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Brother HL-5240 Reviews

The HL-5240 from Brother is a mid-range laser printer oriented towards a medium sized work group. This 28 PPM laser printer looks mean thanks largely to its robust looking design. The front panel controls consist of two buttons and many LED’s for indicat-ing common laser printer errors—out of paper, paper jam, toner empty, etc. The 250-sheet paper cassette is huge and fits flush with the body; paper capacity can be augmented to a massive 800 sheets. The output paper bin holds up to 150 sheets. The manual feeder has a capacity to hold 50 sheets at a time—quite good. The printer also supports the legacy parallel port, apart from the now de-facto USB; Ethernet is not available as an option, which is strange considering its target audience. Installing the printer took no time at all; a Flash animation on the CD gives all the details on how to go about installing the printer. It even shows you how to unpack the toner and prep it for usage. For Linux drivers, the CD has a link to Brother’s driver repository. The driver interface is plain but it has all the required features. If you want advanced settings, you will need to look around, though. Brother claims a 28 PPM speed and it delivered 25 PPM—excellent. The combi-docu-ment took 16 sec-onds to print, since the printer has only 16 MB mem-ory by default. When we tried printing the photo-tar-get disc image file at full resolu-tion (1200 dpi) it automatically reduced the resolution after claiming “memory not enough for full res printing.” Quality was as good as any other printer; the toner density was perfect, as was text sharpness and legibility. Reversed text was printed well and even two-point text was legible. In the grey scale gradation test, banding did occur, but was within acceptable lim-its. Photographs were not striking, but then that’s not what this printer will be used for. The toner cartridge is priced at Rs 4,590 and is rated to deliver 7000 pages, thus the approximate cost per page works out to just Rs 0.6—excel-lent. If you have a team of around eight, and don’t mind the absence of the network option, the HL-5240 is a good buy, thanks to its very low cost per page.
Specifications:
600 dpi print engine, 266 MHz processor, 16 MB memory upgradeable to 528 MB, 250
sheet paper cassette, 9.5 Kg weight, high speed USB and Parallel interface.

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