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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Brother HL-2140 Laser Printer - Technical Specification Table

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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Samsung CLP-315W Laser Printer - Technical Specification Table

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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Canon i-SENSYS LBP3010 Printer - Technical Specification Table

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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Brother HL2037 Laser Printer - Technical Specification Table

Design:

When we see the dimension of (W x H x D) 388 x 313 x 243mm, it is small enough for both home and office use. You can comfortably keep on home office desk or in the corner of the bookshelf. Printing speed is the most important factor that defines the performance of a colour laser printer.

Connectivity:

This CPL-310 compact colour laser printer can be connected through USB 2.0 port connection and there is no dedicated built-in network port for printing process. It is not a multifunctional printer and back side of the printer is designed with separate connection junction that gives room for potential options for any network connection. This office laser printer has low operating volume, which is equipped with NO NOIS print engine technology.

Noiseless Laser Printer:

Initially it is easy to setup this Samsung CPL-310 laserjet printer that delivers efficient printing using toner cartridges with simple installation. The NO NOIS print engine technology is not well accentuated the point of silent printing engine when this printer initially launched. It is quite noisy when you initially start the setup and install but later once everything is in place then the printing process will go smoothly without any noise.

Samsung has claimed that CPL-310 is silent laser printer and it is quite managed well. But being a silent printer it has to have extra qualities to claim that true position. When compared to the most competing laser printer in the market, this small business laser printer has a quiet operation. Even its bulky body structure also helps to absorb any printing sound in a powerful manner when compared to the most inkjet printer that comes in old fashioned body structure.

Performance:

When you feed the paper and start a draft printing this, Samsung laser printer would take around 22 seconds to initiate the first printing process. After the first print, additional pages would not take much time rather it would be quickly churned out in five seconds. This feature would end up with great printing speed and delivers nine pages per minute. The quality of the draft print is appreciable but it is not surprising to see the quality because for such print speed it has to deliver the expected quality. Samsung CPL-310 delivers 4ppm for colour prints and 16ppm for black prints. This print speed is well associate for small business groups.

Print Speed:

The quoted monochrome speed is more convincing for such small sized printer with efficient performance. You cannot expect exciting colour laser print speed but Samsung’s rated 4ppm is reasonable. Even if you try for a heavy colour output and photo print the colour print speed would be half of the above stated speed. So, using this colour laser printer for dedicated photo work is unfair and not advisable.

Verdict:

This Samsung laser printer is a simplest and smallest machine that you can own for your little business and home use. Thanks to Samsung, portability of this laser printer is very easy and it is a best alternative for consumer who got used to a style featured large laser printer. Samsung CPL-310 comes in an affordable price range and the print speed is little slower but it is acceptable for small business and home use.

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Samsung CPL-310 Laser Printer - Technical Specification Table

Features:

HP LaserJet P2055dn Network Laser Printer is available in grey colour and it has a two-line monochrome LCD display with the help of this the default density settings can be changed from the printer itself. Advanced options like cleaning mode is available which helps to eradicate the building up of dust on the printer’s movable parts. We can reset the firewall and several security settings to factory defaults are also present in this printer. HP LaserJet P2055dn is an economic printer which has a 250-sheet paper tray and an additional multi-purpose tray. This printer comes with a paper capacity of 800 sheets. It contains 128MB of memory which the users could upgrade to 384MB through a removable side panel. Ethernet and USB connections are also available in HP LaserJet P2055dn Network Laser Printer. Users can even go to the extent of choosing the printer’s web server protocols like HTTP or HTTPS (secure HTTP).
A network configuration report is mandatory to be printed to identify the initial IP address that has been assigned to the printer. The Web-based interface is sparse with the consumables status and statistics being the important aspects. Administrators can set up LaserJet P2055dn mono laser printer’s firewall policy and default print settings can be configured by using the interface. Security authentication, 802.1X is also included which are available competing printers. This monochrome printer comes with some print quality settings which are separated into 600dpi, 1200dpi FastRes and 1200dpi ProRes modes. 1200dpi ProRes mode produces documents with higher quality at a slower pace where as 1200dpi FastRes mode produces documents with relatively lower quality at a faster pace.

