Good printer with low follow-up costs

Good printer with low follow-up costs

Dell C1660w LED color laser printer (600x600dpi, USB, WLAN) (Accessories)

Customer Review

Long I've been looking for a printer with low follow-up costs, such as the Samsung CLP had 300. But why was this printer as low compared to the other available on the market.

Samsung had the toner cartridges replaced only with this printer through simple dose containers (you can quickly find out by Google). These doses containing only toner and no complex roles and Co. are obviously much cheaper like a real role with toner and Co. All four colors were then to have for 30. Why the followers can again contained outrageously expensive toner each decide for themselves.

This type of cartridges Dell has now taken up again in this model, which I personally find very convenient. Again, costs of full color set 30 and is available from many manufacturers. But now to the printer itself:

Processing:
The printer is amazingly difficult, not least because of the fact that needs to be and also the entire color technology weighs a lot inside a toner conveyance system. Nevertheless, the printer is pleasantly small and looks pretty good really what ago. All parts that I could inspect from the outside and inside do not give the impression that you would be favorable. The plastic casing is pleasantly thick and thus also correspondingly robust.
All in all I am really surprised that the printer is as it is. Looking at the printer from these aspects, one always ends up in significantly higher price points and not in (120 - C10660w - Amazon mixed the reviews, unfortunately).

Print quality and speed:
A color laser printer is not traditionally as for printing photos, though today many already can. Even the C1660w can print photos and bring them as well to the paper one might even hang them on the wall easily. Personally, I find the printed photos well, but I also know that there is still room for improvement here. Relative to the low price I have to say here again that the print quality is so good that one would expect a more expensive device. In this price range, the printer is the absolute winner.

The image of text is great and super sharp. For my part I use the printer primarily for my company where I several bills (with color) and even some proofs (photos - photos) do. Overall, we can also find here the printer his service really well done.

Speed. This is the Achilles' heel of the printer. 12 pages per minute is not bad (certainly not for photos) but in black / white, the printer is not much faster and so it may be that you have to wait for a printout times longer already. Personally I do not find that bad, since I anyway on the network path chicke print jobs and usually only later to the printer over to pick up the expression.

Slanted printing:
In some reviews there was talk of an oblique pressure. This issue I observed also, the pressure is even not diagonally but only the pressure Knew diagonal ends (about 1mm to 20cm of A4). However, the print margins are even on the long sides of A4 page grade.

What does that mean for normal use?

Prints are images that have these at the bottom of the image a light oblique edge. The image itself is printed just as well from top to bottom just (undistorted) on the sheet. The oblique comes as the bottom of the image a tiny part is no longer printed on paper. The whole incident on only by the fact that still is a white margin on the paper in which you noticed that this edge is slightly crooked. This error, however, is completely irrelevant to the average user and a 1 star rating I understand and certainly not in this case. If you cut the pictures out is nothing more to see of the oblique. As I said, there is a maximum of one millimeter difference.

Furnishings:
The decor is very simple, because you must only connect the USB cable (Windows computer) and then connect the printer without problems in the WLAN. Once that happened, you can also configure the printer using a web interface.
A manual is not in (in writing) but is only available on the CD in the form of a PDF. I find good because as the environment is protected with meaningless print. The Quickstart Guide included with the (one side) should actually be enough the printer to operate. In the office still recommends in addition to give the printer a static IP (that is not in the manual / Quick Start Guide).

Conclusion:
For really very little money you get here a solid printer of the super low cost of ownership has. Moreover your printer is really well made and works on the network completely reliable. The printing speed is quite enough and I think okay, considering that the printer only costs 120 (c1660w).
Dell sold here Technology (cartridge technology) as it is also installed in higher-value equipment which keeps the printing costs low. Personally, I find that this way for several reasons is positive: Geschonte environmental, cheap, and most of all very economical. I currently know of no other printer model which also offers the solution cartridges with toner-only (at this low price).

As an alternative to this printer even this Brother () could be used. The pressure follow-up costs are almost the same, but the drum is very expensive if you want to replace them (after about 20,000 pages).

LINUX:
If you want to use the printer on Linux, this can only have two different ways to do both of which require some tinkering. On the one hand you can use an existing XEROX driver works so-so, or you can emulate a small print server, which then deposited the printer LAP Printer.

Both solutions are not perfect and therefore the printer for LINUX users is appropriate in my opinion, not really.

Good Mood Song 2 1 Rank: 5/5
March 29
Very good Snap Case Rank: 5/5
November 22
What more? 8 Rank: 5/5
February 1
12 mice Rank: 3/5
January 31
Not bad !! 1272 Rank: 4/5
March 5

Related Reviews


Jack of all trades with opaque follow-up costsEpson Expression Premium XP-820 inkjet multifunction (print, scan copy and fax) Black (Personal Computers) Good printer with slight weaknessesEpson AcuLaser CX17WF 4-in-1 device with WLAN (printer / scanner / copier / fax) (Personal Computers) Good printer with minor degradation in photo printingCanon PIXMA iP4700 A4 Inkjet (Personal Computers) Tips printers with increased follow-up costsCanon PIXMA iP4200 Inkjet Printer (Personal Computers) Good printer with good software at a budget priceKyocera FS-1300D monochrome laser printer with duplex unit (personal computer) Very good printer with little quirksHP LaserJet Pro 100 M175a All-in-One color laser multifunction printers (A4, printers, scanners, copiers, USB, 600x600) (Accessories) Good device with low consumptionBosch WTW84162 heat pump dryer / A ++ / 7 kg / White / ActiveAir Technology / Selfcleaning Condenser (Misc.) Very good suction with low effort and gesengtem energy consumption. Flawless workmanship.Miele combi nozzle SBD 650-3 AirTeq 7,879,500 (Misc.) Very good printer with a sales logistical problemEPSON AcuLaser C2900DN A4 color laser 23ppm 600dpi (Personal Computers) Good printer with weaknessesEpson Stylus Office BX535WD multifunction device (WiFi, Ethernet, printer, scanner, copier, Duplex) (Personal Computers) Good printer with poor softwareBrother HL-L2340DW Monochrome Laser Printer (2400 x 600 dpi, Wireless, USB 2.0) Black (Accessories) Good printer with weaknesses in detailHP Color LaserJet MFP M476dw per color laser printer (print, scan, copy, fax, 600x600 dpi, USB 2.0, Duplex) (ML) gray / black (Office supplies & stationery) Good printer with some flawsSamsung Xpress C410W color laser printer (2400 x 600 dpi, WiFi, USB, NFC) white (Personal Computers) Good image with low distortionCanon EF 14mm / 2.8 / L USM II lens (optional) Good printer with poor SofTech inkCanon PIXMA iP3600 inkjet printer incl. 3m USB cable & 5 SofTech cartridges IP 3600 (Electronics) Very good protection with low-tolerancemumbi Cover Sony Xperia Z2 shell transparent white (accessory) Good device with low power consumption; unfortunately humsSony ZS-PS30CPW Compact CD Boombox with USB connection White (Electronics) Good printer, with deficiencies for the fax settings!Canon PIXMA MX455 All-in-One Multifunction Device USB / WLAN / Apple AirPrint (printer, scanner, copier and fax) Black (Personal Computers) Good Tablet with low price!Trust TB-5300 Slimline Design graphics tablet cordless (Personal Computers)