Please let us have different sleep settings on E525w.

mtoal94769,

Open the operator printer menu then, Admin Menu -system settings there are some settings you can set for power saving.  Unfortunately, there is no firmware to disable the  printer entering power saving mode. I will forward your request to the printer product team. Also, you can click the link below to download the online manual for settings as well as other information that may be helpful. 

Dell E525w Printer Drivers, Downloads and Manuals

System Settings

Power Saver Timer

To specify the time for transition to power saver mode. Values: Enter 5 in Sleep to put the printer in the power saver timer mode 5 minutes after it finishes a job. This uses less energy, but requires more warm-up time for the printer. Enter 5 if your printer shares an electrical circuit with room lighting and you notice lights flickering. Select a high value if your printer is in constant use. In most circumstances, this keeps the printer ready to operate with minimum warm-up time. Select a value between 5 and 30 minutes for the power saver timer mode if you want a balance between energy consumption and a shorter warm-up period. The printer automatically returns to the standby mode from the power saver timer mode when it receives data from the computer. You can also return the printer to the standby mode by pressing any button on the operator panel.

Auto Reset

To automatically reset the settings on the operator panel to the defaults and return to the standby mode after you do not specify any settings for the specified time. Values: 45 sec*, 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 4 min.

Let me also add, I am using:

Driver: Dell Color MFP E525w PCL6 x64 version 1.0.2.2

Firmware: 01.04.07.10.3836

Thanks, Jesse.

Yes, the printer has a 5 to 30 minute time range for sleep, and also a 1 to 6 minute range for deep sleep. I have these set to maximums (30 minutes and 6 minutes). I'd like to be able to specify a longer time for regular sleep, m minimally 60 minutes or longer, and also to disable deep sleep entirely.

I am certainly not a programmer, but I would think this is something that seems like it would be easily possible for the product team to implement via a future firmware update. I see a number of other users are also frustrated with these settings, which have resulted in network disconnections, failure to awaken from sleep, needing to power cycle the printer, etc. and I encourage the product team to please consider our feedback in order to improve this product. I would be willing to beta test if this would be helpful.

Completely agree with the OP.  Please provide a means to disable the deep sleep option. 

For home use, the printer needs an option that keeps the wireless network card enabled and connected.  It is extremely annoying when it goes to sleep and disconnects from the wireless network.  It is therefore unavailable to print to from mobile devices, desktops, and laptops. 

I've got a workaround for this that's practical if you have an always-up server or computer.  (Even a low-end Raspberry Pi would work for this.)

The solution is this: You configure the printer's internal web server admin page to instruct any connected browsers to auto-refresh every 10 minutes while setting the printer's sleep interval to the maximum value of 30 minutes.  This prevents it from sleeping.  Works with absolutely any browser, probably even Lynx

In order to run this securely on your network, you need an always-up machine that you are comfortable having online and logged in.  I run a headless media server at home with RDP-only access (only I can log in from another machine) and use it to keep the printer alive as follows;

1) Make sure you have access to the E525w's setup pages via the Embedded Web Server (EWS).  It helps to assign a fixed IP Address to it but this isn't necessary if you have a good name server going.  I use 192.168.0.240.  The EWS administration panel is then accessed from any browser using this link https://192.168.0.240/default.asp?Lang=en-us

If that works for you then continue with the next step.  If not, get the printer's credentials straitened out and make sure this link pulls up a status page for the printer.

2) Go to Printer Settings -> Sleep set to 30 minutes, Deep Sleep set to 6 Minutes

3) Go to Print Server Settings -> EWS -> Autorefresh set to *ON*, Auto Refresh Interval set to "600 seconds"

4) Set up your always-on machine to boot into it's web browser automatically and make the browser's home page be this link:  https://192.168.0.240/events.asp?Lang=en-us?

(this is the events page and results in the shortest response from the printer in my setup.  The idea is to minimize the overhead of this "ping")

After that, the browser will automatically refresh this page at the 600 second EWS interval and keep it from going to sleep.  My always-on server is running Windows Server Essentials 2016 and comes with a locked-down version of Internet Explorer already installed.  It's a dead browser completely useless for anything but it's perfect for this.

As a bonus, if you don't care about the overhead level of pinging the printer every 10 minutes, use the first link in this post; it'll show you the toner status as soon as you log in to the always-on machine

Enjoy!