Dell B1260dn Pro Reviews

The Dell B1260dn offers reasonably high-quality text and graphics, network support, and paper handling suitable for a micro office or busy home office.

The Dell B1260dn is well worth considering only if your print requirements and initial-purchase budget are modest. It has rapid print speeds and good quality results - however print costs per page are not the cheapest for a mono laser.

The B1260dn prints fast, and the output looks good. Its 20,000-page volume rating isn't (for a laser printer, anyway), all that high, but it’s not bad for a $150 machine. Twenty-thousand prints per month still comes out to several hundred pages a day, which is a lot for most small-office and small-business environments (and even many enterprise workgroups). Still, this model's CPP of 3.3 cents is high, compared to the roughly 2-cent CPPs of some pricier lasers such as the ML-3712DW. For example, printing 20,000 pages would cost you about $260 more on the Dell B1260dn versus with that Samsung model. If you printed that many pages monthly, $260 per month adds up to $3,120 a year. You can buy a lot of multifunction laser printer for that kind of money, with $2,000 or more left over for other office expenses.