Laser Printers

Dell has been on constant innovation to have come up with a model like 3130cn which has the speed, efficiency and power to give a small scale office owner the literal push he needs with his business. One could say that it is one of those almost-perfect printers which have lot of options to improvise the output of the workgroup.

TRENDY MACHINE DESIGNED FOR SPEED

This 3130CN colour laser printer from Dell shells out an estimated speed of 30 pages per minute or ppm. The model sports a big hulky black machine which plainly exudes power and performance. The massive bulk of this printer hides the laser colour engine which is mounted vertically. The four individual cartridges are supported by an integral drum which is photo conductive. There is also a transfer belt which transports papers from the paper tray with a capacity of 250 sheets or 150 sheets capacitated tray that is multipurpose and located on top of the engine.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

This colour laser printer from Dell hosts a control panel on top which has an LCD display and the ergonomics are quite simple and user friendly. In the ring like order there are the navigation buttons for menu with one large button for select and a cancel button.

Dell 3130CN is cartridge-preinstalled and softwares that are loaded to the machine have drivers that decode both PCL 5e/6 Emulation with 81 fonts as well as Level 3 of Adobe PostScript with 136 font types. The printer can be hooked up to 50 user accounts who can be allotted various levels of printing access.

PRINT SPEED

One can say that this is a machine which comprises of all the innate qualities and compromises both the workers and the boss. This is one of the perfect printers anyone would love to have for a growing and flourishing business.

Ordinary plain papers have a print speed of up to 25.3 ppm and a graphic sheet speed of nearly 5.7 ppm. The quality of the printing along with the speed is pretty impressive and realistic to look at.

The maximum workload expectation from this speedy printer is about 70,000 pages per month which is practically profitable for the company. The toner that comes with this machine is an extremely high capacity one. There are the standard supplies with a black cartridge of 4000 pages, the cyan, the yellow and the magenta coloured cartridges of 3000 pages each.

The toner management allows you to monitor the levels and automatically alerts when one gets to a low level. The toners could be ordered online and delivery made easily.

The odd-man out feature that one could find in this laser printer is the lack of a copier or duplexer.

OPERATING CONDUCIVENESS

The Dell 3130cn laser printer works best at a temperature of 5 to 32°C and a humidity level of 15-85% and the best operating altitude is of 3100 m or 10,000 feet.

USER INTERFACE

For wireless connectivity, one can find sockets around the back of this hulky black printer for USB 2.0 version, one for Ethernet and parallel, along with an adapter for Wi-Fi which is an added option.

TYPE	CONNECTION	SYMBOL
Parallel	IEEE1284
Ethernet	10 Base-T/100 Base-TX
USB	USB2.0
Wireless	IEEE802.11b/802.11g

DEVICE SECURITY

Dell has come out with a unique Kensington lock which is optional but allows you a tension free after hours. Just by simply attaching this Kensington lock to the security slot your printer could be protected from theft.

Dell 3130cn Color Laser Printer – Technical Specification Table

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