better job of the image whenever set to automatic colour in comparison with when we went in to the driver and selected colour correction for landscape pictures.
You need to insert the four Dell 1320c toner cartridges in the side of the machine.
There are negative and positive things to say concerning Dell's 1320c colour laser. It is nicely turned out, operates quietly plus produces fine quality print, yet is comparatively costly to operate plus lacks any actual expansion possibilities. To add colour to business documents in a small office it would certainly be fine value, but it's not likely to keep up should your business increases.
Dell 1320c printer toner cartridges are available here.