HP LaserJet P2055dn Mono Laser Printer can print the first page of a document in an average 9.5sec and subsequent pages at a rate of 35 pages per minute (ppm) by either using the 600dpi or FastRes 1200dpi setting. This setting provides the maximum print speed for this laser printer. HP has added an interesting feature of quiet mode on the LaserJet P2055dn mono laser printer which makes it less noisy but in turn affecting the print speed. It slows down the print speed from 35ppm to 17.6ppm. When using the ProRes printer quality setting we can also choose the preferred line density which is an essential feature that is reserved most expensive printers. The printer employs half tones to increase the number of lines that the printer can print in a given area when these settings are used. This results in highly accurate documents. Test characters printed using these settings are clean, fresh and have pinpoint accuracy. High yield cartridges are installed in the LaserJet P2055dn mono laser printer which costs very less per page. The box would include HP LaserJet P2055dn printer, Pre-installed HP LaserJet Black print cartridge (CE505A) with up to 2,300 pages yield (in accordance with ISO/IEC 19752), Getting Started Guide, CD (user guide, printer software) and a Power cord.

Performance:

The print speed of this P2055dn monochrome laser printer is 35 ppm, which is somewhat faster than some similarly priced lasers. It holds a duty cycle of 50000 pages. HP LaserJet P2055dn takes an average of 14.4sec for the first page to be printed while using the ProRes mode of print quality setting. This is because the printer pauses on every second page which causes the printer to takes 2.5sec to print a single page. The overall speed is close to 14.7ppm. HP LaserJet P2055dn laser printer offers fast print speeds where as costlier printers provide more networking and security features in addition to this. This printer could be classified as a reasonably priced mid-range model for high quantity printing with high line density settings. This printer has HP’s universal print driver which expands the ease of use and productivity. HP print cartridges comes with interactive intelligence which helps in enabling alerts when supplies are low, making management very flexible. With this high performance black-and-white HP LaserJet more can be done in less time.

Warranty:

HP LaserJet P2055dn Workgroup Laser Printer is in no way less than any other laser printer in terms of warranty also as it comes with 1 year warranty. As the user guide in the form of CD and getting started guide are provided with the box, it helps the users to install and figure out the common issues.

Verdict:

The Hewlett Packard LaserJet P2055dn monochrome laser printer is small, simple, fast and produces high quality documents. Hassle-free maintenance is possible with the extended user-friendly features. LaserJet P2055dn is great value at this price even though the costlier printers offer more extensive network features.

HP LaserJet P2055dn Laser Printer - Technical Specification Table

Design:

This SCX-4300 laser printer is fully made with durable black plastic body along with sleek finish and matte coating, which considerably avoids any fingerprint smudges. It is built with 406mm width, which is little wider than the other home laser printer but has the same height and depth when compared to rival brands. The extra width is made in order to include the scanning engine under its chassis. The A4 scanner bed is nicely sits at top of the machine and spreads from left to right side.

This SCX-4300 Compact Laser printer has wider area at the top and has different shape when compared to Samsung SCX-4500 laser printer. The control panel is at the front end, which feature 16 character LCD display without backlight but you can easily see the details under normal lighting condition. There are totally eight control buttons that gives easy navigational path for any print, copy or scan settings. The menu system can be easily accessed along with the display using controls.

Beneath the control panel there is a dedicated paper emerging slot, which comes with pull out to stop emerging paper falling on the desk. Even if you do not pull out the slot the paper would not fall on the desk. The output tray has capacity of 50 sheets. This mono laser printer has large paper feed tray that has the capacity of 250 sheets and it is double the capacity when compared with previous version of laser printer from Samsung. In this paper feed slot you can also find single sheet multi slot for any special printing purpose.

Connectivity:

The entire range of connection ports are placed at the back section of the printer, which includes power cable connection and USB port connection. It is the only connection facility for sharing data.

Printer Maintenance:

You can easily access drum cartridge and integrated toner, which can be revealed by opening front panel that hinges down firmly. This all in one laser printer comes with half capacity starter cartridge and you can expect nearly 1000 pages from this cartridge. You can extend the life of this cartridge until you buy new cartridge by simply activating lesser toner consumption option in the printer. When compared with higher range of laser printers, this Samsung SCX-4300 mono laser printer does not feature additional large paper input tray and optional duplex printing.

