Thursday, April 23, 2009

Brother HL 2040 - The Wallet Friendly And Trustworthy Printer

By Ben Pate

Size and type options: The printer is a little fussy when it comes to certain paper types and sizes. It will accept standard, legal, letter, A4 and special sizes. However large quantities of any type or size will have to be manually fed for example envelopes. The paper tray is rather clever in that it will not allow you to load any thick media. Look for Brother HL 2040 printer toner cartridge.

Easy Controls: The Brother HL 2040 Printers' controls on the build in panel is exceptionally easy and straightforward. Three LED lights indicate warnings and a single buttons controls print start, cancel, error clearing restarts and waking from sleep mode. Primary control will be done from you computer via software drivers included with printer software.

User-friendly Panel: The Brother HL 2040 Printer control panel easy to understand with only a couple of warning light- three to be exactly and only one button to start printing under various conditions such as waking, error clearing, general start-up and cancelling. Your computer will be the main printer control as the software provides for handling different operation situations from you computer instead of the printer itself.

Text and Photo print quality: Print quality in general is okay while boasting with twenty pages per minute at 2400x600 dpi printing with Brother toner. Laziness is definitely not something we can find the printer guilty of. Graphics and photo printing is near disastrous with graininess, dithering, posterization and blow-out appearances. Text print quality is rather good, a little above standard with a couple of flaws in terms of askew envelope printing, jagged edging on small characters and blemishing. However the printer performs the almost impossible task perfectly by printing closely spaced bold characters still separated. Another rather time consuming and irritating disadvantage to the printer is paper curling and folding.

Guide: The user manual is well presented as installation and setup is explained extensively. Other same priced Brother printer options will have to be skipped as they are also contained in the guide. A user guide is also included on the printer software CD in PDF format.

Port options: The printer comes standard with Parallel and USB ports and no upgrading options to wireless or Ethernet.

Ports available: You will have to settle for the quite old fashioned port options of Parallel and USB and keep in mind that you cannot upgrade to wireless or Ethernet. - 22787

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