Brother HL-3070CW Cartridge Review
The Brother HL-3070CW colour printer is just about the company's very first to make use of LED technology. Fighting with entry-level colour laser printers, the HL-3070CW is relatively speedy and it is straightforward to set up.
The HL-3070CW prints in the exact same basic way as every laser: the machine makes use of toner powder to paint an image onto a revolving drum and that is subsequently transferred to paper. Instead of using a laser to paint this image, the HL-3070CW essentially makes use of a series of LEDs; exactly the same kind utilized to backlight some current LCD monitors and Televisions.
The technology's advantages are definitely apparent on the HL-3070CW. To begin with, it's around half the height it might be if it was in fact a laser printer. It still has rather a deep footprint. The reduced height makes it straightforward to change consumables, merely elevate the printer's top cover and then slide the toners out.
Page yields continue to be roughly the same; you'll get 2,500 pages out of the HL-3070CW's black toner and 1,500 pages out of every colour. The HL-3070CW is rather costly to use with regard to a laser machine.
The HL-3070CW has only a single-line grayscale Liquid crystal display, but it is sufficient for the purpose of adjusting simple settings, navigating the contents of flash drives and also sealing settings accessibility. You can even get access to features including Secure Print, that just prints a task when a four-digit PIN is inserted, and Reprint, which holds the document for subsequent reproduction. (Regrettably, both of these functions can not be employed together.)
The HL-3070CW links over USB, Ethernet and also Wi-Fi. Regardless of the printer's very small Liquid crystal display screen, wireless set up is amazingly straightforward.
Additionally you can directly print right from USB flash drives and PictBridge-compatible devices. File format support encompasses JPG, PRN, TIFF, XPS and also PDF documents.
The front paper cassette has a top capacity of 250 sheets. This looks a little on the modest side, specifically if you're intending to get to Brother's stated monthly duty cycle of 25,000 pages.
The HL-3070CW is sold with 64MB of memory, and that is good enough to manage a regular flow of print jobs in a smallish workplace. This can be upgradeable to 576MB by means of a small side panel.
Print speeds may not be great, but the HL-3070CW generates good output. Text quality using the Brother HL3070CW toner cartridge is really exact at all font sizes however the printer's fine line quality option produces superior results at 7pt. Colour is not always superior to results from laser printers, because documents still from time to time have problems with mis-registration and bad alignment. Colour precision is varying: the "vivid" choice considerably improved red as well as green hues in the test document, but it made blues look purple.
Brother's HL-3070CW colour LED printer may well feature a comparatively innovative technology, however at the end of the day, it feels and functions similar to most laser printers. It definitely works well for its cost, but it's not without defects often found on lasers.
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