Dell E525W Color Laser All-in-One Wireless and Cloud Ready Printer

I’m a small business owner, so I have owned A LOT of printers. Not big ones, just small All-In-One Inkjets. I hated them. All of them. Having a business, I was printing more than the average household. And I finally got sick and tired of paying $60-100 for ink 1-2 times a month. I was done.So I started looking for lasers. I researched every color all-in-one laser printer I could find for months. This one came up over and over and over. So I finally decided it was the one I wanted.My months of research paid off ten fold! I literally COULD NOT be happier with this printer. It does everything I need and want and the price was astounding! Seeing the price of some of the other laser printers during my research almost brought me to tears on numerous occasions. I was hesitant because I couldn’t actually believe this printer could be this great for this price but no, it REALLY is!! There is no hidden crap-show! And even the 1-3 star reviews, no clue what printer those people are using or maybe they just don’t know how to read an owner’s manual but I haven’t experienced ONE issue that’s been mentioned in any review. And I read them all, on multiple sites.The color quality is so bright and vivid and the black is super bold and full. It functions and prints crazy fast. Hardly takes any time at all to warm up from sleep. I didn’t have a single problem connecting to my WiFi. It’s big but I love the look of it for my office!And my INSANELY FAVORITE part that I just discovered, I have an iPhone that I do all my work emails from. I needed an invoice from the scanner to my iPhone to email. So I found the iOS app Dell Document Hub. OMG! I put the invoice on the flat bed and scanned it, FROM MY PHONE and then saved it to iBooks as a PDF. Technology is literally blowing my mind right now.If you’ve been trying to make up your mind for months like I was and you are a small business owner with small-average daily use, then stop thinking and buy this one. I promise you won’t be disappointed.No, I did not receive a discount or anything for my review from Dell or any third party seller and no, I don’t work for Dell or any third party seller. I really just love this printer and feel so proud of myself for doing my research!

I was going to return this printer after I discovered to my horror that it didn't support automatic duplexing. When I tried to print with duplex turned on, the printer said to insert the output into the tray. I had no idea what tray it was talking about, the main tray? Is there another tray? It also didn't say how to place the one-sided printed papers into the tray, should I put it in upside down? So, frustrated, I just simply boxed it back up and was about to return it. I went through the process (which was really easy, btw) and printed a label. But then I thought more about it. I thought to myself, how difficult is it really to manually duplex once I figure out the right way to orient the paper? Also, how often do I really print double-sided? And then I further thought, maybe if I download the Dell drivers instead of just using the Windows 10 installed drivers that I got automatically that maybe it would be better. I was right. Installing the Dell drivers, when you print and you select Duplexing, it will show you how to orient the paper and it does go into the main tray. Matter of fact, it was so easy, it printed all of the 1-sided pages first, they already come out of the print upside down in the right order. You just need to then put them on top of the stack of paper in the main tray. It detects when you insert the tray back in and automatically starts printing the 2nd side of the pages. Very easy. Less moving parts also probably means less chance of malfunction.I will be keeping this printer and will update the review in a few months and then after a year or so when I remember. So far, the print is fast, the print is very clear and the color looks impressive. If not having auto-duplexing is stopping you, maybe think again as Dell made the manual duplexing about as simple as it could get.

May 1, 2018 - UPDATE: I've had this printer for over a year now and am again lowering my rating to ONE STAR and am looking for a replacement printer! (Should've sent it back immediately!) This is probably the worst printer I've ever owned, laser or inkjet, and there have been many. What were a few minor annoyances in the beginning have turned into major headaches and the list keeps growing. Within just the last couple weeks, a new problem has deveoped that I've not been able to rectify.....it take literally MINUTES to begin printing! From what little I can deduce, it seems to be a problem with the collating feature. I can shut that off in the printer preferences, but it comes back on by itself, and the whole problem starts again, EVERY TIME I PRINT SOMETHING! Paper jams are more frequent than not, the paper drawer has to be SLAMMED repeatedly for the printer to detect that it's closed, every time you open the printer drawer, you must use the printer's control board and press multiple buttons in order to begin printing again. (Opening the drawer seems to cause loss of settings). Nothing about this machine is intuitive or user friendly, and the included instructions are totally worthless. It's big, heavy and clunky, goes through cartridges like a hungry monster, and they are very expensive, making for a high cost per sheet. Our home use is low, and I still can't stand it anymore and will be purchasing a new printer as soon as I decide which one. Having such a bad experience with this beast, I'm a bit gun shy about choosing another. One thing I know for sure, IT WILL NOT BE A DELL! Pass this one by and go for another laser all-in-one color printer. There are many affordable machines out there, and this one isn't even in the running as a good choice!July 3, 2017-UPDATE: I've had this printer for 5 months, now, and am downgrading my rating from 4 stars to 3 due to the fact that "somewhat finicky" is actually "very finicky". Frequent paper jams, difficult to recover from, even when cleared. Often takes removing and replacing paper tray AND the "back hatch" several times before the machine detects that the jam has been cleared. Also, whenever the paper drawer is opened and closed, it's necessary to rechoose options from the printer's counsel (paper size and type) to continue printer. It amounts to losing those basic settings, so to speak. Whatever causes these issues, whether machine or operator fault, it's not as user friendly as most of the printers I've had for home use and is THE MOST finicky and troublesome for paper jams as well as clearing jams.Knowing what I know after 5 months of use, I would NOT choose this printer again! Shop around some more, there are better options out there for the same or even less money. This is not the printer for someone looking for ease of use!ORIGINAL REVIEW: After using the scanner several times, including resizing photos, using the printer quite a lot and running several hundred pages through the copier, I like this machine overall, but it has its issues. The biggest one I've noticed so far is the printer's ability (or inability) to sense when the paper tray is in place. Whenever I fill the tray, or for whatever reason have to remove it, and then put it back in, the machine keeps telling me to put the paper tray in. I end up having to literally slam the tray in before the machine senses that it's in place. Also, if it runs out of paper in the middle of a print job, it jams more than 50% of the time, clearing the jam requires opening the back "hatch", which, of course, is on the back of the machine and not easy to get at. This thing is HEAVY, so anything that requires moving it around is a pain! The copies are clear and crisp, the speed is pretty good, although the warm-up is slow. I much prefer laser printers to ink jets for so many reasons, and a color laser printer was out of reach, price-wise, for most home users and small offices not so long ago. Getting one for just under $200 (including the shipping cost) is great, and I'm thrilled to finally be able to afford a color laser printer! For that reason, I figure I can put up with a few finicky issues on this machine as long as they don't get worse and repeatedly slamming in the paper tray doesn't end up breaking something.