The low price of £146 exc VAT could tempt small businesses away from colour lasers, but they may regret it in the long run.Īlthough the Aficio SG 3110DNw’s colour printing costs are low, output quality simply isn’t good enough for business use, and print speeds on anything but the draft setting will hit productivity hard. The printer also had an annoying habit of stopping halfway through a photo, ejecting it and restarting the whole process from the beginning. However, even here we felt let down: test prints showed an unpleasant yellow tinge. One thing the Aficio SG 3110DNw can do that laser printers can’t is print on glossy photo paper. Many of these problems disappeared when we used higher-quality 100gsm paper, but this will obviously push up running costs. Grey shades using a mix of C, M and Y gels also showed a slight magenta cast. Our colour performance chart revealed smooth gradients across colour fades, but the printer couldn’t reproduce the 0.1pt and 0.2pt gaps between solid blocks of colour. We found that cheap copier paper remained slightly soggy for up to a minute after printing, and the output quality didn’t even justify the long printing time. We tested this with a 24-page DTP-style document, and its challenging mix of colour graphics and photographs took the printer 34 minutes to complete at a shocking average of only 0.7ppm.
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Stepping up to the Quality Priority setting produced much sharper text, but speed plummeted to only 6ppm.īring a good book if you’re planning on using the High Quality driver setting. This is essentially a draft mode that’s of no general use, since the quality is so poor that small fonts are almost unreadable. Printing a 30-page Word document on the High Speed setting took 1min 23secs for an average of 22ppm. Documents in color and reports in black and white are processed quickly on the Aficio SG. First prints are delivered in as little as 7 seconds in color and 5.5 seconds in black. The front-facing control panel enables users to access multiple features. In our tests, we found that the claimed top speed was all but unachievable. The full-color Ricoh Aficio SG 3110DN is a compact printer that can fit directly on a desktop.