Brother HL-4040cdn Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking

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HL-4040CDN Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking The HL-4040CDN produces brilliant color output for all your business documents at up to 21 pages per minute in either color or monochrome. Delivering outstanding output quality at up to 2400 x 600 dpi, the HL-4040CDN makes it easy to produce high-quality color reports, brochures, and presentations right from your desktop or directly from a USB flash memory drive or PictBridge-enabled camera. And to keep your operating costs low, high-capacity replacement toner cartridges are available. Its impressive list of standard features also includes: built-in duplex printing for two-sided documents, flexible paper input capacity, including a fold-down multi-purpose tray for envelopes and letterhead, and a built-in Ethernet network interface for sharing its powerful performance with your small workgroup. With its fast print speeds, outstanding print quality, and built-in duplex printing, the HL-4040CDN gives you the ability to get your message across and add impact to all your business documents.

I don't know about you, but I got really tired of inkjet printers. The software that came with it never seemed to work, and if that wasn't the problem, the dang thing was out of ink. So I had to run to the store to spend another $45 on cartridges. I swore never to buy another inkjet.
Then I stumbled on this sweet laser printer on sale at Office Max/Depot/Staples/whatever. It was almost an impulse buy, and I was out the door for about $305. It turned out to be the best impulse buy I ever made, and I've had no regrets.

Reasons why this printer is better than your inkjet:
-It's a real office grade printer. No jams, crisp text, prints both sides, really fast. Once it warms up, the pages just fly out.

-The software just works. Install the driver, plug it into the network, start printing. Er, especially if you have a mac.

-Cheaper in the long run. No, really. The toner cartridges might be a little spendy, but the included cartridges are supposedly good for your first 1,500-2,500 pages. How many pages do you really get out of your inkjet cartridges? 50-100? Also, you'll keep this printer about 2-3 times longer than any inkjet. Oh, and the duplexing thing, i.e. printing both sides of the page, saves money and trees, so you got the eco thing goin' for ya.

-The toner is water resistant, unlike inkjets. No smudges, no drying, no rainy day disasters.

I will say that the photo quality isn't quite the same as an inkjet photo printer. But, it's good enough that I would still hang it on the wall. Also, the thing takes a fair amount of space. If you live in a small apartment, you might have a hard time finding a place for a laser printer.


I have so had it with HPs crappy service. Couldn't even get a simple question answered. Along came this CLP for less than the cost of the toner replacement for the HP. Guess what? I got a new brother! Great machine, great price. We'll see about the service, but honestly I don't think it is possible to be worse than HP.


first, everybody else is right: great solid construction, prints fast after initial warm up, toner cartridge price is reasonable. The initial cartridges that come with it seem to be lasting OK. Price is right.

I'm just going to list some downsides here:
1)plan are doing an setup of about a half hour to 45 minutes, it involves a lot of unpacking, inserting components, and removing shipping pins and installing software. No big deal there.

2)the colors printed are not going to be exactly what you envisioned, a graphic of a nice red stop sign is going to more of a pastel, maybe even purplish, a green will be muddy, the only primary color that will be close is yellow. I know this is a product of CMYK printing, but keep this is mind if you're doing brochures.

3)pages have a heavy curl to them after printing. Not really a problem with standard paper, but if you're using card stock (like I use for door hangers), you have to go to the effort of trying to uncurl them before reinserting them back in the tray to print the other side, otherwise you're looking at a paper jam. This wasn't an issue with my older b/w laser, so I was totally surprised by this.

again: great printer, good price (although I bought it from amazon at $275 and now it's at $359, not sure what happened there) just be aware of the issues I had



The printer installed easily to Windows XP. It provides excellent color copy on various sizes of paper. Cartridges are easy to install. Colors are true. Operation is a little noisy and periodic cycling of the heater when idle is annoying. We power down when not doing a print job.


Needed to replace our HP color laser and decided to go with Brother as their network printers have been the best we've found. Our small office now has 7 Brother network printers. All are very easy to install over a network, are fast and work flawlessly. I would give this printer 5 stars if the color was just a little more vibrant. Quite sufficient for our needs though.


