


Photo prints frequently suffered from some loss in detail, particularly in bright areas. Photo quality is fine for in-house business use, though whether the quality is good enough for use in company newsletters depends on how picky you are. The graphics are okay for PowerPoint presentations, though I would hesitate to hand them to people I was seeking to impress. Most illustrations showed dithering (graininess), and posterization (abrupt changes in color or tone where they should be gradual) was visible in a couple of images that tend to bring it out. Thin colored lines were often hard to see. With graphics, for the most part colors were bold and well saturated, but some black backgrounds appeared faded. Text is fine for general business use, though not for uses that require very small fonts. Output Quality The C1760nw's overall output, though solid enough, was a touch below par for a color laser, with slightly below-par text, and average graphics and photo quality. The Editors' Choice Samsung CLP-415nw, which was rated at 19 ppm for both color and monochrome printing, zipped through our business suite at 6.0 ppm. The C1760nw, rated at 12 pages per minute mono and 10 pages per minute for color printing was a trifle slower, at 4.2 ppm. Printing Speed On our business applications suite, (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), I timed the C1760nw at an effective 4.8 pages per minute (ppm) a decent speed and good for its 15 page per minute monochrome and 12 page per minute color printing rating that is based on printing text documents without graphics or photos-our test suite includes text pages, graphics pages, and pages with mixed content. I tested it over a wired network with the printer's driver installed on a PC running Windows Vista. The C1760nw offers USB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity. The C1760nw is compatible with the recently introduced Dell Mobile Print for Android, and will also work with the iOS and Windows RT versions of the app when they're released in early 2013.

Like the Dell C1660nw, it lacks an auto-duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper, as well as a port for a USB thumb drive.

Its paper capacity makes it best for relatively light-duty use in a micro or home office, or as a personal printer in any size office. The C1760nw's paper capacity is 150 sheets, plus a 10-sheet bypass tray so you can easily switch to alternate paper stock. Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security Software.
