Dell Color Laser Printer 1320c

by Dell

Product Details

• Item Weight: 38 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 53.1 pounds
• ASIN: B0012WWNAK
• Item model number: 1320C
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 22, 2008

Product Description

* 600 dpi x 600 dp MAX RESOLUTION | MAX PRINT SPEED (BLACK): 16ppm | MAX PRINT SPEED (COLOR): 12ppm
* 250 SHEET MAX PAPER TRAY
* DELL STANDARD 1320c TONERS INCLUDED IN BOX (1,000 PAGE YIELD)
* Interface: USB 2.0, Ethernet 10/100Base-TX (CABLES NOT INCLUDED)
* 333 MHz | 64 MB Max RAM

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Color Laser - Poor Single Sheet Feed, March 16, 2009

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Sensible Family (NY, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dell Color Laser Printer 1320c (Electronics)

We've had this printer for over a year. We are moderate home users, mostly home projects and school reports - maybe 500 pages a month or so. The usual issues with expensive toner cartridges -- we've gone through the starter set plus one additional set of cartridges. Generally haven't had any jamming problems and have had very good print quality. BUT we use a lot of special paper like label sheets, card sheets, colored paper, etc. - more expensive paper that you don't want to leave in the main paper tray -- I tend to use the single sheet feed slot a lot. And the single-sheet feed on the Dell 1320c is completely useless. It is incapable of getting the paper to feed properly, no matter how carefully you position the paper in the slot, no matter how hard you work to "help" the paper feed straight. I don't think I ever even tried envelopes. I really don't understand how, after all these years, correct paper feeding is still "rocket science" for printer manufacturers. Anyway, basically I end up putting everything into the paper tray and working hard not to forget to take out any sheets I didn't use. One little item you have to know when doing this -- the paper tray feeds from the front on this machine, not the back.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best personal printer I have owned., November 20, 2010

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dolphin_phone (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dell Color Laser Printer 1320c (Electronics)

After years of having to replace cartridge after cartridge in my old deskjet, I decided to replace it with a printer that didn't have that problem, while at the same time producing high-quality prints at an effective rate of speed. That led me to the Dell 1320c. Am I ever glad that this is the printer I bought!

Let me tell you, it's hands down the best personal-use printer I have ever owned. The color print quality is as good as anything you'll find--at least as good as your neighborhood Kinko's, maybe better. The cartridge capacity is pretty good, but this isn't a printer designed for spitting out thousands of pages a day. However, for a personal or home office use, it's going to be hard to beat a printer that does all this, rarely breaks down, and almost never has any hardware glitches that plague some cheaper models.

It's only real drawback is its size: at more than a foot in each dimension, it doesn't do well ask a desk printer.

So, in summary, if you need a printer that's quite a bang for just a few bucks, the 1320c may be just what you're looking for.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet!, December 31, 2010

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iwakuni81 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dell Color Laser Printer 1320c (Electronics)

Purchased this one in Nov '10 after a lot of research and angst before finally hitting the "BUY" button. I must say that I am very impressed with this baby so far. It is what it is - a basic color laser print. Not a lot of fancy stuff to get in the way or broke. Just sits there all quiet and asleep until it is called into action. Whines a wee-bit when printing but still quieter than my ink-jets. Not the fastest kid on the block (still pretty decent though); but take one look at that fabulous output and then you'll be asking yourself "...how did I ever make do without this baby before now??"

It was a piece of cake to set up. There is not a display to walk you through the setup options, but there is really nothing to do if you are connecting directly to your PC/MAC. Comes with the Mac driver disk so once that is loaded you just need to ID it in your printer preferences (Google for mac setup how-to), point to the installed driver and BOOM, there it is. Setting it up on a network is even easier (yes, it is networkable!! SWEET!), just connect it (sorry, wired only, not wireless) and restart; hold down the print button for a couple of secs, look on the config page that is printed, find the assigned IP, set it up using LPD and away you go! Windows 7 is even easier!!

I've had a Lexmark e310 for about 6 years and sadly, it finally started to die (paper pickup mechanism). I've had/have Epson, HP and Canon ink-jets and in my humble opinion -- they are ALL way up there on the suck-o-meter. Unless of course you enjoy get your blood sucked out of you on a daily basis - through your wallet! Epson and Canon are the worst - they seem to want to go through a "Cleaning cycle" at least once a day. Every time I hear them do that all I can think is "Good-bye money..."

I have three in college and they print reports and papers like there is no tomorrow (3-4 reams of paper a semester). I keep tabs on toner level in the web-based management console and so far it still shows all of the cartridges are still full. I set them up to print in draft mode and the output in B/W still looks really good. Color output is noticeably weaker in draft mode but definitely passable. A quick switch to HQ mode and the color output POPs!!! We have Dell printers at work and they seem to hold up real nice under moderate to heavy work loads so I am optimistic for this baby.