Customer Rating: 
Summary: For the Price, You Can't Beat this !
Comment: - Is it loud? Yes a little bit, but it won't wake you up.
- Does it curl the paper? Yes, but not enough to lower the grade in your term apper.
- Does it work? Yes, it does work like a charm and uses very little cartridge.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast and Inexpensive
Comment: I use this at work and appreciate how fast it is! Suddenly I need 10 pages for handouts, and there they are! Other laser printers are as fast, but they are not this inexpensive -- $90 at Amazon, which including FREE SHIPPING.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy something else
Comment: I had a sweet little Brother printer that gave excellent service for 8 years of moderate-volume use. When it finally died a few months ago, I chose another Brother, the HL2040.
I hate this machine, and am already considering replacing it. Three gripes: 1) it's slow (this is a pretty minor inconvenience, and I'd live with it if it were the only problem); 2) the toner cartridges are exorbitantly expensive (a regular one costs more than the high-volume one for the older machine), and I only got about 800 copies from the original cartridge before it needed replacing; and 3) every time I have used it to print more than about 8 pages in a row, it has dumped them all over the floor, including behind the machine. I'm not asking it to do gigantic volumes, but I do occasionally print a ten or twenty page article. By page 8 or 10, it's curling the paper so badly that it won't lie flat in the receiver tray, and it starts cascading all over the floor which both makes a mess and requires me to sort through and collate it all. In order to avoid this, I have to stand by the machine and take the pages off after every 5 or so. Really tedious. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're a very light user who needs to print only 1-5 pages at a time, with a cool down in between.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Printer For This Price Range
Comment: This is a printer I would recommend for personal use based upon my experience with it and the planned usage I have for it. The print quality for map directions, being the most critical item I print out is excellent. Printing B/W photos from some of the emails I get, at 1200 dpi works well.
This printer does not have adjustments for brightness nor enlargement/reduction. It does have a 250 page paper tray that is easy to load.
So far I have not had any of problems mentioned by others here with paper jams. The manual which comes on a disc in Adobe format indicates ink jet paper may cause paper jams and possibly damage the printer. It would have been better if this warning had been on a printed piece of paper placed inside the box the printer came with. Office Depot plain copier paper with the Recycled Paper media setting is, without any problems, what I have been using.
The manual feed slot in the front of printer is handy for printing envelopes. Thick paper or envelope has always been selected as a media type before doing this, and has worked well. The manual feed slot is limited to a single sheet of paper or envelope. Getting it to print with the proper vertical alignment is not something that can be counted upon doing with letter size paper with the way my prints sits in relation to the work area. I have no idea if having the printer at desktop level directly in front of you might produce a consistent and better result.
Often times it is not the cost of the printer but the cost of the consumables (ink/toner) that is the largest cost. This printer comes with a 1500 page toner cartridge. The replacement toner cartridges at a cost of about $45 are good for about 2500 pages. As it is not difficult to refill the toner cartridge, getting about 6000 pages out of the original cartridge should not be difficult. If you are going to refill the toner cartridges just make sure you do not put more than the recommended weight of toner in.
The drum of this printer is rated at 12,000 pages. If you think you might be printing more than that over the next two years I would recommend you do some cost comparisons with other printers. Replacing a printer in this cost range is usually cheaper than replacing both the drum and toner cartridge, especially if the printer is a couple of years old. The best way to do cost comparisons of this type is to look at what the expected cost per page is going to be over the expected life of the printer.
Rich
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best deal for laser
Comment: I believe this is the best bang for a Laser Printer. Do not expect top quality prints. Compared to other Laser printers I had before I find that the prints are less quality, they are not as crisp; maybe its the resolution, I dont know, so compare it before making a decision. Also it is more loud than other printers, but well that might not be so important if it does the job. Happy so far for the cheap price.
Summary: For the Price, You Can't Beat this !
Comment: - Is it loud? Yes a little bit, but it won't wake you up.
- Does it curl the paper? Yes, but not enough to lower the grade in your term apper.
- Does it work? Yes, it does work like a charm and uses very little cartridge.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast and Inexpensive
Comment: I use this at work and appreciate how fast it is! Suddenly I need 10 pages for handouts, and there they are! Other laser printers are as fast, but they are not this inexpensive -- $90 at Amazon, which including FREE SHIPPING.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy something else
Comment: I had a sweet little Brother printer that gave excellent service for 8 years of moderate-volume use. When it finally died a few months ago, I chose another Brother, the HL2040.
I hate this machine, and am already considering replacing it. Three gripes: 1) it's slow (this is a pretty minor inconvenience, and I'd live with it if it were the only problem); 2) the toner cartridges are exorbitantly expensive (a regular one costs more than the high-volume one for the older machine), and I only got about 800 copies from the original cartridge before it needed replacing; and 3) every time I have used it to print more than about 8 pages in a row, it has dumped them all over the floor, including behind the machine. I'm not asking it to do gigantic volumes, but I do occasionally print a ten or twenty page article. By page 8 or 10, it's curling the paper so badly that it won't lie flat in the receiver tray, and it starts cascading all over the floor which both makes a mess and requires me to sort through and collate it all. In order to avoid this, I have to stand by the machine and take the pages off after every 5 or so. Really tedious. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're a very light user who needs to print only 1-5 pages at a time, with a cool down in between.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Printer For This Price Range
Comment: This is a printer I would recommend for personal use based upon my experience with it and the planned usage I have for it. The print quality for map directions, being the most critical item I print out is excellent. Printing B/W photos from some of the emails I get, at 1200 dpi works well.
This printer does not have adjustments for brightness nor enlargement/reduction. It does have a 250 page paper tray that is easy to load.
So far I have not had any of problems mentioned by others here with paper jams. The manual which comes on a disc in Adobe format indicates ink jet paper may cause paper jams and possibly damage the printer. It would have been better if this warning had been on a printed piece of paper placed inside the box the printer came with. Office Depot plain copier paper with the Recycled Paper media setting is, without any problems, what I have been using.
The manual feed slot in the front of printer is handy for printing envelopes. Thick paper or envelope has always been selected as a media type before doing this, and has worked well. The manual feed slot is limited to a single sheet of paper or envelope. Getting it to print with the proper vertical alignment is not something that can be counted upon doing with letter size paper with the way my prints sits in relation to the work area. I have no idea if having the printer at desktop level directly in front of you might produce a consistent and better result.
Often times it is not the cost of the printer but the cost of the consumables (ink/toner) that is the largest cost. This printer comes with a 1500 page toner cartridge. The replacement toner cartridges at a cost of about $45 are good for about 2500 pages. As it is not difficult to refill the toner cartridge, getting about 6000 pages out of the original cartridge should not be difficult. If you are going to refill the toner cartridges just make sure you do not put more than the recommended weight of toner in.
The drum of this printer is rated at 12,000 pages. If you think you might be printing more than that over the next two years I would recommend you do some cost comparisons with other printers. Replacing a printer in this cost range is usually cheaper than replacing both the drum and toner cartridge, especially if the printer is a couple of years old. The best way to do cost comparisons of this type is to look at what the expected cost per page is going to be over the expected life of the printer.
Rich
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best deal for laser
Comment: I believe this is the best bang for a Laser Printer. Do not expect top quality prints. Compared to other Laser printers I had before I find that the prints are less quality, they are not as crisp; maybe its the resolution, I dont know, so compare it before making a decision. Also it is more loud than other printers, but well that might not be so important if it does the job. Happy so far for the cheap price.
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