Inbuilt Software:

All the printing, scanning and copying operation can be controlled using in built SmarThru 4 software. A separate utility is provided to diagnose the printer problem such as Dr.Printer. The print quality setting is well supported by driver and you can easily handle this driver using simple navigational panel

Performance:

The print quality of this Samsung SCX-4300 Printer, Scanner and copier perform at fair level and not been accentuated with the point of excellence but considerably delivers 15ppm of print speed. Samsung claims the print speed to 18ppm in A4 and 19ppm for letter. The maximum resolution that this laser printer can achieve is 600 dpi with 256 shades of grey and well supported by 8MB of internal device memory.
The darker shade text prints are not up to the mark and it shows some curves and jagged lines that are visible on the text. Business graphs, when printed in greyscale, loses much of its details and looks with stripes on the printed sheet. The quality is not up to the expectation for graph prints with grey shades. The same results apply for photographic prints and it looks like a dot matrix print without details in shadow and darker areas.

Low Running Cost:

The important aspect of this business laser printer is its printing cartridge that cost around £40 and it well supports 2000 ISO pages. The cost per page including paper cost is more economic and comes around 2.7p. This mono laser printer uses normal toner and drum cartridge that keeps the running cost minimal. This cost is normal and applicable for mono laser printer and you are not charged with extra running cost when you use Samsung SCX-4300 multifunction laser printer.

This home laser printer gives balanced performance with scanning, print and copying function, which is suitable for moderate office use and home use. You cannot expect this printer to perform more printing volume of about 10,000 pages per month that is 300 – 400 pages continuously. Even if it does this job then the running cost is expensive. If you are looking for high volume printing capacity machine then you need to look for some high level laser printer that well suite your daily printing needs.

Photocopying:

All the photocopy functions are controlled using command buttons on the control panel. The same document can be taken with 99 copies using the option available in the control panel itself. You can easily perform resizing of documents that range from 50% to 200% from the original document. This mono laser printer has impressive photocopy print speed and shows up single page photocopy approximately in 11 seconds. It would take some extra time when you take photocopy of full sized colour photo. But for such low price laser printer this photocopy speed performance is considerable.
When you take a photocopy of a greyscale print in Samsung SCX-4300, the surface of the image and the text seems to be scrubbed off and not clear. Especially when the greyscale print is printed from the same printer the result looks very bad. The same result could also been seen with other branded all in one laser printers and from other models of Samsung. This effect is due to clash between dot print with scanning technology that comes inbuilt.

Scanning:

The closing door of scanner section that flips opens up to a moderate level and it is fully supported by internal spring mechanism. In case of any paper jam it opens up and gives enough space for easy adjustment. Normally in all laser printer the scanner section will opens up fully and stands in a vertical position but Samsung SCX-4300 does not feature such provision. It has optical resolution of 600 x 2400 dpi and comes with enhanced resolution of 4800 x 4800 dpi.

Verdict:

Samsung SCX-4300 is an honest laser printer with cost effective printing solution. This laser printer performs well in text prints, business graphics and chart prints. Only the photocopies of greyscale shades shows unclear and little scrubbed off. It has reasonable print cost and definitely fit in your budget. If you look for low priced mono laser printer with multifunction facility that gives reasonable running cost then this is your choice for both home as well as office use.

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Samsung SCX-4300 - Technical Specification Table

When compared to its close contenders, this printer does have slow black print speed but produces high quality colour prints. HP has made this printer more user friendly by providing easy to understand instructions with comprehensive settings and features for user, which put together in an accessible tool box software. It is an efficient colour laser printer specially made for office usage.

Sluggish Design:

Being a 50 pound weighed laser printer, it does not have attractive design but holds the credit for well managed control panel and tucked in drawers. It has a standard colour combination with grey and black mix. With large working space on the printer, it is easy for paper handling on both feed tray and output tray and the space are well distributed between the panels. This laser printer has wide dimension and requires pair of hands to move around in your office desk. If you are looking for smaller sized colour laser printer then you need to sacrifice the quality of print. At the bottom of this printer you can find 250 sheet main paper output tray with fold down mechanism and has the capacity to hold 20 pound paper.

