Brother Printer

Brother printers, in fact all laser printers on the market today keep getting better and better while prices keep getting cheaper and cheaper. Just $300 will buy you a top of the line laser Brother Printer. For your money, the Brother HL-1440 laser printer will deliver a printer that ranks at the head of its class for both performance and output quality, and its consistently ranked one of the best printers for ease of use.

Setup time is a snap with the HL 1440 Laser Brother Printer a quick-start guide walks you through the simple process of installing the integrated 20,000-page drum and 3,000-page toner cartridge. This Brother Printer has both parallel and USB ports and works with PCs and Macs, supporting Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, and NT 4.0 and OS 8.5, 8.51, 8.6, and 9.0, respectively. The printer uses PCL 4 emulation and includes 24 resident bitmap fonts. Standard memory is only 2MB but is expandable to 36MB.

Brother printers include full-featured software drivers with convenient drop-down menus offering a choice of plain, thin, thick, and thicker, among other options. There's also an easy-to-use manual duplex feature, which includes pop-up screens that walk you through instructions to print on both sides of the page.

Should you run into any trouble, this brother printer offers interactive help with step-by-step video clips that show you how to fix problems such as a paper jam, an empty toner cartridge, or full memory.

The HL-1440 Brother Printer is currently the only 15ppm (pages per minute) printer in the sub-$300 price range. And as expected, it easily outperforms similarly priced 12ppm printers. This brother printer produces impressive output, with excellent text at the default 600dpi resolution; it was a bit lighter than that of the LaserJet 1200. However, at tiny point sizes, this was a boon to the Brother--even at three-point font, the HL-1440 maintained its clarity. Graphics output also looked excellent, with especially smooth gradients.

If you’re in the market for a nice quality photo printer without having to pay a fortune for printer cartridges, check out the Brother Printer line of products. They will certainly pay for themselves in a matter of moths.