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(10 customer reviews) 25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Color LED Printer, with duplexing, and networking.,
December 13, 2010 M. Armstrong - See all my reviews
This review is from: C330DN Digital Colorprinter 23/25PPM, 12 (Office Product)
I bought this printer after a search for an ideal color laser printer for home. My wife needs to print in color for her cirriculum and I need to print on both sides of the page to save weight when sending out mailings. This printer does both and does them both well.
In case this is your first time to the rodeo, LED printers are like laser printers but instead of using a laser beam and a mirror there is a fixed array of LEDs which perform the same function. The claim is that this will reduce maintenance but I have never heard of anyone claiming "well, my laser printer was great, but then the laser died." or "well, if only the mirror assembly hadn't broken in my laser printer..." - no, usually it's something to do with the drum, the fuser, constant jams, toner costs, etc. So I'm not sure LED printers are better than laser printers, but I took the plunge anyway.
So, about this printer. So it uses a grid of LEDs. In practice, the resolution is a little worse than a...Read more
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Much better than the HP it replaced!,
January 17, 2011 Michael Dwyer - See all my reviews
This review is from: C330DN Digital Colorprinter 23/25PPM, 12 (Office Product)
Unboxing this machine is a bit of a trial, not only because it masses around 50 lbs. The printed instructions are limited to internationalized sketches that barely match reality. Generally, pull any blue tape or orange chunks of plastic. Installing the toner cartridges is the next trial. The printer comes with the toners installed in the correct location and all you have to do is slide a lock/shutter. Sliding the locks takes a surprising amount of force, and with so much plastic, it is quite scary when it finally seems to break free and slam closed. I fully expected to break my printer before I'd even plugged it in.
On powering up, it automatically grabs a DHCP address off the network, and with little more than that, you're printing! The front panel menu navigation is pretty straight forward, and you really only need to visit it once (more on that later). It speaks standard PCL and PostScript, so you may not even have to change the drivers in your computers to get it...Read more
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Nice print quality but some flaws,
September 27, 2011 Paul Cooper - See all my reviews
This review is from: C330DN Digital Colorprinter 23/25PPM, 12 (Office Product)
I use this printer in my home office, and routinely print out lengthly colour docs.
Pros:
>Excellent output, crisp text, nice colors. As good as any color laser, I've used including hi-end ones found in corporate offices.
>Well designed, easy to set up, toners are extremely easy to replace.
>Respectable page per minute output, duplex printing works flawlessly. Printed reams of paper without a single jam yet.
>Works well on Mac or PC platform.
Cons:
>Noisy when printing. Much louder than the HP laser jet I replaced it with
>Replacement toner is extremely expensive, and hard to find at discount retailers or locate remanufactured toners. If I had known, I probably would have gotten a different printer.
>The toners that come with the printers didn't last that long. Perhaps that is to be expected, and perhaps the replacement toners will last longer.
> Papers curl when printing, so when printing long documents some times pages...Read more
