I have been very happy with my Dell 3000Cn.
Its silent as far as I can tell when it goes to sleep, cant hear any fans or anything.
Printouts are superb IMO. I use it for labels, photos, etc. Colour reproduction is outstanding and required very little tweaking to get it spot on with the screen output. Its speedy too when compared to a inkjet, especially if you are doing a huge document run.
The missus uses it constantly everyday that she is working from home and the supplied (half filled) toners are stil only at 10% usage after about 12 or so months of daily usage on general office docs.
Think the consumables are around £45-£50 a pop for a toner but they will do double what the supplied ones do (need four - 3 colours, 1 black). That IMO is very good, they print LOTS more than an ink which are roughly £20-£30. Compared to my old inkjet it wipes the floor with it on all but glossy prints, where the plastic or whatever toner is made of, leaves it with a matt finish.
The only bad thing I find with it is that it doesnt do edge to edge printing like some of the photo inkjets do. Not really a massive problem, I just use A4 paper and trim it with a guilotine instead of using 6x4 sheets.
I paid about £160 brand new from an auction site for mine including postage, which was pretty decent.
A good run down of some of the alternative SOHO printers here. I looked at quite a few before deciding on this one, the Oki C5200 was the other real contender, but the Dell won because it was black LOL :
http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/2312p133id122930.htm
Thats PC World magazine, not a competitor or anything.
Feel free to give me a shout with any other questions.
Oh and you may get more replies if this was in General Hardware rather than the Windows forum
