Latest reviews in Printers »

Brother HL-3040CN: Budget price, average picture quality

Advantages: Low purchase price, cheap cost of refill consumables, good overall speed/performance
Disadvantages: Photo print quality only average (fiddly fine tuning), 1-sheet manual feed, slow start-up

The great thing about this printer is the low initial purchase price (less than £130 in November 2011), and the fact that for under £50, you can get a full set of non-OEM toner refills (although you must first buy a Gear Reset kit for around £11 - this is ...

timboid 13.05.2013 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Brother HL 3040CN

Picture quality

Printing speed

Colour sensitivity

Ease of use

Value For Money

Laser Printer, yes please.

Advantages: Cheap consumables, Cheap laser printer
Disadvantages: Not as fast as stated

I had a Brother HL-1240 printer for a number of years and it gave great service but a couple of months ago it finally died. A sad day but something bad was bound to happen soon. So on to the replacement. I needed a Laser Mono Printer, simple, and was look ...

Griffin000 07.08.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Brother HL 5130

Picture quality

Printing speed

Colour sensitivity

Ease of use

Value For Money

He's heavy but he's my brother HL-1430 laser printer

Advantages: Cheap to run, lasts forever.
Disadvantages: Can only buy second hand.

We have owned the brother HL-1430 laser printer for around two years and have not had any problems with it. Mr H brought the printer home from the office as they were disposing of it and he thought that it would be great for printing black and white docum ...

trayrope 30.07.2010 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Brother HL 1430

Picture quality

Printing speed

Colour sensitivity

Ease of use

Value For Money

Brother HL 1430

Advantages: Value for money
Disadvantages: Bulky compared to newer laser printers

...I have had this printer for over 2 years now and have had no problems with it since the day of purchase. I use my printer to mainly print out word documents, emails and work for university. --Looks/Size-- Compared to newer laser printers the Brother H ...

nanger 27.05.2008 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Brother HL 1430

Picture quality

Printing speed

Colour sensitivity

Ease of use

Value For Money

A very good basic home/small office machine

Advantages: Reliable, good quality, cheap to run
Disadvantages: Memory capacity, copy handling

I bought one of these printers about two years ago as a better alternative to using expensive ink cartridges for printing documents, having checked out the reviews going round at the time. Since then the machine has worked perfectly for me and given me s ...

Therightone 01.05.2007 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Brother HL 1430

Picture quality

Printing speed

Colour sensitivity

Ease of use

Value For Money