- Prints up to 17ppm in tone as well as black
- Built-in Ethernet network interface
- High-quality outlay during up to 600 x 2400 dpi fortitude regulating Brother¿s Digital LED technology
- Adjustable 250-sheet genius paper tray for minute or authorised distance paper
- Straight by paper trail around primer feed container for copy envelopes as well as thicker media
Product Description
The HL-3040CN is the digital tone printer with networking which is preferred for home offices or tiny offices. It produces brilliant, high-quality outlay during up to 600 x 2400 dpi fortitude with the quick imitation speed of up to 17ppm in tone or black. The HL-3040CN additionally provides the 250-sheet genius paper tray as well as the true by paper trail around the primer feed slot, preferred for copy envelopes as well as letterhead. Additional facilities embody the built-in Ethernet network interface for printer pity as well as the Toner Save mode to revoke toner usage…. More >>
Brother HL-3040CN Compact Digital Color Printer with Networking
Tags: Brother, Color, Compact, Digital, HL3040CN, Networking, Printer
Facts not covered in Amazon’s product overview or Brother’s website:
1) If you are planning on printing graphics with this printer, you cannot print them using the high quality resolution available without purchasing additional memory for this printer. The 600X600 dpi is all the printer will handle lacking additional memory; at this resolution, graphics look grainy. However, you can print text at the higher resolution without additional memory; does anyone purchase a color laser printer to simply print colored text?
2) It cost me $1.00/page (not the $.19/page estimated) to print on this printer. In the printer manual, not on the Brother or Amazon websites, I learned that Brother rates their toner yield based on a page only being 5% covered with toner & 95% blank! Does anyone purchase a color laser printer just to print colored text on every other line?
Amazon is my FAVORITE place to shop, but this printer is being returned after 1 project. After printing 129 pages, two toner cartridges are completely empty & 2 are nearly empty, plus I have poor quality pages — very frustrating!
I got this printer at an incredible price of [...] on black friday ([...]) and immediately got two of these. I was looking for a network color laser and this fits the bill very well with good text and graphics for normal document printing. I was also hoping this would be a decent photo printer, but this falls short for that purpose both in terms of quality at its highest resolution of 2400 dpi and in color rendition. As long as you are not planning on printing photos this would be a good buy, which stands true to the advertised use of this printer.
Other thoughts:
1. This is a LED printer and not laser, but you would be hard pressed to tell any difference.
2. I had an 512MB PC133 SODIMM from an old laptop that I was no longer using, and the printer recognized it without any issues (its tests the memory at startup, so it takes a while).
3. This printer is larger and heavier than my Brother black & white duplex 5250 DN which is continuing to work great for 3 years without issues. Plan on having plenty of room to keep the printer. The base of this printer is probably amongst the largest I have seen in stores for color lasers. The height is reasonably low.
4. I plan on using the cartridges from the 2nd printer after the 1st one is exhausted. This is cheaper than buying them seperately.
OfficeMax was advertising this for $179. Amazon was higher, but when I checked later they were at the same price. Bought from Amazon – Great deal. Very good quality printout. Reasonably fast. Good color – not inkjet quality but it is a laser and for the price what more can you ask for.
I have owned color lasers from HP, Xerox, and Lexmark previously. All of them had issues that gave me fits. All had installation and driver issues which cost me many hours of time to resolve.
No such problems here. Plug it in, answer a few questions, and it’s printing. I have Windows 7 64 bit, and I was cringing because I expected problems, but I didn’t have any. I used the network setup with an Ethernet cable plugged in, and now all the computers in my house can see it and use it. I never did get networking to work right on the Xerox, though I fiddled with settings for the better part of a couple of days.
The print quality of this printer is only fair, but for business use it’s more than adequate. I’ve printed at set of training manuals, which have quite a bit of graphics in them, and not noticed the problems noted by another reviewer. Now it’s true that this is not a photo printer, and the quality of the printing is not as good as the Xerox 8560 I had, or various photo printers I’ve seen. But it’s fine for typical reports, slide printouts, and so forth.
As to capacity, I printed about 900 pages with this printer out of the box, and it’s still going. A negative reviewer reported problems in getting only a small number of pages with the starter toner, and expressed surprise at the 5% coverage guideline used to estimate pages. Well, every printer I’ve ever had used that same 5% to estimate page capacity and cost, so I don’t see the problem here. I have almost printed the number of pages the printer is supposed to get out of the box without getting any low toner problems.
Another advantage: this printer’s replacement cartridges are cheaper than any of the other printers I’ve owned, even the crayon-like blocks for the Xerox.
The printer also has a draft mode that saves toner, which was not available on any other printer I’ve owned. I don’t expect to use it, but others might find it helpful.
So the bottom line is that the price, speed, quality, and ease of setup make this a very good match for home office or light departmental business color printing. As someone who has been around the block with various color lasers, this one has been a very pleasant surprise.
Bought this color printer after looking for weeks in store. Very easy to set up. The first sheet takes a few extra seconds to print but thereafter sheets print quickly. My personal need is not for speed but for printing large multi sheet jobs. Quality is very good – crisp colors.