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Brother HL-2040 Monochrome Laser Printer Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: How to fix if paper feed brakes
Comment: This is how I "fixed it" if the paper feed stops working,
first, see if the manual feed still works,
if it does, then this simple solution is probably the answer.

you need to take off the left side panel, the one under the go button and lights.
once the side panel is off, in the very front you will see a black gear wheel. Part of the gear wheel has no spikes in it, it's not supposed to.
there is a spring, running from a nob on the gear wheal to the printer frame.
The defect is, the spring is too weak and over time fail. All I did was make a tighter fit with the spring by stretching out the end, which I know is not an ideal solution because over time this will stretch out the spring. But a spring doesn't cost much to replace on your own, and now my printer which has been broken for 8 months works again.

The paper curls
feed is not perfect
lousy printer
good for me, because I need to do a lot of printing where quality is not an issue, no a laser printer saves me money.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: GREAT Printer for Price and Size
Comment: I have had this printer for about 3 months now. I don't print with it everyday but I print many items over the weekends. I use the printer feed, 75% of the time, to print out shipping labels. I find this printer to be superb! It is compact enough, fits on a shelf in my closet, light enough to move back and forth to my desk. It prints incredibly fast and crisp for my purposes. I have not had any issues with jamming yet. I recommend it for fast and simple printer needs.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: great printer
Comment: i friggin love this printer. It does both one- and two-sided printing well, quickly. I just go brush my teeth and 30 pages are finished printing by the time i get back. it has never stuck...never. I couldnt ask for a better printer, really. unless it has a built in fax machine and copier lol

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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.

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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.

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