Dell 1700 Printer - Save Space in Your Home Office

The Dell 1700 Printer is a monochrome laser printer with great speeds and high quality print jobs. The printer can produce 20-25 pages per minute in a 1200x1200 dpi resolution. It seems that Dell has managed to launch several cost effective and quality models lately, offering dependable and budget solutions to home users and businesses that need a small and good printer for internal small jobs.

According to the mother company, the 1700 comes with a high capacity Dell 1700 Toner cartridge; this is true, since the standard one can print up to 3000 pages, although Dell offers great solutions in this case: there is a toner cartridge for 6000 pages, which costs 85-89$ and offers almost 35% savings per page, in comparison with other printers and toner cartridges. Especially if you opt for the cartridge recycling system, Dell offers even better prices reducing the cost of cartridges significantly.

The Dell 1700 printer combines a nice design (in the typical Dell silver grey colors) and small proportions. Dell aims for home users, thus, the 1700 seeks to become a reliable and really economical solution for the average user. Its price is quite attractive, being less than 200$.

The main advantage of the 1700 is its speed; twenty five pages per minute is definitely impressive for this category, although it seems a little slower when it comes to processing times. If the printer is idle it needs approximately 20 seconds to warm up. This is something expected though in this category, but the 1700 definitely makes up with its printing speeds. The graphic printing is also quite satisfying, especially if you decide to upgrade the standard memory; the printer comes with a 16MB internal memory, which is expandable up to 144MB with a memory card.

The Dell 1700 printer is a great solution for those who expect an excellent printed text and very good quality in graphics and images. Nuances of black and grey are nicely depicted, with no banding. The printer can handle easily high resolution graphics and images, although the speed is obviously reduced. Background contrast is pretty good too.

The printer is very easy to install; there is also a remote installation option, in the case you want to install it in a network, but for home users things are quite simplified, as the guidelines and manual are very comprehensive and easy to follow. Configuration processes and diagnostics are quite easy as well, since the printer avoids unnecessary drills.

This Dell printer can print on plain standard paper, labels, card sheets and envelopes. When it comes to thicker papers - than the typical ones - or envelopes, you can simply feed them one by one from the rear exit, which is convenient and easy to use.

An overall good build quality and great print jobs is what you should expect from the Dell 1700. The home users and those who tend to print text reports or small newsletters will be more than satisfied with this printer, which tops the list of its category, being a cost effective and dependable printer. The Dell 1700 toner is great, too.