Brother HL-2240D Review

Brother just recently launched a brand new selection of "no-nonsense" laser printers targeted at the home and home office marketplace available as the HL-2200 series, that claim to offer the world's most compact laser printers with duplex capabilities.

The HL-2240D on test is actually a "mid-range" design out of this series and provides duplex printing. A 250-sheet tray and also mono capabilities are standard overall, although the top-end 2270DW in addition includes wireless access along with a 1200-page starter toner cartridge for an additional £14.

It definitely is a streamlined gadget, and also appears fairly elegant with its black and grey finish, however the outside is otherwise without features aside from a number of LEDs and also a solitary control button.

Toner is offered preinstalled plus setup is just a matter of installing a driver, with the remainder of the features reached by means of the printing preferences dialogue box prior to output. A variety of configurations here helps set up optimum overall performance through picking paper type, print environments, scaling and also duplex configurations, with profiles at your disposal to save specific configurations for fast access in the future.

An individual page print from cold needed 17 seconds, which in turn lowered to 10 seconds with no warm-up overhead. A ten-page document just took 32 seconds, nevertheless, although it requires about two times that time to output exactly the same document with automatic duplex printing enabled. Irrespective, they are impressive rates of speed when it comes to a "basic" laser, and are nearer to the cited rate of 26ppm than we've come to anticipate inside this sector.

Quality is likewise surprisingly nice using the Brother HL2240D printer toner cartridge, with no hint of defective lettering and even smaller details recreated accurately and also clearly. In terms of printing graphics such as charts and photos there is a good amount of contrast here and, though subtler tones are certainly more challenging to differentiate and shades of black not absolutely as deep as we'd prefer, images continue to be depicted naturally and even depth is usually maintained nicely.

Although this happens to be about your lot in terms of Brother's somewhat basic new laser range, almost all consumers ought to be more than content with exceptional speeds as well as quality when straight, low-yield document prints tend to be the main goal. As soon as you combine these features with a sensible cost as well as an impressively small design, it's difficult to not be impressed by the benefits on offer. As a low cost and no-nonsense remedy for delivering documents quickly and precisely, the HL-2240D will sit quietly at a desktop going about its task extremely well. There's not really a lot to Brother's new series, however the substantial benefit of duplex printing coupled with some respectable speeds as well as very good results help to make this an excellent option for the home or small office surroundings.

Brother HL2240D printer toner cartridges are available here.