Additionally 50 sheet manual input tray is found at the bottom, which is equipped with adjustable paper guides suitable for various media. With added cost you can opt for additional 250 sheet tray to accommodate extra volume of papers and can be regularly used for particular paper media like letterhead. The control button is placed at the corner in front of the printer. All the connective ports are located at the back of the printer and this includes a USB port, power plug and an Ethernet jack for establishing simple network connection with the router.

Features:

Front Control Panel:
This CP2025n network laser printer has simple and useful control panel that is placed at the corner and it is difficult to have better visibility of the display. It would have been better if the panel is placed at the top for easy viewing like in Canon colour laser printers. This control panel has totally five buttons that helps you to locate the menu system and make quick changes to the printing process. These includes cancel button & directional pads and all the information would be seen on two line backlit LCD display, which also gives you alerts and details on toner level graphics. Additionally two alert LEDs indicates print error and low toner details.

Driver Software:
This HP CP2025n (CB494A) Colour Laser Printer comes with driver software and has comprehensive set of features that enables the user to know the status of the printing process. You can control the feeds in the input tray manually and ToolboxFX software gives you details on present toner level, shows no of pages remaining and usage trends. When the printer faces any malfunction you can also opt for email alert message. HP offers step by step video instructions through installation CD that instruct you on driver settings and tells how to optimise the print quality. This driver software is compatible with all Windows from 2000 that includes Vista and 64-bit XP, it also works well with Mac OSX 10.2.8 and newer version.

Lack of Important Features:
This HP laser printer does not have mechanical duplexer and automatic double sided printing facility is missing. Generally at this price range the duplex printing facility is an extra cost and normally available at higher end laser printer models. You cannot directly connect digital camera or other portable digital device like pen drive with this printer for taking instant prints due to the absence of PictBridge facility. All these drawbacks can be well compromised by its ability to connect with multiple computers using quick wired networking system without complex connection. The connection junction is strategically placed at the back of the printer, so you can easily access CP2025n from several PC without any hassle.

Installation of Toner Cartridge in CP2025n:
The toner cartridges can be easily replaced by opening the top front door of the printer, which show horizontally stacked four toner cartridges on the rack. It is easy to install the cartridge using single push to release mechanism for hassle free installation. This installation method is better than bucket style toner cartridge installation found in OKI laser printers. The cost per page for standard black prints comes in an average and for colour print not expensive. HP has given details on life cycle and cost of both colour and black cartridges but not mentioned about availability of high capacity cartridge. This laser printer has monthly duty cycle of about 40,000 pages, which is much suitable for large work groups and small office.

Printing Speed:
HP Colour LaserJet CP2025n Printer is good in output speed for colour prints and churns out 20 ppm but 20 ppm cannot be achieved when you run the print for 5 or 20 prints. The print speed does not even come close for shorter prints but when you print for long document CP2025n come close to 20 ppm. Similar case is applies to black text prints and it gives less than 10 ppm for five page colour graphics documents and black text prints. The print speed would be normally achieves for long print run. The black text print speed is not up to the mark and comparatively lesser then its rival products. HP CP2025n is mainly applied for business printing purpose where it requires to perform for longer print run, so obviously the quoted printing speed is automatically been achieved without any doubt.

Printing performance:
Black print produce more appealing look with sharp and crisp text edges. It has solid look and performs well for both colour prints as well as black prints. HP mainly speaks about the quality of the output rather then printing speed of the device. The black cartridge delivers clean and sharp edge for smaller fonts and produce better visibility even in graphical representations along with text. With total 600 dpi of resolution the quality is well maintained through out the printing cycle when compared to its close rival OKI C3600n.

Warranty:

This HP Colour laser printer comes with 1 year warranty with comprehensive online support.

Verdict:

Though this HP Colour LaserJet CP2025n priced at a little higher end it is well built for small work groups and business owners. You cannot expect double sided printing, since this printer does not have the facility for auto-duplexer. If you are more keen for mechanical duplexer and want a favourable environment for double sided printing to favour quick printing process then you can try for the another version HP Colour LaserJet CP2025dn with extra £40 cost. If you feel the cost of duplex version is higher then you can try Canon i-SENSYS LBP7200C that cost less than £40 in its duplex version. The lower black print speed is only minimal and it is not a major concern for small business printing purpose.

