Posted on 24 April, 2009 | No Comments
The Brother HL 2140 was designed to be used for home usage as well as small businesses. It is great if you do not have a lot of room, as it is very compact and can be placed out of the way to give you more room. It is very fast and can produce up to 23 pages a minute all with the highest quality of printing. The resolution is 2400 x 600 dpi and the printer itself is easy to operate as all buttons are clearly marked. The best toner for this printer is the Brother HL 2140 printer toner cartridge.
A fantastic feature is the fact that it takes 10 seconds max for the printer to warm up in the morning. You know longer have to turn the printer on, go away and come back after it has finished warming up. It is possible to manually feed envelopes or letterhead to the printer by using the manual bypass feeder. The paper tray fits legal and standard sized paper and can hold a maximum of 250 sheets. The black and white laser printing is if the highest quality.
Besides its compact design the printer was designed to be cost efficient. It is a space saver and has a toner saver mode and energy saver mode. So you will pay less for power and not have to replace the toner as often. This printer can operate when hooked up to a Mac, Windows or Linux operating system and is very easy to set up as the direction are very clear and the company provides tutorials for general questions.
Hl 2140 is energy Star complaint as are most of the Brother products. Also included in the printer box is a starter Brother HL 2140 toner cartridge, drum kit and instruction kit. It is a smart idea to purchase an additional toner cartridge as the starter cartridge only lasts for about 150 pages. This printer provides better quality then can be achieved with an ink jet without being that much more expensive.
The HL-2140 has a maximum print speed of 23 ppm and has a monthly duty cycle of up to 10,000 pages. It comes with 8MB of memory. Besides automatic printing it also has a single sheet manual bypass, which can become tiresome if you have a lot of pages to feed into the machine.
This printer can print on transparencies, labels, envelopes, bond and plain paper. The paper tray can hole the following sizes, letter, executive, legal, A4, A5, A6, B5 and B6. The multipurpose tray can handle the above paper sizes as well as envelopes and custom sizes up to 8.5 inches in width and 14 inches in length.
This is a great energy efficient printer as it has three different power modes, sleep, standby and peak. It runs on AC 120 V, 5060 HZ and is Energy Star compliant. It can get a little warm with a lot of printing as it operates between 50 to 90 degree Fahrenheit. It is also a very quiet printer producing 51db when printing.
If you are looking for an affordable printer that produces high quality print outs then the Brother HL-2140 is a great choice. This is a space and energy efficient model that has both automatic printing and a manual bypass paper feeder options. It is very easy to use and has a toner saver mode so you will not have to purchase HL 2140 printer toner cartridge too often, as this can increase costs. Compatible with three operating systems it is a great choice for home printing. For more information, check out our site http://www.qtoner.us.