The Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 966 is a 4-in-1 with printing, scanning, and stand-alone faxing and copying in one compact unit, it’s a little boxy at 18 inches wide, 20 inches deep, and 10.6 inches tall, and weighs about 22 pounds but can print up to 31 pages per minute1 in monochrome and 23 pages per minute1 in colour.

On the photo printing you can print borderless photos up to A4 size directly from a digital camera or memory card, if needed you can print directly from your camera with the built-in PictBridge connection. Simply insert your memory card into the built-in memory card slots and you can browse, edit and print directly from the 2.4″ colour LCD screen on the printer.

Full-Colour Scanning with optical resolution max. 1200 x 4800 dpi, 48-bit colour depth. Dell recommends using the flatbed scanner for scanning photos, even if you have multiples, so it offers a “scan multiple items before output” option that lets you scan a whole pile of documents before they’re printed en masse.

Print speed:
Up to 31 A4 pages per minute (ppm) black or 23 A4 ppm colour

Print resolution:
Up to 4800 x 1200 dots per inch (dpi) maximum

Borderless printing:
Up to A4

Memory card slots:
CompactFlash® I & II, Microdrive, Multi Media Card, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo (with customer supplied adaptor), xD, (certified up to 1GB) MiniSD (with customer supplied adaptor)

Onboard Memory:
32 MB

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The Lexmark E352dn has a built-in duplexer which delivers very fast prints, great print quality, expandable paper handling and memory. It’s a mono laser printer and ideal when most of the output will be text.

If you looking for something for a high-end personal or small workgroup laser printer the e352dn is ideal when most of the output will be text only.

The E350d is very compact printer, measuring 14 inches wide by 15.6 inches deep by 10.2 inches tall. It’s not really a heavy printer and comes in at 25 pounds so if you need to move it you wont kill yourself. On the front of the printer you’ll fine the control panel which simple, with just a two-line text LCD, a Cancel button, and five buttons to navigate the onscreen Menu. The Menu is quit basic with no frills but it’s easy to use.

The built-in duplexer lets you make automatic double-sided prints, which can help if your on a paper budget.

Overall the E352dn is reasonably inexpensive to run and prints more quickly than many other printers in its category. The built-in duplex facility is a useful extra and the printer is quiet and unobtrusive in use. A good partner in a busy office.

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