PCWorld: Review – Dell 2350dn Monochrome Laser Printer
The reviewer lauds this small business laser printer’s impressive print quality and fast performance, calling it a “multitalented workhorse.” Toner costs are reasonable too.
“Dell’s 2350dn offers small and medium-size workgroups a well-rounded monochrome laser printer, with peppy performance, impressive print quality, and reasonable toner costs for a low price ($300 as of November 16, 2010).
A less-expensive sibling to two other well-regarded Dell monochrome lasers–the high-end Dell 5230dn and midrange Dell 3330dn–the 2350dn outperformed all competitors in its class. In our PC-platform tests, it achieved a swift 22.8 pages per minute while printing pages consisting mostly of plain text with a sprinkling of simple monochrome graphics. The same files on the Mac tumbled out at a somewhat slower pace of 19.2 ppm. Graphics performance, never a monochrome laser’s strong suit, was above average. On the Mac, a complex PDF file containing text, finer graphics, and photos emerged at a middling speed of 4.2 ppm, while a page of snapshot-size photos and color bars printed on the PC popped out in the equivalent of a zippy 14.1 ppm. I observed some background roughness in the samples, but it was evenly distributed and thus less jarring. A limited range of middle grays flattened some images and created excessive shadows in another, but the output still looked better than the harsh images we see from most monochrome lasers.”
