Dell (C1760NW) Color Laser Printer Max Resolution (B&W) 600 dpi and (Color) 600 dpi Plain Paper Print

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I bought this to replace my inkjet printer that was less than a year old. I dont print that much and the darn jets keep getting clogged. It gets expensive when I have to replace cartridges that still have plenty of ink in them. I finally decided to spend a bit more and get this printer. Problem solved. Printing just got a whole lot cheaper in this house. Set up was a breeze. Im using it as a usb device, not wireless. It prints at least 10 times faster than the inkjet, and even though they say its not supposed to be as good for pics, I find that its better. Its much quieter. Although its bigger than the other printer, it occupies the same footprint. There is only one downside, and that is the way the paper hangs out the front. I leave it closed up, like in the picture, until I want to use it, then open the door and put in the paper. This is a quality product at a low price. They are particular about what paper should to into it, but I found the stuff I had been using - general purpose printer paper - worked just fine.

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Had this for a day, so if something goes blooey Ill update ... Delivered 2 days early by Amazon delivery service, which was an ordinary guy in his own car. The item arrived in perfect condition. Setting up the printer to work with my MacBook was harder than it needed to be, but not terribly so. Dont know whether to blame Dell, or that its designed to work with Windows - both have given me fits in the past - but with a combo of the included setup guide (next to useless), Dell website (better), and downloaded user guide (first do this, find out how on page 40, which sends you to page 120...), it was up and running on my wireless LAN in under 20 minutes - part of which was me wasting time trying to wing it. Nope, I dont miss installing Windows-themed hardware. Likes: Print quality is excellent, both color and b&w. If this thing keeps working, it will be the best printer Ive ever bought with my own money. Prints dont come out damp, and wont smudge or bleed if they catch a couple drops of rain, or condensation off your whiskey glass. Small footprint - even with having the paper tray sticking out the front, its still a little smaller than the Brother b&w laser it replaced. And not having a separate door for the single-sheet / envelope feeder is good, one less moving part, and its always right there. Drawbacks: Pretty slow to spit out that first page, and I would characterize overall speed on multi-page documents as adequate. I have 5 Gig wireless, but the printer only finds the 2.4 signal - with the slow print speed, not sure if or how much this matters. It also doesnt work with PrinterShare on my Android devices - And PrinterShare works with almost everything. Its supposed to work with Google Cloud Print, but havent tried it yet, and may not.

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Seriously, Dell? This is the best you can do? How are the mighty fallen. First of all, the printer is significantly smaller and lighter than my last Dell laser. It looks great with the front paper-loading door closed -- nice and clean. So enjoy it for a few seconds before loading paper because once paper is loaded, the door has to stay open. Yes, you read that correctly. Once you load normal, letter-size paper (or longer) you cannot close the door. It sticks out a good 4 inches, just collecting dust on the top sheet (dust, hair, etc which will of course be pulled into the printer the next time you print, fouling up the works) and waiting to be snapped off by casual passers-by. Who engineered this thing? Ridiculous. Now the setup. While there are lots of "Very Important Information" sheets and booklets and inserts and what-have-you included, none of it is actually important at all. Whats important is setting up the printer, loading paper, and connecting to it to print. On all of these points, youre pretty much on your own. Ive got about 30 years software development and IT experience, so I was able to make it work. Good luck, laymen! If youre able to find the WiFi setup menu, find and select your network, and laboriously enter your passphrase one character at a time, using up/down arrows (super fun!), youll enjoy helpful prompts like "recycle your printer to save settings". Ummm ... OK, Ill bite. Is there a button or menu selection somewhere to do that? Or do you mean that I should power it off and then back on? But if I do that and its *not* what you meant, I risk losing the 10 minutes it took me to enter my passphrase with those charming up/down arrows. Or should I just take this piece of crap to the dump and *literally* recycle it. Ah, well. "The valiant taste of death but once." Off and back on it is, and it appears to have worked. BTW, a configuration article on Dells online support site suggests that you "press the WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) button", but ... wait for it ... there *IS* not WPS button! Theres a WPS selection in one of the menus, which I assume is what youd select, but by this point I had decided just to go the manual setup route. Dell, you suck. Now its time to load the paper ... and discover after a lot of trial and error (and pulling and prodding and cursing) that the door wont close when theres paper loaded. Again, Dell, you suck. No mention of this in the "very important documents" (or in the users manual that I finally looked up on Dells support site). I wouldnt have ordered this thing, if that had been honestly made clear. If you can get past all this, the printer seems fine. It prints. The prints look nice. The WiFi works. But thats all table stakes. If you sell a WiFi laser printer that doesnt print or that makes crappy prints or that doesnt work over WiFi, youre not going to be around long. Whats really important -- what DIFFERENTIATES you from all the other WiFi laser printer makers -- is the experience of setting up and using your printer. At this, Dell fails miserably and inexcusably. After years and years, multiple laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, etc, this will be my last Dell purchase. Ive had enough.

