InformationWeek.com connects the business technology community. Award-winning news and analysis for enterprise IT.EWEEK delivers breaking tech news, the latest IT trends, and in-depth analysis daily. For more than 30 years, eWEEK has kept tech professionals ahead of the IT curve. BulletProof FTP Server is a powerful Windows FTP Server that's easy to install and manage. Dell V5. 25w All- in- One Wireless Inkjet Printer Review & Rating. Like most inkjet multi- function printers (MFPs) in its price range, the Dell V5.
All- in- One Wireless Inkjet Printer ($1. However, its combination of paper handling, output quality, speed, and MFP features pegs it first and foremost as a personal printer for any size office—from home office on up—and a particularly good fit for a home office with light duty print needs. The V5. 25w is similar in some ways to the Editors' Choice Brother MFC- J4. Neither printer offers wired network support, for example, but they both offer Wi. Fi, so you can share the printers in a micro office or at home. In both cases, however, the paper capacity is limited to just 1. Even for a personal printer, 1. For a shared printer, you'd likely be running out of paper annoyingly often. On the plus side, the low paper capacity also helps keep the size of the printer down. At 1. 0. 6 by 1. 7. HWD), the V5. 25w is small enough to share a desk with comfortably, which helps make it a good choice as a personal printer. Basics. Another similarity between the V5. MFC- J4. 30w is that although both can serve in the dual role of home and home- office printer, they're both much better suited for the office than for home use. The V5. 25w in particular offers better than par quality for text and graphics, which is important for an office printer, but below- par quality for photos, which would be more important for home use. More than that, the V5. Core MFP features include printing and faxing from, as well as scanning to, a PC, and working as a standalone copier and fax machine. Features of particular interest for office use include a built- in duplexer (for printing on both sides of the page) and a 3. ADF) to complement the letter- size flatbed and let you scan both legal size pages and multi- page documents. In contrast, the only photocentric feature is a Pict. Bridge port for printing directly from cameras. However, even that port doubles for office use, giving you the convenience of letting you scan to or print from a USB memory key. Speed and Output Quality. The V5. 25w's speed is best described as tolerable but sluggish. Setting it up was standard fare in my tests, using a USB connection and a system running Windows Vista. I timed the printer on our business applications suite (using Quality. Logic's hardware and software for timing), at a lackadaisical 2. That makes it tied with the similarly priced Lexmark Interpret S4. Brother MFC- J4. 30w, at 4. Photo speed was much faster relative to the competition, averaging 4. However, the fast speed is less impressive that it would be if the photo quality were better. The output quality overall is better than par, but that's strictly thanks to the text and graphics quality. The text in my tests was better quality than I've seen in the vast majority of inkjets, with all of the fonts in our tests that you might use in standard business documents easily readable at 6 points or even smaller sizes in some cases. Graphics quality was easily good enough for any internal business need. Depending on how much of a perfectionist you are, you might consider it good enough for output going to an important client when you need to convey a sense of professionalism. Photos, however, were a step below the lowest level of quality I'd expect from drugstore prints, with unacceptably oversaturated color in most cases. If you need high- quality photos, this is obviously the wrong printer to get. However, the Dell V5. All- in- One Wireless Inkjet Printer delivers on MFP features and both text and graphics output quality. And although it's slower than the MFC- J4. If you need a personal printer for light duty use in any size office, its particular balance of MFP features, output quality, paper handling, and speed make it a more than reasonable choice. More Multi- function Printer Reviews.
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