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(45 customer reviews) 33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Mangles envelopes,
December 31, 2006 arkman (MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother HL-5240 High-Speed Desktop Office Laser Printer (Office Product)
Just unpacked and set up the printer. Initial results on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets are great. Excellent quality, good speed, setup went without a hitch.
Unfortunately, no matter what I do it mangles #10 envelopes fed through the manual feeder. I believe I've tried all the pertinent thickness settings in the driver, including envelopes, envelope thin, envelope thick, etc. Every envelope comes out badly wrinkled. The envelopes are ordinary Staples #10s, which I've used without much trouble in a Laserjet5 for years (the heat in that printer does glue the flap a bit, but just lightly. I'm debating returning the Brother HL-5240. The online FAQs from Brother seem completely useless, as they mostly repeat the manual's instructions for inserting the envelopes.
Anyone have ideas on getting around this? Are there special envelopes that will work?
If you don't need envelopes, I'd give this **** or maybe even ***** based on just a few hours use. For envelopes, it...Read more
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Personal Laser for Business or Home,
January 21, 2006 B. Hatch "brian11944" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother HL-5240 High-Speed Desktop Office Laser Printer (Office Product)
We have these on all of our executives desks at work, so the can print documents confidentially. They look nice, have a small footprint, are very quiet, and are trouble free. We have far fewer support incidents or erros on these as we do with other laser printers. With their price and performance, we couldn't recommend these highly enough.
46 of 52 people found the following review helpful
First Impressio: easy to use and very fast.,
January 2, 2006 William Lester (Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother HL-5240 High-Speed Desktop Office Laser Printer (Office Product)
I bought the Brother HL-5240 Laser Printer the last week of December,
2005. This is my first laser printer, and I wanted something to replace an
inkjet printer which became erratic after 25,000 cyles. I'm what I call serious
retired, I'm not going to use the printer in business but I do a lot of printing
pursuing my hobbies of genealogy, bridge, and photography. I wanted a
productive black and white printer mostly for text or line type art work, I do
my photo printing on an Epson R1800.
My first impression was that setup was a breeze. I am running Windows
XP Professional in a Hewlett Packard Workstation xw4100 computer. The
quick setup sheet led me through what to do, and everything loaded off the single
CD furnished with the unit. I understand that if I had Windows XP 64x version,
it would have been necessary to go to Brother's website for the printer...Read more
