Laser Printers

Brother HL-2140 Compact Mono Laser Printer is brand new printer from Brother, which is a worldwide electronics and manufacturing company, with sales in over 100 countries.

Features:

Brother HL-2140 Personal Laser Printer is a neat and low-profile laser printer, available in light grey and dark slate colour. HL-2140 is heavily curved on its vertical edges, except for the front-left, which shows a stylish, concave curve with a blue power button at the top. One-per-desk style of mono laser printers are cheaper to run than inkjet machines and for those who don’t need colour, they represent a better deal.

Three indicators are present for toner, drum and error conditions which are positioned just behind the power button. A flip-up paper support is available which can be left folded down when printing A4 pages. A main paper tray slides out from the bottom front of the machine to support 250 pages. There exists a special media feed too, but that doesn’t support the pages, so we need to feed them manually. To provide a straight through paper path, in collaboration with this single-sheet feed, a pull down panel is present at the rear end.

Brother HL-2140 Monochrome Laser Printer uses new drum and toner units, which are yet to be quoted through the usual discount sources. For standard capacity the toner units are rated at 1,500 pages and 2,600 pages for high-capacity, with a drum which should last 12,000 pages. In a typical home or small office environment, these capacities are reasonable and maintenance costs will be relatively low when compared with the similar range of printers. It is unusual not to have a single consumable in a printer at this entry-level price even though Brother makes separate toner and drum units. The two consumables are supplied as a single unit and once a cover has been folded down it slides in from the front of the printer. Brother includes a non-standard 1,000-page starter cartridge, just to get you buying early as a new owner although the standard-capacity toner cartridge is rated at 1,500 pages.

When other printers in this range support additional Ethernet and wireless links, this version of the printer comes with a USB 2.0 connector only. Its quite simple to install the software as the Brother software loads its driver and detects the USB connection without intervention. A status monitor is available for the printer but otherwise we are left to the features of the driver, which include multiple pages per sheet, watermarks and poster printing. No duplexer is fit on the HL-2140, but there is software help with producing double-sided prints manually.

Performance:

Brother claims that HL-2140 Compact Mono Laser Printer can print a maximum of 22 pages per minute, which means that a five page document would take around 15 seconds to complete. Toner save mode will make very little difference to the print speed and text print quality, would be quite acceptable for most print jobs, better than many draft modes on other mono lasers.

Quality is more than reasonable in normal print mode with crisp, well-defined black text, right down to small font sizes. Grey scales reproduced from colour originals were printed clearly with very little banding, producing clear, sharp business graphics and well-executed page rules. Photographs could also be printed well with little noticeable banding and some detail in shadows. Even when the printer’s top quality mode of 2,400dpi by 600dpi is used, the dot pattern is surprisingly noticed. The straight 600dpi print mode comes out nearly as well, but there’s little print speed advantage to using the lower resolution.

Warranty:

Brother HL-2140 Compact Mono Laser Printer comes with a standard warranty of one year.

Verdict:

The HL-2140 A4 Mono Laser Printer is an ideal low-cost solution to our mono laser printing requirements, providing high speed, professional quality prints from a stylish, compact machine. This is a well-designed, smart, personal, mono laser printer, which does most of the things we would want a one-per-desk machine to do. If we are choosy, we would like a multi-purpose tray that can take more than one sheet at a time, and a toner cartridge with at least the same capacity as the standard-yield consumable is available as a spare. The focus of the Brother HL-2140 is clear, and this laser packs the goods. But for the typical family, this is an excellent complement to quality inkjet printers and thus an ideal way to arm our home with strong text to go along with great colour graphics.

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Samsung, the best known South Korean brand is the world’s most popular consumer electronics brand since 2005. The Samsung CLP-315W Wireless Colour Laser Printer is the latest laser printer from Samsung which have been introduced in the worldwide market. This laser printer would be a good option for people who love to have wireless connectivity for their printer. Another important aspect of this printer is that it comes with individual toner cartridges which help users to save money as it can be replaced separately. CLP-315W is not an all-in one printer but it would be a star at home as it can print on either wired or wireless network.

Features:

Samsung CLP-315W Wireless Colour Laser Printer is a compact printer as has a sleek design and small foot print. It can easily fit into the corner of the room. This wireless printer comes in dark piano black colour and striking polished exterior with 15.3 inches wide by 12.3 inches deep by 9.6 inches tall structure. Samsung CLP-315W has a simple top with several LED lights to indicate the toner level, to notify the paper jams, to denote the wireless connectivity. At the bottom of this laser printer resides a removable paper tray which can hold a standard 150 sheets of paper which can be of any size varying from 8.5 inches by 14 inches. The absence of cancel button in the control panel of CLP-315W might irk the users as they cannot cancel the task in the middle. Cancellation of job is possible only manually through operating system. As the manual feed slot is absent in this laser printer, main input tray has to be utilised for different kinds of irregular media like cards, and envelopes.

