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Dell 1600N Review

Overview:

Operating at only 22 pages per minute, the real draw of the Dell 1600N is its low price point, as well as its built in Ethernet port that could potentially be very useful for sharing the device over a small network. The unit is not without its flaws, but is a generally solid device that shouldn’t disappoint, especially with its low cost per page.

Pros:

Dell advertises the color of the Dell 1600N to be, “midnight gray/ion silver.” While the actual result of the color design is not quite as dramatic as its name, it is an attractive piece and would look good on one’s personal desktop just as it would in the office. The unit is built for semi light duty, being rated at 15,000 impressions per month maximum with a recommended monthly duty cycle much lower.

The piece is not capable of color printing and thus is best for a user whose requirements range mostly in the document printing realm, and its mediocre print resolution of 600 x 600 dots per inch make it not quite suitable for things like line drawings and the like. Still, the unit does perform up to par with what it was designed for which is primarily text printing.

With dimensions of about 18 x 17 x 18 inches (W x D x H), the Dell 1600N is reasonably sized. Its weight of only 34 pounds is not bad either, and makes the device easy to maneuver and move around if necessary. When copying, zoom ratios of 25 to 400% are optional and do not require a host PC to adjust thanks to a respectable menu system and easy to use dedicated keys.

Scanning can be done optically at the quality of 600 x 1200 dots per inch, which is not ideal, but it can be done in color and an interpolated 4800 x 4800 scan is also selectable, though using this feature will be painfully slow and users who will often need higher quality photo level scans will definitely want to look elsewhere. For dealing with simple documents, however, the optical scan is fairly speedy and accurate. Additional software can aid users in scanning directly to an editable text format as well.

Cons:

At only 22 pages per minute, the Dell 1600N is not the fastest performer on the market. In fact, it frankly falls quite short in this category. In this day and age, it is not uncommon to find laser monochrome printers in the one and two hundred dollar range that can pump out 30 pages per minute easily. This dates the 1600N to some degree and makes it less attractive to those looking for a speed machine.

While the standard memory of 32 MBs is not entirely atrocious, this is still a little light for dealing with things like complex print material such as mixed text and imagery. Slowdown will definitely occur when dealing with things like PDF files. Memory enhancement is an option, but the unit strangely only supports up to 160 MBs in memory.