Friday, April 26, 2013
Dell 2150cdn Printer Review
Overview
If you are the owner of a small to medium sized business, Dell 2150CDN printer will satisfy all your printing needs. It can be also used for home businesses. Its color is dark and it is a compact printer. It will fit perfect in any settings. The printing quality is near excellent, and the price is around $400. Even though it was not made for printing large volumes, the logos and graphics will be printed excellently.
Pros
It weighs only 44 pounds and its dimensions are quite small (15.74” x 15.98” x 16.25”) and because of this fact it can sit confortable on any desk, but it is recommended to place it on a shelf or something like that.
At this model, you can opt for wireless connection, but it is not a built-in feature, like it is at other models. The auto duplexing feature is a choice for saving the environment because in this way you will lower the carbon footprint, which is very good. Also, the paper costs will be lowered.
The standard paper tray can hold 250 sheets, but you can simply buy another one which can also hold another 250 sheets. This thing can help you if you need to print high volumes. Also, the printing resolution is 600 x 600 dots per inch.
The warranty is one year. It has a simplistic menu, and because of this fact it is easy to set and use. The control panel has a two line LCD display.
The standard memory is 256MB, but it can be upgraded to 768Mb, which is the maximum. Printing speed is equal with 23 ppm in both black & white and color. However, if you need to print on a MAC, you need to know that the printing speed will be lower (17 pages per minute)
Cons
The 250 sheet tray could not be enough because even though you bought this printer for a small office, you could eventually need to print high volumes.
The consumables are quite expensive. Replacing the cartridge costs 0.25 cents for color and .04 cents black and white.
When the printer is working, it is making a lot of noise. You should not want to use it when you are talking on the phone with clients or when you have clients coming to your office.
Even though there were problems with color registration, the printing quality is greater than it is at other printers.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Konica Minolta MagiColor 5670EN Laser Printer Review
Overview
Most businesses are in need of a high powered printer for the office. That is what the Konica Minolta MagiColor 5670EN Laser Printer is. When it comes to handing out prints during a boardroom meeting, you will be proud to hand out these vibrant colored prints. This printer also works at a great speed. It also provides high volume needs because it can handle a lot of printing. This is great news for businesses in need of high volume printing because it comes with a network capacity and a large monthly print volume.
Pros
With the printing speed being the best feature and main benefit of the Konica Minolta MagiColor 5670EN Laser Printer, this is a great printer. It has a printing speed of 37 pages every minute for black and white. With a speed like this, it blows the many other laser printers out of the competition. Although the output speed is 14 seconds a page, the large printing volume and speed makes up for this.
The monthly printing cycle is 120,000 per month. This printer makes for a great printer for businesses with a shared working environment. It is also easy to set up because it comes network ready.
The Konica Minolta MagiColor 5670EN laser printer comes with a 500 sheet output tray and a 100 sheet multipurpose additional tray. This is a great feature because it allows for lots of paper with no need to keep refilling the paper tray often. Another great feature is the multipurpose tray will allow for different printouts including custom letterheads, envelopes and even transparencies.
Because it has a direct printing feature, it can print from different places such as flash cards. Also, it is compatible with cameras that come with PictBridge which means it will allow for printing TIFF and JPEG files from the flash drive. Another great feature is that it will work with a Mac, Windows PC or a Linux. This is because it comes with the ability to print from high speed USB 2.0 connectivity.
You also have the option to use a 40 GB hard drive which will work great by storing important and frequently used files.
Cons
Although most printers within the same price range as this one comes with the duplexing feature, this printer does not have this feature.
The price is somewhat expensive; however, with all of the great features and benefits, this should more than make up for the price.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Sharp AR 337 Monochrome Copier
Starting as a basic medium-volume, space efficient copier, the Sharp AR-337 has options to expand it to a high-volume scanner/printer/finisher. 15% faster than its older sibling, the AR-287, the 337 can copy up to speeds of 33 ppm. It’s able to handle paper sizes up to 11” x 17” double-sided, and the option to hold six reams of the more commonly used letter-size paper.
PROS:
The large touch-screen LCD control panel makes using the Sharp’s operation easy to understand and with the online information guide help users through most operations and jamming resolutions. An animated display assists in giving step by step instructions.
Two 500-sheet trays allow for printing onto sheets as large as 11” x 17”. If this enough paper capacity, two more oversized 500-sheet trays can be stacked underneath the AR-337, and a 3,000-sheet 8½” x 11” high capacity tray attached its side, bringing total capacity to over 5,000 sheets. A 50-sheet bypass tray allows for unique low volume printing of heavyweight, transparencies, or labels.
Another nice feature the AR-337 has is the ability to physically shift the position of each set of copies in the output tray for easy collating and stapling. This is achieved by pressing the Electronic Sort (or E-Sort) button on the control panel. The multi-page original is scanned first into memory, and then copied in order.
Monochrome copies up to 13” x 19” can be made directly on the glass platen, or using the Duplex Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). The duplexing ability of the ADF allows for making copies from 2-sided originals without having to manually flip the papers. Zoom scales from 25% to 800% with a choice of 1% increments, automatic resizing, or in twelve jumps. Up to 999 copies can be reproduced. Resolution and print speeds are spec’d at 600 x 600 dpi up to 28 pages per minute, with either text or image digital enhancement modes. Copies are at 256 level grayscale, for making color graphics still visible in B&W.
The AR-337 is able to make copies of originals that have up to 120 pages. Other copiers just set the limit to the physical limitations of their ADF. Sharp’s Job Build mode allows the AR-337 to handle quantities typical for business users.
