The HL 1650 Toner, A Sophisticated Printer For The Small Business
The Brother HL-1650 uses the Brother HL 1650 cartridge and provides advanced features not found in many competitors to the small businessman at an affordable price. The HL-1650 provides printing speeds at up to 16 pages per minute of monochrome printing. An automatic duplexer allows pages to be printed on both sides automatically.
Both parallel and USB connection ports are installed in the HL-1650. If the printer is intended to be utilized in a small office network environment, The optional 10/100 Base TX Ethernet print server must be acquired and installed into the printer. Utilizing the parallel port and connecting the printer to a single computer achieve the highest printing speeds. Using the USB port, lowers printing speeds by one third.
Business workgroups may find that the standard 8mb of memory is not enough to provide for all the members of the workgroup. Should this be the case, Brother provides memory expansions of up to 136MB. The installation of a memory upgrade will provide full functionality to all members of the workgroup.
Lowest costs per printed page are achieved through use of a specific toner cartridge and drum combination. The Brother HL 1650 toner
is a high capacity toner cartridge that will print 6500 pages. The DR500 drum has a 20,000 page capacity. When this toner cartridge and drum combination is installed in the HL-1650, printed page rates are estimated at $0.02 per page.
Installing the HL-1650 is a simple and easy task. Utilizing the Quick Print setup utility, choices can be made which are utilized globally in the use of the HL-1650. These choices can include multi page layouts, paper type and which tray the paper will be drawn from and access to Driver Properties. The Quick Print utility can be placed either in the system tray or in its own window on the computer. Driver Properties include the addition of watermarks to the page printed. For graphics reproduction, there is a manual control for brightness and contrast.
The printing quality is user adjustable. The lowest print quality is 300 dpi. Ht highest print quality is 1,200 dpi. The ability to adjust the print quality is invaluable when creating drafts for departmental review when a high quality document is not required. Even at the 300 dpi setting documents are printed at a quality that is while not exceptional provide a good quality document. The output rate of the printer is determined by several factors. These factors include, whether the USB or parallel port is selected for data input, print quality setting and the amount of graphics that are included in the document.
The automatic duplexer provides worry free duplex printing. The automatic duplexer provides a variety of options including six different alignment settings. Should the user choose to stand over the machine and supervise the printing, there is a manual setting for duplex printing on the printer.
Home offices and small business workgroups benefit from the use of the Brother HL-1650. The use of the high volume HL 1650 toner cartridge and the DR500 drum provide a low page print cost. The adaptability and versatility of the Brother Toner combined with the low initial cost provide for one of the most economical and highest quality choices for the home office.