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Brother HL 5340D

Finding an affordable printer is not easy these days, especially if one is looking for a great product. For anyone facing this problem the Brother HL-5340D might be just up your street. The combination of price, running costs and reliability combine to make this a decent prospect when you need your next printer.

It offers an average speed of 32 pages per minute for text documents. I decided to test this, and even when using a stopwatch to ascertain the truth of this claim, had to grudgingly accept it. Decent spped and good quality monochrome printing makes it ideal for small business and home users like me.

The duplex printing mode makes it easier to print double-sided documents. It can actually cut the time in half for those like me, who produce mostly double sided prints. Monochrome flyers and leaflets are still popular, thankfully, and I produce thousands of them, which is why I needed a reliable printer.

The Brother HL-5340D offers a standard paper capacity of 300 sheets with 50-sheet multipurpose tray for envelopes and letterheads. It is a decent capacity for the average user and there should be hardly any need to replace the papers on an average working day in a small office or home office environment. Although, when the time comes, filling the paper tray is extremely simple. The Brother HL-5340D offers an optional 800-sheet tray but someone my size would find this an unnecessary add-on, with the standard 300 sheets being plenty enough. While the standard toner is more than adequate in economy and efficiency, there is also a high-yield 8,000-page toner offered for that extra value for money.

The actual performance of Brother HL-5340D is pretty good. Most users will be able to use the ‘plug and play’ mode without any complicated setup. Even when fully installing, the driver CD takes care of it for you. Even where there are times of high demand or deadlines, printing dozens of pages a minute and loading new jobs constantly, the HL – 5340 is able to keep up.

The Brother HL-5340D performs well under strenuous working conditions and there are hardly any issues with cooling, overheating or slow response. Overall this is a workhorse printer that can work all day and night without needing any TLC at all. My kind of printer.
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