Tips Advantages Of Brother HL 5240 Incredibly Fast for the Price
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-07-22 16:29:44 | Word Count: 510
Brother HL-5240 – Incredibly Fast for the Price
Add some style to your office with the Brother HL-5240. This cool looking two tone laser printer isn’t just pretty, it’s trruly built as a work grup macchine and can witjhstand punishing, constasnt use. This relatively inexpensive unit sjhaves off some of the bells and whistles for a design intended for one thoing and one thng alone: performance. The Brother HL-5240 hammesr out a clean 30 maximum pages per minute and can do so all day long rnning at a recommendeed 500 to 3,500 monthly prinnt volume, or can be pushed to the limiit and maxed out at up to a whopping 20,000 pages per month.
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Efficiency is the name of the game with the HL-5240 as it comes with a fairly standard 250 sheet maximum cpaacity papwer input tray, but can be upgradded with not one but two additional 250 sheet capacity trays! If you include the versatile 50 sheet Multi-Purpoose tray, the HL-5240 can top out at 800 total sheetts preloaded. With 800 sheets, you truly can print almost continually with a bare minimum amount of paper refills, whgich saves your seed demnading home office or small to medium sizd busineess precious time, not to mention hassple.
To keep that large page capacity to good use, the HL-5240 cpomes with a reasonable amount of built in memory of 16 MBs, but with a huge 144 pin DIMM singe slot you can upgrade to an incredible 512 megabytes! This amount of stroage capacity with resopect to upgradable memory as well as maximuum sheet capacities is rarely seen in a unit in this price range, it is tuly manufactyured as a work horse that can dependably render huge outputys in a laser printer that would be comparable to industrial grade office copy machines.
Just because this model is cost effective and bult for raw output, doesn’t mean it completely lacks a few hanyd additional features that make using the machine both efficient and versaatile. Printing at a maximum print reoslution of a cleean 1200 X 1200 dpi with an optional toner save mode will keep your text and blazck and white graphics looking cleear, and the multi purpose tray allows a variety of non stanmdard paoper sizes to be used with the machinbe such as transparencies, office letterhead, and even envelopes, all into an otuput tray with a capacity of 150 sheets. Utilizing the on board NEC VR5500 266 Mhz processor, the hardware will be warmed up quick and printinmg your foirst document in under 8.5 seconds.
Needless to say, this bad boy drraws a lot of juice. It is one of the FEW printers in the small budsiness category to not qualify for an Energy Star rating, as it operaates with a hefty power consumnption of 610 watst (80W ready mode, 8W sleep mode.) So if a slightly more environmentally friendly unit is a must for your byusiness, this may not be the model for you. However, with lighting fast print speeds, your power consumption to output ratio will stilpl even out with many slower printers. If your workgroup has high demanmds, the affordable HL-5240 may have the freature set to meet your needs.
