Brother HL-4040cn Color Laser Printer with Built-in Network Interface

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 16.5 x 12.5 inches ; 63.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 73 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000SA9FQC
• Item model number: HL-4040cn
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Brother HL-4040CN color laser printer produces brilliant color output for your desktop or small office. With print speeds up to 21 pages per minute (ppm) in color or monochrome and print resolutions up to 2400 x 600 dpi, you can quickly create high-quality documents right from your desk. The feature-rich HL-4040CN also provides flexible connectivity with built-in Ethernet network and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces. Finally, to keep youroperating costs low and reduce user intervention, this printer offers high-yield replacement toner cartridges¹.

Flip-up 3-color LCD display, which instantly indicates the printer's status, as well as easy-to-follow menu selections for setting up your printer. View larger.

Print PDF and JPEG files directly from a USB flash memory drive without a PC.

Front-loading toner cartridges make replacing Brother consumables a breeze.

PictBridge support to connect directly to any compatible digital camera.

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.

Flexible paper handling
The HL-4040CN can handle all your printing needs whether it's letter/legal size paper or envelopes via a 300-sheet paper input capacity. These printers arrive with a universal paper tray, which can hold up to 250 sheets and a multi-purpose tray, which can hold up to 50 sheets.

USB Direct Interface
The HL-4040CN offers an easy access built-in USB Direct Interface for convenient "PC free" printing. With this feature, users can print .pdf and .jpg files directly from a USB flash memory drive². The USB Direct Interface also provides PictBridge support. Simply connect your PictBridge-compliant camera to print pictures directly from the camera, without first downloading to a PC².

User-friendly control panel
The HL-4040CN's innovative control panel features intuitive one-touch buttons for easy operation. It also includes a flip-up 3-color LCD display,which instantly indicates the printer's status, as well as easy-to-follow menu selections for setting up your printer. This easy-to-view display also clearly indicates the toner and paper status. For document security, the control panel features a password protect feature to help ensure that only the password holder will see confidential documents.

Easy-to-use and maintain
Set-up and maintenance has never been 0easier with our user-friendly driver installation process and an interactive help system. In addition, front-loading toner cartridges make replacing consumables a breeze.

300-sheet paper capacity: 250-sheet letter/legal paper tray and 50-sheet multi-purpose tray.

Low total cost of ownership
The HL-4040CN features not only an affordable price, but also offer low operating costs. Arriving with a set of standard yield toner cartridges, these printers deliver an economical cost per page. For lower running costs, high-yield replacement toner cartridges are also available¹.

Service and support are part of the package
Your technology investment is backed by Brother's comprehensive service and support. Brother provides a toll-free technical support, animated interactive help files, and our Brother Solutions Center, which is an on-line repository of information, driver downloads, and FAQs to help you get the most out of your printer.³ In addition, the HL-4040CN comes with a 1-year express exchange limited warranty.

<sup>1. Additional purchase required.
2. USB flash memory drive and camera not included.
3. Visit brother.com for more information.</sup>

Product Description

The Brother Network-Ready Desktop Color Laser Printer Up to 21ppm color/21ppm black 2400x600dpi 64MB standard. 250 sheet input capacity 50-sheet Multi-purpose tray 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and USB Direct interface/PictBridge Windows and MAC OS and Linux.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Trying Very Hard to Love This Printer...BUT !, January 18, 2009

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MKT "MKT" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother HL-4040cn Color Laser Printer with Built-in Network Interface (Office Product)

Got this printer due to my 2 other very positive Brother Laser printers, HL5240 & MFC7840W, both excellent, fast and very reliable, the second reason is my old favorite, Konica Minolta 2300DL (Color Laser) is dying and hoping to combine the function with my still working Brother HL5240 to save space.

Involved with design and illustrations, I print 80% of my work & documents in full color or combination text & color images, in short, I'm very color sensitive.

Brother HL 4040CN is very easy to network even with Multi Window OS desktops, my home office got 2 Vista, 2 XP pro & a XP Media Center PC. Very fast and good text printing quality, actually the color is not even that bad, if I'm not that sensitive.

Pros:

Easy to install and network.

Flip up LCD minimized glare and makes it easy to read the text and ink monitoring.

Fast wake up from sleep or energy saver mode, I really like the light blinking when the machine it in progress or warming up.

Easy front access both for toner replacement, paper tray & bypass paper slot, kind of idiot proof.

Noise level when printing and warm up is comparable to my other laser printers, probably less.

Heavy and looks like it's very well built.

USB interface on the front is a plus.

Cons:

Color prints are warmer and slightly purple & green compared to the output from my Epson Inkjet & Magicolor prints.

On the Green side, I think Brother should redesign their packaging, the unit is almost the same size as HP but the box is 100% more, it's so big that I can't even fit it in regular NYC yellow cab, I probably need to rent a UHAL van the next time I buy one of this.

I was trying hard to love this printer and keep it even though the color prints are a little off, not until when my nephew drops by, look at the print and said to me, "nice terrazzo floor with beige field and gray border", with that comment, I realized it's time to return the printer, since the actually floor have white field and green borders.

In fairness, I replaced this with a HP CP1518ni, Hp is even worst, prints much darker than any of my color laser, slower than Brother, slightly prints more red & orange, not as sharp and very muddy. I end up getting another Konica Minolta, Magicolor 2550, it's the closes match of a laser print that you could get to a decent ink jet print. But if I have to pick between Brother and HP from this experience, I'll take Brother without hesitation. And finally.....Thank you Staples, you are the best.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As good as you can get for the price, March 8, 2008

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D. J. McCullough (McKean, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother HL-4040cn Color Laser Printer with Built-in Network Interface (Office Product)

I was a bit concerned by other's reviews regarding the edges curling but tried an in-store demo prior to purchasing it at the best price I could find- here at Amazon, and didn't find it to be a huge deal. I do find there is a slight curl but for me it seems go away as the pages sit on my desk and the color is far more superior to other demos I tested in the same price range so I'd definitely recommend this printer.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent printer, May 1, 2008

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Matthew Maples (Oxford, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother HL-4040cn Color Laser Printer with Built-in Network Interface (Office Product)

I picked this printer up at Øffice Ðepot yesterday and with some help because it weighs 64 pounds, got it home. Setup is very easy, even for someone without any experience with computer hardware. Just push a tab in, open the front, remove all the bright orange shipping things, pull out the drum unit, slide in the toner cartridges which match the letters (K into K, C into C, etc..), install the software, plug in the USB or Ethernet cable (which you supply yourself), and you are ready to print. Before you print, however, make sure you open the printer settings and configure it the way you want. Also access the printers menu and configure those. The DirectPrint option to print PDFs and JPG files from a USB drive directly is nice, but some USB drives will not work (Corsair Voyager will not). For the price it is an excellent printer, coupled with the fact that it comes with standard (not starter) toner cartriges, you can print hundreds of pages before you have to buy new toner.