Dell 5130cdn Toner Cartridges

Dell 5130cdn Printer Review

Speed is the main attraction to the Dell 5130cdn office printer, though it offers a few other features that will make printing easier and more efficient as well. This unit can generate up to 47 pages per minute in black-and-white or full color, making it one of the fastest color laser printers on the market. Also referred to simply as the 5130, it can completely warm-up in 30 seconds or less, with a first-page-out time of 8-10 seconds.

Another notable element of the Dell 5130cdn is its versatile paper handling. As a base model, the standard square design boasts a single input tray that holds 550 sheets and a 150-sheet multipurpose tray for alternative media types such as envelopes and transparencies. However, three additional trays can be purchased, two of which hold 550 sheets and one that can hold up to 1,110 sheets, making the maximum paper capacity 2,900 sheets. These trays stack below the machine, turning it from a desktop printer to a stand-alone unit. An automatic duplexer is built-in as well, providing two-sided printing at a rate of almost 38 prints per minute.

The four Dell 5130cdn toner cartridges hold different colors of printer toner and can yield 12,000 pages for cyan, magenta and yellow, and 18,000 pages for the black supply. Users can turn to the internet for the most affordable replacement toners, which can be found at a number of third-party sites as well as the manufacturer. Overall, the estimated cost per page provided by the Dell 5130cdn toner is about 1 cent for black-only documents and 7 cents for color prints.

An 800 MHz processor powers this laser office printer and the 256 MB of memory allows for relatively big tasks to be processed. More memory can be added, up to 1 GB, to handle more users or larger documents. A wireless adapter is another upgrade option if the USB, parallel and ethernet connections are not convenient enough. An 80 GB hard drive can also be added to the mix if needed.

The strong suits of this device are the paper handling features and impressive speed, but some experts have suggested the overall quality falls a bit short of the standard for this class. The maximum resolution created by the Dell 5130cdn toner is 1200x1200 dpi, which will render average graphics but slightly subpar text.

Overall, this is a powerful machine that is equipped to handle the needs of medium or large offices. It can grow with the company while keeping the cost per page to a minimum with the high-yielding Dell 5130cdn toner cartridges. This printer is reliable, productive, and ultimately a great investment.