Brother HL-4040CN - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Delivering outstanding print quality, the HL-4040CN makes it easy to produce high-impact color reports, brochures, and presentations right from your desktop, or, using its built-in front-panel US...

Review summary: The Brother HL-4040CN is the first printer built around the company's own color-laser engine.

Pros: Reasonably fast. High-quality text. Graphics and photo quality good enough for internal business use.

Cons: Colors are a little off in most photos. Paper tends to curl.

Verdict: The Brother HL-4040CN color laser offers reasonably fast speeds combined with high-quality text and reasonably good but far from impressive, graphics and photos.

Review summary: Despite its lagging black print speeds, the Brother HL-4040CN does a lot of things right and makes a compelling color laser printer for small offices or workgroups.

Pros: Great print quality ; USB port for cameras and flash drives ; network-ready ; reprint, direct-print, and secure print features are useful

Cons: Black print speeds are on the slow side ; input paper capacity is not expandable ; no optional duplexer available

Review summary: The Brother HL-4040CN is a moderately priced single-function laser printer for workgroups or small offices. The $400 printer is network-ready and offers some interesting features, such as reprint and secure print, as well as great print quality. On ...

Verdict: Despite its lagging black print speeds, the Brother HL-4040CN does a lot of things right and makes a compelling color laser printer for small offices or workgroups.