subject: The Dell 5100cn Laser Printer - Multi-purpose. Reliable. Inexpensive. [print this page] Consideration should be given to the Dell 5100cn printer for any home or office setting. Small home businesses or small commercial business will benefit from the functions of this printer. The Dell 5100cn printer cartridges is powerful enough to handle large load printing or small printing jobs. It is high speed, even for two sided printing color jobs.
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.
Paper size capability includes the standard paper size all the way up to legal size. What the 5100cn also has in a tray that can handle other types of heavier materials like folders and envelopes that need printing. This is a very useful tool in printing.
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 5100cn is a printer that is also economical. It does not require as much black ink or color ink as other printers do to perform similar jobs. The cost of Dell Color Laser toner for the 5100cn is around one hundred sixty dollars while the black ink is around fifty dollars. This can get you roughly 8000 copies for color and 9000 copies for black and white.
Test results for the Dell 5100cn show that it is a very fast printer, one of the fastest around. You can expect a rate of 21 sheets per minute for standard black and white printed pages and for color, you can expect around 6 pages per minute. While other copiers may produce color prints slightly faster, the image quality of the colored pages is excellent.
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 twoUSBand 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.
