Brother HL-7050N - Printer - B/W - laser - Legal - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 30 ppm - capacity: 600 sheets - Parallel, Serial, USB, 10/100Base-TX

The Brother HL-7050N is notable for decent performance at around $500 less than most other monochrome printers we evaluated...The HL-7050N lets you define an e-mail address for the printer, and Brother supplies a utility that lets remote users print to it...In performance, the HL-7050N scored near the top on most tests and ranked fourth overall, easily outperforming several more expensive printers...Print quality ranged from good to excellent on most of our test output...

Brother is trying to achieve this with its HL-7050N laser printer - the first to conform to the TCO 99 standard...The HL-7050N was designed from the ground up to conform to the TCO 99 specification and Brother should be commended for being the first to take this step...So we've established that the HL-7050N is kinder to the environment, but is it a capable printer too...The hard disk adds capabilities such as secure printing using a password, although the HL-7050N includes a CompactFlash memory slot that can be used to similar effect...

The Brother HL-7050N is one of the mono laser printer crew, and it seems fairly clearly aimed at business output rather than design use...This is very good for general-purpose business documents, and its fine white text on black rendering was crisp and clear, but you'll need to switch to its full 1200dpi mode for anything with graphics and images where the presentation is important...It took somewhat longer to process the complex PostScript graphic test...In all, the Brother HL-7050N is a reliable but unexciting laser printer, destined to keep offices happy but not really suited to those with more graphic-oriented needs...