This cheap printer measures 9.8 by 16.1 by 18.3 inches, and is small enough to share a desk with, and at 41.9 pounds, it’s relatively light. The combination makes it a good fit for micro and home offices, as well making it a more comfortable desktop companion as a personal printer in any size office. In any case, the less expensive, and smaller, HL-3070CW offers similar speed and output quality like HL-4040CN even though it’s based on an entirely different engine.
The cheap HL-3070CW offers both Ethernet and Wi-Fi connections, along with USB. This cheap printer also includes drivers for Windows XP, 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008, Windows 7, and OS X 10.3.9 through 10.6. The HL-3070CW’s speed is one of its strongest points. Brother rates the printer at 17 pages per minute (ppm) for both monochrome and color. The HL-3070CW paper handling is also limited. The 250-sheet tray with 1-sheet manual feed is sufficient for most small or home offices, but no duplexer is available for automatic printing on both sides of a page, and no additional trays available to add more capacity.
The HL-3070CW’s output quality for text, graphics, and photos is within the range where the vast majority of color lasers fall, which translates to being good enough for most business purposes. More than half of the fonts qualified as both highly readable and well formed at 6 points, and none needed more than 8 points to pass both thresholds. Graphics quality of this cheap printer is good enough for any internal business use.