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More…The Dell Laser Printer 3110cn may have the same black-and-silver styling as the 3100cn model it will replace, but under the skin, it's a very different beast. Yes, it carries the same $500 price tag (as of 10/6/2006), it continues support for both PCL and PostScript, and the control panel is almost identical to that of its predecessor. But lift the cover and you see the toner cartridges stacked one above the other along a simpler, single-pass vertical paper path, instead of in the carousel arrangement of the four-pass 3100cn.
Dell 3110cn Color Laser Printer
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | Yes |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 950 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 250 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 400 |
| Duplex printing | No |
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General Features
| PostScript Type | standard |
| Printer Emulation Type | PostScript |
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| PictBridge compatible | No |
| Printer languages supported | HP PCL 5e/6 - 81 fonts; Postcript Level 3 Emulation - 136 fonts |
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Pros
Low price, $199 duplexer option
Economical to run
Cons
Slow color printing
Ugly manual tray design
Bottom Line
The 3110cn is economical to run, and takes an optional duplexer that costs just $199. It's slow to print in color, however.
Dell Laser Printer 3110cn
3110cn Color Laser Printer Review, by Paul Jasper October 19, 2006
In theory, the new design should lead to much faster printing, especially for color pages, but this wasn't borne out in our performance tests. Text printing times were up slightly at 18.9 pages per minute compared to the 3100cn's 17.8 ppm, and they remain competitive with other printers in this price range. However, the speeds of our color-print tests dropped from 3.4 ppm to 2.2 ppm on plain paper, and 2.3 ppm to 0.6 ppm on glossy paper. These results seriously lag the average color-printing speeds of 3.9 ppm on plain paper and 1.5 ppm on glossy paper produced by recently tested models.
The 3110cn maintains its predecessor's fine monochrome print quality. Our panel of judges scored its text output slightly lower than the 3100cn's because it looks a little lighter on the page, but characters are generally clean and sharp. Line art looks as superb as before, with crisp and distinct lines, though, again, a little light overall. Our grayscale image showed smooth tones and good detail, falling just short of top marks due to some minimal banding and moiré patterns. Color graphics on plain paper didn't look quite as good as those from the 3100cn, with dull colors and some posterization (lack of smooth gradient).
For our best-quality photo test, Dell chose 32-pound, 90-brightness Hammermill Glossy Color Laser paper. You don't expect photo quality from a color laser, but the 3110cn gave us accurate colors, smooth skin tones, and good shadow detail.
Like its predecessor, the 3110cn offers a good assortment of paper handling options, but the design is a little odd. Dell builds the 150-sheet bypass feeder into the front of the 250-sheet main drawer. As a result, the main drawer extends out under a dust cover at the rear, giving the printer a larger footprint. Worse, the whole front of the printer folds down to give access to an enormous and ugly paper tray for the bypass feeder. Envelopes feed only from the bypass tray, where Dell says you can stack them up to 15mm high. (That's somewhere between 10 and 20 envelopes, by my back-of-an-envelope calculations.) You can take the maximum paper capacity up to 950 sheets by adding the optional 550-sheet drawer for a very reasonable $229. At $199, the optional duplexer is much cheaper than the 3100cn's $300 option.
The 3110cn also continues Dell's tradition of reasonable toner costs. The printer comes with standard-capacity cartridges rated for 5000 monochrome pages and 4000 color pages. Dell rates all four of its high-capacity replacement cartridges at 8000 pages--they cost $110 for black and $215 for each color. Additionally, you need to replace the fuser unit ($160) and transfer belt ($162) every 100,000 pages, but these are included in the standard one-year warranty and the optional extended warranties of up to five years. Outside of the warranty, the estimated page costs are a very competitive 1.7 cents for monochrome and 9.8 cents for color.
Paul Jasper
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Performance
| 300dpi Line Art Image (secs) | 18.18 |
| 4 by 6 Color Photo (secs) | 107.63 |
| 4 by 6 Grayscale Photo (secs) | 42.19 |
| Color Output Quality | Fair |
| Color Photo Quality | Good |
| Grayscale Glossy Output Quality | n/a |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Very Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Very Good |
| One-Page Webpage (secs) | 15.36 |
| Output Score, Color Graphics, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Default) | Fair |
| Output Score, Color Photo, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Best) | Good |
| Output Score, Grayscale Graphics, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Grayscale-Best) | Very Good |
| Output Score, Line Art, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-LineArt-Default) | Superior |
| Output Score, Text, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Text-Default) | Very Good |
| Overall Scan Quality | n/a |
| Sports Action Shot (secs) | 111.24 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 30.8 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 30.8 |
| Tested Color Graphics Speed (formerly pf-PCWColorSpeed) | 2.2 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 1.7 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 0.5 |
| Tested Grayscale Speed (ppm) | 1.4 |
| Tested Lineart Speed (ppm) | 3.3 |
| Tested Photo Speed (formerly pf-PCWPhotoSpeed) | 0.6 |
| Tested Text Speed (formerly pf-PCWBWSpeed) | 18.9 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 25.3 |
| Text Output Quality | Very Good |
| Three-Page Word Document | 23.35 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 23.35 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 18.08 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 18.08 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Very Good |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for Dell 3110cn Color Laser Printer
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Reviewed by: bartlett
Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks
Strengths: For General Buisness use the 3110CN produces copies at a considerably faster speed than older InkJet priners. Easy to use loader for Envelopes.
Weaknesses: Large in size.
Overall: I have just recently bought this printer for general business use. I am in Sales so therefore I print a considerable amount of documents. After reading other reviews on this site I became a little hessitant on buying this product only after the fact. My advice is this, I do not recommend this printer for somebody who is looking to do Premier Quality prints, i.e, a print shop (600X600 DPI just.... is not good enough) but I highly recommend this printer for somebody like myself. I am happy with the images that the 3110CN produces and the print speeds are considerably faster than my old Lexmark 5100 series InkJet printer.
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Reviewed by: Dizzy
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: It's cheap and looks it
Weaknesses: You rated this printer as the top colour laser printer on the market, but then listed as a weakness that it's colour speed was poor. Surely the speed of a colour printer printing in colour is one of the main criteria to rate a device. Your review was laughable. This device is incredibly slow printing in Best mode colour, the number of different consumables it gets through is a full time job for someone and it spreads poisoness toner everywhere inside the device.
Overall: You buy cheap you get cheap, pay the extra and get a decent HP colour laserjet.
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Reviewed by: wrsmc
Duration of ownership: 1 Year
Strengths: Good printing, nice bright colors
Weaknesses: A part broke 1 week after warranty expired and parts and labor are more than a new printer :(
Overall: I would not recommend, we didn't use it everyday, or all day long, it should have held up better.
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