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4.5
PRO's Excellent print quality text, graphics and photos even on plain paper. Per page cost is NOT high if you buy aftermarket refills. There are no nagging messages to use only Dell toner. When you click "print," the first thing that happens is nothing for a long 7 seconds as it warms-up. I made peace with that because I am more likely to be satisfied the first time with output from this printer. That saves a lot of time. It's quiet enough to have within arms reach and talk on the phone while printing. The driver was easy and fast to install because Dell detected my Windows 7 64 OS correctly and this is one driver for one printer. ( Keep in mind this is not a bundle of drivers for a multi-function kluge of 19 devices that get in each others way and do nothing very well and mostly never get used, plus a compliment of free and worthless software you'll wish you could delete, but can't without creeping out the one print driver you actually want which requires a complete re-install of the entire, 3-ring software circus, at least, four times in the life of the franken-multi-function device, but I digress. ) The wireless router setup is very well done with push-button authentication for security.CON's You can kill this printer by clearing a paper jam the wrong way. It will never print again. If you have a paper jam where a printed page comes the top, but only partially and stops, DO NOT PULL ON THE PAPER. Sure you can see the paper. You can easily grab the paper and pull on it. It's the logical thing to do. Don't do it. If you pull the paper the printer dies forever. After I pulled a paper out I found that others have had the same experience. TO CLEAR AN UPPER PAPER JAM: 1. Tilt open the back panel. The release is at the top center. 2. Inside the back panel near the top you'll see two blue levers. Pull the levers up to release the tension and leave them up. 3. Pull the paper out. 4. Push the blue levers back down to lock them back in place. 5. Snap the back panel closed. Actually I killed a Dell 1250c, but the only difference is it has only a USB cable input. I replaced it with the 1660 to get wireless and ether-net, but they are the same printer otherwise. Other people have written about this issue, but I liked the printer so much I just replaced it with the 1660 to get wireless.
