Dell's 3130cn Color Laser Printer is a near-perfect starter printer for a small office or workgroup. It's extremely capable on all counts, and it has room to grow.
The tall, broad 3130cn is as powerful as it looks. In our tests, plain-text pages burst out at a rate of 25.3 pages per minute (ppm), one of the faster times we've seen. Its tested graphics speed of 5.7 ppm is extremely fast. The speed wasn't the only thing that impressed us, though: Text looked crisp and black, and photos appeared realistic even on plain paper.
With so much available power, I was surprised that Dell omitted a duplexer from the unit's standard configuration; this would let you save on paper, and--with the 3130cn's power--you would barely notice the speed hit. Dell sells an optional duplexer for $199, but a duplexer comes standard on two laser printers that cost far less than the 3130cn: Lexmark's C543dn and Konica Minolta's magicolor 2530DL.
The 3130cn's otherwise generous configuration starts with 250-sheet input and output trays and a roomy, 150-sheet multipurpose ...
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Melissa Riofrio, PC World