The color prints are done exceptionally, and the graphic quality is incomparable with other printers’ capacities. The black prints also benefit from the same clarity and good graphic quality. Compared with the HP Color LaserJet 3500 and the 2550 versions, this Dell 3100cn color laser printer has a top place when taking its capacities into consideration. Its price is also not very high, and it sure worth every penny, it costs only $549, while the price of each printing will not surpass the 1.5 cents for black prints, and 9.9 cents for the colored ones.

After these many pros, there sure are some cons too. The most visible con is that the Dell 3100cn doesn’t really spare too much space around when stored, and it also proves to be slower while printing 4.2 pages per minute. The chosen color for the case is not am inspiring one either; the gray tones will not cheer up the office space too much, because its dimensions are not so small. After these few cons, here comes another pro: the Dell 3100cn has a 22 ppm grayscale text speed, which is far better than other color printers can achieve. This feature will prove vital in a heavy text-printing office space, as the growing businesses are.

The Dell 3100cn will conquer all the tasks that need to be fulfilled in the working area, and you might not need other machines to do the work for you. This is an important asset that people from Dell thought about while creating this tower color printer. Probably this is the reason they indulged themselves by choosing a not so lighted color for their machine. Whoever needs great capabilities and a multitasking color printer will want to buy a Dell 3100cn device for their offices.

It weights 72 pounds, and has 21 inches height, enough wideness to want to create a little more room in your desk office especially for this color laser printer. The paper tray can hold up to 400-sheets, and 4,000 page toner drums. There aren’t too many buttons at the front of the printer’s case; however, it has three buttons that are placed under the blue LCD screen, a select button with four arrow keys, and a cancel button, that will ease the access to applications.

When the cartridge needs to be changed, you will have to rotate the toner carousel that holds the three color cartridges and the black cartridge, placed at the front of the printer’s case.

The Dell 3100cn printer has three USB ports. The cables that are needed for the printer are sold separately, unlike other printers packages, but each of them costs around $20. You can also buy the Dell 3100cn color printer with an additional option of a duplexer that costs $300, and will provide the two-sided printing possibility.