Dell LP 1100 - the $99 laser printer
By Marc Perton 
posted Jun 22nd 2005 1:30PM
posted Jun 22nd 2005 1:30PM
It may not print your photos (unless you
don't mind getting them in monochrome), but at $99, the new Dell Laser Printer 1100 may be what you need to print your
novel, newsletters or anything else that depends on the high-speed, high-volume text capabilities of a laser printer.
The aggressive price of the 600 dpi, 15 ppm printer may cause some home users to rethink their inkjets, at least when
it comes to printing text. It may also force other printer companies to rethink their pricing. "Dell is going to screw
everybody," Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Co., told CNet. Everybody except consumers, that is. You don't
sell the razor, you sell the blades, right?
Don't see anything special about this, Minolta and Samsung have been selling printers at this price for ages, The Minolta Pagepro 1350W has been sold as low as $69 after a $30 MIR...
But how much are cartridges?
Cartridges are $65, a very reasonable industry average.
If you are printing more text than images a laser is a no brainer. Ink jets are far too expensive per page.
I also agree with #2. If you don't know the cartridge price and drum life expectancy you can't judge the price.
I have the HP 150$ model and its the best printer i ever got. I mean it saves money since all i usually print black and white stuff and no pictures. Inkjet printers are a waste unless you bought it only for photos. I have mine for almost two years already and never replace the cartrige yet. I would get this for 99$
The difference is that this is Dell. I have one of those Samsung printers you mention, and it's had the most bizarre printing error I've ever seen. It prints lightly on select areas of a page, but the location changes based on WHAT you print. If you print the same thing twice, it prints lightly in the same area twice, but if you print something else, it prints lightly in a whole different area. And before you say it, no, the toner is not low. It started doing this after 2 months. Basically, the whole damn printer feels cheap.
I'm hoping these printers are like the Dell LCD Monitors. Good quality, but far lower price.
And I wouldn't worry about toner. For something like this, the cost of toner is way lower than what I've seen most people spend on ink cartridges.
The biggest problem with Dell printers is that you can only get your toner from dell.
So when it's 4pm on Sunday and you run out of toner, you can't just go to Staples and pick some more up, but have to order it directly from dell.
This really is nothing special. Over the last couple years I've bought 3 laser printers similar to this one on sale for $99. Actually, the last one was a 20ppm 1200dpi Brother... this Dell is no bargain, and for the service (or lack thereof) that I've recieved on their consumer products lately (their small business support is great) I wouldnt bother.
Agree with #8, Nothing special. In Thailand I can buy Fuji Xerox 14ppm laser printer with 2500pages toner for USD80. Also Brother 20ppm 2400x600dpi (<10sec first page out) with 2 toner cartridges for USD130. For Color Laser printer it's still high price USD250 for Epson 8ppm color printing with 1800pages toner.
Besides the announcement for a lower toner price, this is nothing special. With quotes (from the CNET article and others) like: "Dell is going to screw everybody" and "comparable printers cost twice as much", this is most likely a PR placement to advertise their new printer.
I've got color laser from Dell 2 month ago and love it! And it was only $300!
the difference is that they're marketing it as an alternative to inkjet printers for consumers instead of marketing it to small business like everyone else does. We've had an hp laser printer in my house since I was a small child, and it's the most reliable thing I've ever used. After all these years the only thing that has broken is the paper feeder, which was cheap to repair, and it still prints better and cheaper than our cruddy lexmark inkjet printer.
#7 is a really good point, but beyond being able to get your toner at other places than Dell, for how long are you going to be able to get your toner? In considering a printer, I would actually pay more for an HP knowing that I'd be able to get supplies for it 5 or 10 years down the road. I still have an old HP 4MV I use at home and can still get supplies for.
Sweet! I wouldn't buy it unless it did color tho. Anyone know what is the cheapest laser printer to do full color?! Do they make photo paper you can use in laser printers?! I do a lot of 4x6 printing.
#13 - Toner and Ink is pure gravy, they will never stop selling them.
I bought a HP Laserjet 6p from eBay for 40 a few weeks ago. It was built to print 12,000 pages a month, but this one has only ever printed 3,000 pages. Prints beautifully, is fast enough, takes loads of paper, never jams and toner costs 10-20 and prints 4,000 pages. I'm never going back to inkjets.
I was thinking it over and a laser printer would make sense for me, but the print speed of the $99 printer is too slow for me.
As it is now my printer can do B&W or Color at 15 ppm.. just that laser would be cheaper. I could live without the color.
I've had a Samsung ML-1750 (paid $119 two years ago) and it still works great. I rarely buy new laser cartridges ($69/ea, yikes!), preferring to get toner refills at a cost of 8 for $29.99 from lasertek services.
#15, the cheapest at the moment is usually the Konica Minolta Pagepro 2400W, at Sams and Staples for $299. Nothing fancy, but pretty fast prints and good quality.
FYI, this is a GDI-only 2MB USB-only printer. No PCL even, certainly no PostScript. They must be using compression to fit a 600dpi image into 2MB - I wonder if it's lossy.
Samsung ML-1430 (and its replacements) is the first, and best low-cost Laser printer.
I went through a few cartridgers before I realized better quality (heavier) paper made a huge difference.
And even when I do have to buy, I just my AMEX points through Staples.com
Are Dell's printer still rebranded Lexmark printers?
#15,
Colour lasers are not photography quality output. They're great for business graphics, but not much more. If you want photos, stick with inkjet or dye sub.
Don't really understand. I bought my Brother 1440 for $100 over a year ago. Yeah it's dope - nothing beats a laser printer at home - but I don't see how this is news.
Looks like a rebranded samsung from the pictures (aren't some of their laptops samsung now too?) which would be a good thing from a reliability, toner, and image quality perspective.
And who really thinks that there wouldn't be plenty of third party manufacturers selling dell toner carts?
For this price, when the toner runs out... buy a new printer!
For this price, when the toner runs out... buy a new printer!
The price is not special and only Dell sells the cartridge. Dell customer support keeps getting worse. Dell now reccomends a "user forum" to solve product problems. In other words use an online message board to talk to other customers who also suffer from Dell's terrible customer service.
You guys are missing the point. Simply pointing out that you can find a deal on similar printers doesn't hit the significance of the Dell announcement.
A: Dell volume and advertising will mean that it will cut heavy into the Ink business for other companies
B: Even more substantial is that you hardly ever pay the "list" price at Dell. You are looking at a sub $50 laser printer. Wait and see!
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