Dell 2135cn Color Laser MFP Review

Monolithic design is something that we have become accustomed, and the new Dell Color Laser 2135cn multifunction is one of the est monolithic. This is a Multifunction Color Laser, together with the unusual design, but it is very normal way. Color printing, scanning, copying and fax machines within its jurisdiction.

Dell’s completely encased in matte black, this machine is a design change forced a laser engine. Feeds in front of your printer paper tray 250-sheet multipurpose slot or one of the blade, and deposits at the top of the pages for printing unit, the power is back in front. Since the scanner must be installed above, it may be difficult to separate the sheets over.

To avoid this, Dell has launched a scanner in one of the pedestal on the left side, leaving the right side open, so you can take the pages manually. The control panel, ease of use, is at the top of the feed mechanism, which offers ready pages.

This is a simple, four circular buttons with a cross sign to confirm the middle button and four function keys round diamonds outside the main controls. Numeric keypad is installed on the right, including facilities for writing e-mail addresses on the left side, it is strange, simple, four-line backlit LCD screen, with none of the aesthetic subtleties that we have come to expect. This is a simple text screen, whose messages are more interested in the programmer that the marketing executive.

Flatbed scanner at the top of the 2135cn is a normal design 1200 dpi with 35-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) and the plane itself. In the back is a MFP USB and Ethernet jacks and two phone lines and mobile phones.

Refer to the front of the printer and can be seen in the four photoconductor drum, and the belt, but Toner. This is just our experience, these cartridges are divorced, and now the drums were shot on the right panel of the printer.

We are not convinced that this is an advantage, because you have to leave enough room for front and side of the printer, open the door and includes the necessary maintenance. It is much easier to pull together and Toner cartridges from the slots in front of the drum machine to play with.

Software installation is surprisingly simple and provides the drivers and the scanner. The instructions also maintains a copy of PaperPort OCR has to deal with the machine, but can find no trace of it to CD. Without it, you have to buy third party software to separate the text.

Dell says this machine to print 16ppm black and 12ppm color printing. As always, we have not seen such a speed, but it does not print in draft mode. Our five-page paper on the text of 41 seconds and the text and color graphics test, surprisingly, took less than two seconds. Extended for one 20-page document took 1:56.

These times are in the real world, the printing speed of 7.32ppm, 7.69ppm and 10.34ppm points, none of which are bad, but they are not close to the manufacturer�s claims.

600 dpi print output is a good black, well-developed characters with no splashing. Colors are soft and shiny, although some of the evil black text over a colored background haloing registered. Color photocopy of the original game was a good level of saturation, although the tone of some of its color has changed a bit.

The photographic reproduction of vivid colors, despite the enhanced 2400 dpi resolution ensures detailed images easily enough.

Also, Toner cartridges, which are available in two different capacities, you must replace the imaging drum every 24,000 pages. Printer with a black 2500 pages Toner cartridge color toner and 1000 pages, but when his replacement, you can buy a high-capacity 2500 pages of color and consumption.

Using these higher capacity cartridges and imaging drum for the price of Dell will cost 2.86p to 9.06p per page in black color. Both prices are falling in the range of mid-Color Laser machines at this price, you do not pay over the odds when you go to Dell route.

Conclusion

Opportunity to feed the paper in front of it is meant that the number of standard deviations of the MFP Color Laser design. Grab some maintenance Toner makes a little more difficult, but overall this is a good alternative for most of its competitors. Approximately 350 dollars, which is not so cheap is a device that provides a relatively moderate rate does not, but the print quality is fair and is not integrated into the fax.