The Dell 1720 Laser Printer is created with your budget in mind.
With print speeds of up to 28 A4 pages per minute (actual print speed will vary with use), and a resolution of up to 1200x1200 dpi, the 1720 gives you professional quality printing with lightning fast speed. You don’t have to trade speed for quality with the Dell 1720 Laser Printer. For added flexibility, the Dell 1720dn also comes with parallel cable and USB connections. This means that PCs connected to the network can print on the printer from wherever they are. The Dell 1720dn Laser Printer comes standard with Ethernet connections, so it works seamlessly within a LAN environment. The Instant Warm-up feature is just one more way the Dell 1720 helps you to maximise your efficiency and be more productive. The Instant Warm-up feature reduces the time for the first page printed to as fast as 7.5 seconds from sleep mode. The Dell 1720 Laser Printer features Instant Warm-up technology, helping to ensure that it’s ready to print when you are. Value: Excellent printer performance at a great price with a low printing cost per page. Resourceful: Features automatic two-sided printing which helps reduce paper costs. Versatile: Includes standard networking so that the printer can be shared with other PCs on a network. High Quality: Produces professional-quality documents at up to 1200x1200 dots per inch. Robust: Can print up to 25,000 pages per month (maximum duty cycle).
Fast: Prints up to 28 A4 pages per minute in black (actual print speeds will vary with use). Dell offers an optional wireless printer adapter for printing wireless over your network.The official marketing text of DELL 1720dn Duplex Network Laser Printer Colour 1200 x 1200 DPI A4 as supplied by the manufacturer Both models also include USB and parallel connectors. Both are upgradeable to 144MB and 160MB, respectively. The 1720 ships with 16MB of RAM, while the 1720dn ships with 32MB. The 1720dn includes built-in networking via Ethernet and a built-in duplexer for automatic double-sided prints. The Dell 1720 mono laser printer family offers two models: the base model costs $200, while the 1720dn (which we tested) costs $300. The 1720 printers have a monthly duty cycle of about 25,000 pages, which makes it a good fit for a small to medium-size work group. Dell estimates that per-page costs are as low as 1.67 cents, which is excellent. The standard cartridge yields about 3,000 pages for $100 ($70 through use and return) and the high capacity version yields about twice that number for about $130 ($90 through use and return).
The printer's control panel is simple: just a continue button and a cancel button, as well as several LEDs to alert you to problems such as paper jams.ĭell offers both standard and high-capacity toners cartridges for the 1720 models and has a use-and-return program that offers a discount to users who return spent cartridges. The 1720dn lacks a straight pass-through, which is great for thicker media that may be problematic for the printer's rollers. It has adjustable paper guides to facilitate feeding different sizes of paper.
A slot just above the tray serves as the manual feed tray, in which you can feed single sheets of media. It ships with a 250-sheet paper tray, though you can expand the input capacity with an optional 550-sheet drawer.
It stands 15.6 inches wide, 13.6 inches deep, and 10 inches tall, and weighs just more than 25 pounds. The Dell 1720dn is a blocky, charcoal gray printer with no-nonsense, all-business looks.