The Brother HL 1850 printer, using the Brother HL 1850 Toner, has made it possible for home offices and small companies to own an affordable laser printer. This printer is not only an affordable printer but it also has enough speed and features to rival expensive printers out there. The expandability of this printer is enough to meet the needs of almost any small or growing office. However the printer could have had a larger printer capacity.
This printer has made it possible for office managers to just dump their old printer and get a new one. The affordable workgroup features are enough reason to dump your old one for this shiny new printer. We liked the fact that the printer worked straight out of the box without extensive configuration.
The well illustrated guide that accompanies the printer makes installation of the printer quick and hassle free. The printer can connect either via USB ports or via sans cable which ships with the unit. The front panel of the printer has a three color LCD which makes read outs clear as well as four buttons that allow you to choose and change paper and perform many other operations.
The CD Rom that comes along with the printer has a detailed user guide in.PDF document. This guide makes it easy for you to set things up and perform regular maintains. The built-in Ethernet adapter can be used to make the printer a member of you local network. An extra set of 16MB memory can be added to increase the ram to 32 MB.
There are a few disappointments with the paper handling of this printer. One of the biggest is probably its paper capacity. The printer is only equipped to handle around 350 sheets of standard paper. It has one built-in 250 sheet tray and another 100 sheet tray. Although for two hundred dollars you can purchase another 250 sheet tray that will increase the over all capacity of the printer to 600 sheets. This is still not enough when you compare it to other printers which can hold a thousand plus sheets of paper.
The thing we like about this Brother printer is its built in duplexer which is fast and furious. The duplexer works with almost no human intervention. The driver you install gives you an option to either flip the paper to its left or to the right or even to the bottom edge. The default settings allow for you to set your printer up for things such as paper type and size including print quality.
Each of the taps has a reset button which enables you to reset everything back to its factory setting. However the printer’s driver does not have a button to restore defaults through out the printer. Every tap on the printer’s menu has a reset button which makes it possible to undo any changes and bring things back to where they were. However there isn’t a universal default setting that resets the whole printer to its default settings. The printer can print at up to 19 PPS or pages per second which is really fast for a printer of its class.
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