Brother debuts new HL-5100 Series Laser Printers
updated 09:10 am EST, Tue January 6, 2004
Brother laser printers
today introduced its new HL-5100 Series Laser Printers: HL-5140, HL-5150D, HL-5150DLT and HL-5170DN. The new line replaces the existing HL-5000 Series printers. The new series offers several key enhancements over previous models including faster print speeds, more standard memory, standard duplex printing on three of the four models, and optional wireless printing. The HL-5140, HL-5150D, HL-5150DLT, and HL-5170DN will have estimated street prices of $230, $300, $350 and $450, respectively. First customer shipments are slated for February 2004.
The HL-5100 Series offers a print speed of up to 21 ppm and a first-page out speed of less than 10 seconds. Each model except the HL-5140 offers duplex printing and minimum of 16MB of built-in RAM.
The new printers come with drivers for Mac OS 8/9/X and offer PCL6 emulation (as well as BR-Script 3 (PostScript 3 emulation), IBM Proprinter and Epson FX emulations on the HL-5150D, HL-5150DLT, and HL-5170DN. The HL-5100 Series includes standard USB 2.0 and Parallel interfaces along with an optional external 10/100 BaseT Ethernet print server for the HL-5140, HL-5150D, and HL-5150DLT; the network-ready HL-5170DN (with 32MB of RAM) comes standard with an internal 10/100 BaseT Ethernet print server. In addition, Brother has an optional 802.11b wireless print server to enable wireless connectivity. The NC-2200w print server will be available in the second quarter of 2004.
