First Impressions: Dell Personal Laser Printer P1500
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Like many if not most people these days, I have an inkjet at home. And they sure are cool for printing out color photos and such. My Epson S900 is a great inkjet printer and for those doing color stuff, I highly recommend it.But like many people, I feel like I'm a slave to the printer. I mean, the thing has like a dozen different ink cartridges that are always running out of ink so that half the time I can't really print.
These days, I print a lot of documents. Source code to review, articles, code journals, long threads here on WinCustomize, etc. I actually don't like reading stuff on the screen. Don't get me wrong, I'm not cranking out tons of printed materials or anything. But I probably print 4 or 5 pages per day (which I do recycle) and the inket just doesn't cut it for that over the long haul.
So I decided to get a nice quick, inexpensive personal laser printer. And I ended up going with the Dell P1500. It's basically a Lexmark personal laser printer rebranded. For $290, it's a great little laser printer.
First off, it's fast. 19 pages per minute. 1200DPI.
But also important, it's a breeze to set up. I've still not opened the manual. I literally took it out of the box, took off the various stickers, and plugged it into a free USB port and printed out a blog entry from one of the sites I frequent. Worked like a charm.
Now, don't get me wrong, there's nothing high tech about this printer. There are probably better bang for the buck printers out there. But for people like me who just want to a reasonably cheap easy to get going laser printer for printing out docs, so far, this thing looks pretty good.
Brock Beesley
Reply #2 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 4:16 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 4:16 PM
Yes, I would consider it front page news if "Lord Frogboy" wants it to be! 
Chris
Reply #3 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:45 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:45 PM
Actually, I'm interested. I recently bought an inket printer, which is great, but would like to get an affordable, good laser printer as well
DavidK
Reply #5 Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:45 AM
Reply #5 Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:45 AM
I'm amazed there's a decent laser printer for under $300.
Richrap
Reply #6 Thursday, April 24, 2003 5:51 PM
Reply #6 Thursday, April 24, 2003 5:51 PM
Well?, you left out the part about the cost of, and replacement frequency, of "Ink". It does use ink, does it not? Is it less expensive to use than an InkJet?
Richrap
Reply #7 Thursday, April 24, 2003 5:55 PM
Reply #7 Thursday, April 24, 2003 5:55 PM
Oh, it uses "Toner" I see. How many copies will the toner cartridge serve?
RA5C
Reply #8 Friday, April 25, 2003 3:25 AM
Reply #8 Friday, April 25, 2003 3:25 AM
Color lasers are under a thousand now. Another couple of years, and ink jets will be extinct.
Adam Najmanowicz
Reply #10 Friday, April 25, 2003 4:06 PM
Reply #10 Friday, April 25, 2003 4:06 PM
Frogboy, you do not own Epson, you have Canon
Adam Najmanowicz
Reply #13 Friday, April 25, 2003 4:21 PM
Reply #13 Friday, April 25, 2003 4:21 PM
I guess it makes me a carefull JoeUser reader. I thought you trashed the old Epson.
Adam Najmanowicz
Reply #14 Friday, April 25, 2003 4:27 PM
Reply #14 Friday, April 25, 2003 4:27 PM
btw, It's really sweet. I like my OKIPAGE 8w Lite too (I've traded my Canon BJC 3000 for it). The durability and speed of laser prints is much more appealing then color for us - programmers. Besides i cannot recall ever printing anything that really needed colours on my previous ink printer.
MarkSnyder61
Reply #15 Friday, April 25, 2003 7:50 PM
Reply #15 Friday, April 25, 2003 7:50 PM
I have had many many years of great laser printing with a Brother HL-760+ I highly recommend them. 
WOM
Reply #16 Friday, April 25, 2003 11:13 PM
Reply #16 Friday, April 25, 2003 11:13 PM
I have a Cannon BJC7000 ink jet and it is a great color printer.Sure uses up the ink and is slow printing color. I'll look into a laser.
TaoX
Reply #17 Sunday, April 27, 2003 12:23 PM
Reply #17 Sunday, April 27, 2003 12:23 PM
I also was interrested. I've used lexmark, epson and canon in the past but my current HP is the best I've had at printing quality, reliability etc... I'd buy a dell though, even if it was lexmark rebranded. Everything I've gotten from Dell has been top notch, and if it wasn't, they replaced it pronto with a new one.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:28 PM
But was this really front page news stuff?