The Ricoh Aficio CL3500N is a colour laser printing machine designed for minor position and workgroups . Offering built - in networking capableness , fast photographic print speeds , and a 530 - sheet newspaper tray , this printer is a well - progress machine that can help oneself make your work environment more fertile . This pressman also includes Adobe PostScript 3 compatibility . And if that ’s not enough , Ricoh offer a variety of customization options available for purchase : you could soup up this printer with extra RAM , a duplex house impression unit , or an attachable scanner , among other parts .
Setup
Setting up this printer can be somewhat hard , and I recommend reading all of the command before getting started rather than keep abreast them step - by - stone’s throw . The CL3500N weighs 73 pounds , so at least two people are required to unpack it safely . The setup physical process involves installing a permissive waste toner pickup , two photo music director social unit , and four toner cartridges ( cyan , magenta , yellow , and black ) . You must be very careful when installing the photograph conductor units : queer them to too much light could potentially compromise print lineament , and might cause sure colouration not to impress . Ricoh ’s documentation admit representative that should guide you swimmingly through the apparatus process .
Speed
The CL3500N is jolly fast . It includes 128 megabyte of RAM ( customizable to 512 MB ) to handle complex photographic print jobs . In my testing , this printer have 47 seconds to print a 10 - page Word written document , 22 second to publish a one - page Holy Scripture papers , 2 minutes and 21 minute to publish a 22 M Photoshop image , and 1 minute and 13 second to print a four - page PDF . These speeding are sufficient for a modest office , but they lag behind the Oki Data C6100dn ( ) , another laser printer designed for small offices and workgroups . However , the C6100dn is more expensive .
Quality
If the CL3500N ’s speed does n’t impress you , its mark lineament will . Our venire of expert render the CL3500N ’s text lineament a rating of Superior . face , even at small sizes , come out crisp , smooth , and clean . The pressman also execute well when impress graphic , with unploughed all right lines and fluent color gradients , earn a Very Good rating . For photos , the CL3500N ’s reds were a little strong , but overall the run image looked very pleasing , bring in another Very right rating .
jury tests
exfoliation : Superior , Very Good , Good , Fair , Poor
timed trials
clip are in minutes : seconds .
How we try out : We connected the pressman via USB 2.0 to a 2.66GHz Mac Pro run OS X 10.4.8 with 1 GB of RAM . We recorded the time it took the printer to impress a one - page Word document and a ten - Sir Frederick Handley Page Word document , as well as the time it take away to print a 22 Bachelor of Medicine Photoshop image and a four - page PDF . A panel of experts essay sample of the printer ’s output to rate its print quality as either Superior , Very Good , Good , Fair , or Poor in compare to the output of past photo printer we ’ve tested.—Macworld science lab testing by Brian Chen
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Macworld’s buying advice
Small power and workgroups will appreciate that the CL3500N is price reasonably for what it volunteer : fantabulous photographic print at comparatively fast speeds and PostScript 3 compatibility . With the CL3500N , Ricoh offers an impressive machine in the sub-$1,000 price range .
[ Brian Chen is an adjunct editor in chief atMacworld . ]
