Aviod The Dell V715w All-in-One Wireless Printer

If you are in the market for a new inkjet printer, heed this advice . . . Avoid the Dell V715w All-in-One Wireless printer!

Why? For the simple reason that there are far better printers on the market. This printer will leave you nothing but frustrated.

Dell claims this printer to be environmentally friendly because the V715w offers an econo-mode button that allows you to dim the 2.4 inch LCD display and enables the double sided printing feature. I’ll hand it to them on a feature that makes printing on both sides of the paper even easier, but an auto dim on a 2.4 inch LCD screen. How much energy, or money, are we actually saving there? Wouldn’t Dell have been better off putting some of that “econo-mindedness” in to creating a printer that does not go through printer cartridges like Larry King goes through wives.

Conservation of printer cartridges will have a much larger impact on the environment than powering down a LCD screen. Dell, long known as the maker of printers that guzzle printer ink, can add the V715w to their list. This printer uses four individual ink cartridges (black, cyan, magenta, yellow) in both standard and high capacity versions. Dell is well know for offering cartridges in both standard and high capacity. Problem is that they are not publishing page yield on these cartridges, so you have to take their word on which is which. Really want to know how fast these printers go through ink, check out CNET and Amazon’s customer comments.

Dell offers this printer for $149.99, but Lexamark, Epson, and HP all make printers that offer more features than the V715w – at the same price point.

It’s print quality and print speed leave you wanting and it offers little more than the standard print, copy, fax, scan features that we’ve come to expect on all AIO printers. Save yourself some frustration and find a different printer to buy.