Information On The Dell 5100cn Printer

by erin on August 19, 2010

The Dell 5100cn printer is a good printer to have for the home and the office. If you own your own business or have a home office, this printer has the ability to handle any printing job you need done. It is a powerful printer that you can use for regular printing jobs, high speed printing jobs and even double sided jobs. It will also produce color copies on a single side or a double side.

One of the benefits to the printer is that you can fill multiple paper drawers to perform large load printing. Not having to load paper every few minutes is quite an advantage to your printing needs and saves time. The standard paper tray or the default paper tray has a paper capacity of 500 sheets. This is comparable to larger, full size copiers. It also has a fold down tray that can hold as many as 150 additional sheets to supplement the default tray.

It can handle standard paper sizes to legal paper size. In addition, it has a multipurpose tray that can handle envelopes and folders. This creates a functionality that is not found with ordinary and similarly priced printers.

You can add trays to the printer for an additional cost. If you need to add another paper tray that can hold up to 500 sheets of paper, you can add that tray to the bottom of the printer. There is also a tray available that can hold 1000 sheets of paper to make your total paper capacity rivaling that and surpassing larger, more expensive full size printers. A duplexer, which comes with the printer and is built in, allows you to print double sided copies of any document you choose.

The 5100cn printer is a printer that is efficient to run. Toner cartridges in black will cost around fifty dollars and will last for quite some time. You should be able to print approximately 9000 copies before any change in the black toner would be required. Color toner cartridges will produce around 8000 sheets before needing to be replaced and cost between one hundred fifty and one hundred seventy dollars.

The performance of the 5100cn printer is excellent. It is one of the fastest printers available. The rate of printing for black toner is about 21 sheets per minute and for color printing, the rate is 6 pages per minute. The color printing rate is comparable to other printers.

Getting the printer installed is relatively straightforward and easy. It also comes with two USB ports and parallel ports. You can even assign this printer its own IP address.

The 5100cn printer web based administrative software works well for a small business that utilizes only a few printers. The image quality of the printer is very good and it will go through paper quickly to make large printing jobs quick and easy. The size of the 5100cn makes it very easy to place in tight spaces so it does not utilize too much office space.

The Dell 5100cn printer is an economical printer for any home or small office. It is quick to handle large or small printing jobs. It has good Dell compatible toner and image quality for both black and white copies as well as color. The ability to handle two sided copies without complication is an added benefit to its functionality.

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