Reviewing Dell's 3115cn Printer

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:19:23 EST

The Dell 3115cn printer is a machine that serves 4 different functions any office environment can benefit from. When coupled with great toner for Dell 3115cn, it's also capable of making copies, scanning, and sending fax. There's room for expansion, so it can easily catch up with the expanding demands of the office in the future.

It has an 18.1-inch width, 22.4-inch depth and 28.7-inch height. Within it lies a processor with 400 MHz. Such is capable of doing 31 monochrome prints every minute, or 17 colored prints every minute. It can turn out pages with resolutions of up to 600 x 600 dpi, 2400 image quality. An automatic 50-page document feeder saves the operator from feeding the sheets one by one manually.

Its full-color flatbed scanner can scan documents and colored images with accuracy. It can work either hooked up to a network or directly connected to a computer. With a big document feeder, one doesn't have to worry about paper jams or any other similar problems. In a busy office setting when everyone is ready to print, copy or scan, there's little room for anything which causes delay.

Because it's a stand-alone fax machine, it's possible to send faxes on the 3115cn even without being attached to a PC. But when connected to one, it's possible to send out a document directly from an e-mail account, thanks to a high-speed fax modem. Because of the 50-page capacity document feeder, multiple pages of documents may be faxed while you're attending to other tasks.

A great economizing feature Dell has thrown in is the ColorTrack control tool. This tool enables you to determine access to the machine by a workgroup or individual. Up to 50 user or department accounts can be made, and each one of them can be monitored remotely via web configuration software. It's easy to enable or disable the printer, as well as set up limitations in doing monochrome or color printing.

When the Dell Color Laser toners begins to run low, there's a proactive way for this machine to alert you. This, thanks to the Dell Toner Management System, or DTMS. There are 3 ways of being notified. The LCD screen gives out an alert or check the toner level with a computer that's part of the network. In addition, an e-mail alert may be intelligently sent to the person who should know about it.

Standard memory of 256 MB is shared by printing (128 MB) and copying, scanning and faxing (128 MB). But to efficiently handle massive tasks, it can be expanded to a max of 1152 MB. Aside from the onboard standard memory, there are other features of this machine that are set for upgrading. It makes this 4-in-1 machine flexible enough to catch up with the changing needs of an expanding office environment.

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Reviewing Dell's 3115cn Printer