Memory for a laser printer?

[NTB]

I just purchased a new Brother HL-5250DN. It comes with 32MB of RAM installed, and has another slot open for expansion. Since memory is fairly cheap, I thought I would go ahead and get some - but how do you determine how much to get?

Also, All I've been able to find so far is that the printer requires a SODIMM rather than standard RAM; I *think* it needs PC133, but so far I haven't been able to find anything specific. Can anybody help me out here?

If it is PC133, I'm thinking about going with 256MB - 128 isn't much cheaper, but 512MB goes for nearly $80, for what I'm seeing.

Nate

 

[alzan]

According to Brothers specifications page for that printer, it takes:

1 DIMM (144pin) slot (64, 128, 256, 512MB) ;
Expandable to 544MB

It might be an error on their page, the expansion slot is either ~2" or 4" long (SODIMM or DIMM.) I'm thinking SODIMM. I googled a little bit but got no good answer for PC133 or PC100; you could probably get PC133 and it would "throttledown" to PC100 if it needed to.

As far as how much I wouldn't go past 256MB; if you're the only one printing off it. 256MB - 512MB would greatly benefit a small networked environment (5-10 users.)

alzan

 

[shortylickens]

Good GAWD man!
What the hell are you doing with a Brother HL-5250DN that you need more than 32 megs?

I've had lasers with 256K and 512K that handled 300 page documents very well. They were USB of course. I suspect the fast connection and 1 Gig of system memory helped them out a lot.

But still, are you really getting such horrible results with that thing?

 

[jackschmittusa]

You only need more ram if you are printing very long documents, or pages with large, complicated graphics.