Comparative Test: Color Lasers up to 700 Euros: Paper specifications
All printers in this test have a tray for 250 sheets only, a nuisance for printers which deliver up to 21 pages per minute. So an optional second or third paper tray is crucial.
And if you want to print automatically on both sides of a sheet, you need a duplex unit, by the way, one condition to get the "Energy Star".
No printer has a paper tray with a stopper to avoid an accidental crash of the tray when beeing pulled out.
Brother HL-4040CN
Brother HL-4040CN: Paper tray.Brother offers no optional features like an additional paper tray or a duplex unit. If you are in real need of that you have to buy another printer.
- Paper capacity: 300 sheets
- Paper tray/multipurpose: 250 / 50 sheets
- opt. trays: –
- Total: 300 sheets
- max. weight: 163 g/m²
- Duplexer: no
- Output-bin-full-sensor: no
HP Color Laserjet CP2025n
HP offers only one optional tray for this printer. If you want automatic duplex print, you have to decide for the dn-model.
- Paper capacity: 300 sheets
- Paper tray/multipurpose: 250 / 50 sheets
- opt. trays: 1 x 250 sheets
- Total: 550 sheets
- max. weight: 163 g/m²
- Duplexer: no
- Output-bin-full-sensor: yes
Kyocera FS-C5100DN
Kyocera´s printer accommodates 400 sheets, and optional trays let that go up to 1.400. There are two types of trays: PF-500 and PF-510. The latter is more expensive, because it features a pre-heating unit for heavy paper.
A duplex unit is already on board.
In addition to a fill-level-indicator it shows the size of the media you have put in the trays.
- Paper capacity: 400 sheets
- Paper tray/multipurpose: 250 / 150 sheets
- opt. trays: 2 x 500 sheets
- Total: 1.400 sheets
- max. weight: 220 g/m²
- Duplexer: yes
- Output-bin-full-sensor: yes
Oki C3600n
There is nothing to get excited about Oki´s printer: The manual feed accommodates one sheet only, and putting it inside is a cumbersome job. An optional additional paper tray or a duplexer are not available.
- Paper capacity: 251 sheets
- Paper tray/multipurpose: 250 / 1 sheets
- opt. trays: –
- Total: 251 sheets
- max. weight: 203 g/m²
- Duplexer: no
- Output-bin-full-sensor: no
Samsung CLP-610ND
If you swing out the Samsung´s manual feed, the paper tray is blocked.
- Paper capacity: 250 sheets*1
- Paper tray/multipurpose: 250 / 100 sheets
- opt. trays: 1 x 500 sheets
- Total: 750 sheets*1
- max. weight: 163 g/m²
- Duplexer: yes
- Output-bin-full-sensor: no
