This is usually the part of a laser printer review where I point out the high running costs, and say you'd be better off with an inkjet. While there isn't much clattering from the paper transport mechanism, those fans are loud, and occasionally while they were running I heard a sudden, short-lived buzz, as though an unfortunate insect had just been sucked into the blades. Text quality was exemplary, as you might expect from a laser.ĭespite vents which could spare you from an unwelcome draft, this is quite a loud printer - particularly so given its modest speed. Those with sharper eyes might detect some half-toning patterns among subtly different colours, though, and on thin paper stock I could see some bleed through in duplexed pages. Graphics and photos alike had neutral colours, and the toner gave an even, satin finish.
Duplex printing 10 sides of colour graphics onto five pages took the best part of three minutes, but repeating this with the less complex pages took just 70 seconds. Timed over just the last 10 pages, which represent printing off typical web pages, it reached 10.5ppm - much faster than a similarly priced inkjet would manage. In common with most printers, it was far slower to deal with the complex graphics contained in our 24-page colour test - the whole test completed at 5.8ppm. It produced a first page of black text in 23 seconds, and went on to deliver 25 pages at a rate of 16.0ppm. In use, the SP C250dn was some way off Ricoh's claimed 20-pages-per-minute (ppm) speed.
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