Dell 5130CDN CLR LASER 47PPM PRNT 1200X1200DPI USB ENET256MB SF
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
By Deborah L. Santini
Have had the 5130 CDN for 13 months now. The consumables are incredibly expensive and only available from Dell. We are constantly having to replace toner, the toner waste container, fuser, etc. They are all high-priced from Dell.
One month out of warranty the printer quit with an error that it needed a new belt unit. Ordered the belt unit (only available from Dell for $375.00) and installed it. At power up it gave us an 006-370 error and said to call for support.
Called for support and wasted a ridiculous amount of time on hold then being transferred to different people.
Finally spoke to a tech support person who ultimately told me that since the printer wasn't under warranty any longer I'd have to order a "Ross Assembly"/print head and have the MCU/ESS board replaced. He also told me I'd have to hire a technician to install these parts as they are not something a customer can do. And he said that I could NOT pay to order the parts from Dell or have a Dell technician do the work, because the printer is out of warranty.
I spoke to his supervisor who treated me like an idiot and told me repeatedly that if I had just paid the extra money for the extended warranty I wouldn't have to worry about arranging to get the printer fixed on my own.
Then I received the following email from Dell:
"The Dell part c399t is not available for sale from Dell as it is recommended to not attempt to replace it. Several parts houses do have it available (found by internet searching Dell C399T), best price for the part only we found is $795.00. This has the potential to be a $1000 repair. The recommended choice would be to replace the printer. If you need anything else please let me know."
So a 13 month old printer that Dell advertises as providing "Superb Performance" and as an "Exceptional Long Term Value" will cost more than its purchase price to repair and they recommend just replacing it. WHAT???
Our university spends literally hundreds of thousands of dollars with Dell every year and this is the "service" they provide.
Dell clearly does not stand behind the products they sell and it seems clear that unless you buy the extended warranty your equipement will fail within days of when the one year warranty expires.
So steer clear of Dell products entirely, especially this printer.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By Neurasthenic
It does a lot, it does it quickly, it prints from just about anything with a microchip, and it's easy to set up. The only disadvantage to this beast is that it takes up a lot of space. We use the printer primarily from OSX, but it works from Windows too, and I was even able to print from a Tandy WP-2, an eight bit computer from 1989 that connected directly to the printer's parallel port.
It wakes from sleep faster than Lexmark printers do, in my experience, and the print looks better than a Xerox Phaser. My only complaint is with the form factor -- the printer is vast, and the auxiliary paper tray is on the side, so in addition to finding the linear feet for the printer itself, you need to leave a couple of extra feet to the right if you plan to print on letterhead or transparencies (yes, you can put them in the regular printer tray as an alternative, but it would be nice to use the auxiliary tray since Dell was nice enough to build one in there).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Wort
I have used this printer for >1 year, <50k pages - nearly all pages containing some color, and many with substantial color coverage.
I purchased this model in an attempt to cut my total cost of printing - it seems like the more expensive the printer, the lower the cost of toner/page.
At this point, my calculation says that I am now $ ahead over buying a $500 printer because of lower toner cost - YMMV...remember, I use a LOT of color.
The printer has performed as advertised.
It is big and heavy for a home office.
Even after a year, it seems ridiculously fast...especially when it is duplexing.
Duplex printing has worked flawlessly.
Toner carts are very easy to change.
The few paper jams I have encountered have been easy to clear.
The black cartridges seem to last forever.
The only issue I have had is that a couple of times it seemed to "forget" what size paper it is set for. Turing power off and back on and resetting paper size/sources fixed it.
I have not used Dell support for this product, so cannot comment specifically, but I assume support would be the usual nightmare of idiotic first/second level agents.
This printer has a 3 year warranty, so I am confused by comments in another review here, although it is little hard to believe that an IT Dept that does >$100k/year w/Dell cannot resolve issues with a defective product.
The Lexmark MS310dn network-ready laser printer with internal 2-sided printing, a 800 MHz dual-core processor, 128MB of standard memory, 300-sheet standard input and a print speed of up to 35 ppm quickly and easily performs tasks.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By C. Thomas Schmidt
I just got this item, so it's a little early to review it.
However, it was easy to set up, and it's very fast.
I haven't tried printing an envelope yet, but the mechanism for it seems cheaply made. No idea if it works well, but it's not important to me.
This is a very no-nonsense printer with no bells and whistles. Not even a digital screen. It's perfect for what I bought it for.
CLJ ENT 500 M551DN 33PPM-DUPLX NTWK GOV EURO 220V
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By J.L.
Don't make the same mistake we did. We didn't catch that this is a 220 volt printer so now we are stuck trying to convert this beast down to our 110 volt outlets. (Lesson learned!)
UPDATE 03/1/9/12
We have successfully gotten this printer to work in our 110V outlets. Overall the printer gets the job done but we have many of the same problems we've always had with HP Laser printers and terrible customer support. While the print quality is excellent, I feel for the price we could have gotten a better quality printer.
Whether supporting one user or a small workgroup, the Xerox Phaser 3250/DN black-and-white network laser printer delivers the ultimate combination of fast printing, office-friendly convenience and unbeatable overall value in a compact, space-saving design. The Phaser 3250/DN delivers more features to single users and small workgroups (up to 5 people) than this class of product has done before, including 30 ppm print speed, automatic two-sided printing, expandable paper capacity and networking. It is ideal for business applications, including Microsoft Office and other software applications that are used for communication, data analysis and reports.The outstanding Xerox quality, reliability and performance of the Phaser 3250 is backed by a standard one-year quick exchange warranty, and the exclusive Xerox Total Satisfaction Guarantee.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
By Chris Watson
This printer is simply amazing. Blazingly fast, super crisp, sharp, high resolution text output. I have been a long time user of HP printers. Mainly because everywhere I worked they had HP. Wow talk about guilty of being a lemming! Never again! Xerox makes far superior printers. Some of the reasons I am now a loyal Xerox customer:
1) Cross platform drivers. Xerox actually cares enough to write drivers for Windows, Linux, and OS X. I proudly only buy Apple computers and come from a UNIX background. So to see Xerox put in the effort and cost to write and maintain cross platform driver support tells me they care about the customer regardless of platform.
