The Dell 5100cn Printer - Versatile. Fast. Affordable.

Consideration should be given to the Dell 5100cn printer for any home or office setting. Small home businesses or small commercial business will benefit from the functions of this printer. This printer is powerful enough to handle large load printing or small printing jobs. It is high speed, even for two sided printing color jobs.

This printer has the ability to load multiple paper trays to handle large printing jobs. This is extremely helpful since reloading paper will not be necessary very often during a large printing job. It holds standard paper and legal paper. A fold down tray is provided with the printer adding one hundred fifty more sheets to the capacity of the default tray.

Even though it is able to handle the standard paper sizes, this printer has a multipurpose tray. This tray can handle thicker paper as well as envelopes and folders. This is a standard feature that other printers usually do not provide.

Trays can be added to the functionality of the printer. The option of purchasing paper trays that can hold either five hundred sheets or one thousand sheets is available for those who require this printer to perform large volumes of printing. These are features that rival those of larger, more expensive copiers. You can use the duplexer, which comes standard with the 5100cn, to print document that are double sided.

The Dell 5100cn is very economical and cost efficient. This printer, unlike others, does not cost much to run. Black ink will cost around 50 dollars and color will cost only around 160 dollars. You will see an output of around 8000 copies for color printed pages and for black and white printed copies, you can expect around 9000 copies produced by the printer.

Test results for the Dell 5100cn show that it is a very fast printer, one of the fastest around. You can expect a rate of 21 sheets per minute for standard black and white printed pages and for color, you can expect around 6 pages per minute. While other copiers may produce color prints slightly faster, the image quality of the colored pages is excellent.

System installation for this printer is much easier than other printers. Addressing the printer with its own IP address is not only a provided feature but is easy to do. Adding to its functionality is the two USB and parallel ports.

Web based administrative software is very compatible for small businesses with limited printers. Good image quality and quick printing job processing is what the 5100cn printer is able to accomplish. It is compact enough to fit in tighter spaces for homes and offices that need to maximize their working space.

Home businesses and small businesses will find that the Dell 5100cn printer is both functional and economical. The Dell compatible toner can handle any small printing job with ease and can perform large printing tasks like larger, more expensive models. It has the ability to produce one sided black and white copies and two sided color copies.