Many people feel that high quality printing must inherently be expensive. The Brother HL-1650 proves that to be incorrect. The HL-1650 combined with the Brother HL 1650 tonerprovides high quality, fast printing for the home office or the small business workgroup. The HL-1650 can provide printed page outputs of up to 16ppm. Print quality can be selected to up to 1200 dpi. An automatic duplexer is provided in the HL1650 as a standard feature.
Brother has provided two data input ports on the HL-1650. These two ports are USB and parallel. When the HL-1650 is included in the small business workgroup environment, the 10/100 Base TX Ethernet print server must be purchased. Utilizing the HL-1650 in the stand alone mode, connected to one computer through the parallel port provides the highest print output rate. When the HL-1650 is placed into a network environment, print output rate decreases by approximately 33%.
Memory upgrades are available for the HL-1650 from Brother. These memory upgrades increase the memory from the 8mb that is provided to memory chips that expand the memory to 136mb. The memory upgrade provides an uninterrupted output rate when the printer is in a networked workgroup environment.
Toner costs and drum life of this laser printer are among some of the lowest available. Brother HL 1650 toner will print up to 6500 pages. The DR500 drum will provide for up to 20,000 pages of printing. The use of this toner cartridge and drum provide for a cost of approximately 2 cents per page printed.
Brother provides the Quick Print utility setup with the HL-1650. This utility can be placed either in a dedicated window or on the system tray of the computer. Initial setup of this utility provides for options that will be utilized in printing the documents. These options include dedicating which size paper goes in which tray, layouts for multiple pages and type of paper used. In the Driver Properties section, features such as watermark inclusion are available. Graphics are often light or dark when printed. To insure proper graphics quality, the density and contrast of the graphics can be controlled manually.
The highest print quality provided by the HL-1650 is 1200 dpi. While this high quality printing is desirable for final reports, it is not necessary for draft copies. When draft copies of reports or documents are desired, the print quality can be reduced to as low as 300 dpi. The 300 dpi quality, while not suitable for final documents is well suited for review and corrections. There are several factors that determine how quickly a document is to be printed. These factors include which port is utilized to input data, the quality of the print desired and the amount of graphics included in the report.
Duplex printing provides problems for many users. To reduce the duplex printing problems Brother has included a duplex printing feature on the HL-1650. The duplex printing feature provides several options including six discrete alignment settings. There is also a manual duplex function should the user choose to utilize it during the printing of the document.
The Brother Printer Toner provides a viable option for the small business or small business workgroup. A highly competitive initial cost, combined with high capacity HL 1650 Cartridge and drum combinations provides a minimal cost of 2 cents per printed page. The abilities and options available for the Brother Toner make it a smart choice for the small business or home office. For more information, check out our site http://www.qtoner.us.