16MB of expandable memory and a 4.2GB hard drive enables this Sharp to handle any size print request and to securely save jobs to the hard drive. To easily delete anything saved on the storage, two simple keys are available to automatically or manually erase stored data.
Two optional Finishers can give the AR-M355 basic stapling and sorting features. Additional options are controller cards to add 600 x 1,200 dpi network printing and PostScript support to the AR-337.
CONS:
The AR-337 is a very good copier. However, the ability to add printing and scanning cards after the fact may be beyond the technical abilities of its end-users, requiring a Sharp field engineer. And even with the multi-functional options, there are less expensive mid-range multi-functions that with faster and higher print quality.
INK / TONER NEEDS:
The AR-337 comes with a “starter” toner cartridge, but it carries more than enough toner to give you enough time to purchase a full cartridge with a yield of about 22,000 pages.
Other consumables to consider will be are the drum unit and the used toner bottle.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Samsung CLX 3175 3 In 1 Color Laser Printer
OVERVIEW: If you decided it’s time upgrade your inkjet all-in-one to a laser version, you don’t have to settle for monochrome printing. For a basic 3-in-1 multi-function, with color laser printing that takes up no more space on a desk that many monochrome models, the Samsung CLX-3175 offers these features for a modest price.PROS:
Having a footprint only slightly larger than it’s monochromatic cousin, the SCX-4300, the CLX-3175 can sit at a desk or a credenza without appearing too obtrusive.
At a maximum print resolution of 2400 x 600 dpi, the CLX-3175 keeps text reasonably clear--and does a decent job with basic graphics. To keep from consuming too much toner, the printer has a 600 dpi resolution with a text-enhance or image-enhance switch. The Toner Save feature allows for a 40% toner life.
The control panel on the CLX-3175 allows a user to scan and make copies without using a computer. There is also an option for choosing whether to print in B&W to save on color toner and a Toner Save feature. As a copier, the 3-in-1 can zoom from 25% up to 400%, and make up to 99 copies in color or B&W.
The color scanner portion of the CLX-3175 is compatible with TWAIN & and XP/Vista’s WIA standards. Under TWAIN, the 1,200 x 1,200 dpi resolution can be increased to 4,800 x 4,800 dpi.
The CLX-3175 requires a USB 2.0 connection to a printer. It’s funny for a printer to offer the TWAIN scanner support (a pre-XP standard) and not have the ability to connect to older computers with parallel ports. While PC’s with a parallel interface have become few and far between, it’s nice to free up a USB port if your computer still has one.
While in Standby or Sleep mode you won’t even know that the multi-function is on at 27dB. And when it fires up at 52dB, the CLX is no noisier than low conversations. While 53 decibels may not be loud, it is annoying if the printer is sitting next to you printing 99 copies.
This multifunction has built-in an impressive 128MB of memory. While more memory cannot be added, this is more than plenty for all of your non-network printing needs.
The CLX-3175 comes standard with a 150-sheet tray, capable of handling up to legal-size paper. The single-sheet multi-purpose tray can handle transparencies, labels, post cards, envelopes, 3” x 5” postcards up to 8½” x 14” legal paper of various bond weights.
If you have a USB flash drive, the CLX-3175 can directly read from your device for scanning, copying, and printing standard image files. To make configuration recovery easy, information stored in the CLX-3175 memory can be backed up and restored using a USB Flash drive.
CONS:
No PostScript emulator. The Samsung emulator will do the job, but imaging problems like “ghosting” can occur if trying to print certain graphics created by Adobe’s Photoshop or Illustrator without a PostScript print option.
One of the things you need to consider when you decide to get a color laser printer is if you want a “multi-pass” color printing or “single-pass” printing. A multi-pass printer can give you screaming print speeds in Black and White, but will be 4 times slower printing in color because the paper has to pass through each toner. It’s similar to the way t-shirts and banners were manually silk-screened.
The CLX-3175 prints up to 17 ppm in B&W and 4 ppm in color (remember about multi-pass color printing?). The print speed in B&W could stand to be better, especially since there are now inkjet printers that are faster than this laser.
The software package seems to skimp on features, especially for Mac OS users. It would be nice if Samsung’s SmartThru software expanded its Windows features to Linux and Mac OS systems.
INK / TONER NEEDS:
The CLX-3175 comes with toners only 2/3 full and the printer requires four of them—one for each of the CMYK colors. The standard yield cartridges can be purchased separately, especially if the black toner gets depleted at a higher rate than the other colors. Combo-packages fare available to save on costs.
Other consumables you’ll need to consider is replacing the waste toner container every 10,000 toner passes, and replacement of the Imaging Unit every 24,000 passes. One color page goes through 4 toner passes, while a B&W page only has 1 pass. So if you only do color printing, your time to replace these items is shortened up to a factor of 4.
SOFTWARE:
Being a multi-purpose printer, one would expect the software to provide full functions for all the computer platforms Samsung claims it supports. The software in the CD-ROM is primarily for Windows compatible machines. For Windows users, the SmartThru software provides the most features, supporting not only scanning and printing, but offering an advanced printing section that allows for booklet printing, creating a large poster mosaics, and watermarks.
The Linux Unified Driver Configurator software allows for scanned images to manipulated and edited. For Macintosh users, the CD-ROM has a couple of basic drivers for printing and a TWAIN driver for scanning. There is no additional software support: you either must have a 3rd party application that manages scanners or use the Mac’s own Image Capture (only available on Mac OS 10.4.7 and higher).
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