2) Dollar for dollar the Xerox won out over HP in speed, output resolution, cross platform support and features. This printer has network and automatic duplex support, supports Postscript 3, 1200 dpi, 30 pages per minute, and on top of that one of the fastest processors found in printers in this price range.
3) It's in the details dummy. Having used HP printers in the past I have had to connect via a Mac to the printer using a network connection to configure JetDirect. NOT A FAN! HP put no effort into a decent web based connection application to configure the printer over the network. Xerox not only put effort into it, the web feature is fast, easy to understand, works on any of the three supported platforms (which is more than I can say for HP) and makes configuring and upgrading the printers firmware dead simple.
4) Speed. This printer comes stock with 32MB of memory. While I think Xerox drank some drug spiked koolaid to think I am paying $500+ dollars for the 128MB memory module upgrade (thats more than the printer itself!) they offer, I am very happy with the stock 32MB of ram. This thing prints blazingly fast! It's started printing everything I have thrown at it in under 6 seconds even from sleep mode.
5) Noise. While I am sure someone can point out a printer that prints quieter, this is one of the quietest printers I have ever used. HP's have been loud and clunky. The Phaser has about half the noise output of any HP I have ever owned.
Xerox has been around for ever. Before buying this printer I had always thought they were mainly making big large digital print hardware for newspapers and magazines. No one I know has or ever had a Xerox printer.
I have learned from the error of my ways. HP is like windows. It may sell more printers than anyone but being number one does not equate to being the best or the best quality. I took a chance on this printer based simply on reading the specs for it. There were very few reviews for it. However the specs matched what I was looking for and then some. The price was reasonable for the feature set and very competitive with the other printer manufacturers. So I took a gamble and purchased the Phaser 3250DN as my first experience with Xerox. I have never been happier with the quality of a product than I am with the Phaser 3250DN. If you want the best printer on the market I strongly recommend the Xerox Phaser line. I can't say enough good things about it! Xerox makes far better printers than HP. I am a solid lifelong convert to Xerox now.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By BrianJ
This is a speedy, capable printer. It feels sturdy, and is especially quiet compared to the HP printer it replaced. The combo of features and solid build makes it a good value for the price.
Setup on a Windows 2003 server network was painless. DHCP recognized it immediately and driver software loaded without a hitch. If you want to specify a specific IP address, the included SetIP software makes changing to the preferred address easy.
One potential downside is the manual feeder, which only allows loading a single piece of media at a time. If you've got just a handful of envelopes, checks, labels, etc. to print, feeding them one sheet at a time is no biggie, but if you have a bunch to do, this isn't the best choice.
The 5000 page high capacity toner cartridge keeps maintainance to a minumum and makes per page printing costs attractive, about $0.02 per page.
As a small office or personal printer, it rocks and is a good addition to our collection of reliable Xerox printers in the firm.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By R. Scott
I purchased this Xerox laser printer to replace my 15 year old HP Laserjet 4mp laser printer that died last month. I replaced it with this new Xerox Phaser 3250/DN Mono Laser Network Duplex Printer. After being use to the 15 year old laser printer technology, the Phaser 3250/DN totally-rocks!"
A lightning fast printer and profoundly quiet with superb print quality, all for a little more than the purchase price of two replacement toner cartridges.
I do graphic design on the Mac and Bonjour, in Mac OS X, made it super easy to get it working as a network printer. The Postscript Level 3 emulation is awesome! I can't believe what technology is providing us at such a low price in 2010. AA+, Xerox!
Transfer Belt - 50,000 Page Yield
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By J. M. Miller
Had to drop it down to 4 stars because my OEM transfer belt failed at only 10% of it's life expectancy. If this one does the same I'll update and adjust the review accordingly. If it makes it to at least 50% or more, I'll add another star. Just trying to be fair.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Sivart
Great product! I thought that my expensive color laser jet had died and I would need to purchase a new one. Read online that the belt needed to be replaced. Replace it and it is working just like new!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Brett H. Pojunis
My printer sounded like a paper shredder. This seems to have fixed the problems I was having. So far so good
Laser Printers, Ricoh, Aficio SP 6330N Monochrome Laser 35 ppm 1200 dpi, 406716
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Dennis
I have 3 of these in my office. Pic Shows 2 extra trays but they are not included. Wish they would fix that because a tray is around $300. Heavy Cad/Engineering Depts. printing thousands of pages per week. No complaints. Prints come out fast and look great. 11x17 printing makes this a must have in this office. Toner is pricey but its good for 20000 plus sheets. That a penny a page. No aftermarket toners that I have found. Maintenance kit is easy to find and install. Very few Jams or complaints makes me a happy IT guy
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By va
prints very quickly. easy set up. it comes with one tray. not 3 as you see in the photo. but even with one, you can have 11x17 in the bottom and 8.5x11 in the first top tray.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
By rcataldo
Even though the printer specs do not include Smart Media cardsabove 16MB, I had no problems reading a 32 MB card. You must have a TV plugged in in order to operate the unit. The prints turned out very well. I found that if I wanted to edit the prints (size and color) on my PC them place them back on my Smart Media card, I could improve the printing significantly. I find the media a bit expensive, but for a low cost printer that will be used for an occasional photo quality print, it is worth having it.
