Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer

by Brother

Product Details

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Product Manual [3.04mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 31 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 32 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: B0001BRIEY
• Item model number: HL5150D
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 14, 2004

Product Description

The HL-5150D is an expandable, desktop graphics laser printer. It features a fast print speed of up to 21ppm, 16MB of standard memory (upgradeable to 144MB1), PCL6 and BR-Script32 emulations, and automatic duplex capability for two-sided printing. Enjoy comprehensive paper handling versatility with its 250-sheet paper tray and a 50-sheet multi-purpose tray. A perfect workhorse for home or small office. Windows PC and Macintosh compatible Optional external Ethernet1 or wireless interfaces available (sold separately) Easy to use control panel with convenient job cancel button 66 scalable fonts, 12 bitmap and 11 bar codes (PCL); 66 scalable fonts (BR-Script32) 150-sheet output tray Automatic duplex, N-Up, Poster and Watermark print modes Toner and Power Save Modes Flash-based animated help system Brother Solutions Center (requires Internet access) Energy Star compliant Consumables - TN-540, TN-570, DR-510 (Includes sample toner and drum) Actual print speed will vary according to use

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good entry level laser printer, January 17, 2005

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the-big-bend "Becool" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer (Office Product)

I am a Mac user and a scientist. In my profession, most of the papers are in the PDF format. This printer handles these documents very well. If you set the resolution to 1200 dpi, the graphics in the papers would look even more impressive and photo-like. It is small and easy to set up so it does not occupy too much desk space. It can do double sided printing without additional gears. It is slow though if your documents are of several MBs in size and contains complex pictures. I have added additional memory to rectify this. From time to time, it has problem handling web pages in Safari.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Linux Support out of the box.., November 23, 2004

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uhmgawa (NH, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer (Office Product)

I'm impressed with the Brother HL-5150D.

I've been looking quite a while for an

inexpensive duplex laser printer. At

$222 delivered from Amazon I expected the

usual pain and suffering trying to coax

ghostscript or some holy binary-only driver

to talk to it.

I attached it via parallel/centronics port

and launched printtool under RH9 only to find

the printer wasn't listed in the Brother

menu. Thinking it was a complete long shot I

configured it as a native PS printer expecting

pages of gibberish to fill the hopper. To my

surprise the printer actually talks PS

including duplex support.

_Never_ have I had an inexpensive laser printer

so quickly and easily go from the UPS truck

to productive use under Linux.

Nice work Brother. You deserve to sell millions

of these.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Linux/Windows XP dual oot system works well with printer, October 16, 2004

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nom_de_plume "mr_untel" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother HL-5150D Monochrome Graphic Laser Printer (Office Product)

This is the best duplex printer I could find for its price. Its print speed and quality are impressive. The time from cold start to first page is also quite fast.

So far the printer has worked seamlessly in my Windows XP 2.0 SP2 setup using a USB 2.0 interface. Word, acrobat reader, explorer, etc. have all worked very nicely. Printer setup interface is simple and clear.

After a quick and well documented configuration step, the printer also worked in my SuSE Linux 9.1 setup. In Linux I tested printing with acroread, a2ps, openoffice, ghostview, mozilla, evolution email client, konqueror, command shell, etc. Mozilla had a hard time chosing the correct font on a particular website (NY Times) and the printout was horrible. But this is an issue with the software as other Linux browsers did fine. Other than that I had no issues in Linux. The printer emulates postscript level 3 and does PCL6 so it is quite versatile. Overall time to first page is slower in Linux and Windows XP.

It is not a networked printer but my intent is to transform it into one should I need to connect many computers. I'll just buy a cheap 'print server' or a 'wireless print server' to do the job. Surprisingly this is cheaper and more versatile than buying the model of the printer ready for networking (HL-5170DN).

I have yet to encounter a single printer jam after over a month of usage. Toner cartridge have a very fair price per page if one shops on the internet.

I have not tested the printer with the Apple platforms.

The printer does not do color but I backed off that requirement when I saw the maintenance costs of a color printer. If you need color and duplex then look at the CLP-500 and CLP-550n by Samsung for a low priced printer.

I can only recommend this printer.