Dell 3100cn Laser Printer w/ 2-year NBD Onsite Response (25 PPM, 600x600 DPI, Color, 64, 8MB, PC/Mac)

(99 - MPN: 31OS1B)

Description: The Dell? Color Laser Printer 3100cn offers reliable performance and color laser printing for a small business at the price of black and white. This printer provides up to 25 pages per minute in black and white and 5 pages per minute in col.... Read More

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Date Reviewed: 06/11/2005
ckeegan from SC Member Since: Jun 2003 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 1 Months	This is a great printer for my needs which consist ... Strengths: Great color quality. Very fast from warm up to print for color and b/w(i.e. 30 full color flyers in 5 minutes from the time I hit the print button on a computer on the wireless network). Very simple setup is also a plus. Low cost of ownership! Weaknesses: It's heavy, but once you put it where you need it, that weakness is very minimal, unless of course you're OCD and change your office around once a week. Otherwise, I do get these white boxes around some images, but I honestly believe it's due to my er Summary: This is a great printer for my needs which consist of about 300 full color flyer per month and about 15, 15 page color presentations per month. I think it is a great printer for a small to medium business, or even a sole-propieter. Overall, its consistency, quality, and speed completely outway any hindrances such as weight or the weird white box around some images(and I'm sure that's a problem on my end since it only seems to happen with images where I have altered the background.) Great printer, and I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a great color laser at a great price. 100% of People (14/14) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are 2 comments for this review. Read all comments. Post a comment. Never buy Dell. It is useless product. There are much better pr...

Date Reviewed: 11/03/2005
gmoneyjie from NY Member Since: Jul 2004 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 2 Weeks	Dell 3100CN Color Laser Printer Strengths: Price paid less than $300, Network ready, driver installation to multiple LAN computers was a breeze with the included software. Weaknesses: Big equipment, available memory size, figuring out how to insert toner. Instructions and manual is not detailed enough Summary: I purchased this for my office for a couple of reason. The price was good and toner supposed to last 4000 pages (so they say). This printer was installed as a networked printer and setup was a breeze. IP address was obtained through DHCP without any problems, and using the available software/driver cd to install drivers on our LAN computers was all done from my latop computer. Definitely made my job easier. Also I was able to manage the printer setting and status w/o being in front of the Printers control panel. I just type in the printer's IP address in IE to browse through the setup and status monitoring. Print speed was moderately good and quality is much sharper than the inkjet it replaced. So far toner level is still at 100% after printing 200+ pages. When the price is right and the functionality is good, I say this is a definitely a good recommendation (as long as you have enough space for this hugh monstrosity). 100% of People (6/6) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 02/21/2007
amroberts2 Member Since: Feb 2007 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 1 Year	Tonor/Print Smudging Strengths: Fast, good quality with graphics Weaknesses: Scraping or smudging through color print jobs. Summary: This printer is about 1 year old. It has worked great, but after about 20,000 copies, it now produces color prints with smudges running from top to bottom of pages. It appears to be a roller problem, but after contacting Dell, they say this is a drum problem. As I explained to the Dell representative, this problem has occurred before and after multiple drum replacements, AND it is also happening on our second 3100cn. The drums have been replaced multiple times -- the problem has not gone away. It's a good printer, but personally speaking I would consider carefully whether to purchase again for moderately heavy printing. But with a $400 cost, it's a tough choice. 100% of People (2/2) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 08/06/2006
WJHDDS Member Since: Jul 2006 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 14 Days	printer Strengths: great color Weaknesses: paper sometimes gets stuck Summary: we are happy over all great bright and realist color pictures.it's fast. networks very easly in our office the price was great. not to big.we are very pleased 100% of People (1/1) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 10/02/2005
inmaxsys Member Since: Oct 2005 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 20 Days	This printer is not suitable for business use. It ... Strengths: it prints b&w text ok Weaknesses: toners only from DELL, poor graphics and photo, text fuzzy with lower size fonts. Summary: This printer is not suitable for business use. It is good for students and casual use, but you don't want to print client proposals and brochures on this printer. Cheap and for a reason. Dell support is very poor, they just want your money and offer nothing back. We had 3100 and 5100, both are medicare printers. For serious work, go with HP or Minolta. 22% of People (4/18) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.