HP Colour LaserJet CP2025n Printer (CB494A) - Specification Details

Designed professionally:

As in the case of most of the other office printers, the Ricoh Aficio SP C221N A4 Colour Laser Printer too looks very professional. It has the standard white and grey finishing, and it is actually quite sleek for an office printer with its dimensions being (H x W x D) 12.8″ x 16″ x 18″ and weighs 50.7lbs. You will find the big control panel with all the necessary buttons in the facia of the printer and along with it, there is also a small LED display, it is really disappointing that there is no LCD colour display to preview the print content. The menu is easy to access with the navigation controls and intuitive design.

Ports, trays and connectivity in SP C221N:

In the rear side of the unit you will find the cable cover, power socket, Ethernet port and an USB port. In the bottom of the printer, there is a bypass tray that will allow you to load paper sheet by sheet; this is a very useful inclusion for printing on letter covers, etc. When that is pulled out, you will find an input tray that has a capacity of about 250 sheets. On the top of the device is a standard tray extension that supports the sheets that come out curled after being printed. The stop fences behind the output tray ensure that the legal sized or A4 sized prints do not fall behind the machine; for the legal sized prints, the rear fence has to be raised and for the A4 sized prints, raise the forward fence. The top cover has to be opened to replace the print cartridge and the front cover to replace the waste toner bottle or to remove jammed paper.

The control panel:

The control panel of SPC221N Duplex Laserjet Printer is very intuitive and the buttons and indicators are placed very logically. In the left most corner is the alert indicator that lights up whenever a printer error occurs and when this happens, the Smart Organising Monitor has to be used to check for the error. The ready indicator lights up when the printer is ready to receive data from a system and flashes when the printer is warming up or receiving data. You will also find the load paper indicator that lights up when the paper tray is empty or unattached and the replace print cartridge indicator is available under each toner icon that flashes when there is very little toner remaining and remains lit when there is no toner left.  The keys include the stop/start key and job reset key.

Installation of Aficio SP C221N:

The installation of the printer takes a while. The first step in the installation process is that, the printer has to be configured as a Windows network printer. Once that is done, the printer has to be added in the printers and other hardware section in the control panel. And then keep pressing next in the upcoming dialog boxes and finally click on the finish button on the final dialog box. Once the installation process is done, the printer will be ready for the printing process. The specific installation instructions are given step by step description in the printer manual.a

Compatibility:

The SP C221N is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista; Mac OS X v.10.2 – 10.4 Novell Netware v. 4.x or later and Citrix Server Operating Systems.

Network support:

Being an office printer, it is essential that Aficio SP C221N A4 supports networking and Ricoh has made no mistake by supporting network and local connection. It can be used as either Window printing port or even a network printer and the network connectivity can be established via the Ethernet interface offered. The local connections can be established via USB connections. There are just four steps to be followed to use the printer in a network environment: Print the test page, Install Smart Organising Monitor, Specify the IP address of the printer and Install the printer driver. The documentation offered with the printer gives you neat and clear explanation on how to do so.

Features:

Ricoh Aficio SP C221N A4 Network Laser Printer is equipped with a 300MHz processor and has about 128 MB of RAM as standard. A lot of the latest technologies like laser beam scanning, elecrtophotographic printing with mono component toner development and four drum tandem method have been employed. The printer has a duty cycle of 30000 prints per month.

Performance:

Having all these latest technologies employed we would expect spectacular print speeds. Unfortunately, even the 21ppm speed mentioned by the manufacturer in the specifications can be achieved only in the speed print mode. When tested the print speed is a mere 16ppm, which is very average for an office printer. The resolution of the prints in the draft mode is 600 x 600dpi, in standard mode the resolution is 1200 x 600dpi and in fine mode it is 2400 x 600dpi. As you can see, the resolutions are great. It takes about 14 seconds to give the first print, which is comparatively quite a long time. The printer also takes about a minute to warm-up.

Warranty:

The Ricoh Aficio SP C221N A4 Colour Laser Printer comes with one year standard manufacturer’s warranty.

Verdict:

The Ricoh Aficio SP C221N A4 Colour Laser Printer is best suited for people who require high volume colour printing. The printer is very inexpensive when compared to the other office printers in the market. Though the print speeds are average, it is really great value when considering the fact that it has a very powerful processor, lot of latest technologies and a very good set of resolutions. We would recommend the Aficio SP C221N for those who want networking, latest features and good resolution at a budget price tag.

