The Dell 5210n laser printer and its associated Dell 5210n toner cartridge are made to work together to provide printing services to networked workgroups. It combines high-speed print output with good-quality printing quality at a list price well under a thousand dollars.
Print Output. The unit comes standard with a 250 sheet tray which ably meets average print duty needs. What’s impressive is its 2600 page ultimate capacity, when configured with the right printer trays. Also, the very large 200,000 page duty cycle contributes to the 5210n’s workhorse qualities. With such a large cycle, printer maintenance should be an occasional thing, and not something that happens every other day. For mid-sized networks, the printer seems a good choice.
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.
Memory. Memory in the 5210n is good, with a standard 64 megabytes available. This is expandable up to 576 megs, making it more-than-adequate for almost any business printing need. Plus, the memory is easily installed into the laser printer with little or no fuss.
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.
Service and Toner Cartridges. The Dell 5210n comes standard with a Dell 5210n laser toner cartridge of 10,000 page capacity. Also, Dell includes 1 year of 24/7 on-site “as needed” service, which can be extended an extra 4 more years, for a charge.
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