21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Good entry level laser printer,
January 17, 2005 the-big-bend "Becool" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer (Office Product)
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..,
November 23, 2004 uhmgawa (NH, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer (Office Product)
I'm impressed with the Brother HL-5150D.
I've been looking quite a while for an
inexpensive duplex laser printer. At
$222 delivered from Amazon I expected the
usual pain and suffering trying to coax
ghostscript or some holy binary-only driver
to talk to it.
I attached it via parallel/centronics port
and launched printtool under RH9 only to find
the printer wasn't listed in the Brother
menu. Thinking it was a complete long shot I
configured it as a native PS printer expecting
pages of gibberish to fill the hopper. To my
surprise the printer actually talks PS
including duplex support.
_Never_ have I had an inexpensive laser printer
so quickly and easily go from the UPS truck
to productive use under Linux.
Nice work Brother. You deserve to sell millions
of these.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Linux/Windows XP dual oot system works well with printer,
October 16, 2004 nom_de_plume "mr_untel" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer (Office Product)
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...Read more
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