Brother HL-2700CN Network-ready Desktop Color Laser Printer - This compact printer delivers fast print speeds at up to 31ppm in monochrome and up to 8ppm in color, with vibrant color and monochrome output at up to 2400x600dpi resolution. Windows PC and Macintosh compatible Long life replacement toner cartridges - up to 10,000 page monochrome, and up to 6,600 page color INCLUDES - HL-2700CN Color Laser Printer / Black Starter Toner Cartridge (up to 5,000 pages) / Color Starter Toner Cart...
- 2,400 x 600 maximum color and black resolution
- Up to 31 ppm black, 8 ppm color
- 300 MHz processor, 60 MB memory, expandable to 576 MB
- Parallel, USB, and 10/100 Base-T Ethernet ports
- Automatic interface switching; PC, Mac, and Linux compatible
This Laser Printers give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Loud but effective
This is another good product from Brother. We use a number of different types of printers in our business and this is the best of bunch.
We have an all Mac office, and set-up was a breeze. We've networked it, and it also works well using the Mac's built in printer sharing over a wireless network.
Color is great, with the right resolutions you get good photographic reproduction. We use it very effectively with brochures.
One of the downsides is that accessories are expensive. Another is that in operation it is a little noisy. While in operation it makes a number of clunks and bumps, something to do with the switching between the various cartridges I think.
All and all though a very good machine. And by the way shop around a little for toner. It can be had for a lot less then the list price.
2. Can't get waste toner packs
While I am very happy with the printer, Brother currently has a very serious supply problem. The printer takes something called a waste toner pack, or WT4CL. This is a little plastic thing that probably costs a dime to produce. The manual says that it lasts about 12,000 pages. After 3,900 pages, the printer's red light came on and it would not function.
It seems that you can't get these waste toner packs anywhere in the U.S. Amazon doesn't have them, Staples doesn't have them, buy.com doesn't have them, etc. I did find them at amatteroffax.com, and paid for 2-day shipping, paid a premium over list price, and it took more than a week to receive. I also ordered 2 directly from Brother (after talking to them on the phone and wading through their phone trees...).
I just received a snail-mail letter from Brother saying "We are temporarily out of stock. Please allow 4 - 6 weeks for delivery."
Well, that is just great when your printer will not work without...
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Love My Printer!!!
I did some research and felt that the Brother offered better value than the HP color laserjets. The toner seems quite expensive, but it comes with toner about half-full.
The printer is very heavy, but once I got it out of the box, the step-by-step directions to remove the protective packaging were exquisitely easy to understand. (I am gratified that a company took the effort to really make directions logical and easily understood!)
Installing the software was SIMPLE and I was up and running on my home wireless network very quickly.
It spits out full-color as fast as a copy machine spits out paper. The quality is great for powerpoint slides, but not terrific for photographs.
No more telling my kids they can't print their computer art because the inkjet takes 10 minutes -- we print a lot now! It does take one or two minutes to warm up from sleep mode.
I have read reviews complaining that it is noisy when it comes out of sleep...
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