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This printer is the absolute WORST. Ive had problems with it from day 1 and wish more than anything that I had just spent a little more money for something better. Good luck getting it to stay connected to the internet on wifi--mine went offline about once a day (with me then having to type in the FULL wifi name/password every time) before I ended up having to just use a hard-wire connection instead.... my black ink often comes out gray, even when I replace the toner with a fresh, Dell-original cartridge--if you google this, you will find numerous people with the same problem. The best fix is apparently to print out about 100 pages of full-page text, at which point it will allegedly begin to appear black again for a time, until it goes back to being gray. (Note--as shown in the attached print out, COLORS turn out sharp and just fine--but blacks are horrible/unusable). Additionally, the printer is NOISY and SLOW. Its constantly just whirring its wheels or something, for no apparent reason. So so so so upset with myself for buying. I bought a brother printer for my home office around the same time, and it is AWESOME--never a problem, a true joy to use. Will never buy a dell printer again.

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This printer installs on Windows 10 with no additional drivers required. It is small, very quiet, prints quickly, and does a good job with color. Be aware hat this printer requires the front door to stay open when it is loaded with paper. I was concerned about this and called Dell before purchasing - they told me the printer will print with the door closed. This is incorrect, The door can only be closed when there is no paper in the printer and the paper holder parts are pushed completely inside the printer.

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I paid more to avoid crappy, money-sucking, high-maintenance, printers. This failed after 20 months of light use. Barrel was damaged by some cardstock paper used with the thick paper setting (lame). The thing is not designed for repair. You cant really replace or clean out the printer. So its days were numbered anyway. It seems like a Dell money trap. For my problem, Dells online docs tell me to contact them. Why? --Couldnt they put the diagnostic instructions online? Dell supports procedure is to tell me to pay $60 to troubleshoot. Then, part of the procedure would be to buy new Dell toner($$$) to ensure thats not the problem. After that, would they they replace it? Im skeptical. Ill look at Brothers now.

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Bought this color printer for crafting purposes. While there are different settings to allow you to pick different types of paper, I have found that it sometimes has difficulty picking up some of my cardstock, especially if Im trying to do dual-sided printing, even if I try to straighten my cardstock. My other laser printer has no problem with dual-sided printing. The graphics are really great when you print in color. When I tried to do the highest quality black and white for foiling, it is very spotty. But, so far, its worked for other purposes.

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I use this at work. I dont do high volume printing on this, as we have a commercial printer in the office. I primarily use it to print small documents (a couple of pages) that I want in my hand quickly without walking across the room to the commercial printer. I use this for both monochrome and color, and both are wonderful. The prints come out quickly, are clean and bright, and I havent lost connection to the printer a single time (connecting wirelessly from my laptop). I cant say the same for the commercial printer I try to avoid using. Set up (Windows 10) was a breeze, and I had the wireless connection set in no time. Be aware that you have to manually feed the printer to duplex, which isnt a problem if you are able to set the printer up near where your computer is set up. The one issue with this that you need to know is that, at least for me, the way you feed documents for duplex PDFs is different from duplex Word documents (one you have to spin the page and the other you dont.) I dont know why this is, but being aware of it, it isnt a problem at all. I love this printer, and for the price, it really cant be beat.

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I bought one of these used first - it died out of the box. But they refunded my money, so I bought another and it has been working fine. I didnt think about the difference to the inkjets though - you cant write on the printed surface very easily. Marker works ok. I like it for pictures too. They come out looking very nice. No stripes like the inkjet. I was surprised how inexpensive the toner cartridges are. I paid $25 for two black and one each of the colors. They are the larger ones - I was doing a lot of printing so I used up the small ones in the original printer and in this one and finally started on the larger ones. Pretty good, I would say. I wanted to use this for making toner transfers to make printed circuit boards. Unfortunately, the plain paper printer doesnt do as well as the HP for that purpose. I tried everything that I could find on the internet. Finally gave up and went to negative film. Unfortunately, this printer cannot make the mask dark enough to make it work, so an HP printer is needed or use a special linotype-like process to make the dark negative. Kinda disappointing, but right after I bought this printer, my inkjet quit printing (second one of those) - now it is a big scanner and this printer fit right in.

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Purchased the Dell Color Laser Printer C1760NW back in March 2016 and expreienced the Error Code: 007-371 repeatedly. With help from Dells tech support, here is how it was cleared: Goto to Menu - Admin Menu - Maintenance - Reset Defaults - when asked "Are you sure?" answer "Yes" by pressing the Check Mark. I updated the firmware immediately after this and it has been smooth sailing ever since. This printer is purposed to be used for document printing, not for printing images. The quality of print, for this purpose, has been perfectly sharp and clear. Extremely pleased to come to this laser printer, after having not used it for weeks/months, and have documents print sharp and clear without issues. No need to go through print head cleaning cycles; no wasted ink. For this reason alone, WELL worth the cost over inkjets.

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