Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good for One-Sided Printing Only
Comment: I've had this printer for about a year now. It's dependable, compact, and text looks good. However, if you intend to, say, print odd pages and then turn the stack over and print even pages in order to achieve printing on both sides, do not use this printer. Every time I've tried this with more than just a few sheets, the printer will, sometime during the printing job pick up two sheets of paper, causing everything printed after to be in the wrong place. For example, when the printer should pick up the page with 7 on the other side and now print page 8 on the back, it picks up 2 pages, leaving the back of page 7 blank and printing page 8 on the back of page 9. This will happen several times so that by the end of a 30 page document, you might have page 24 printed on the back of page 29, and pages 26, 28, and 30 printed on blank pages at the end (since there are three blank pages along the way where the printer picked up two pages several times.
Once again-good for single-sided B&W printing. Anything else is a nuisance.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Alright for price but better options are out there
Comment: I've had this Brother monochrome laser printer for maybe a year now and bought it when it was about $110.
The good:
-Crisp black and white text, far better than virtually any inkjet and less expensive per page
-Can hold at least 200 pages of normal paper
The bad:
-Printer has a jamming tendency. The only reason that this does not render the printer unacceptable is that the "jam" happens within the paper tray and before the page gets all caught up in the rollers, so it is fairly easy to clear but a nuisance.
-Noise. It's not a noise that is any better or worse than any other mechanical sound, but it is very loud, almost like a vacuum cleaner.
-Confusing toner/drum ink assembly could add up in cost. Now, I am sure that for some people, it is perfectly obvious what all these parts are, but I am - and I think most other people are in home office laser printers - used to a single disposable module. The "drum" assembly costs virtually as much as the printer itself. All and all, this is indeed a laser printer that prints excellent quality text. However, it is quite clear that modern improvements to small laser printers have not really been put to work here, perhaps in an effort to save costs.
Ultimately, I'd either spend maybe $50-75 more and get something that is reliable and straightforward. Usually HP's lower end printers are of great quality for the price. I have had a bad experience with a Lexmark inkjet but I have used their laser b&w printers and they are quite good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Reverse printing on thin paper is a problem
Comment: The price is right, and for single-sided printing, it is a great deal. The problem is with flipping pages to print them on the reverse side. Unless you are using heavy paper (22-24 lb) it is very common for the printer to feed 2, 3, or even 4 sheets of 20lb paper stuck together. My last Brother did not have kind of this problem. Paper curl is also oiut of control. Would be nice to have the exit door on the back to feed sheets through straight, like earlier models had.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product
Comment: Great product for the price. The only problem I have is, it makes my lights blink. Someone told me it's the frequency it sends out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Light, Speedy, Fast and Cheap. But Noisy...
Comment: I got this last year from Office Depot, with promotional rebate and such, for a total of $60 - can't beat the price! I have it connected to an airport express (mac network) for wireless printing.
Because it doesn't have 'bonjour' (its a mac wireless thing, 'bonjour' hardware literally announce themselves by greeting a wireless network, hence 'bonjour') built in, you cannot print to it totally wirelessly. You need to connect it physically to some hardware of your wireless network.
For more flexibility, it has both USB and parallel printer ports. I connected the USB to a hub, the hub to the airport express for wireless printing. But for the non-wireless laptops (Mac and PC) I have an LPT to USB cable connected on the parallel port and I can physically connect to the wireless-challenged laptops through USB. The conversion cable (LPT to USB) not needed for anything mac, b/c its not used by macs. But PCs still come with parallel printer plugs.
Cons: NOISY. I mean it. This little thing makes a vortex-like noise as soon as it gets plugged in (auto turn on/off) and stays noisy until way after it has finished printing. It was quite disconcerting at first, but I got used to it.
Can't beat the blazin' speed, the minimal footprint, the light weight and the low price.
Now, if only all of the above came with color...
Summary: Good for One-Sided Printing Only
Comment: I've had this printer for about a year now. It's dependable, compact, and text looks good. However, if you intend to, say, print odd pages and then turn the stack over and print even pages in order to achieve printing on both sides, do not use this printer. Every time I've tried this with more than just a few sheets, the printer will, sometime during the printing job pick up two sheets of paper, causing everything printed after to be in the wrong place. For example, when the printer should pick up the page with 7 on the other side and now print page 8 on the back, it picks up 2 pages, leaving the back of page 7 blank and printing page 8 on the back of page 9. This will happen several times so that by the end of a 30 page document, you might have page 24 printed on the back of page 29, and pages 26, 28, and 30 printed on blank pages at the end (since there are three blank pages along the way where the printer picked up two pages several times.
Once again-good for single-sided B&W printing. Anything else is a nuisance.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Alright for price but better options are out there
Comment: I've had this Brother monochrome laser printer for maybe a year now and bought it when it was about $110.
The good:
-Crisp black and white text, far better than virtually any inkjet and less expensive per page
-Can hold at least 200 pages of normal paper
The bad:
-Printer has a jamming tendency. The only reason that this does not render the printer unacceptable is that the "jam" happens within the paper tray and before the page gets all caught up in the rollers, so it is fairly easy to clear but a nuisance.
-Noise. It's not a noise that is any better or worse than any other mechanical sound, but it is very loud, almost like a vacuum cleaner.
-Confusing toner/drum ink assembly could add up in cost. Now, I am sure that for some people, it is perfectly obvious what all these parts are, but I am - and I think most other people are in home office laser printers - used to a single disposable module. The "drum" assembly costs virtually as much as the printer itself. All and all, this is indeed a laser printer that prints excellent quality text. However, it is quite clear that modern improvements to small laser printers have not really been put to work here, perhaps in an effort to save costs.
Ultimately, I'd either spend maybe $50-75 more and get something that is reliable and straightforward. Usually HP's lower end printers are of great quality for the price. I have had a bad experience with a Lexmark inkjet but I have used their laser b&w printers and they are quite good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Reverse printing on thin paper is a problem
Comment: The price is right, and for single-sided printing, it is a great deal. The problem is with flipping pages to print them on the reverse side. Unless you are using heavy paper (22-24 lb) it is very common for the printer to feed 2, 3, or even 4 sheets of 20lb paper stuck together. My last Brother did not have kind of this problem. Paper curl is also oiut of control. Would be nice to have the exit door on the back to feed sheets through straight, like earlier models had.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product
Comment: Great product for the price. The only problem I have is, it makes my lights blink. Someone told me it's the frequency it sends out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Light, Speedy, Fast and Cheap. But Noisy...
Comment: I got this last year from Office Depot, with promotional rebate and such, for a total of $60 - can't beat the price! I have it connected to an airport express (mac network) for wireless printing.
Because it doesn't have 'bonjour' (its a mac wireless thing, 'bonjour' hardware literally announce themselves by greeting a wireless network, hence 'bonjour') built in, you cannot print to it totally wirelessly. You need to connect it physically to some hardware of your wireless network.
For more flexibility, it has both USB and parallel printer ports. I connected the USB to a hub, the hub to the airport express for wireless printing. But for the non-wireless laptops (Mac and PC) I have an LPT to USB cable connected on the parallel port and I can physically connect to the wireless-challenged laptops through USB. The conversion cable (LPT to USB) not needed for anything mac, b/c its not used by macs. But PCs still come with parallel printer plugs.
Cons: NOISY. I mean it. This little thing makes a vortex-like noise as soon as it gets plugged in (auto turn on/off) and stays noisy until way after it has finished printing. It was quite disconcerting at first, but I got used to it.
Can't beat the blazin' speed, the minimal footprint, the light weight and the low price.
Now, if only all of the above came with color...
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