Brother HL 1850 - Cost Effective and Customizable, Valuable Qualities in Today's Economy

The Brother HL 1850 is cost effective and has made it easier for small and home offices to own a high quality laser printer. This Brother machine is cheap but it is also very fast; it's speed rivals many of those high end printers in the market. The HL 1850 has almost endless expandability which means that it can be adapted to the requirements of most offices.

This printer is so cost effective that managers don't need to think twice before they replace their tired old one. The workgroup features built into this is good enough reason to kick out your old one for this new one. This works out of the box with no hassle which is a big plus.

The printer is accompanied with a well illustrated quick setup guide that makes installing a simple task. It can be connected to the computer either via its USB ports or the provided sans cable. On the front panel of the unit is a basic three color display which gives you clear read outs. It also has four buttons that allows for you to change the paper and perform other advanced operations.

The user guide that comes along with the unit on the CD Rom is in PDF format and includes everything you need to know about keeping your unit trouble free and running. Making your unit a member of the local network is as simple as connecting it to the built-in-Ethernet ports and adding an extra 16 MB of ram to the unit.

There are a few disappointments with the paper handling. One of the biggest is probably its paper capacity. The printer is only equipped to handle around 350 sheets of standard paper. It has one built-in 250 sheet tray and another 100 sheet tray. Although for two hundred dollars you can purchase another 250 sheet tray that will increase the over all capacity of the printer to 600 sheets. This is still not enough when you compare it to other printers which can hold a thousand plus sheets of paper.

The thing we like about this printer is its built in duplexer which is fast and furious. The duplexer works with almost no human intervention. The driver you install gives you an option to either flip the paper to its left or to the right or even to the bottom edge. The default settings allow for you to set up for things such as paper type and size including print quality.

Each of the taps has a reset button which enables you to reset everything back to its factory setting. However the printer's driver does not have a button to restore defaults through out the printer. Every tap on the printer's menu has a reset button which makes it possible to undo any changes and bring things back to where they were. However there isn't a universal default setting that resets the whole printer to its default settings. The printer can print at up to 19 PPS or pages per second which is really fast for a printer of its class.