BUYERS LAB

August 2007

Lab Test Report Dell 2335dn Multifunction Laser Printer

The PCL driver is graphical and provides most of the selections for a typical job on the main screen. So too is the Adobe PostScript driver, which is atypical of this vari- ety in that it’s usually text-based. Still, the fact they’re virtually identical helps boost ease of use in those environments that frequently switch between them.

The drivers, which have a good overall feature set compared to A4 laser/LED mono- chrome printers in this speed range and class, both include booklet and N-up—1 to 16—printing. The PCL driver also has overlays, quantity selection up to 999, reduc- tion and enlargement from 25 to 400 percent and the abilities to save settings for frequently used jobs and add watermarks, while the Adobe PostScript driver has quantity selection up to 9,999 and reduction and enlargement from 1 to 1,000 per- cent.

Although there’s a collate selection in the Adobe PostScript driver, it didn’t function in testing; collate must be selected from the print screen within the application for output to be collated. This isn’t uncommon, as most are written to allow the applica- tion settings to override the driver’s.

File size increased from one set printed using a 10-page document when producing multiple collated sets with collate selected from the print screen within the applica- tion, but the number of pages sent to the unit didn’t increase, both of which are typi- cal of devices in this class.

APPLICATIONSpplications CompatibilityCOMPATIBILITY

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No problems were experienced with any of the test files used in the applications compatibility tests. Units are tested for compatibility on Windows XP platforms with Microsoft Word 2000, PowerPoint 2000 and Excel 2000, as well as Adobe Page- Maker 7.0, Photoshop 6.0 and Acrobat 6.0, using 25 application test files that con- tain text, graphics, halftone images, tables, etc., enabling BLI technicians to evaluate memory usage, file processing, font rendering and greyscale capability.

Scan Functions

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SCAN FUNCTIONS

 

The 2335dn Multifunction Laser Printer offers colour and monochrome scanning of documents to e-mail or network folder via FTP, in JPEG, PDF and TIFF formats at 75, 150, 200, 300 or 600 dpi.

—The unit was awkward to use for scanning of documents to e-mail. Destinations must be programmed at the control panel via the alphanumeric keypad. This can be very time consuming as users must press each numeric key multiple times to enter the desired letter.

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