BUYERS LAB

August 2007

Lab Test Report Dell 2335dn Multifunction Laser Printer

Administrators can enter e-mail addresses and e-mail groups within the Address Book tab of the embedded Web page, which allows users to retrieve the address at the control panel.

Users can scan a document to a USB memory key via a port on the front of the unit.

Standard PaperPort 11 software provides users with advanced scanning and docu- ment management features such as scan to PDF, Word, Excel, Word Pad, Photoshop and FTP, as well as OCR capability.

Dell ScanCenter lets users quickly scan documents over the network into applica- tions such as e-mail and photo and text editors.

Print/Copy Quality

GOOD/GOOD

good/good

Print/Copy QUALITY

 

Image quality in print mode was good overall. Text was rated Good, with above aver- age darkness and average sharpness and smoothness of curves and serifs, while characters displayed some breakup. Line art was also good overall, as fine lines didn’t always remain distinct, consistency of line thickness was average, circles showed some breakup and diagonal lines exhibited an average amount of stair-stepping. Half- tone pattern and range were both rated Good; greyscale was clearly visible from the 2 to 97 percent dot-fill levels with distinct transitions between most levels, while cover- age within levels displayed some graininess and minimal banding. Solids were good overall due to above average darkness and average consistency of coverage.

Image quality in copy mode was good overall. Text was rated Good, with average darkness, sharpness and smoothness of curves and serifs, while characters showed some breakup. Line art was also good overall, as fine lines didn’t always remain distinct, consistency of line thickness was average, circles exhibited some breakup and diagonal lines displayed an average amount of stair-stepping. Halftone pattern and range were rated Good and Fair, respectively; greyscale was clearly visible from the 29 percent—15 being the minimum coverage area on the original—to 91 per- cent dot-fill levels with distinct transitions between few levels, while coverage within levels showed some graininess and minimal banding. Solids were good overall due to above average darkness and average consistency of coverage.

P int/Copy Productivity

VERY GOOD/GOODvery GOOD/GOOD

print/COPY PRODUCTIVITY

 

The 2335dn Multifunction Laser Printer’s productivity using the PCL driver to print BLI’s job stream, which replicates typical traffic in a multi-user environment, is above average compared to A4 laser/LED monochrome multifunction printers in this class tested to date; in fact, its actual tested running speed is the fastest.

However, its productivity using the Adobe PostScript driver in this test is among the lowest. BLI technicians attribute this to the unit pausing between jobs in the test suite.

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