Dell 5210n - Inspiring Capacity At An Frugal Price

If you’ve decided that networking the Dell 5210n printer you’ve just bought is a good idea, you’re absolutely right. This printer and the Dell 5210n toner it comes standard with are designed for workgroup networks. This is proven by the toner cartridge’s 10,000 page output capacity, the speed with which it prints pages and the list price, which at under a thousand dollars is nice for a laser printer delivering the kind of performance this one does.

Output capacity. The included 250 sheet paper tray is adequate for most medium-duty printing requirements. It can hold a massive 2600 pages with the inclusion of optional 500 sheet trays. The 5210n is also rated for monthly duty cycles of 200,000 pages, which should be as much as any medium-size workgroup would need under most any circumstance.

Interface Ports. The Dell 5210n laser printer comes standard with the latest USB and Ethernet ports, in addition to an optional wireless 802.11b/g networking adaptor. This will make it quite easy for the IT folks to place the printer into an already-existing workgroup network. Wireless is probably the next wave of networking technologies designed to make it even easier for workgroups to operate.

Quality of Output. Document quality from the printer is good. With 1200dpi, there’s not much to find fault with. Characters look good in black and white, and there’s no bleary-looking printing on the produced document.

How much Memory? The 5210n comes standard with 64MB, which is acceptable though a bit on the low side, these days. But you can quickly and cheaply expand it all the way up to 576MB, making it a player in the high-speed, high-output laser printer field. With memory as cheap as it is, there are no worries about cost, either.

Ease of Utility. The Dell 5210n lets networked workgroups of medium size create print jobs with very little drama. At 40ppm of printed page output, there shouldn’t be much waiting around for a whole print job to appear. If you duplex print, though, output drops by ten pages, to 30ppm. With all the different types of connection ports that come with the printer, finding a good way to interface with the local network should be fairly simple.

Warranty and Cartridges. The 5210n comes with Dell’s standard year-long 24/7 service program, which can be extended by an additional 4 years for a nominal fee. It also comes with an included 10,000 page laser toner cartridge.

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