That's about a minute slower than the 924, but it's still relatively fast for the price. On our business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software, the 926 took a total of 20 minutes 49 seconds. Find a spot for the 7.2- by 17.4- by 21.2-inch (HWD) AIO, remove the packing materials, load the two ink cartridges and paper, run the automated installation program from disc, connect the USB cable when the program tells you to, and you're ready to print. On the plus side, you can add an 802.11g wireless network adapter ($99 direct), or a Bluetooth option ($36 direct), for printing from Bluetooth phones and other devices. This limits the 926's usefulness for even a home office. Unfortunately, there's no automatic document feeder, so you have to scan multipage documents one page at a time.
It can copy, scan, and print directly from PictBridge cameras as well as from memory cards it can scan to e-mail by opening a new e-mail message on your PC and attaching the scan as a file and it even offers minimal fax support, if you have a fax modem, with an option to scan to its own fax utility on your PC and send the scan as a fax. But it delivers photos that are far more water-resistant than the 924's output, and it adds the ability to print from memory cards, with the card slots helping to justify the higher price.ĭell targets the 926 at home and light-duty home office needs, which also makes it a good choice for a college dorm. It's slower than the Dell Photo All-In-One Printer 924 it replaces (though it's still reasonably fast), prints lower-quality output, and costs $10 more. Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security SoftwareĮach year's new crop of printers is faster, with higher-quality output, more features, and/or at a lower price than those of the year before-right? Well, the Dell Photo All-In-One Printer 926 ($99 direct) largely bucks this trend.