The Brother Colour Laser HL-3070C printer is somewhat smaller and a great deal lighter than the MFC-9320CN that I reviewed recently.
Using the normal printing, always used with inkjet printers.
I got over 19PPM for the nonsensical 200 word test document used.
The first thing you have to allow for is time to first page out and this — even when warm — is close to 15 seconds.
This means that although the time for multiple copies of a single page is very good, a single copy is less than 4PPM.
Mind you I also printed single full page graphics at the 600×600 normal resolution and these came in at less than 20 seconds.
The same at high quality 2400DPI took just four seconds longer to print through.
The text output is normal (not draft as with inkjet) and perfectly acceptable for a letter with clear crisp sharp letters.
I find my four page (1500 word) document a bit of a misnomer as this only managed 8PPM simply because of pauses between pages.
No doubt if you set it up to print 16 copies of each page and then collated them the timing would be closer of that claimed.
After the weight problems with the previous Brother unit, this seemed almost light at just less than 24 kilos in the box.
It is 41×47x25cm out of the box and the initial weight without toners installed is around 18 kilos so easy to move into position.
It can be used with USB, Ethernet or Wireless.
There are seven buttons on the shaved front edge of the unit a large LED that flashes when data is being received and a 5×1cm single line display.
However, providing you keep its bottom tray supplied with paper you really only need to go to it to collect what’s printed that arrives face up on the top of the unit.
