Monday, October 17, 2005
Dell 942 Printer & Dell Printer Ink Cartridges Review
| Dell 942 Printer & Dell 942 Ink Cartridges
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Dell 942 Printer Key Features:
- Technology (Detailed): Inkjet
- Output Type: Color Printer
- Type: All-In-One
- Max Resolution (BW): 4800 x 1200 dpi
- Black Print Speed: 19 ppm
- Color Print Speed: 14 ppm
- Platform: PC
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Important Printer Buying Tip: ALWAYS check for the ink cartridge prices before you purchase a printer. Why? Sometimes cheaper printers end up costing more because its ink cartridges may be way expensive. You should calculate the "cost of ownership" per month. The math is simple: (number of prints per month) times (cost of the cartridge) divided by (the yield of the cartridge). Yield is the number of pages that can be printed with one particular cartridge. For example, assume that average home user prints 150 black pages per month using a black cartridge that yields 200 pages and costs $28. The monthly "cost of ownership" is (150 pages) x ($28) = $21 200 pages Also look at the printer ink alternatives; besides the original manufacturer's cartridges (OEMs), you may have the selection of remanufactured cartridges, compatible ink cartridges, and ink refill kits. |
Below is the list of Dell 942 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) OEM #: M4640 Color: Black |
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) OEM #: M4646 Color: Color |
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) OEM #: 18C0032/18C0033 Color: Set |
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) OEM #: 18C0031 Color: Color Capacity: 75ml |
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) OEM #: 18C0032 Color: Black Capacity: 40ml |
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) OEM #: 18C0033 Color: Color Capacity: 75ml |
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) OEM #: M4640 Color: Black |
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OEM #: M4646 Color: Color |
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){kind=spacer} OEM #: 3105376 Color: Color |
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OEM #: J4844 Color: Photo Color |
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Detailed Specs (Dell 942):
Product Description for Dell 942 (From the Manufacturer, Dell)
Enjoy printing, scanning, PC-based faxing2 and photocopying plus advanced photo features with the new Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 942. Produce professional looking documents and print fantastic borderless photos in gorgeous color using the optional Photo Ink Cartridge and Dell Photo Paper with or without a PC. Fax anytime with the easy-to-use PC based fax2. The 48-bit flatbed scanner can scan documents and photos with great accuracy and vivid color. Photo features include 2.5" LCD, memory card slots, and PictBridge connector. It's the perfect match for your Dell PC.
Dell 942 Printer Street Price: $89.00-$99.00
PCWORLD.com Editors' review:
The $149 Dell Photo All-In-One Printer 942 has the same small footprint as the $79 Dell 922 we've reviewed previously. But you also get an attractive 2.5-inch color LCD for viewing menus, previewing images, and performing simple edits (such as cropping). And while printing, the 942 also provides a graphical display of the ink levels.
Dell includes two media slots that read all the major formats (though, strangely, not XD Picture Cards larger than 512MB). You can choose the images you want to print by browsing them on the LCD--no need to go to your PC. The 942's index prints are basic grids of images, unlike the attractive layouts from Canon, Epson, and HP models that you can use to produce full prints. Thanks to its fast USB 2.0 connection, the 942 quickly uploads images to your PC from a memory card. A PictBridge port lets you print directly from any compatible digital camera.
Though the buttons on the control panel look cheap, they're quite efficient to use. A mode button lets you switch between photo, fax, copy, and scan tasks, indicated by a set of four LEDs. The 942 doesn't have a built-in fax, but you can send scanned documents via your PC's fax modem.
With the optional photo cartridge installed, the 942 produced attractive photos on glossy paper; however, the prints looked highly saturated and less sharp than those from many other MFPs we tested. On plain paper, dithering was visible in photos, and colors--especially skin tones--didn't look realistic. Our text and line art prints looked nice and dark, thanks in part to the pigment black ink. But prints showed excessive narrow horizontal banding, and lettering looked smudged. Text printed at an admirable 7.5 pages per minute, and our test photo was done in 97 seconds, much faster than the 127-second average for the nine MFPs in our test group. Color graphics printed at a below-average 1.4 ppm, however.
The 942's color scanning was particularly impressive, reproducing tones faithfully, and extracting plenty of detail. The unit's scan speed was average, though its copy speed of 3.6 ppm was significantly better than the 2.9-ppm average.
Dell based the 942's software driver on Lexmark's well-designed All-In-One Center, revealing this MFP's origins. The large package of software includes the Abbyy FineReader 5.0 Sprint Plus OCR application for converting scanned documents into editable text. Unfortunately, Dell supplies Jasc's Paint Shop Pro image editor only as a trial version.
Upshot: The Dell 942 is a good buy because of its low price, ease of use, and high scan quality, but you'll have to live with lackluster print quality.
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