1320C

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Dell 1320c Review

Dell is starting to become a leading vendor of printers in its own right and to actually offer you a streamlined colour laser for a bit above £220 puts it in straight competition with brands such as Canon, HP, Lexmark as well as Xerox. It's not only the basic price of the printer, though, which can determine the all inclusive costs of possession.

The 1320c is a large, black and silver cube, although not as large as a number of the rivals, having angular, practical styling. Whilst the control panel fixed in to the printer's curved, front edge does not have any Liquid crystal display, it does possess six indicator LEDs, which indicate exactly where within the printer there's a problem, should any arise.

The printer can take as much as 250 sheets of paper in one tray in the bottom but there is not any option for a supplementary tray. A single-sheet feed slot is available for feeding envelopes or special media and all the pages exit to the top surface of the machine where there is a fold-out flap to cater to longer sheets. At the backside is a single USB socket, as one of the economies in the design is rendering networking services an option; just about the only real option to choose from.

Software installation is very simple as there is merely a print driver as well as supplies management applets, which install automatically.

The print driver is actually unexpectedly advanced, having selections for duplex - though disappointingly this is actually just manual duplex - several pages per sheet as well as colour profiling. Even though there aren't any instructions to perform manual duplex, should you remove the pages from the output tray and put them in the identical orientation in to the feed tray, all of it works alright.

The print rates of speed are not particularly magnificent, even for a fairly affordable colour laser printer such as this.

Print quality is in the main pretty good. Black text is dense as well as nicely formed even although the printer's resolution at 600dpi is lower compared to a number of its rivals. Solid colour, such as business graphics, is in addition usually decent yet we did observe some moderate mis-registration of black text over-printing colour backgrounds. That said, in normal use this will not be a concern.

The photographic print wasn't spectacular, however no worse than from a number of other colour lasers in this price bracket. Curiously, the 1320c made a much better job of the picture when set to automatic colour in comparison with when we went into the driver and chose colour correction for landscape photographs.

You have to fit the four Dell 1320c printer toner cartridges in the side of the unit.

You will find negative and positive things to say regarding Dell's 1320c colour laser. It is really nicely turned out, works quietly and generates fine quality print, however is pretty expensive to work plus does not have any genuine expansion opportunity. To add colour to business documents in a small office it would be decent value, but it's not likely to hold up if your business grows.