This has been used but works perfectly. Will be shipped in original box. If you have any questions please ask, thank you.

Product Description

Brother High Speed Laser Printer with USB, new commercial design, prints up to 12 PPM, 600 x 600 DPI, Interfaces: Parallel and USB, 250 sheet paper cassette, 2MB enhanced memory

Review

On bright white laser paper at 600 dpi, the Brother HL-1240 turned out our 20-page test document at 10 ppm, with well defined, solid black output. A three-page mixed text and graphics test, printing at the same speed, showed very good gray scaling. At 300 dpi print quality was equally good. A full page graphic image, however, was grainy and lacked fine resolution.

The 1240's print driver lets you print 2, 4, 9,16, and 25 pages per single sheet as well as 2x2 to 5x5 poster layouts. I printed our test document at 4-up in one and a half minutes, 3.3 ppm. You can select from six duplex printing options, and the program pops up a screen showing how to re-insert the pages correctly. Should you wish to include a watermark in your document, you can enter the text (up to 31 characters), select font, font size, darkness and positioning and angle on the page; or you can choose to use a bitmap for a watermark. Manual settings let you adjust brightness and contrast as well as the graphics quality and compression mode.

An adjustable input paper tray holds 250 sheets, up to 8.5 x 14 inches. The manual single-sheet feed slot on the front of the unit accepts special, one-time media; you can use the straight through path for heavier stock. The output tray is supposed to hold 150 sheets, but depending on how much your paper curls during the printing process, your job could end up on the table or floor in front of the printer. You can tell the driver how many copies to print; and the included automatic e-mail printing utility can be set to filter and print your e-mail as it arrives.

The unit weighs just over 20 pounds, including toner cartridge, and measures a deceptively compact 9.3 x 14.2 x 14.6 inches (HWD); the open-top paper tray, however, protrudes 2.75 inches beyond the back of the unit (overall depth is 17.4 inches), a possible entry point for dust and dirt. The standard toner cartridge, $49.99 (street), is rated for approximately 3000 pages (approximately 1.6 cents per page); the print drum is rated for 20,000 pages. For small workgroups, the optional print server ($299.99) supports a variety of networking protocols. -- From Winmag®