Brother HL-4070cdw Color Laser Printer

Brother - HL4070CDW

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Mac Leopard users, don't use the driver disk

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Not sure if this was mentioned, but if you are running the Leopard, you HAVE the latest drivers pre-installed on your Mac. You can not download these from Brother, and it isn't included on the disk. Just unpack, remove all the shipping stuff, and plug it in.

But if you did install the because you like to read instructions (there are stickers all over the product saying you should - but I think those are for Windows users), you may have some issues printing from photoshop. I was lucky enough to find another mac and copied the drivers from the library folder. I had to manually point at the driver. Later, my system update notified me of a newer printer driver, I installed it and still works great.

Simply go to printers in the system preferences. I have mine connected via ethernet to my Airport and it found the printer via rendevous.

When I first powered it on, it thought the back cover was opened, a good forceful close did the trick. You have to treat it like you would a printer at work,

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won't print with any toner empty warnings (4 cartridges)

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The printer freezes if any of the 4 toner cartridges are either empty or beyond their rated life (even if with toner). Free tech support (LONG hold, then not much help, and hoops to jump through to leave comments for consideration) says nothing can be done. I print almost all B&W, but on Mac OS X I couldn't easily set a default B&W so some were printing as colour. The cost and hassle isn't worth it. There is no way of continuing to print (power off/on will lose some print jobs, and will allow a true B&W or two to come out), no easy way to reset the toner flags by hand (I tried the tape over the windows trick from the web, tech support suggested nothing though), and no joy. If you are doing a LOT of colour printing, or have a large budget, this may be for you. I suspect it will be a false economy though.

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Print Quality Versus Supply Cost

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I have been using the Brother HL-4070 for a few months. It is very easy to operate and does duplex well even though it is slow when in the duplex mode. I have been satisfied with the print quality and the speed at which it prints. This is the best printer I have owned for my home office use with one exception. I'll explain that in as much detail as I can.

I rated it two stars because there must be some kind of flaw in the toner cartridges. They are very expensive and to replace the toner cartridges will cost you as much as the printer cost. I wouldn't be upset about that if I got the yield from the cartridges that I am suppose to get. The only thing I can figure out is the toner counts the pages that print no matter how much toner is used. I say this because all the color cartridges run out at the same time. It is not possible that I use the exact same amount of color for each copy I produce since I am printing different items with different color requirements. My color cartridge

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