With the thoughtful and space saving design, the HL-2040 should be at home in any modern office environment. High-speed printing facilitates peace of mind when deadlines have to be met.
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Advantages: Good clear prints, fast, efficient Disadvantages: Noise
...ordered and just received a Brother HL-2040 Laser Printer.
We use Brother printers at work so I thought I would try a home version.
I'm running Windows XP so turned to the relevant page in the manual.
The manual has a sort of spider diagram on the front making it very easy to find the pages you want based on your operating system and connection method weather that be USB, parallel or ethernet.
Installation
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Windows XP requires ...
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Advantages: Small, Cheap Disadvantages: Errrr not many really.
...hands of in the past.
Also Brother claim their toner cartridges can do 1,500 sheets, I think they are wrong. I've gotten through 1.5boxes of paper (3700ish sheets) on the free toner that came with it.
Its basic specs are;
*Max. Print Speed - 20pages per minute
*Max. Print Resolution - 2400x600dpi
*Interface - Parallel or USB
*Memory - 8MB
*And a little single sheet feeder which I have never used, but it looks like it works.
This is a ...
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Advantages: Small size and footprint on desk Disadvantages: tendancy to 'curl' paper
...to replace them we thought brother hads got it right by reducing the size to the 2040. How wrong we were. To say we are disappointed with the quality of the production (the printing itself is fine the paper gets curled up) is an understatement!
Then there is the toner cartridge, this appears to give you about a 5 page warning of when its going to run out! There also appears to be no consistaency on how long they will last.
Finally there appears ...
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Advantages: Easy to use Disadvantages: USB connection
I was despirate to buy a new printer as cartridges where costing me a fortune and so laser was the way forward. I am a student so I was on a budget and I saw this printer was priced well and bit the bullet. I am very surprised by it actually. It is a little temporamentle to set up with the USB especially if you are still running 1.1.....but after that it is plain sailing. I have had it over a year now and am still using the free cartridge that has ...
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