Brother HL-5270DN Toner Review
Brother HL-5270DN Toner Review
Brother HL-5270DN Toner Review
Brother is well represented in a number of types of office equipment, such as photocopiers, multifunctions as well as laser printers, both colour and black and white. The HL-5270DN is a duplex mono laser, intended for the small workgroup equipped with three separate types of connection.
The HL-5270DN is a sleek, cuboid box, coloured in light and dark grey along with a concise petite control panel packed in to the left of the output tray. The controls are clearly arranged, employing a one line LCD display screen which has a three colour backlight. If unavailable (warming up or switched offline) the backdrop is orange, once running it is green and in error conditions becomes red - an ingenious bit of design.
In addition to the regular menu navigation controls and large Job Start and Job Cancel control keys, there's additionally a little one, marked Reprint. This lets you reprint the last job straight from the printer, even in the event it was a multiple page print, rather then being forced to go back to your desk and do it from there - a useful time-saver.
A document tray at the bottom of the front panel is the main paper feed and will take up to 250 sheets of regular stock, whilst the multi-purpose tray which folds down from the front panel takes an additional 50 sheets or various special media. A third tray, that can hold 500 sheets, can be purchased as an option.
At the back there are sockets for USB 2., parallel and Ethernet connections as standard - it's abnormal to get all three sockets on a printer within this category.
The drum and toner unit slides in easily from the front of the printer and is a two-part assembly. The drum is made to work for approximately three and seven toner cartridges, subject to whether you employ standard or high-capacity cartridges. The toner cartridge clips in to a cradle in the drum unit. You have to take out the entire unit before moving the printer any kind of distance.
Software set up is easy and Brother gives both PCL 6 and BR-Script 3 - its own PostScript 3 emulation. There's an admin application, as well, so you can monitor and control the printer all around a network.
The HL-5270DN is supposedly capable of 28ppm but, as normal, this particular claim is fanciful. Under test we completed of our five page text print and five page text and graphic print each in 19 seconds. Thus giving the machine a real-world print rate of slightly below 16ppm; no sluggard, although only a little over half the professed speed.
We examined the duplex print rate and completed the 10-page, 20-side test item in 1 minute 41 seconds, a rate of approximately 12 sides each minute; once again, more than acceptable.
Brother supplies two premium print options: a genuine 1,200dpi print and an alternative termed HQ 1200. The HQ 1200 option makes use of resolution enhancement to obtain a 1,200dpi-like print and for our 15 x 10cm photo print, it finished in 14 seconds, four seconds less than the full 1,200dpi print.
Both photo prints suffered a certain amount of banding throughout areas of sky, but in general were above average, with nice levels of detail, particularly in shadowed parts. Text and graphics came out nicely, with text being heavy and with minimal recognizable spatter. Graphics also suffered little from the different dither patterns used to create greyscales.
Pages feeding from the printer acquired a detectable quantity of page curl, so much so that the top page within the output tray would in some cases end up being snared by a sheet coming from the printer. The curl reduces as the pages cool, however you may need to choose a particular laser printer paper, as an alternative to common business stock.
Brother does not quote a noise level figure and this could very well be for the reason that HL-5270DN is rather noisy. We calculated it at highs of 63dBA, whereas alternative devices in its category could very well be 10dBA less noisy.
There are two consumables: toner plus the photoconductive drum. Brother HL-5270DN toner cartridges come in 3,500 and 7,000, 5 percent cover capacities additionally, the drum ought to keep going for 25,000 sheets. Servicing is simple, even if a little more fiddly than with the single-consumable printers, typified by Canon and HP. The easier the upkeep, the quicker and cheaper it'll be, obviously.
The Brother HL-5270DN possesses the convenient Reprint button and on the whole is, in our opinion, a good buy.
Brother toner cartridges can be found here.
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