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Brother HL5250DN Automatic Duplex Network Printer
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List Price: N/A
Our Price: £197.00
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: BROTHER
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Brother
EAN: 5051749488302
Feature: HL-5250DN Network Ready Laser Printer
Is Fragile: 0
Label: BROTHER
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of the product.
Manufacturer: BROTHER
Model: HL5250DNZU1
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: BROTHER
Release Date: 2007-11-07
Studio: BROTHER
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Features
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HL-5250DN Network Ready Laser Printer
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Official Review:
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Get great quality economic printing with the Brother HL-5250DN printer, designed for use as part of a network with the most amazing performance with a resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi and a speed of 30 pages per minute. The HL-5250DN is a flexible black and white printer that will adapt to use with different platforms and configurations with a 10/100 Ethernet network interface, parrallel port and USB 2.0 port. You can produce great quality double sided prints and a range of different print formats. Produce the best quality prints at the best price on your network with the HL-5250DN laser printer.
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Brother HL5250DN Automatic Duplex Network Printer User Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A great printer - ideal for the Small/Home Office and far easier to network than the instructions suggest!
Comment: I bought the Brother to replace a disappointing HP LaserJet that died after only 2 years in action. Pc Pro rate the HL-5250 and its siblings very highly as they produce high quality printouts at a lower cost per page and I agree with their reviews.
The duplex function is great and works flawlessly - ideal for those long documents.
When I first installed the printer, I connected it directly to one of the PCs in my home network. I did look at the networking instructions but they seemed far too complex. I bought a new modem router and decided to connect it via the Ethernet port and not bother looking at the instructions. My modem just recognised it as another device in the network and all of the PCs instantly recognised it as a network printer. This is particularly useful when mixing XP and Vista machines in a network.
I can recommend this printer to anyone with a home network.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great printer
Comment: This printer produces excellent (mono) prints on both sides of the paper, is quick, quiet, easy to operate, has a small footprint and even looks cool! So far no paper jams, or any problems of any kind. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Generally OK (but... )
Comment: After five months this has proven to be reliable - including the duplex option (which I've used plenty of times and had no misfeeds). However the collection tray for printed pages can't cope with paper curl (caused by the heating unit) so after about a dozen pages it pushes everything on the floor. This is a real problem if you're printing multi-page documents that you want to stay collated! Some papers are worse than others - but different brands of `cheapo' 80 gsm white have proven to be consistently problematical. Higher-price papers curl less so are usually OK.
Apart from that only one grumble and that is the printers are shipped with a 'sample size' toner cartridge which is rated at 2000 copies (but packed up after 1500 for me!). Worse still the printer decides when the toner pack is dead and then refuses to print - not like the good old days when you could give the toner pack a shake and get a few hundred extra copies out. Unless you only intend to use this occasionally (and who buys a laser unless they want to produce lots of copies??) make sure you also buy the larger ('7000 copies') toner pack (ref TN-3170) straight away otherwise you will find yourself out of toner and with a (temporarily) 'dead' printer much sooner than you would reasonably expect.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great laser printer
Comment: The small form factor, the duplex unit and the Ethernet interface make this printer very attractive, and it does not disappoint. The print quality is excellent and it is very quiet and quick.
The only issue is that it does not print envelops well: no matter which brand I use, the printer always tear them, making them unpresentable.
Anyway, apart from that small problem, I would definitely recommend this printer, excellent quality and reasonable price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: duplex is worth it... shipped from france
Comment: 5 STAR PRODUCT:: less a star because not uk product
This is an excellent printer.
Our offices use it and an earlier model (HL-5150D).
Quick and great print quality.
What you're paying for over above most laser printers is the duplex unit (prints on both sides of each page). It is wort the extra:: saves paper and takes all the work out of producing small numbers of booklets (using either Brother's interface or documents produced using Publisher).
Pixmania ship from France. I haven't had to test their turnaround if a fault develops but it will mean return to base rather than on site :(
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