Brother HL-5250DNT Network Ready Laser Printer with 2nd Paper Tray

Average customer rating: 4.5

Addressing the second tray
Fast, quiet, efficient
GOOD PRINTER...GREAT PRICE
Networking Brother HL-5250DNT
Design flaw causes envelopes to crease

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Brother HL-5250DNT Network Ready Laser Printer with 2nd Paper Tray

Manufacturer: BROTHER
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000BQ1X2M

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Product Description

Small connected workgroups seeking a laser printer offering built-in network connectivity and a large, expandable paper input capacity will be glad they found the HL-5250DNT. This printer features a built-in Ethernet network interface to allow network printer sharing, as well as offering flexible paper handling with its built-in duplex capability for two-sided printing, and generous 550-sheet standard input capacity. Small connected workgroups and performance desktop users will be amazed at the versatility and affordability of the HL-5250DNT.

Customer Reviews:

Addressing the second tray.......2007-04-15

Typical Brother reliability, well built. First page speed is about 20 seconds. Networking is flawless, setup is easy, and the darn thing even has its own web page with multiple admin pages.

But the coolest feature of this printer is woefully undocumented. How can you use the printer with two different kinds of paper?

Under Windows, the driver for this product wrongly assumes that you purchased the 5250DN, which only has one tray. The second tray is not known to the print driver until you select: "Start" "Printers and Faxes". Right click on the printer, then select the "Accessories" tab. "Add" the LT-5300 (the second tray). Before you leave this screen...

Let's assume that you want to put letterhead in tray 2, but you normally print on plain paper (tray 1). Select the "General" tab, then "Print Preferences". Now change the "paper source" from "auto select" to "Tray 1". This will ensure that you won't print on letterhead when the plain paper runs out!

Fast, quiet, efficient.......2007-03-10

The Brother laser printer has been a big money saver, as it relieves me of having to go to Kinko's to get copying done, as the cost per page is lower to print out a document multiple times than to get it copied. Should have done this sooner.

GOOD PRINTER...GREAT PRICE.......2006-12-30

I have bought 3 of these so I have no room to complain. The software is a bit non-intuitive, but nothing that is too difficult to figure out. The thing comes with a 2nd tray and duplex printing capabilities on Windows, and the $305 price tag beats the pants off of any other printers. Quality wise, it's all plastic just like all of the other ones.
4 stars just because of the software-configuring issues.

Networking Brother HL-5250DNT.......2006-11-07

First printer I received would not feed from second tray, emailed Amazon.com and they sent me a whole new printer pronto, excellent service. The new printer worked fine from both trays. Quite easy to set up printer and network, easy to install on all work-stations, works well though sensitive to cheaper laser paper, but very easy to fix paper jams. Very good value for money. Would buy another one.

Design flaw causes envelopes to crease.......2006-08-15

Users of this product have mentioned here and on other product forums that this printer creases envelopes as it prints them. Indeed, according to reviewers, the creasing seems to occur at the same spot on the envelopes in most cases which spells design flaw in my book.

Except for this one point, this is one terrific printer. It's easy to set up and easy to use. I like the fact that it's always on and if a go a few days without printing and then send a document to the printer, it wakes up from its slumber very quickly and produces a gorgeous hard copy.

If creased envelopes don't bother you, this is the printer to buy.

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