The black and white laser printer Brother HL-5340D space occupied by its compact cube shape only slightly on the desk. The 250-sheet paper tray is fully immersed in the housing. The Brother HL-5340D managed in our test for pure text printing about 26.5 pages per minute. For the 30-page per minute printer designed this is a good result. Our 10-page Acrobat file with text and graphics provided the black and white laser printers in just 30 seconds, that is projected at around 20 pages per minute.

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The Brother HL-5340D gave the best overall print image of all previously tested by us, black and white laser printer. When texts were virtually even with a magnifying glass no dirty letter outlines found. Similarly toner splashes were missing from the letter. Even at the low 300-dpi resolution delivers the laser nor a clean print. Graphics and photos sparked the Brother HL-5340D with a very fine grid. Photos are to play in the darkest areas of differentiation. could banding in graphics and photos, we do not discover.

In the basic configuration has the Brother HL-5340D 16 MB memory that can be upgraded via an easily accessible memory slot to 528 MB. In addition to a USB 2.0 interface, the laser printer includes a parallel port. The existing standard automatic two-sided printing helps conserve paper and thus also costs. In addition to PCL 6, Post Script 3 is implemented as a printer language. In addition to Windows (2000), the MAC OS and Linux operating systems are supported by print driver. The toner cartridge can be separated from the drum unit (life span 25,000 pages) exchange.