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Design:

Sleek architecture:
The Infoprint 1824’s sleek architecture is proved by its dimensions, which is (H x W x D) 40 x 42.4 x 29.2 cm and light weight of just 21kgs. You might think that that does not sound much like sleek and light, yes you are right, but you must also keep in mind that the Infoprint1824 Colour A4 Laser Printer is an office printer. It has a very official look having a grey and white finishing. It has a very simple monochrome display and minimalistic controls. A compact printer will be a great option for a small office as it would slide in anywhere, giving you a lot of office space. In fact, it even has a small advantage of reducing the shipping and packing costs.

The control panel:
The front control panel offers you an easy way of viewing the status of print. You can cancel the processing jobs just with a single touch of the button and check the status very quickly with two coloured job light provided which shows green when processing and red when it undergoes an error.
A hundred percent front access is provided for the feed of the paper, removal of the paper after print and even to clear errors occurred due to miss-feeds. For printing using difficult media the printer is providing us with a choice of single sheet manual feed.

Input:
A dual drawer is also provided with the IBM Infoprint Colour 1824 LaserJet Printer which got a capacity of holding 650 sheets. By providing this dual drawer the printer is offering the user an input tractability, which is now capable of holding totally 901 sheets (251 in normal tray and 650 in dual drawer).

An USB port is provided on the front panel which is PictBridge certified which allows you to directly connect your USB flash drive to the printer through the USB port provided.

Features:

Networking:
Networking is a very useful business feature incorporated in the IBM 1824 duplex laser printer. It helps to create a network with different number of systems so that it can function on behalf of all the systems.

Back to back printing:
The two sided printing standard is another occupying business feature of the laser printer. Without wasting the papers just by printing one side, this option saves a lot of papers. It is also provided with application tractability with a vast diversity of media.

Huge 500MHz Processor:
The IBM Infoprint Colour 1824 Laser Printer is incorporated with 500MHz Processor, which reduces the time taken for the first print compared to other competitor printers. It just takes 12 seconds for the first print. It also very actively prints high impact, professional quality commercialising stuffs by in taking great deal of power because of the processor.

128 MB Internal Memory:
The printer is also provided with 128 MB of internal memory, which can be expanded upto 640 MB of memory.

Easy access:
The IBM printer provides you with a very easy way to access the modern print quality characteristics such as colour correction which can be done manually, setting colour balance, contrast, brightness, intensity and ICC profile matching.

Print speed:
The IBM Infoprint Colour 1824 printer performs with very high printing speeds. It is capable of printing 25 pages per minute for colour and 25 pages per minute for monochrome. The IBM laser printer takes 11 seconds for first black and white print and 12 second for first colour print. The manufacturer recommends a volume of up to 3000 pages per month to get a good performance and output from the printer.

Print quality:
The print quality of the printer is very professional, very high quality with absolutely precise colours. The print is of crispy detail and polished slopes. This extremely high quality of the print produced by IBM Infoprint Colour 1824 laser printer is making it also incisively suitable for business needs also.

Eco- Friendly:

The Eco mode provided in the IBM laser printer it reduces the power consumption and preserves energy used by the printer just by selecting the options which are most suitable for the environment.

The toner supplied with the IBM 1824 printer is an extra high yield toner. By providing such an extra high yield toner cartridges the IBM is trying to reduce the waste added to the environment. These cartridges are of long life span compared to other toner cartridges. The cartridges provided with this model are not compatible with any other model prior to it. The extra high yield toners offer you a chance to increase the productivity and also reduce the price for print per page. You can return the used cartridges to the IBM, who in return is offering you a good discount on next cartridge.

Warranty:

The IBM Infoprint 1824 Laser Printer is provided with one year manufacturer warranty.

Verdict:

The IBM Infoprint 1824 Network Laser Printer can be said as calm, portable and affordable printer. The print quality is extraordinary for the money paid for it. It will be best suited for home, small office and business purposes. The manufacturer of the printer is not only providing a high quality printer, he is also giving the user a chance to conserve environment along with him just by purchasing the printer. So be quick to be a part of the IBM team by making a wise decision of purchasing the printer. If you are a person waiting to buy an affordable colour printer, with many advance features like USB print, and high quality print then this printer is a best suit for them.

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