Four toner cartridges reside behind the drop-down panel on the front faceplate. This includes one black and four colour cartridges. These cartridges being light weight are very easy to remove and replace. One of the major demerits of CLP-315W Wireless printer is that it can print only up to 1000 pages per month. Hence, users who have a huge target should opt for a better printer. It has an in-built memory of 32MB. The Samsung CLP-315W has a USB Port at the rear end. Establishing a wireless connection with this printer might be bit complicated process initially. Hence, installing the driver with the printer attached to the PC with USB first and setting up the wireless connection would be a good approach. A web server namely, SyncThru Web Service is embedded into the driver that lets the user to do the network settings without any additional software. The printer’s ip address and other information has to be furnished in this web server. To establish a wireless connection, it would take around half an hour as the whole procedure is quiet tedious.

Performance:

Samsung CLP-315W Network Laser Printer can print up to 13.15 pages per minute for plain black speed. This printer can print only around 3.64 pages per minute for the colour documents including the graphics. The CLP-315W offers resolution up to 2400 x 600 dpi output and duty cycle of 20,000 pages. And the worst case is that this printer fails to compensate the print speed with the print quality. Moreover, it offers inconsistent results for black and white and colour prints. When compared with the other colour laser printers of the similar price, the overall performance of Samsung CLP-315W Colour/Mono Laser Printer is relatively poor especially for colour prints.

Warranty:

Samsung CLP-315W Laserjet Printer offers an industry standard one-year warranty. Samsung gives the provision to avail telephone support everyday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Useful information such as manual and driver downloads, a media guide, and a comprehensive list of FAQs are present in the Samsung website to help users further.

Verdict:

Samsung CLP-315W is a wireless ready laser printer with light weight, sleek design and small footprint. Unfortunately, this fancy looking economical wireless printer has higher cost per page than average, slow output, low duty cycle, no manual feed tray, no dedicated cancel button and dissatisfying output quality. CLP-315W cannot be used to scan or fax or photocopy but it would be good option for home office users as it is economical.

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Canon being the world’s leading innovator and provider of imaging and information technology solutions for the home and office environments has come up with their new innovation, Canon i-SENSYS LBP3010 Laser Printer.

Features:

Canon i-SENSYS LBP3010 Laser Printer is a compact, affordable and stylish personal laser printer. The stylish desktop design makes it very convenient to fit on desks. Its space saving design includes a practical retractable paper tray cover.  It has 2 LED indicators and 1 operation key in the control panel.

This personal mono laser printer delivers professional prints at a speed of 14 pages per minute. Features like speed and accuracy, make the Canon i-SENSYS LBP-3010 Laser Printer more in demand. Monochrome is the output type supported by this laser printer. Approximately 10 seconds is the power on time of this printer. LBP-3010 Laser Printer comes with an installed RAM of 2MB.

Quick First-Print technologies has been employed in LBP3010 which makes it print faster without waiting. There is no warm up time for i-SENSYS LBP3010 from sleep mode, so you can always start printing straight away. First print out time is about 8.5 seconds or less saves you even more time. Outstanding laser quality and a truly professional touch can be enjoyed in every single print. To deliver awesome results with laser printing – producing sharp, black text and superb graphics, MS (Magnetic Spherical) Toner has been specially developed. Automatic Image Refinement ensures that the finest details come out clearly with a print resolution up to 2400 x 600 dpi. 150 sheets is the total media capacity of the multipurpose tray where as the output tray can include up to 100 sheets.

Energy efficient, eco-friendly LBP3010 Laser Printer uses only 2 watts in sleep mode. The product works with AC 230V voltage and 280W power. A power switch in front makes it easy to turn off, cutting energy costs even further. This desktop unit is silent in standby and quiet during operation – so you can concentrate on your work without any distracting background noise, thanks to the fan-less engine design.

Convenient All-in-One cartridge is available in this printer which is very simple to be replaced. There is no mess and no hassle with Canon i-SENSYS LBP3010 Mono Laser Printer while replacing the compact cartridge - containing toner, drum and cleaning units - and the printer is as good as new. Use of Authentic Canon Laser Cartridges can benefit from continuous high quality output. LBP3010 Laser Printer holds 1 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type B connection. It supports Linux, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.5. The sound emitted by the system during operation is 50dB. The device is EPA energy star compliant.

