The most known brand for office all-in-one's at the moment would be HP. But other manufacturers aren't very far off in terms of the quality and price their products offer. Dell, for example has been improving greatly and has released a pretty impressive device on the market, the Dell 968w, an all-in-one wireless printer.



So what exactly are you getting that would make you chose the dell color printer out of a long series of options? First of all, it packs wireless. This means that it can work with as many computers as you have in your workgroup. Have a laptop in your office and a desktop in the kid's room?



No problem, both users can print whenever they want. In the case of the Dell 968w all-in-one means that it can print, scan, copy and fax. It also has duplexing so you can print on both sides of the paper with ease. This will both save you paper (as you'll be printing on both sides of one sheet instead of using two distinct sheets) and time as well.

As most printers nowadays, the 968w also offers the option to print directly from a digicam or from a memory card (through PictBridge). There's a slot on the front of the printer that supports For controls you'll be getting a power on button, direction keys and a confirmation key right in the middle, and you will navigate by using the 2.4 inch color LCD screen. It's easy to install, the instructions Dell provides are crystal clear, and you'll most likely have no trouble at all setting up it's wireless capabilities.

The speed of the printer is not bad at all. The manufacturer claims up to 32 pages per minute when your printing black and 27 pages per minute for color. Despite the good speed, the quality of the prints is impressive too. If you'll want to print some photos, by using photo paper, you'll notice the quality of photos is very good as well. Printouts have a maximum resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi while scanning is done at a maximum of 1200 x 4800 dpi. Along with the printer you'll also get the Snapfire software which is said to be pretty useful for creative editing and setting various preferences. Beware of the cost and consumption of ink though.



Beware of the ink price and consumption though. Its high-yield black cartridge costs around $25 and will last for around 490 pages whereas the color (magenta, cyan, yellow) one will empty after 400 pages or so. As a conclusion, this dell color printer is a great purchase if you want to get rid of all those annoying wires in your home office or in a working environment. It's not exactly the best in terms of affordability, but a user almost always has to make a choice between low price and good features.