Brother HL4150CDN Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 16.1 x 12.3 inches ; 46.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 57 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00439GOL8
• Item model number: HL4150CDN
  

Price : $349.97
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Product Description

The hl-4150cdn is a high-performance, network-ready color laser printer ideal for offices or small workgroups. it produces brilliant, high-quality output at an impressive print speed of up to 25 pages per minute in color and black. it features automatic duplex printing for two-sided documents and produces impactful color business documents at up to 2400 x 600 dpi resolution. also, high-yield replacement toner cartridges are available.

Technical Details

• Up to 25ppm color and black printing
• Automatic duplex printing
• Up to 2400 x 600 dpi resolution
• USB Direct interface
• High-yield replacement toner catridges available

Costumer Reviews

This is the 4th color laser I've owned. The first two were Konica-Minolta. They were among the first affordable ones in the market (still expensive) and one of them, Magicolor 2300dl, does a decent job considering the technology of its time. The second and smaller one, Magicolor 2400, died in a couple of year and was slow. The third one is HP 2025, which is much smaller (of course still much bigger than color inkject printers.) and it prints duplex. But it takes an hour to print a full page double-sided color brochure. Even though the color output is vibrant, the speed is miserable. So if I want 10 copies of full color image, I have to let it print over night. I will use these printers until their drum lives end, and will sell or give away instead of spending more money on them.

One main feature I want out of a color laser is duplex printing. I decided to try Brother HL-4150CDN because it was sold for $250 on Amazon.com (surprised to see the price went up to $370 after I bought). It has duplex printing and claimed to be fast. Well, it is fast, the fastest of all color printers I have every owned. Even though it is loud when it prints, you hear only a few seconds of noise and then it's completely quiet.

One star was removed because of the color. It is dry, unlike the shiny output from the HP. I don't really mind the dry color. The real problem is the colors being too dark. I tried some adjustment on the configuration and it has improved but still darker than the original, or HP output. That also means I am consuming more toner. I've got it for a week, and I don't think I have printed so much, but the yellow toner is show half left.

I am trying to figure out color calibration, which I've never needed to do with my previous printers. I hope it helps. There is a toner saving mode, I can't find how to set it yet, but I hope that helps. Maybe at the toner saving mode it will give me a lighter but correct colors.

--Update---

The yellow color showing half full was not correct. It shows that way when you look at the printer admin page from the browser, but the digital window on the printer shows full. I did a calibration, but it appears to be perfectly calibrated from the factory. I set the printer to "Toner Saving" mode and set the frequency to "Low" (I don't know what this means). Then the color has lightened but still a little darker than the HP out put.

I purchased the Brother HL-4150CDN color laser printer one day ago. It prints fast. The test page which consists of very, very simple, small, solid blocks of color and type, printed great! But it was printing only pure yellow, pure magenta, pure cyan. That is not a test of whether the printer prints well if it needs to print any other color. I have had good luck with other brother products in the past. But this one not so much.

I am printing out complex graphics and bought the printer because I read reviews stating that it had the best graphics and the one of best photo printing results for a laser printer. But the first print, and every print I tried, was very dark, had an uneven sheen to it, and anything that was tan or pink was absolutely magenta. The blues, which should have been light blue, were dark electric blues, It was not usable. I had printed the same graphic file the day before with a Cannon laser printer and it was what you would expect from a laser printer... slightly saturated, but perfectly acceptable. The color on the HL-4150 CDN is totally wrong. I am very disappointed. I tried to call Brother 4 times and each time I was greeted by an automated attendant, put on hold for quite a while - (30 to 40 minutes) and when I finally connected to a human being, they put me on hold and I was then disconnected. That happened every time. I was unable to get any help from Brother. I tried adjusting settings on the printer all to no avail. Went on line looked at the manual - no help. It maybe good for simple pie charts where the color accuracy is irrelevant, but If you need to print more complex color graphics I'd have to say, this is not a good printer at all. I am returning mine.