Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Brother HL-3170CDW color laser printer—an inexpensive but mediocre choice

Do you want a color laser printer no more than $300? The Brother HL-3170CDW can meet your requirement, it costs $280 and it provides reasonably good prints.

The Brother HL-3170CDW is 16.1 inches wide, 18.3 inches deep by 9.4 inches wide. The weight is 39 pounds It’s large but has the basic functions for printing. Its cassette can hold 250-sheet paper. It will strike when there are not enough four colors ink which can be a problem when you need to print something but don’t have any spare toner.

The manipulation of the HL-3170CDW is easy to use. You can operate the machine by pressing the OK button and function buttons. You can see the state from the LCD display and controls are easy enough. Like most others, the printer supports USB, ethernet, and Wi-Fi connectivity, the AirPrint is also supported.

Well, the costs of the printing supplies are a bit cheaper than many competitors. Brother’s price for the standard-size, 2500-page black is $85, that is around 3.4 cents per page. The color cartridge cyan, magenta, and yellow supplies cost about $70 per color—about 5 cents per color, per page. To an average, one page with four colors would cost about 15 cents.

The printing speed of the Brother HL-3170CDW is 12.2 ppm on the PC for a text-content page, color photos at 2.9 ppm. It is acceptable.



Brother HL-3170CDW color laser printer—an inexpensive but mediocre choice

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