Brother HL 7050N

The Brother HL 7050N is a sturdy mono laser printer aimed at the small business market, but still features an Ethernet adaptor so you can hook it up to a local area network.

At the front of the unit is a fold-down multipurpose input tray with pinch-and-drag paper guides and an extendable paper support, which holds up to 100 sheets of paper at a time.

Just below is the main input tray drawer, with capacity for 500 sheets. The paper path inside the unit is easy to access but if you are dealing with tricky paper media, a flap at the back of the unit folds down to act as a second output tray.

You also have the option of buying a duplex unit to sort your output, which is handy for complicated print jobs, and allows you to produce double-sided prints.

The control panel mounted on the top-right surface of the unit is fairly straightforward. Pressing the 'back' button calls up the on-screen menu (OSM) on the LED display and takes you back to the previous level on the menu, while plus and minus buttons allow you to navigate the OSM and the 'set' button lets you make selections.

Brother claims a 28ppm print speed for this model and the HL 7050N did indeed print at 28ppm in all of our tests.

Output in our fonts test was excellent. Characters were easily legible even at 2pt and 72pt characters were solid with crisp edges and no evidence of stepping on curvy letters and digits.

Our test photo was well rendered and, while there was some slight banding in areas of sky, contrast was good, tonal graduations were generally smooth and detail was well defined.

Both icons and text in our test pdf were cleanly rendered and shaded areas were reproduced evenly.

Contact:Brother 0870 544 3028
www.brother.co.uk

Specifications:

• Laser
• 600-sheet input tray
• Up to 28ppm print speed
• 1,200 x 1,200dpi
• One cartridge
• 0.06p per page
• 32MB memory
• Ethernet
• USB
• Parallel and serial interfaces
• 24.3kg
• 485 x 480 x 421mm (w x d x h)
• Optional duplex unit and additional stackable input trays

See also:

HP Laserjet 2300dtn

All you need from a workgroup printer  01 Jul 2003

Minolta-QMS Magicolor

Very affordable colour laser with good print quality  20 May 2003

Lexmark T420DN

A good value budget device aimed at workgroups  15 Apr 2003

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