Brother HL-4570CDW Toner Review

In most respects the Brother HL-4570CDW colour laser printer is excellent value. Its £496 selling price is budget-friendly with respect to small and medium-size workgroups, as well as its affordable toner costs. Its speed as well as features are good. Where the HL-4570CDW falls slightly short is on picture quality; it's better suited for mainstream business graphics because of this.

As pointed out, its speed is actually exemplary for the class. Plain-text pages printed with plain paper emerged at 16 pages per minute on the Personal pc in addition to 16.4 ppm on the Macintosh. Snapshot-size colour pictures produced on the PC required 4.2 ppm on plain paper and 2.6 ppm with finer settings with glossy paper. On the Mac, colour PDF pages flew out at 9.6 ppm, whilst the 22MB, full-page colour picture printed out at 1.6 ppm.

The text end result is superb, appearing well-defined as well as deeply black, without any defect. Colour graphics and pictures printed upon plain paper seem a bit lifeless and also exhibit distracting background patterning. You will notice those flaws less on less complicated graphics for instance logos as well as pie charts. Changing to higher-quality settings upon glossy laser paper considerably improved the level of quality considerably.

The HL-4570CDW augments the typical USB and Ethernet connections with Wi-Fi. We set up the device wirelessly. You are able to join up to a network through the printer, although entering a rather long password one character at a time on the top-mounted, two-line Liquid crystal display is time consuming. This sort of display looks old-fashioned, nevertheless the menu and controls are fairly simple to use otherwise.

Driver and network installations ended up being a piece of cake. Brother even installs the printer on the Macintosh automatically. Administrators get Brother's BRAdmin Lite utility to handle several networked items, plus anybody may gain access to a particular networked machine by way of its internal web page. SecurePrint, yet another network app, enables you to password-protect particular documents to ensure that they can print only whenever you type in the magic word from the printer's control panel.

The HL-4570CDW is tough, complete with a 60,000-page monthly duty cycle as well as excellent paper-handling attributes. A 250-sheet input tray sits in the bottom of the device, and a 50-sheet multipurpose tray folds down directly above that. Paper lands inside of a 150-sheet top output tray, and the back panel folds down to enable you to clear out paper jams in the region.

Automated duplexing is standard on both the Pc and a mac. The toner cartridges are really easy to switch. The cartridge bays aren't keyed, having said that, thus you will have to pay attention to position them accurately. Illustrated instructions just above the tray display how to orient the locking mechanism appropriately.

Pleasingly, both the standard-size and also high-yield Brother HL4570CDW toner cartridges are a little less expensive when compared to normal. Additional consumables consist of the 25,000-page drum unit, a 50,000-page waste toner box, plus a 50,000-page belt unit.

The Brother HL-4570CDW has the speed as well as functions to stand up to the rigours of a small to medium-size office. It is really not so good at printing photos, as several mid-priced products tend to be.

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