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I'm very satisfied with this printer in general considering the low price and high print speed. The print quality is actually the 600/1200 DPI they claim. After the initial physical warm-up, which only occurs when coming out of the power-save mode, the time-to-first-page is just a few seconds, and when printing standard text and line art it seems to be able to keep up with the full 27 PPM speed. If you set the printer to 1200 DPI and print full-page graphics it slows down a bit, but it still prints more than 10 PPM, and may perform better if given more than the standard RAM. Network setup was very easy. In a DHCP environment the printer will obtain an IP address along with the Windows networking information and NTP time server address automatically and then print a sheet showing this information so you can see the address of the printer and ensure that the other settings are correct. Once the printer is on-line any other configuration can be completed via the web interface, though no particular configuration is needed unless you want to use email alerts or other advanced features. I did not attempt to use the non-DHCP network setup, so I cannot comment on that process. The only real problem I had with the printer was the OS X driver. Since it's a postscript-capable printer it's easy enough to just use a generic driver, but you don't get all the printer-specific features without the correct PPD file. Specifically the problem I had with the driver is the PPD was instructing the CUPS printing subsystem to run the filter "pstopsprinter" before sending data to the printer, and that program did not execute correctly on my machine (OS X 10.4). Frankly I don't understand why you need a postscript translater to print to a postscript printer, but I eventually fixed the problem by simply commenting that line from the PPD (thank God for plain-text configuration files) and allowing the printer to get the un-filtered postscript output that was being produced. Since then the printer has worked perfectly. Presumably Dell (or Lexmark, whoever write the drivers) will fix the driver issue in the future, though they'd be well advised to just write the *simplest* print driver possible, which is a plain PPD file with no extra CUPS instructions. OS X generates postscript data. The printer accepts postscript data. Don't muck it up. My only other complaint, and this is a very minor issue, is that the printer has a little 1-second spasm every 20-30 minutes, 24 hours a day. It's not a big deal in general because the duration is short and it's not excessively loud (the printer is relatively quiet even when actually printing) but it's still annoying if you're sitting near the thing in a quiet room. I'd rather have a few more seconds of warm-up time than these occasional spasms.Read full review
I already have one of the same and I love the way it works in all it's simplicity. That's why I purchased another one for my wife. It has an easily refillable Toner Cartridge and Toner Program Chips are easily available if needed when refilling toner cartridge. Toner is available by vendors on E-Bay. I found that it is common protocol for E-Bay vendors to send free chips when you order bottles of toner which cost only about $7.00 each, and each bottle will allow you about 1000 prints. If you don't need color then this printer is what you need for personal or home business. I use mine to print carpentry plans & designs and now my wife will have her own to print her coupons and any woodworking plans that she may want me to build for her. I've had mine for two years and it has never jammed.Read full review
This printer is awesome.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
The Pros: This is the perfect printer for a small office or home network. Easy to setup and install. literally plug in the power and CAT5 then press 2 buttons and its ready to go. Drivers for windows xp and windows vista on the website (vista drivers work for windows 7). Great print quality and the 29 pages a minute are nice. The toner is only about $25 on the web and photo drum is only $50 so its cheap to operate! The Cons: the printer has a 20-30 second spool up from the time you send the print job til it starts printing. Windows XP does not recognize the printer on the network and you have to manually input the ip and/or URL. All in all I love this printer and after a week I am wondering how I lived without it for so long.
The Dell 1700N is truly a solid workhorse. It holds up beautifully to all of the abuse that a small home office provides. I can use it with any of my systems, be they the linux boxes or the Windows boxes, without problems. This is definitely not true of many of the newer laser printers. My only regret is that it does not come with a duplexer. But for my needs, that is a minor issue. If you are looking for solid, steady dependability without fancy glitz, then the Dell 1700N is definitely the machine for you.
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