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

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If all you want is a printer that will print on plain paper, this is an okay machine and can be run economically if you buy dupe ink cartridges. HOWEVER - if you ever wish to print on card stock or any other material, this is not the printer you want. I was up til one in the morning trying to print the new months calendars for my yoga studio and could not get the machine to accept light card stock. This morning I got in touch with Dell customer support and they had me running in circles getting service tag numbers and the exact name and weight of the card stock before they finally just came clean and told me to stop trying - the machine doesnt print on anything other than ordinary letter paper. I wish they had just been upfront with that fact. This is not the machine Id have gotten if that limitation had been made obvious. Its nice enough doing what it does, but now I need a printer for the other function we use a printer for. Not pleased about that.

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Have purchased two of these printers. One to replace my old tired color laser and one to replace my fathers ink jet. First of all, LED and Laser printers use the exactly same technology to print the page. Only the light source to create the image on the drum is different. Other than that, they are essentially the same. Dont let it be the determining factor in buying a printer. The printer is fairly loud for a laser, but no where near as loud as an inkjet. It doesnt have a dedicated paper tray, which I shouldnt complain about because of how tiny the footprint is. It will fit anywhere an inkjet will. Lastly, you must connect via USB to set up the wireless, which I suppose is not a huge issue but seemed kind of strange. Then again, you only initially set it up once, so I guess its pretty minor. The positives? Very fast and once its set up its done. I connect multiple devices via wifi and it always works. It always wakes up and prints. It draws very little power in stand by mode, so I can leave it on all the time. So its very quick to warm up and fast to print, and those are big positives. Print quality is very good to outstanding. At 600 x 600dpi, black looks very good, but there are 1200dpi printers that do much better. You cant really tell unless you put them side-by-side though. The color output is outstanding. Service from Dell has been outstanding. The printer I use developed squeaky feed rollers after a couple of months and Dell shipped a replacement out at no cost--no questions asked. And the new one has been running problem free. The original toner it shipped with lasted about 800 pages and the color about 700. This is exactly what is claimed by Dell. I have used $80 compatible replacement toner cartridges which are rated at 2,000 pages and thats about what they last too. Comparing this cost to inkjets, that works out to about 1/4th the cost of consumables comparing compatible toner to refilled ink cartridges (if you buy new consumable I would expect the difference to be even better). As for the drum and toner, they are not serviceable and should last 30-35K pages, or 3 years at 1,000 pages a month (6 years at 500 pages a month). This is a great choice as a printer for home or light-duty office printing where you need a small footprint printer.

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This is an awesome home office color laser. I have been waiting a long time for a color laser this size to be affordable and am bummed that I waited as long as I did to migrate back to laser from inkjet. "Ef" Epson and other inkjet mfgrs who monetize you through overpriced ink and firmware updates designed to bork your ink and make you buy more. Also, while Im at it, EF smeared page edges, buying overpriced "heavy stock" to prevent smearing, wet, curled pages, perpetual streaks, head cleaning, "cartridges no recognized"... EF INKJETS! This printer does everything better and more efficiently. I am utterly impressed with the size (small), price, speed, noise levels and quality of prints. Same quality as my multi-thousand dollar business class color laser at work that fills half a room. Pros: - price - size - low noise - clean, crisp paper (as opposed to curled up wet sheets from an inkjet) - cartridge life/price (aftermarket replacements available) - quick start-up - flawless Wi-Fi performance - 150 page paper handler - can use regular, cheap copy stock Cons: - overall print speed slow for a laser (still much better than inkjet) - awkward single-sheet feeder for envelopes, labels, etc. - not multifunction (but with phone-based scanners and print-to-Wi-Fi, who cares) Compared to an inkjet this printer is a total win. Same price or less, faster, cleaner prints with no smeared edges, streaking or curled pages. I bought this coming from a top of the line Epson XP-610 and I would never EVER go back. After spending $40 for ink and then having a forced firmware update deliberately kill the cartridges less than a week later I can honestly say Epson made an enemy for life. Compared to other color lasers in this class, the Samsung seems to get better reviews, but is also more than double the price. Thanks, but no thanks. This is plenty good for everything I need to do in my home office. I have had zero issues with this printer. One of the best purchases I have made for my home office.

