Brother Hl-5240 ? Incredibly Fast For The Price

Add some style to your office with the Brother HL-5240. This cool looking two tone laser printer isn’t just pretty, it’s truly built as a work group machine and can withstand punishing, constant use. This relatively inexpensive unit shaves off some of the bells and whistles for a design intended for one thing and one thing alone: performance. The Brother HL-5240 hammers out a clean 30 maximum pages per minute and can do so all day long running at a recommended 500 to 3,500 monthly print volume, or can be pushed to the limit and maxed out at up to a whopping 20,000 pages per month.

Efficiency is the name of the game with the HL-5240 as it comes with a fairly standard 250 sheet maximum capacity paper input tray, but can be upgraded with not one but two additional 250 sheet capacity trays! If you include the versatile 50 sheet Multi-Purpose tray, the HL-5240 can top out at 800 total sheets preloaded. With 800 sheets, you truly can print almost continually with a bare minimum amount of paper refills, which saves your speed demanding home office or small to medium sized business precious time, not to mention hassle.

To keep that large page capacity to good use, the HL-5240 comes with a reasonable amount of built in memory of 16 MBs, but with a huge 144 pin DIMM single slot you can upgrade to an incredible 512 megabytes! This amount of storage capacity with respect to upgradable memory as well as maximum sheet capacities is rarely seen in a unit in this price range, it is truly manufactured as a work horse that can dependably render huge outputs in a laser printer that would be comparable to industrial grade office copy machines.

Just because this model is cost effective and built for raw output, doesn’t mean it completely lacks a few handy additional features that make using the machine both efficient and versatile. Printing at a maximum print resolution of a clean 1200 X 1200 dpi with an optional toner save mode will keep your text and black and white graphics looking clear, and the multi purpose tray allows a variety of non standard paper sizes to be used with the machine such as transparencies, office letterhead, and even envelopes, all into an output tray with a capacity of 150 sheets. Utilizing the on board NEC VR5500 266 Mhz processor, the hardware will be warmed up quick and printing your first document in under 8.5 seconds.

Needless to say, this bad boy draws a lot of juice. It is one of the FEW printers in the small business category to not qualify for an Energy Star rating, as it operates with a hefty power consumption of 610 watts (80W ready mode, 8W sleep mode.) So if a slightly more environmentally friendly unit is a must for your business, this may not be the model for you. However, with lighting fast print speeds, your power consumption to output ratio will still even out with many slower printers. If your workgroup has high demands, the affordable HL-5240 may have the feature set to meet your needs.

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