Buy Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser PrinterBrother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer Product Description:
- Up to 2,400 x 600 dpi resolution
- Up to 21 ppm print speed
- Automatic 2-sided printing; PC compatible
- Parallel and USB 2.0 interfaces, optional networking
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HL5150D BROTHER BROTHER HL5150D LASER PRINTER
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Good entry level laser printer
By the-big-bend
I am a Mac user and a scientist. In my profession, most of the papers are in the PDF format. This printer handles these documents very well. If you set the resolution to 1200 dpi, the graphics in the papers would look even more impressive and photo-like. It is small and easy to set up so it does not occupy too much desk space. It can do double sided printing without additional gears. It is slow though if your documents are of several MBs in size and contains complex pictures. I have added additional memory to rectify this. From time to time, it has problem handling web pages in Safari.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Linux Support out of the box..
By uhmgawa
I'm impressed with the Brother HL-5150D.I've been looking quite a while for aninexpensive duplex laser printer. At$222 delivered from Amazon I expected theusual pain and suffering trying to coaxghostscript or some holy binary-only driverto talk to it.I attached it via parallel/centronics portand launched printtool under RH9 only to findthe printer wasn't listed in the Brothermenu. Thinking it was a complete long shot Iconfigured it as a native PS printer expectingpages of gibberish to fill the hopper. To mysurprise the printer actually talks PSincluding duplex support._Never_ have I had an inexpensive laser printerso quickly and easily go from the UPS truckto productive use under Linux.Nice work Brother. You deserve to sell millionsof these.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.Linux/Windows XP dual oot system works well with printer
By nom_de_plume
This is the best duplex printer I could find for its price. Its print speed and quality are impressive. The time from cold start to first page is also quite fast.So far the printer has worked seamlessly in my Windows XP 2.0 SP2 setup using a USB 2.0 interface. Word, acrobat reader, explorer, etc. have all worked very nicely. Printer setup interface is simple and clear.After a quick and well documented configuration step, the printer also worked in my SuSE Linux 9.1 setup. In Linux I tested printing with acroread, a2ps, openoffice, ghostview, mozilla, evolution email client, konqueror, command shell, etc. Mozilla had a hard time chosing the correct font on a particular website (NY Times) and the printout was horrible. But this is an issue with the software as other Linux browsers did fine. Other than that I had no issues in Linux. The printer emulates postscript level 3 and does PCL6 so it is quite versatile. Overall time to first page is slower in Linux and Windows XP.It is not a networked printer but my intent is to transform it into one should I need to connect many computers. I'll just buy a cheap 'print server' or a 'wireless print server' to do the job. Surprisingly this is cheaper and more versatile than buying the model of the printer ready for networking (HL-5170DN).I have yet to encounter a single printer jam after over a month of usage. Toner cartridge have a very fair price per page if one shops on the internet.I have not tested the printer with the Apple platforms.The printer does not do color but I backed off that requirement when I saw the maintenance costs of a color printer. If you need color and duplex then look at the CLP-500 and CLP-550n by Samsung for a low priced printer.I can only recommend this printer.
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