Kyocera’s EcoSys P2235dn is a compact mono laser printer, designed for reasonable use in small teams or businesses. It’s nicely specified for the worth, with a 250-sheet cassette and 100-sheet multipurpose feed, plus duplex printing as normal. It’s additionally geared up with a gigabit Ethernet port, however there’s no Wi-Fi assist; you’ll want the P2235dw for that.

Most laser producers regard photoconductor drums as a consumable, usually good for 10,000 to 40,000 pages, however Kyocera suits a ceramic drum designed to final the lifetime of the printer; on this case, 100,000 pages. The drum is assured to succeed in that, or to final for 3 years, however within the UK the printer itself will get a stingy one-year RTB guarantee.

The P2235dn has a fundamental management panel comprising a number of lights and buttons, so it’s odd to see it additionally has a USB host port, which is often paired with a textual content or touchscreen so you’ll be able to browse and choose which contents to print. We searched Kyocera’s web site and documentation, experimented with completely different information and button combos, checked within the driver and combed via the net admin web page, however merely couldn’t learn how to make direct prints.

Utilizing our trusty PC, we subjected the P2235dn to our ordinary battery of print jobs. It’s a quick system, turning out a primary web page of textual content in 17 seconds, and persevering with at 28.8ppm over our 25-page job. It prolonged this to 29.4ppm on a 50-page doc, and even reached 12.5ipm when duplex printing ten sides of graphics onto 5 pages. We have been notably impressed by its 27.7ppm on our difficult 24-page graphics check.