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The printer arrived in an apparently undamaged box, albeit one that appeared to have been opened before. I prepared the printer for use following directions in the quick start guide. The directions for setting the printer up to use wi fi say to install the printer software and drivers on a computer first, then turn the printer on and watch for a blinking blue light above the small LCD display, then connect. Immediately after turning the printer on, I instead saw a blinking red light and Error Code 007-371 with a message to try again and if the error repeats, contact Dell Support. The error repeated. I tried unplugging, plugging back in, starting again. I also tried connecting with USB. Setup of any kind was impossible. Whatever the error code signifies is serious and the printer will do nothing but show the error code until whatever is wrong is fixed.. I looked in the accompanying documentation and online for what the error code indicates. In the manual, 007-371 is among a very long list of error codes for this printer for which no explanation of any kind is offered. Online, I found a forum post for that error code on an older Dell printer. That post indicated some kind of problem with the printhead assembly, and said disassembly of the printer and repositioning of the printhead was necessary. I was not about to undertake anything like that. So, I went to Dell Support on the Web. The young man at Dell Support who tried to help me in a chat session was polite but clearly a screener who knew little about the printer or troubleshooting the printer. On seeing my description of the problem and the error code there was a lengthy pause followed by a question: Did I plug the printer directly into a wall outlet? (Answer: yes.) He failed to answer my direct question about what, exactly, the error code means. When I asked a second time, he took a time out to talk to someone else. When he came back he said he was escalating the problem to a higher level of support and that I would receive an e-mail in 24 hours. That was on a Friday. Shortly after closing the chat session I received an e-mail from the screener saying if he could help in any other way to e-mail him. Twenty four and a half hours later, with no sign of an e-mail from a higher level of support at Dell, I sent an e-mail to the screener. Two hours after that with nothing more from Dell Support at any level I went to Amazon seeking to return the printer. That, Im glad and relieved to say, went off without a hitch. Im rating this printer one star mainly due to dissatisfaction with Dells lack of documentation for the error code and a support setup that failed to say just return it when that clearly was the only proper solution. Im sure that if an explanation for the error code had been available to the screener, he or his supervisor wouldve just told me to send it back. My wife belatedly told me today that we had gotten two or three messages on our home phone from Dell Support, the first apparently having been during the week following my support chat session. Whoever left the messages said they couldnt e-mail me because they did not have a working e-mail address. Thats hard for me to understand because, before getting to where I could chat with support, I had to fill in a Web page form on Dells site with my name, address, phone number, e-mail address, printer model, serial number, and so on. And, Dells screener was able to e-mail me back after the chat session without any problem. My only guess is that Dells higher level of support didnt think of looking on Dells Web site form to check my e-mail address, or else isnt aware theres a form on the site where my e-mail address could be checked.

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Printer will stop printing based on predetermined usage levels and not based on actual toner levels. It will force you into buying a new toner cartridge even though the printers toner cartridge is not empty. This is a very cheap way to make customers pay for toner they do not need. I would highly recommend buying other brands which do not have such a governor in place.

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Do not waste your money. This is the worst printer I ever had. Dont be deceived by it being cheap. It works well for a while then you get an error code 007-901 or 007-900 saying paper jammed. But you will find there is no paper at all. Then, you try all troubleshooting in the manual. Nothing works. Then, you search the web and you literally find hundreds of people complaining about it and they try things like shaking the printer, etc. Then, you call Dell and they say it is out of warranty and most likely the sensor is not working and we can fix it at a charge. This is a printer that lasted a year and half mind you. Dont waste your money.

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I was so sick of high end inkjet printers that sucked my wallet dry with constant ink purchases...only for the ink to expire and my printer refuse to use it when it was half full. This works great for my office needs. I have had it 18 months and have never had a paper jam or purchased toner. I use it every day. Dont let the cost of a cartridge fool you...they last a long time and will never dry up. If you use black most of the time your color toner wont go bad. UPDATED 1.24.19 I have had this for almost three years and still have never had a problem with it. I was going to buy another but unfortunately the price seems to have doubled from what I paid in early 2016. I purchased off brand toner that works just fine and was inexpensive. MUCH cheaper to use than all my previous ink jet printers. My usage is only 30-40 sheets a week but I bet Ive saved $120 per year over what I used to spend on ink cartridges in a year.

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Drum failed within first year. I was using this printer very rarely because I dont really need color printing other then once in awhile things and that a reason why I purchased laser printer, not a ink one so it doesnt get dry. Now I have peace of junk that needs to go to the dumpster since I dont have ability to deal with it because I live in rural area.

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Just finish setting this printer up. Tried to set up wifi, but it didnt work as expected. I had to install it with the USB cord first. Then I went back and installed the WiFi option. I still had to install it manually because my laptop wouldnt find the device. I had to enter the port and the ip address lol...What!? I ended up getting the ip address from the dell print app on my phone (this app worked seamlessly btw)...I guessed the port number as 1 and voilá the install completed! I tried printing and of course it didnt print...but thank Bill Gates for "troubleshooting" intelligence...I clicked it...it figured out that the printer hadnt been shared with the network and now, finally...after 1 1/2 hours...I can print wirelessly from my laptop! It prints beautifully AND I dont have to deal with clogged ink jets because I dont use my printer often enough. I think the toner that came with the printer will last me a couple years cuz I mainly use it at tax time and to print random shipping labels...Life is Good! Lol

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The printer I purchased from a little over a year ago has been HORRIBLE. It started making noise at about the one year mark. I took it to be cleaned and repaired but they couldnt find the noise. So I replaced all the cartridges with brand new ones. Still didnt work. Noise got really bad a couple of days ago, and then it just died. I got it to come back on but it still wont print without a very loud noise. I guess I should have known that a Dell laser printer for what I paid was too good to be true.

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