Choosing a personal or home office printer can be cumbersome at the least. How much room do you have? What is the main purpose of the machine, or what are you going to print with it? The Dell 3010cn color laser printer is perfect for home use or a small office, home or otherwise. The USB and fast Ethernet connections make it easy to use in an office and network it to other users, great if you are starting a home based business.
The Dell 3010cn toner cartridges that arrive in the packaging are rated at about 2,000 prints per cartridge. However, these low capacity toners are the starter laser toner cartridges. You may wish to purchase full capacity printer toner cartridges as you will need a replacement soon after. Costs per page are not as low as those of larger models. For example, Dell 5110cn toner has around half the cost per page, but its upfront price is also much higher. The unit has a monthly duty cycle of 45,000 pages, more than enough for a home or a home office.
Color Track software supplies you with the option of assigning color and black and white parameters to specified workgroups and lowers the regular use of color toner. This can have a dramatic effect on your printing budget and makes tracking a bit easier. Printing speeds are close to 20 pages per minute for monochrome documents and color documents print at about 5 pages per minute. If you are printing a page at a time the Dell 3010 color laser printer is quick, however, with larger documents consisting of heavy graphics it slows down slightly, but not enough to diminish the its value.
