Dell 2335DN Print/Copy Productivity PRINT/COPY productivity

BUYERS LAB

August 2007

Lab Test Report  Dell 2335dn Multifunction Laser Printer

Print/Copy Productivity PRINT/COPY productivity

First-Print Time from Energy-Save Mode (Seconds)

Dell 2335dn Multifunction Laser Printer	Average for units in this class tested to date
22.94	20.97

Device sits idle overnight; a single-page black Word document is sent to the device; first-print time indicates the time it took to RIP, image and deliver the first page of the test document to the output tray.

First-Print Times (Seconds)

Windows XP	Word	PowerPoint	Photoshop	Acrobat	Photoshop
File Type	Black Text	Colour Graphic/Text	Colour Graphic	Black Graphic/Text	Colour Graphic
File Extension	DOC	PPT	TIF	PDF	JPG
Pre-Raster File Size	114 KB	99 KB	20 MB	426 KB	245 KB
Post-Raster File Size	11.8 KB	747 KB	7.95 MB	525 KB	269 KB
First-Print Time	8.03	8.12	12.66	8.56	8.66

First-print time indicates the time it took to RIP an image and deliver the first page of the test document set to the output tray. The unit’s print speeds were tested at the default 600 dpi using the PCL driver.

Dell 2335dn Multifunction Laser Printer’s rated speed: 35 ppm

BLI’s Tested Print Speeds

Average Speed
	31.13
(excluding first page)
	11.02
Average Speed
	29.72
(including first page)

0	10	20	30	40
Pages Per Minute

Print speed is tested using BLI’s Monochrome Test Original with 6% page coverage. The test page is printed in a quantity equal to double the vendor’s rated print speed for the device in each mode tested (e.g., if the vendor’s rated print speed is 20 ppm, 40 pages are printed). The unit’s print speeds were tested at the default 600 dpi using the PCL driver.

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