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Brother HL-1240 Laser Printer (PC/Mac) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Best little printer around!
Comment: I've had my HL-1240 for nearly 9-10 YEARS!! It's still the hardest working thing in my house! This wonderful printer has seen my husband through his PhD, my MA, and continues to be a workhorse. Toner is a tad pricey - but the big toner lasts me nearly an entire year w/heavy printing. I'd love to find a laser color printer that works as efficiently and as hard as the HL-1240. I absolutely LOVE this printer!

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Summary: Works well with either Mandrake or Debian Linux (Knoppix )
Comment: Since this printer was very unreliable for me under any version of windows, I was decided to try it under Linux with hope it would work. To my surprise, both distros of Linux I use recognized it immediately and installed drivers. It has been working perfectly as a network printer for my network ever since. Any other Linux or OSX machine on the network finds this printer automatically with no assistance. Very cool.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very pleased owner
Comment: I have been using my Brother laser printer for about two and a half years, and I am very very pleased with its performance. I currently have three different printers on my desk (yes, a large desk with no space left), and the HL-1240 is the work-horse of the bunch. Almost all printed material gets sent to the HL-1240 because of its speed, quality print, and economy.

Speed - Surprisingly, the printer is advertised at 12 pages per minute, and it actually does print 12 full pages every minute. Unlike many bubble jet printers whose rated speed is rarely what they actually pump-out, this laser printer never slows down.

Quality print - No lines across graphics like with bubble jets, no smudges of ink, just nice crisp print every time, always.

Economy - Aside from the purchase price being very reasonable, I have yet to change the toner! I have no idea how many sheets it has printed, but compared to the costs of bubble jet cartridges, the printer has already paid for itself in ink savings alone.

Design - Having the paper tray on the bottom has two big and important advantages. First, the footprint size is smaller (for those of us with crowded desks), and secondly, it keeps the heat of the machine away from your desk top. In the past I had a laser with a top-side paper tray, and when the day arrived to move the printer to a new location, I found that the heat from the printer had totally ruined the wood's surface directly under where the printer had been sitting. Bottom paper trays are an important feature to look for.

Dependability - I did have a piece of paper jam once, but it was my fault for feeding it in wrong. Removing jammed paper is fast and easy with the back and front of the printer having covers which pop open for access.

No bad points! All good!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Needs Frequent Cleaning, Prone to Jams
Comment: I bought two of these for home use about two years ago. They see moderate, not heavy, use. Both tend to produce smudged printouts. Cleaning is somewhat tedious, and needs to be done weekly. One of the two jams fairly often, considering its light workload. I had no problems printing from Windows 2000; however, when I upgraded to Windows XP the print quality was unacceptable when using XP's default driver. Also, the printer would lose jobs if it was asleep when printing was started. After installing the XP driver from Brother's web site, these problems seem to be resolved.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: It broke, so I bought a Samsung for less
Comment: Too big, too clunky, and it broke, so I bought a Samsung.

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