Brother intros pair of eco-friendly color printers

[justin987]

Brother on Tuesday announced the release of two new laser printers, the HL-4040CDN and the MFC-9450CDN all-in-one. Both use an automatic duplex printing feature for reduced paper use that will print on both sides of a page.


Brother HL-4040CN

Overview

Color Laser Printer with Networking for your Desktop or Small Office

Offering fast speeds and outstanding print quality, the HL-4040CN makes it easy to quickly produce high-impact color reports, brochures, and presentations right from your desktop, or, using its built-in front-panel USB Direct Interface, directly from a USB Flash Memory drive. And to keep your running cost low, this printer also offers high capacity in-box and replacement toner cartridges.




Main Features

• Fast color output. With print speeds up to 21ppm in both color and monochrome, you can quickly and cost effectively produce presentations, reports, brochures or documents.
• Make a statement with vibrant color documents. Delivering print resolutions up to 2400 x 600 dpi, it’s easy to produce color documents with sharp text and brilliant graphics.
• USB Direct Interface. Print PDF and JPEG files directly from a USB flash memory drive without connecting to your PC. Connect directly to any PictBridge enabled digital camera to print pictures from the camera, without first downloading to a PC.
• High capacity replacement toner cartridges. Reduce operating costs and spend less time replacing supplies with high yield replacement toner cartridges. (TN-115 Series sold separately)
• Network connectivity. A built-in Ethernet network interface‡ enables you to share the HL-4040CN with everyone on your network.
• Flexible paper handling. Effortlessly handles letter/legal size paper and envelopes via a 300-sheet input capacity‡. This printer arrives with a lower paper tray, which holds up to 250 sheets and a multi-purpose tray, which holds up to 50 sheets.‡.

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Brother MFC-9440CN

Overview

The MFC-9440CN is a network-ready color laser Multi-Function Center® that offers a wide range of standard features ideal for any office or business. Produce vibrant, rich color documents and copies in-house without having to outsource printing them.



Main Features

• Fast color laser printing. Delivers an impressive color and monochrome print speed of up to 21 pages per minute, and copy speeds of up to 17 copies per minute.
• Outstanding print quality. Produce brilliant, colorful presentations, brochures and documents that will give you a competitive edge.
• Network connectivity so you can share its functionality. Its 10/100 Base-TX (Ethernet) interface‡ enables multiple users to share its powerful print, scan and fax capabilities.
• Easily accessible USB Direct Interface. Conveniently print PDF or JPEG files from or scan PDF or JPEG files to a USB flash memory drive. You can also print directly from a PictBridge compatible digital camera.
• Expandable paper capacity. Its 250-sheet paper tray holds letter or legal paper and you also have the option of increasing your total paper capacity up to 800 sheets by adding an optional 500-sheet paper tray‡.
• High-speed faxing. With its high-speed 33.6K bps fax modem, you can send and receive faxes quickly in either b&w or color, saving both time and money.
• Versatile paper handling. Print letter or legal-sized documents through either its 250-sheet paper tray or 50-sheet multi-purpose tray. Increase your total paper input capacity up to 800-sheets by adding an optional 500-sheet paper tray‡.
• High quality color scanning. Available from either the letter size document glass or through its 35-page automatic document feeder, you can scan documents, and images and more.
• High capacity replacement toner cartridges‡. Lower your cost per page and copy, since you won’t have to replace toner cartridges as often.
• One Year On-Site Limited Warranty. Provides industry leading support right to you.

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The HL-4040CDN directly replaces Brother's existing HL-4040CN, sharing many of its features, including 21ppm print speeds for black and white and color pages as well as maximum print quality of 2400x600dpi. What it adds is the duplex printing feature.
The all-in-one laser MFC-9450CDN, meantime, does not replace any printers, but also shares many specifications with an existing Brother product, the MFC-9440CN. The main difference is, again, the automatic duplex printing. The MFC-9450CDN has printing speeds of 21ppm whether in monochrome or color, while copying pages can be done as fast as 17 per minute. Maximum print resolution is fixed at 2400x600. It can be shared over a network via a built-in Ethernet port, or connect to external devices such as flash drives or digital cameras via USB 2.0 ports.

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The HL-4040CDN will be available in December and priced at nearly $400 or the same as its predecessor, while the all-in-one MFC-9450CDN will ship in January with a $650 price tag.