Dell M5200 Printer’s – The Reasonably-Priced Workgroup Laser Printer

Dell M5200 Printer\’s – The Reasonably-Priced Workgroup Laser Printer

February 20th, 2010 |

The Dell M5200 Printer features packed features and affordable price tags with this cost-effective monochrome laser printer. It has a rather fast printing capabilities using Dell Laser M5200 ink and toner, allowing it to print up to 35 pages per minute. This makes it easy for users to print their documents, manuscripts and different files without waiting for a rather long time. It also has an Ethernet port, which lets you connect it to your network.

This printer weighs about 45 pounds, and has measurements of 17.2” x 20.2”, in its 16-inch high casing. The black-grayish plastic case has a curved front so it doesn’t look too squarish at all. It features a single line LCD display in front, one USB port and one Ethernet port at the back, although remember that the cables are not included.

You can easily change the Dell toner cartridges in front with its front panel. It also opens up to show a multipurpose tray for thicker papers, envelopes and for letterheads. It can take up to 500 sheets of paper, and keeps them straight with a certain paper path at the back.

The Dell M5200 Printer’s base model, the 5200n, comes with a RAM of 64MB. Should you wish to upgrade, it can take up to 640MB. This allows different users to customize the printer’s capabilities. There are also other optional upgrades, such as the extra paper trays, a dedicated feeder for envelopes, a duplexing unit, and sheet drawers. When fully equipped with all the upgrades, it can take up to 2,600 sheets of paper – fairly enough for high volume printing needs of businesses.

The printer comes with a CD, and it also guides you to install the printer into your network. It supports Windows operating systems, and even Novell and Linux, so you won’t have any problems of using different operating systems across your network.

Upon installing the Dell M5200 printer software, it displays an icon on your desktop, linking you to buy supplies online. You can order both via the phone or the internet. It gives you the option to buy various Dell Laser M5200 toner, and different media.

It offers a maximum resolution of up to 1200 x 1200 DPI, making those details intricately printed in your documents. It can take up to A4-sized or Legal-sized sheets of paper. With its affordable price, you can have a fast solution to your high volume printing, without compromising the quality.

This Dell printer averages 10 to 11 pages per minute when printing graphics. It offers a nice and gradual shading on photos and pictures, and decent levels in drawings and lines when printing various graphics.

There are various laser toner which may be costly, but would give you so many pages in return. A normal high-yield toner cartridge for this printer can give you around 18000 to 32000 pages in one, thereby reducing the number of times to buy Dell printer toner cartridge.