This review is taken from the July 2001 issue. Inkjet printers struggle to compete with lasers in a business environment, because they tend to be more expensive to run and provide slower print speeds. This network printer combines the colour printing facilities of an inkjet and the speed of a laser, offering offices the best of both worlds. The J110TN is less costly and a lot smaller than most lasers, so there will be no problem finding space for it. There s a choice of USB or parallel connection, and this version comes with an external MarkNet print server.
Setup is easy and the software is simple to use.
However, in our tests it couldn t come up with the goods and, even at its fastest setting, only managed 9ppm for mono and 6ppm colour. This is significantly faster than most inkjet printers, but still nowhere near the speed of a laser printer. In its defence, the price doesn t come close to that of a colour network laser printer either. So it may not be the fastest way to bring colour printing to your office, but it is the cheapest. Quality is good, and certainly better than anything on offer from a laser.