Notes About Business

The home office must be run with the lowest possible overhead cost. While running at a low cost, the output of the home office must be comparable to that produced by the biggest corporate office. The Brother HL-1650 provides high quality output combined with low operating costs to the home office. The HL-1650 uses the Brother HL 1650 Toner and can print pages at up to 16 pages per minute. Pages can be duplex printed using the automatic duplexer built into the HL-1650.

Brother has provided two data input ports on the HL-1650. These two ports are USB and parallel. When the HL-1650 is included in the small business workgroup environment, the 10/100 Base TX Ethernet print server must be purchased. Utilizing the HL-1650 in the stand alone mode, connected to one computer through the parallel port provides the highest print output rate. When the HL-1650 is placed into a network environment, print output rate decreases by approximately 33%.

Business workgroups may find that the standard 8mb of memory is not enough to provide for all the members of the workgroup. Should this be the case, Brother provides memory expansions of up to 136MB. The installation of a memory upgrade will provide full functionality to all members of the workgroup.

Toner costs and drum life of this laser printer are among some of the lowest available. The T560 toner cartridge will print up to 6500 pages. The DR500 drum will provide for up to 20,000 pages of printing. The use of this toner cartridge and drum provide for a cost of approximately 2 cents per page printed.

Brother provides the Quick Print utility setup with the HL-1650. This utility can be placed either in a dedicated window or on the system tray of the computer. Initial setup of this utility provides for options that will be utilized in printing the documents. These options include dedicating which size paper goes in which tray, layouts for multiple pages and type of paper used. In the Driver Properties section, features such as watermark inclusion are available. Graphics are often light or dark when printed. To insure proper graphics quality, the density and contrast of the graphics can be controlled manually.

Brother has recognized that all documents do not require printing at the 1200 dpi setting. To facilitate this, Brother permits printing as low as 300 dpi quality. While the quality of printing at 1200 dpi is outstanding, the 300 dpi quality allows quality printing at high speed for preliminary versions of documents. Speed at which the documents are printed is dependent upon several variables. These variables can be, whether graphics are included in the document and the density of the graphics in the document, the print quality desired and as previously mentioned how the printer is connected to the computer or network.

The automatic duplexer provides worry free duplex printing. The automatic duplexer provides a variety of options including six different alignment settings. Should the user choose to stand over the machine and supervise the printing, Brother created a manual setting for duplex printing on the printer.