- Up to 21ppm tone as well as monochrome printing
- Built-in duplex printing
- Up to 2400 x 600 dpi resolution
- Print without delay from the USB peep mental recall expostulate or PictBridge-enabled camera
- High genius deputy toner cartridges
Product Description
HL-4040CDN Color Laser Printer with Duplex as well as Networking The HL-4040CDN produces shining tone outlay for all your commercial operation papers during up to twenty-one pages per notation in possibly tone or monochrome. Delivering superb outlay peculiarity during up to 2400 x 600 dpi, the HL-4040CDN creates it easy to furnish high-quality tone reports, brochures, as well as presentations right from your desktop or without delay from the USB peep mental recall expostulate or PictBridge-enabled camera. And to keep your handling costs low, high-capacity deputy toner cartridges have been available. Its considerable list of customary facilities additionally includes: built-in duplex copy for two-sided documents, stretchable paper submit capacity, together with the fold-down mul… More >>
Brother HL-4040cdn Color Laser Printer with Duplex as well as Networking
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Rating SHOULD be 4 stars, but after initially setting it at one (see below), Amazon won’t let me change it.
Print quality is excellent, and print speed (after initial start-up) is very fast. Toner cartridges supplied are the standard-yield units, NOT low-yield starter cartridges. Colors are accurate and natural-looking. Black text is razor-sharp.
Initially I could not get this printer to work as a network printer, and initial response to an inquiry to Brother was slow, thus the initial 1-star rating, and the original review title “NOT a network printer”.
Brother tech support DID eventually call in response to my inquiry, and with their help, the printer is now functioning as a network printer. Although the initial response was slow, the tech support received was EXCELLENT!!
I don’t know why this printer gets such good reviews.
Compared to the HP I owned previously, this printer’s colors are washed out and weak.
Hooking it up to your network is easy for Macs but terrible for Windows machines. The instructions call for using Windows to “find a printer on the network,” a procedure that everyone knows never works. I finally had to use the software to give it a static IP address because nothing else worked.
Also, envelope handling is horrible. It will mangle every #10 envelope you run through it, no matter how many different kinds of envelopes you try.
The paper tray has an indicator to show how much paper is left, which often doesn’t work.
I also found it very slow to turn out that first page.
Additionally, at 67 pounds this is a ridiculously heavy, and huge, printer.
I will dump mine as soon as the toner runs low, and probably buy an unreliable HP model, which will at least work much better over its short lifespan.
this laser printer is G-R-E-A-T! i wish i had purchased this thing a long time ago.if you want flawless,high quality,fast printing at its best buy this printer!
Switched from inkjet to laser printer. Very happy with the speed.The print quality could be little bit better though.
Overall for little over $200, its a good deal.
SHORT VERSION:
- There’s no way this is a 5-star product. The people reviewing this printer have never seen what a real color laser printer can do.
- The colors this printer produces are unacceptable. Stay away from this printer.
- I’ve included a possible solution if you’re stuck with the printer.
- Don’t buy this printer, check out an HP or some other brand instead.
WHAT I EXPERIENCED…
I purchased this printer from Office Max in November 2009 based on the high praise on Amazon and other sites.
When I got it, I immediately printed a color brochure. Right away, I noticed the colors were washed out and weak. I thought maybe it was the paper, so I tried new paper. No luck. I thought maybe it needed to warm up, so I printed 100 copies of my brochure. No luck. I tried every single color setting – changed the color from normal to vidid, changed the resolution to 2400dpi – all without any luck.
Furthermore, I tried printing the “demo” – it looks great! But, all of my documents look awful when I print them. Seems like the printer is set to print normally for the demo, and then it’s set to use 20% of the ink during normal use.
COMPARED WITH A SIMILAR HP PRINTER…
I then printed my brochure on a similarly priced HP printer. The color on the HP was SO MUCH better! Side by side the colors off the brother are washed out and weak. Try it yourself.
A SECOND CHANCE
I had OfficeMax replace the printer. The second printer had the same exact issue – dull, washed out prints.
A POSSIBLE SOLUTION IF YOU’RE STUCK WITH THIS PRINTER
After fussing around for about an hour in Photoshop, I found a solution that makes the print quality 50% better (but not nearly as good as an HP). If you’re stuck with the Brother here are some steps that might help you.
- Open your file or document with Photoshop. If you have a word document or other document, print it to PDFRedirect, save it at highest quality, and then open the PDF with Photoshop.
- Change your color settings to CMYK (Image-Mode->CMYK)
- Go to File->Print
- On the right, under color settings, Choose “Photoshop Managed Colors”
- Next, click on “Page setup”, which brings up the Brother menu
- Under the Advanced tab, change Print Quality to Fine (2400 dp class), then change Color Mode to Vivid.
These steps should brighten up your document a bit. This is something I don’t have to do with the HP – it automatically adjusts colors and looks great every time. I honestly don’t have time to do this every time I need to print something, so I’m returning this printer.
THE FINAL ANSWER
I do believe that either Brother is submitting fraudulent reviews, or the people purchasing this printer have never seen what other color laser printers produce. Overall the print quality is too much of a con for me to keep this printer. Even though it’s great that it prints 21 pages per minute, and the ink costs less, I can’t forgo print quality, especially when I’m hoping to wow customers with brochures.