Monday, April 27, 2009

Brother HL 5140 Printer, Cute And Efficient.

By Ben Pate

Super Compact: The recently updated HL 5140 Printer from Brother is super compact and will fit in even the smallest office crack at a mere 15x15x10 inches and 15 pounds, efficiency is definitely not compromised. This little laser printer is ideal for home and office use.

Well Priced: The price of the printer itself is unbeatable at about US$200. The expense problems arise when you want to buy optional extra's for the printer for example more memory, a second paper tray or networking equipment.

Cool Controls: The control panel is easy to use and understand, with just 2 buttons and three lights. The lights indicate different status such as toner, drum and paper. The buttons are to Cancel Print and "Go" to restart continuous printing after jams or errors as well as power on from sleep mode. Ease is key for consumers these days.

Paper Options : The printer has a 150 sheet output tray and 250 sheet main tray. Another 250 sheet tray can be added at a price almost equal to the price of the printer itself. The printer pushes an impressive twenty-one pages per minute making it ideal for multi-taskers who prefer completing other tasks than to wait for printing jobs to finish. Variety of paper types are accepted by the printer including labels, transparencies, envelopes and plain paper. Paper sizes supported are A4, A5, A6, exec, legal and letter. However legal size will have to be fed manually as well as large quantity printing of envelopes and transparencies. Paper jams are a very regular occurrence with the Brother HL 5140 Printer in terms of standard 8.5x11 multipurpose paper.

Quality test: The text quality is unbeatable with characters being easy to read, bold and perfectly outlined, no smudges or blemishing thanks to the Brother HL 5140 Toner. The graphics quality is really not very good as flaws are present on both gradients. Forget about using the printer for photo and graphics printing as print quality is generally uneven.

Printer Memory: 16 MB's memory comes standard with the printer. This may be too little for large printing jobs and networking with another 144 MB memory available to fill by means of SD RAM's sold by 3rd party vendors.

Technical requirements: The printers' system requirements are Microsoft 95 to XP, Linux and Mac OS. The printer is compatible with Mac, PC and Linux and has a 133 MHz processor with 16 MB RAM standard however it has available 144 MB's. Interfaces that come standard with the printer are Parallel and USB with wireless and Ethernet extra. - 22787

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