Dell 5230dn – Printer With Features And Speed For A Busy Office

The Dell 5230dn is the latest monochrome laser printer from Dell, and although the printer is a tad expensive (costs around $1000), but it does have all the features, speed and expandability that you need in a printer for a busy office or a medium-size workgroup. Some other respectable thing that works in the favor of Dell 5230dn is its excellent three-year limited warranty along with the next-business-day on-site service and its cheap toner. So on a whole the 5230dn is a respectable buy even for a long term.

The Dell 5230dn comes loaded with plethora of standard features, in addition to the expandability. The 5230dn supports about 350 pages of input paper combined for the chief and multi-use trays. Users are also allowed to add up to three 550 sheet drawers, which will cost you $250 each and also a 2000 sheet drawer feeder that will cost you around $900 for an utmost capacity of 4000 sheets.

The 5230dn comes fitted with Ethernet and USB ports; but it also has slot for optional parallel or serial connectors that will cost you around $90 or less. There also is an empty bay, which can be used for adding a hard drive for fonts or forms. The control panel for the printer comes with a 3-inch, four-line, backlit monochrome LCD screen which can tilt upward a bit, and in addition to it there also are visibly labeled buttons, a front USB port and a keypad.

The Dell 5230dn is built for high-volume printing and the printer comes with a monthly duty cycle of 200,000 pages and at the same time it delivers prints at a decent speed. The printer delivered average speed of 21.5 ppm (pages per minute) on a Mac and 23.4 ppm (pages per minute) on a PC, while printing plain text most of the times along with some simple monochrome graphics. But the good news here is that the text print quality was really good, as expected and the images printed from the printer suffered from slower print times and limited grayscale range.

The reason why we are recommending this printer for a bust office is because a busy office needs high-volume printing and with cheap toner, and the Dell 5230dn offers just that. The use-and-return alternate cartridges for the printer with print capacity of 7000 pages standard costs $140, and for 21,000 page high-yield size toner costs $300.

A busy office requires a printer that can keep up the pace and the Dell 5230dn that we are talking about here delivers just that and it definitely will, be fruitful for your business. To make it even better there is the liberal warranty and inexpensive toner, on a whole the Dell 5230dn is just the kind of deal you wanted.