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Brother HL-4150CDN Toner Review
The HL-4150CDN as well as its sibling printers represent Brother's first move in to the workgroup colour laser printer marketplace.
Brother is clearly going for the strong, dependable look with the HL-4150CDN. The cream and black case is fairly near to cuboid, apart from a slight reverse lean on the front panel. The control panel is located left of the paper output port on the printer's top surface area and has a 2-line by 16-character backlit Liquid crystal display. Controls are nicely organized and include a Secure button. There's a USB socket fixed in to the top of the left-hand side of the front panel and this also works with USB drives for the purpose of direct print of documents, this includes JPEG, TIFF and also PDF. There is also a 250-sheet paper tray fitted as standard, with a 500-sheet tray obtainable as an alternative. There is also a 50-sheet multi-purpose tray, and this folds down from the front and compensates for the modest total capacity of the main tray. At the rear are sockets intended for USB and 10/100 Ethernet. As is just about standard, Windows as well as OS X are supported out of the box, with Linux drivers online, in this instance through the Brother Solutions website.
The brand new engine also fills a space inside Brother's speed range and is rated at 24ppm for both black as well as colour print. In test, our five page black text document finished in 20 seconds, equal to a rate of 15ppm, but on the lengthier, 20-page test this climbed to 19ppm, a decent velocity with respect to this particular type of model.
The HL-4150CDN features a built-in duplexer which incorporates a recently designed paper path, that takes pages in pairs, offering a greater total speed compared to some rivals, provided that your document is actually a multiple of four sides. We got a rate of 12.5 sides a minute, which is a bit more than half the simplex rate.
The print quality is certainly up with the best colour lasers we've examined. Black text print is sharp and clear and in addition isn't too heavy on the page. Draft mode, which will save you toner, is addionally quite legible. It's not as well formed or as thick, yet is alright when it comes to internal documents. Colour print, in particular with regard to business charts as well as graphs, is thick and vibrant, although colours tend to be slightly darker when compared with originals. There's some minor haloing with black text through darker colours, but it is not really that marked. Picture prints in addition come through a bit darker by default and also surrender certain fine detail, nevertheless at least colours are not garish, as they often are out of colour lasers.
Draw open the front panel and you can easily slide out a tray possessing the four Brother HL4150CDN printer cartridges. This is actually a new, inline, colour laser engine, created from the ground up, so is straightforward to maintain, though the printer also makes use of a discrete drum and transfer belt. These components have service lives of 25,000 and 50,000 pages.
Brother's shift directly into the mid-range colour laser market appears well set, if this particular machine is anything to go by. It's clearly equal to the primary opposition on speed and also print quality and is also almost certainly going to reveal comparable running prices, also. It may not possess some of the features of its competition, nevertheless the fairly keen pricing makes up for this. The most helpful additional features for instance secure print and direct USB print work extremely well, offering a sound mixture, in general.
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