Brother HL-4040CN Printer let down by print quality
Brother has recently overhauled its range of laser printers and all-in-ones
. The HL-4040CN fits in as being a high-end personal or perhaps medium-level workgroup colour laser printer, that has a few helpful extras.
The HL-4040CN is big and moreover square cut, yet retains a contemporary look and feel having inset panels of dark blue and silver. The control panel is placed on the left-hand side and includes a two-line by 16-character Liquid crystal display, that has a coloured backlight. This shows green, yellow or red to show a variety of status scenarios.
A blue panel swings down from the front of the device to supply a 50-sheet multi-purpose tray and then below this is the 250-sheet main paper feed. It is a bit unsatisfactory that there isn't any additional supplementary tray to improve the capacity of the unit. There isn't any optionally available duplexer, either.
The control panel contains a couple of extra buttons, along with the usual menu-navigation square. Actually, the four buttons in the square are actually rather strangely designated, when you proceed through menu choices using the up and down keys, go upwards a level while using left-hand key and return with the right-hand one. There're benefits in sticking with the standard method.
Two brand new keys link with added features on the printer. Reprint automatically reruns the last project that had been sent to the device, which is a major timesaver, especially if the printer is utilized within an office. Security is preserved since you also may send any kind of job with a password, and that is needed for a reprint from the machine. Direct Print combines using the USB socket on the front of the HL-4040CN to provide prints from a USB drive or a PictBridge camera.
This machine uses exactly the same colour laser engine as Brother's DCP-9040CN All-in-One.
For a colour laser printer, the HL-4040CN is without a doubt particularly straightforward to set up. Draw down the front cover, slip out the tray holding the four
Brother HL-4040CN toner cartridges and each of them falls into position.
There is not a lot of software given with the machine. The driver incorporates support for watermarks along with multiple pages per sheet, but not overprinting.
The HL-4040CN required 22 seconds in order to print our five-page mono text document, equal to a rate of 13.6ppm. Even though that is not near the rated 20ppm, it is actually a lot better than several colour laser printers we tested not too long ago. The text and colour graphics pages required 32 seconds to complete, a rate of 9.4ppm, however the printer's again rated at 20ppm. These results mean this Brother machine is not especially quick with regard to its class.
Print quality is actually variable. Black text is cleanly printed without any obvious malformations of characters or lines. Colour images are, in addition excellent, with lines coming out sleek and nice and clean, even though there exists a slight banding in a few regions of colour fill. Photographic output is not really so fantastic, with a relatively minimal gamut restricting the accuracy of colour performance.
You can view the discrepancy between the default 600dpi of the printer's Normal mode together with the 1,200dpi of its Fine mode. Whilst Fine mode reproduces shaded colour, such as areas of sky, much better than Normal mode, it does not do so well with darker detail, inside shadowed parts.
You'll find definite bad and the good points to the HL-4040CN. The reprint along with direct print functions are items we have long looked for on business printers, since they are easy to apply and very useful to the consumer. Conversely, its deficiency of expandability as well as only average print quality count in opposition to the device. It should be on your shortlist, yet only along with representatives of its main competitors.
Brother toner cartridges can be found here.
Brother HL-4040CN Printer let down by print quality
By: Quentin Stuart
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