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
MSRP: Our Price: $19.95 Your Savings:$8.04 (28.72%)
3 or more: $18.95 ea.
OEM #: M4646 Color: Color
MSRP: Our Price: $20.95 Your Savings:$10.04 (32.40%)
3 or more: $19.95 ea.
OEM #: 18C0032/18C0033 Color: Set
FREE SHIPPING
MSRP: Our Price: $50.95 Your Savings:$43.05 (45.80%)
OEM #: 18C0031 Color: Color Capacity: 75ml
Our Price: $14.95
OEM #: 18C0032 Color: Black Capacity: 40ml
Our Price: $11.95
OEM #: 18C0033 Color: Color Capacity: 75ml
Our Price: $14.95
OEM #: M4640 Color: Black
FREE SHIPPING
Our Price: $99.80
3 or more: $98.80 ea.
OEM #: M4646 Color: Color
FREE SHIPPING
Our Price: $107.80
3 or more: $106.80 ea.
OEM #: 3105376 Color: Color
Our Price: $39.25
3 or more: $37.25 ea.
OEM #: J4844 Color: Photo Color
Our Price: $21.95
Specifications (Dell 942):
Form Factor: Desktop
Connectivity Technology: USB 2.0
Direct Printing Capability: Print
Photos Without a PC
Media Type: Cards • Envelopes •
Labels • Photo Paper • Plain Paper • Transparencies
Max Media Size: Legal (216 x 356
mm, 8.5 x 14")
Total Media Capacity: 100 Sheets
Copying Speed (Black): 19 ppm
Copy Speed (Color): 10 ppm
Scanner Type: Flatbed Scanner
Operating System: Microsoft Windows
2000 • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition • Microsoft
Windows XP Professional
Special Features: Borderless
Printing
ProductDescription 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.
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.
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.
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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