Performance:

The print speed and quality of this laser printer is quite good when compare to the inkjet printers. The print speed of the LBP3010 is 14ppm and the print resolution is 2400 x 600dpi. The first print takes around 8.5 seconds. Cost per page for laser printer is quiet high when compared with the inkjet printers. Canon claims that this higher price is partly due to their all-in-one cartridge that contains the drum, toner and cleaning units. As far as text prints are concerned, it gives superb results as laser printers are perfect for that. Letters come out perfectly dry, crisp and don’t bleed. The LBP3010 has better results with graphics and photos, even though it prints only in B&W. Gradients and contrasts come out really well.

Warranty:

Canon i-SENSYS LBP3010’s warranty is valid for three years (ninety days for lamp) from the date of purchase by the consumer with certain terms and conditions mentioned in their company site.

Verdict:

Canon i-SENSYS LBP3010 Laser Printer is a good choice for people who are looking for good quality text and graphics, quiet print mechanism, all-in-one cartridge and multi driver supported printer. It takes no time to warm up from sleep mode which allows us to print straight away. Canon’s Quick First-Print technology has to be thanked for this feature which indeed will save our time on the first page. Some disappointing areas are cost per page which is slightly above the average price and also starter toner is rated at just 700 pages. It is slightly slower when compared with similar group of laser printers and moreover, it has no wireless or Ethernet connectivity.

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Brother being a diversified Japanese company produces a wide variety of products including printers. They market their multifunction printers as Multi-Function Centers (MFCs). Brother HL2037 Mono Laser Printer is the latest laser printer from Brother Industries which is a low cost solution to our mono laser printing needs. Brother HL-2037 offers high speed, professional quality prints from as stylish, compact device.

Features:

The Brother HL-2037 monochrome laser printer is designed in a stylish manner. This black lady is compact enough to fit on a desk or onto a shelf. It is 371mm wide, 166mm deep and361mm tall. It weighs around 6.5 kg. Installation of Brother HL-2037 is pretty easy as we need to just plug in the power cable and just click through the installation CD and we can start printing in minutes. This printer is compatible with both PC and Apple Mac systems and to ensure the connectivity with modern devices HL-2037 uses a USB connection. This HL2037 printer comes with a 250 sheet paper tray which provides ample capacity and also there is an option of a single sheet manual feed for envelope printing and different media types. Paper input is limited to 250 sheets and output is up to 100 sheets.

Hi-Speed USB2.0 connection and 8MB build in memory are also included in this device. This compatible machine comes with a low cost toner cartridge and a drum which makes it more economical. HL-2037 comes with USB2.0 ecology power save which consumes less energy when not in use and toner save reduces the toner usage. This printer supports Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional 32 & 64 bit editions / XP Home Edition, Windows Server 2003 32 & 64 bit editions, Windows 2000 Professional. Macintosh Brother Laser Driver is available for Mac OS X 10.2.4 or greater and Linux Printer Driver for Linux. It has an added feature of status monitoring, which is a function for indicating error of the printer on a PC.

Watermark printing is also available to print documents with predefined text or user defined messages. Poster printing is an additional feature of Brother HL-2037 mono laser printer. Standard toner, TN-2005 and Drum, DR-2005 supports approx. 1,500 pages and 12,000 pages respectively. It can print on plain, recycled and bonded paper, labels, envelopes and transparencies, and produce double sided prints.  A toner cartridge, driver software, drum unit and power cord are also included in the unit.

Performance:

Brother HL-2037 performance pretty good when compared to the modern laser printers. It produces printouts with good speed and quality that we would expect from a more expensive machine. It takes less than 10 seconds to print out the first copy. It can print up to 18 pages per minute. Maximum resolution obtained is 2400 x 600dpi. Even though the cost is bit high when compared to the ink jet printers, its performance compensates for the money. HL-2037 is bit noisy when compared to the other laser printers of its kind. Inability of photo printing is also a limitation of Brother HL-2037 laser printer.

Warranty:

Brother industries offer one year standard onsite warranty for the Brother HL-2037 mono laser printer.

Verdict:

It is better to buy a Brother HL-2037 mono laser printer if we need to print a lot of black-and-white text documents as it can do this job very quickly and cheaply. HL-2037 is not suitable for people who are expecting a noise less printing or photo printing. The compatibility of this printer makes it to standout from other printers as it supports variety of operating systems and comes with various printer drivers.

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