subject: Brother HL4070CDN Toner Review [print this page] The Brother HL-4070CDW has three upgrades at your disposal: duplex print, wireless connection and a PostScript emulation, by means of Brother's BR-Script 3 page description language.
The HL-4070CDW includes a cream front panel, a 250-sheet paper tray and a pull-down, 50-sheet multi-purpose tray.
The two-line LCD display utilizes a three-colour backlight, and this becomes green if the unit is ready or alternatively printing, orange when you are rendering setting alterations and in addition red in error states, such as any time covers happen to be open. A four-way square of control buttons is supplemented by Go as well as Cancel buttons as well as two pertaining to Reprint and Direct Print.
The HL-4070CDW provides four specific methods for linking to a Personal computer: USB, parallel, cabled network as well as WiFi, along with sockets for the first three set in to the rear panel. Installation along with setup is pretty straightforward, specially on the physical consumable area. Open the front of the printer and you may pull out the tray retaining the four Brother HL-4070CDW toner cartridges.
Software setup from the created CD should be simple, even though there are various distinct methods for setting the unit up to get wireless networking. It is possible to temporarily link it to your wireless router; make use of SecureEasySetup in the event your router can handle this or even run the built-in setup wizard from your printer's control panel.
There is not much software provided with the machine, other than the driver and also wireless support, although BR-Script 3 does allow you to print virtually any PostScript file, instead of utilizing the dedicated driver.
There's two capabilities of the printer worthy of particular mention. Direct Print enables you to print files from a USB memory drive or even a PictBridge camera, whilst Reprint really does what it says and re-runs the last job pumped to the device. It is a specially valuable function if you want to print one copy to check on output and after that run off multiples from the unit, without needing to send the work once more from your Personal computer.
Connect a digital camera to the handy USB socket on the front of the HL-4070CDW and you may manage the pictures you print making use of the display in the digital camera, while with a memory drive, you employ the printer's control panel to pick the images to finally print. This really is surprisingly easy additionally, the Brother firmware enables you to select any PDF, JPEG, TIFF or possibly PostScript file for printing.
Brother boasts print rates of speed as high as 20ppm with respect to both mono as well as colour print. Of course, that is ambitious but the five-page mono text print required 38 seconds by means of USB, though only 27 seconds while attached wirelessly. Even faster, though, was the five-page colour test file which concluded in 26 seconds with USB. Even though this is pretty fast, at 11.5ppm it is merely just more than half the rated speed.
The HL-4070CDW is a duplex unit and the 20-side document needed 2 minutes 49 seconds, that translates to 7.1spm.
Output from the HL-4070CDW is nice. You will find ample fine detail within more dark parts of the photo prints and overall the colours are not too garish.
Colour business graphics are mostly nice and clean, nevertheless with a few small registration complications, when printing black over colour. Black text itself is very well formed, with no sign of toner spatter or even jaggies, when working with the 600dpi default resolution.
