The Dell 2130 color laser printer delivers good, crisp professional-looking print pages and excellent color presentation at a price designed to appeal to most cost-conscious small or home-based businesses. Combined with the Dell 2130 Toner, it can be a good printer for those who need color documents but don't want to experience high per-page printing costs. At a price well under 400 dollars, there's not much to dislike about the unit.
How Fast is It? Dell's 2130 puts out about 20ppm in monochrome and 16 or so in vivid color. For its segment, that's more than enough to meet the needs of the average home or small office business. And it warms up quickly and kicks out print in a workmanlike fashion.
Ease of Installation. The 2130 comes with standard 2.0 USB and 10/100 Ethernet interface ports, so it's fairly easy to integrate into an existing network or hook up to a single computer. This is in keeping with Dell's philosophy of ease of use and a worry-free experience.
How Much Can it Print? The maximum monthly print capacity for the 2130 comes in at about 40,000 pages, which is quite a bit. Additionally, the Dell 2130 Printer laser toner cartridges deliver acceptable print capacity, with the monochrome unit able to produce about 2500 pages and the color units about 1000. If you need high-capacity color printing, you're advised to shop around some more for one that fills those specific needs.
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What Platforms Can it Serve? The 2130 works with Windows Server 2008, along with Vista, XP and Windows 2000. Most PC operating systems by Microsoft interoperate well with this laser printer.
Storage. The 2130's paper tray holds a standard 250 sheet. An optional additional tray can increase storage capacity to 500 pages, overall.
Much Memory? Memory is good for a unit at this price. Starting out with an installed 256 megabytes, you can take it all the way up to 1280, which should be adequate to handle most any print job that a home business may have. If you use it strictly as a black and white printer, in fact, you probably won't run across an instance in which you need more than that 1280MB.
Don't Forget. As far as replacement printer cartridges go, the Dell 2130 laser toner can be had at reasonable prices, either online from Dell or at several different aftermarket toner cartridge sellers. And because they're reasonably-priced, costs to the savvy business owner will be able to better hold the line on the cost of printing per page used.
