Unpresentable print quality. Good for personal use and internal dossiers only.
Pros:
• Fairly quiet operation comparable to good quality duplex inkjets.
• Excellent paper handling. The prints come out very well aligned with the paper edges.
That is, unfortunately, all the good I have to say about Brother HL-L8260CDW Colour Laser Printer.
Cons:
• Very low, cheap magazine-like dpi makes it absolutely unsuitable for printing pictures of any sort even at Fine setting.
• Inconsistent print quality, whereby straight lines (e.g. tables) in the same document come out jagged sometimes more, sometimes less. Just turn the printer off and on and the quality is vastly different. Calibration sometimes makes colored parts even worse, and never perfect. See the picture.
• Colour rendition is a joke with this printer, not to mention the transition between bright and dark areas - the darker bits even have a bright halo around them. I attached a picture with some food stains on a white plate that shows the issue.
• Every printout so far had what photographers would call chromatic aberration. This means no sharp prints, unless you're printing B&W, and with B&W you have the aforementioned jaggedness issue.
• Every color photograph I printed came out with random patches of black toner 1 to 3 mm in size, as if it was just falling onto the paper.
If my particular printer may be a dud, but I doubt there can be so much wrong by accident. Make sure you buy first hand retail or else you'll be stuck with 26 kilos of dead weight without warranty, like me. eBay needs to review their rules for "Brand new" items.
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