


However in the manual tray it is loaded face up and delivered face down. The main paper tray is under the manual feed and paper is loaded face down in the main tray and delivered face down. From turn on it is about 15 seconds to first page out and about half that from standby, however unless you are printing all day I always turn on at print time, this is of course less practical if you are using Ethernet as the printer may not be nearby. There are only two buttons on the top of the unit a tick and a cross below these are five LED's and these denote the printers state. The on/off switch is - annoyingly for me - at the rear near the power lead.

If you add around another 3cm to the 34cm depth that will cover the power lead and the USB or Ethernet lead that are protruding from the rear. The printer is 40x34x25cm is predominately black with grey sides and the slider for the manual paper feed.

That's it less than five minutes all done ready to print. Windows finds the printer and the necessary files are installed. Now only at the installs conclusion do you turn on the printer and attach the USB lead. The only other question you needed to answer during the install is USB or Ethernet installation. So insert the CD in the PC and after only a couple of minutes the USB install is finished and you are around 77MB of hard disc down. I fear this will become common practice with waste regulations. You will also -during the install- have to agree not to refill the cartridge supplied and also return this first cartridge to Dell. It is supplied with the toner cartridge already inserted, however you need to remove it to remove the various bits of packing around it. First however the packaging in the printer needs to be removed. However it is one of the simplest software installs I have done. Should this come with a PC from Dell then they may well have already installed the required software.
