Advantages: Good quality, duplex printing Disadvantages: None
...options, I went for the Brother HL-6050D, although as I have a network at home, I should have gone for the HL-6050DN, oh well live and learn.
I got this printer on line from Misco, and it cost me around £340, but looking around you can get it for anything from £315 up to £390.
*** What's in the box? ***
The box is rather large, about a 75cm cube, it weighs about 20kg. Opening the box, and fighting through the very robust packaging, you come across ... ...the AC power lead, a toner drum, oh and the printer!!
The thing that really gets me about any of this type of peripheral is that you never get an interface cable, so remember to buy an Ethernet, USB or parallel cable. I went for the USB option; it is actually the High Speed USB2 that the printer supports.
*** Setting it up ***
First thing though, it is actually quite heavy, so take care when lifting, also the packaging is pretty big! Mine had ...
lazza123 18.11.2005
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Advantages: Fast and Reliable. Reprint and Dual side functions Disadvantages: Large Footprint, and noisy
...I eventually chose the Brother HL6050. Although this machine is probably the largest of the ones I looked at, it is by far the best. 42cm deep, and 31 cm tall.
The Brother Hl 6050 is a mono laser printer, and cost me £299 from dabs.com.
Incredibly quick printing, for the price (24ppm - pages per minute), and a paper tray which holds a full ream (500 sheets).
You can use traditional cables, or USB or Infra red. I use USB, as this is very quick ... ...is the reprint function. If you have just printed out a document, and need another, simply press the reprint button, tell it how many copies you require, and press go, and they are reprinted for you. This can be very useful if printing from a document on screen which has crashed, or which you forgot to save.
Another wonderful feature is the dual side printing. Gone are the days of printing side one, then taking the pages, trying to work out which ...
ChrisAllsopp 03.09.2004
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