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The Brother HL2700 / HL2700CN Colour Toner
refills The world of home colour printing is changing. The Brother HL-2700CN is a
colour laser printer that is aimed at the office, rather than personal
use. You can tell that from the ports on the back, as it has everything that
you could wish for, with both parallel and
USB 2.0 as well as 10/100TX networking. Although the list price is £629
inc. VAT you can find the HL-2700CN on sale with a discount of the best part
of £200.
The specification is suited to
office duties, with a mono speed of 31ppm and a colour speed of 8ppm, no
doubt thanks to the 300MHz processor and 64MB of
RAM. And if that's not enough you can add up to 512MB more RAM to give a
total of 576MB.
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Performance without the complications - Quality,
flexibility and efficiency are built in. When it comes to bringing unique
ideas to life, Brother HL2700 / HL2700CN have extremely high standards. The 250-page input tray and 250-page
output tray are also large enough for office use, and provided you print on A4 paper you'll be fine. But if you need to use legal paper
then you have to pay just over £100 for another input tray. On the subject
of accessories, there is a duplex unit for the HL-2700CN which costs £269.
The
HL2700CN is a desktop photo printing
solution Brother HL2700 /
HL2700CN Colour Toner refills
Cyan toner Cartridge - The 4 individual toner cartridges for the Brother
HL2700 / HL2700CN Colour Toner refills contain ultrafine coloured toner
enabling customers to enhance everyday reports with simple spot colour or
more complex four colour graphics that produces quality color prints, while
you retain all the creative control that makes your vision unique.Now it’s
time to put your trust in Brother HL2700 / HL2700CN Colour Toner refills,
the recognised photo printing experts. As for running costs, the Brother is
supplied with starter toner
cartridges that have a life of 5,000 pages for the black and 3,000 pages
for the three colours. Replacement cartridges will cost you around the £100
mark each, with the black lasting for 10,000 pages while the colour
cartridges last for 6,600 pages. This gives you a combined cost per page of
less than 6p. When you're calculating the Total
Cost of Ownership you also need to consider the service parts that you'll
require as your
printer ages. At 60,000 pages it requires a fusing unit at £275 and also
a belt unit at £293, which together is more than the original cost of the
printer. If you should make it to 120,000 pages then you'll need a 120K kit
which contains a transfer belt, transfer belt cleaner, paper pick-up roller
and separator pad, costing £675. You can do the maths on that one for
yourself. Print speed is good but print
quality is a mixed bag. For one thing the pages are curled at the edges when
we'd much rather that they were flat, and for another thing the quality of
colour printing was unimpressive as the colours lacked brightness and
strength. We engaged the highest quality CAPT (Colour Advanced Photoscale
Technology) setting to see if it would help matters but it made no visible
difference to our eyes, although it slowed print times by a factor of three.
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