Laser printers in this price range are increasingly under attack from inkjet alternatives, particularly when it comes to running costs, and again it seems nobody has told Dell. Printed text and graphics were excellent, while photos were also unusually good. Scans were reasonably sharp, with surprisingly good dynamic range ensuring that light and dark details were preserved. Print speeds fell a little short of Dell's claimed 18 pages per minute (ppm) in black or colour: we measured 15.8ppm for the former and a competitive 12.6ppm for the latter.Ĭolour photocopies were just a tiny bit drab, but it was hard to fault the E525w elsewhere. Scan speeds were quite reasonable at all but high resolutions, with a 150 dots-per-inch (dpi) A4 scan needing 18 seconds.
Dell's scan interface could do with an auto-exposure feature we had to manually correct this blue biasĪ single black or colour copy was lethargic at 27 seconds, but multi-page copies made using the 15-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) were more competitive: 10 black pages took 51 seconds.
