This Brother printer is a unique model of all the printers of similar class or series. The print engine is of the electrophotographic technology that enhances the printing process at high speed for an impressive output. The speed of the printer is up to 28 pages per minute (ppm) when printing on an A4 paper while the rate can be up to 30 ppm for printing on a letter-sized document. The first-time page print speed is less than 8.5 seconds after sending the print command into the machine.
Brother HL-5240 Driver for Windows
Supported OS:Â Windows 7 (32-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit), Windows Vista (64-bit), Windows XP (32-bit), Windows XP (64-bit)
Filename | Size | Download |
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Printer Full Drivers for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit.EXE (Recommended) | 101.87 MB | |
Printer Full Drivers for Windows vista 32-bit and 64-bit.EXE (Recommended) | 21.77 MB | |
Brother HL-5240 Printer Full Drivers for Windows xp 32-bit.EXE (Recommended) | 28.12 MB | |
Driver for Windows xp 64-bit.exe (Recommended) | 986.34 kB | |
Or Download Brother HL-5240 driver from Brother website |
Driver and Software for Mac OS
Supported OS: OS X Yosemite 10.10, OS X Mavericks 10.9, OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, OS X Lion 10.7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5
Filename | Size | Download |
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Printer Driver for Mac OS X 10.10.dmg | 28.86 MB | |
Printer Driver for Mac OS X 10.9.dmg | 22.67 MB | |
Brother HL-5240 Printer Driver for Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.8.dmg | 26.04 MB | |
Printer Driver for Mac OS X 10.5.dmg | 5.45 MB | |
Or Download Brother HL-5240 driver from Brother website |
Specifications
The resolution of the printer output is mainly dependent on the operating system in use as well as the particular model of the Brother printer. For instance, the Windows OS series 95, 98, Me, NT4.0, 2000 and Windows XP produces at a resolution up to 1200 dots per inch (dpi) at high quality. The lower recommendations include 600 dpi, while 300 dpi is the lowest possible print resolution. For users of the DOS command, the highest resolution possible is 600 dpi, whereas, Mac OS and Linux also produce a similar print resolution range as Windows OS.
There are other several exciting features of the printer, especially the inbuilt properties such as the processor, RAM, connectivity interface and many more. The internal memory of this Brother HL-5240 machine is up to 16 MB with an option of 1 DIMM (144pin) slot for expandable memory of various ranges from 64, 128, 256 or 512 MB to a maximum of 528 MB. The accompanying processor has a speed that is up to 266 MHz.
Similarly, the standard connectivity interface of this printer is the standard IEEE 1284 parallel component as well as the hi-speed USB 2.0 port feature. The latter requires a standard USB cable obtainable from the manufacturer of length not longer than 2 meters.