It's only been one day (actually 5 hours) since i've had this printer but man oh man am I impressed. This is a fantastic laser printer for its cost. Setup was a breeze, took about 5 minutes. The driver only takes another 5 minutes to install. After that you are up and printing. The built in duplexer is amazing. I was curious to just exactly how it works, and now I know. When you select double sided printing, you see the page print and slide out into the tray but then at the very last second, it SUCKS BACK IN! HAHA! I know! Its electronic wizardry at its best! It prints on the front, then sucks it in, flips it over, prints on the 2nd side, and voila you are done. Completely automatic and magical. Im a college student and most of our textbooks are online this semester. It's the dirty publishers preventing us from reselling our books after the semester, but I digress........ I have to print out full chapters of books at a time. With the duplexer, a 30 page printout becomes a 15 page print out. Saves the environment by using less paper, takes up less space in my binder, and looks freaking cool too!

I have a Mac and had no problems installing it. I also installed it on Windows XP and it works perfectly on both systems. I don't have vista so i can't vouch for that. But honestly if you have Vista, then you are an idiot anyway so it doesn't matter if the driver works or not.

The print quality on black and white (i will be using it for this purpose mostly typing up papers and such) is fantastic. Crisp and clean. You can adjust what DPI it prints at. The color prints come out fantastic for a laser printer. Let's face it people, were obviously not dealing with a photo printer here. If you're planning on using it for that, this definitely isn't for you. But as far as doing color text and flyers and ads, or inserting images into documents or printing out webpages and stuff, this is perfect. Just dont expect it to look like something from a photo lab because it definitely isn't.

To the people who said the page curling bothers you.... are you guys being serious? It shouldn't even be considered a "curl". The page is slightly rounded but its absolutely not CURLED. It goes away after a few minutes. Anytime you heat paper and twist it, its gonna get a little curvy but its not a big deal. Stop complaining about useless things and admit this printer kicks major a$$ !


I researched and found that cartridges for this machine are a lot cheaper than those for HP's and the toner that comes with the printer has a page yield of 1500 color and 2500 b&w. The Hp's came with toner that had only 750 page yield then you had to pay approx $140 for the toner cartridges for replacement when with this one you can purchase toner cartridges for right around $70 which is half the price with more page yield. So far I have printed 450 pages on the starter cartridges and the toner amount has not lowered and the print quality is excellent!


I use this printer for creating line cards for my business. JPEG's look great and the color output is marvelous. I researched many color lasers and I was impressed with their website, manual, and support. Love it!


I bought a Brother HL-5250DN Network Ready Laser Printer with Duplex (Black and White only) in late 2008 and have been very happy with it. I wanted a black and white laser printer so I wouldn't have to use my "other brand" color laser or color ink jet because they are so expensive to run. Then, this month, my color laser brought down and I realized I could buy this Brother laser color printer for less than the price of fixing my old one. So, I did.

I've had it a week and I can tell already that I'll be using it a lot. I am currently a student and have to create color products for class quite frequently. This makes it easy and it's way less expensive than my other one. THe colors are great, the printing is crisp and FAST! It's easy to load the cartridges and paper. We had it set up in minutes. I can't say enough about both these printers. I'm so glad I added these two "Brothers" to my family!


Very happy with this. Amazon had a $120 instant rebate on this making it $293 shipped next day air. Not bad for a 74lb box.

Vista drivers were included and setup was a snap. Black text is sharp and crisp, with better photos than I expected - just set the print preferences -> Advanced to 2400 dpi mode (in Windows, not on the printer itself).

It did miss out some lines on a small graph, but this is also corrected by the "improve thin lines" option in the printer driver.

Overall a bargin with the rebate - pretty much the same price as the toner.

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About Brother HL-4040cdn Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking detail

• Brand: Brother
• Model: HL-4040cdn
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 22.20" h x 22.40" w x 24.60" l, 73.70 pounds
• Memory: 64MB

Features

• Up to 21ppm color and monochrome printing
• Built-in duplex printing
• Up to 2400 x 600 dpi resolution
• Print directly from a USB flash memory drive or PictBridge-enabled camera
• High capacity replacement toner cartridges

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