Brother HL5240 laser printer

Advantages: Good all round laser printer, loads of pros
Disadvantages: very few, if any

...General & price: WOW, what a brilliant printer this is. Another great laser from Brother. I have had this printer for quite a few months now. I bought it for around £150 but the prices come anywhere between £140 and £220 from verious online retailers or some high street stores. There is so much i could say about this printer but it would take me ages to write it all and i'm not sure if i can handle it all. But i will right all the important parts. Design: The design of the HL5250dn is brilliant. In my opinion the best looking printer Brother have ever done. Most of Brother's lasers as well as many others on the market are just a neutral cream colour but this is black and grey which may not sound very appealing but when you see it, it looks great. It is a good size, simple printer that will fit into any office, school or home. It...

marktomo06 08.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 5240

brother hl2030

Advantages: small and tidy reasonable cost per copy
Disadvantages: limited memory and small feed tray

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bob3000000 16.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 2030

Brother HL 1050

Advantages: Quick, good quality printouts
Disadvantages: Doesn't seem to last very long

...The Brother HL-1050 is a fairly good laser printer. I've had mine for just over two years and in that time I've had no problems with it until recently. It can be connected via either parallel port or USB, comes with 4MB of memory and has a claimed print speed of 10ppm with a maximum resolution of 1200x600dpi. It is fast and handles text superbly and graphics adaquately. Toner cartridges are twenty five quid a throw and last a couple of thousand pages (I think) depending on print density and stuff like that. The printer driver offers a useful little window that opens and tells you the status of the printer (if it's asleep, if the toner is low, if the paper is jammed, etc). It is a quick printer, but it's not that small with a footprint of roughly 14.5" x 14.5" and a height of approximately 11". It's not quiet either. The paper...

adamdavid 20.03.2001 (11.04.2001) · Read review
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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 HL 1430 looks boring and is also quite bulky. However what it lacks in looks it certainly makes up for in quality and reliability. Dimensions: 36x23.5cm Weight: 9.2Kg --Laser Vs Inkjet-- I had two inkjet printers before purchasing my first laser printer. For the sort of documents I print I find a laser printer much faster, more reliable and also of a higher quality. Over the last 2 years this printer has proven to be cheaper than my other injet printers as the ink cartridges dried out and were expensive to replace. Since I have had this printer I have still not replaced the toner it...

nanger 27.05.2008 · Read review
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FANTASTIC BROTHER HL-1230 BLACK & WHITE LASER PRINTER

Advantages: TOTALLY RELIABLE, VERY ECONOMICAL, UNOBTRUSIVE
Disadvantages: NONE

...My daughter bought this printer for her office (she does accountancy & bookkeeping) about SIX years ago. She upgraded to a more powerful model after two years (Brother of course) and we now have the original as the main printer for the main home computer - it is black and white, but we don't have any call for colour. Having, in the past had FOUR so-called excellent printers, by HP, Lexmark, et al , which required ink cartridges, I can only say that the Brother HL-1230 leaves them all standing at the starting gate. It is only on its second toner cartridge and we do a fair amount of printing. There is also the fact that with a laser printer there are no ink cartridges to dry out. The initial monetary outlay may be a little more but is more than compensated for by not having to buy ink cartridges, which do not last anywhere...

judylugg 22.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 1230

Brother HL 5270DN

Advantages: cheap ink, print quality
Disadvantages: big, bulky

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techno_man_37 03.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 5270DN

HL-1250 - Speedy, reliable, inexpensive

Advantages: Print speed, quality, upgradability, price, reliability, quite small, easy to print on envelopes/small paper, Works under Windows XP
Disadvantages: Square design, 4MB memory not enough for some image printing, supplied drivers not excellent

....... DRIVER INSTALLATION I didn?t actually have to install from the provided setup CD, as Windows already had a driver for the printer. However, I installed the driver from the CD on top of it as without it no options were available (i.e. 1200DPI resolution, Toner Save etc.). The drivers themselves have given me little trouble. An optional small icon in the task tray gives handy access to all of the common printing options (which paper tray to load from, n-up printing options etc.). The only trouble with these drivers seem to be that they print all colours of text a solid black. If I ever want to print grey text I have to install the Windows' drivers aswell. Also included on the CD is the manual, some VERY useful videos about how to perform maintenance tasks, automatic email printing software, and something called "Status Monitor Brownie" which...

pc-tech 13.01.2002 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 1250

He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother HL6050 !

Advantages: Fast and Reliable. Reprint and Dual side functions
Disadvantages: Large Footprint, and noisy

...My old Epson finally gave up the ghost around 10 months ago, which lead me to look for a new Printer to hopefully last me the next 5 years. I eventually chose the Brother HL6050. Although this machine is probably the largest of the ones I looked at, it is by far the best. 42cm deep, and 31 cm tall. The Brother Hl 6050 is a mono laser printer, and cost me £299 from dabs.com. Incredibly quick printing, for the price (24ppm - pages per minute), and a paper tray which holds a full ream (500 sheets). You can use traditional cables, or USB or Infra red. I use USB, as this is very quick and reliable, unlike the infrared. One very useful function is the reprint function. If you have just printed out a document, and need another, simply press the reprint button, tell it how many copies you require, and press go, and they are...

ChrisAllsopp 03.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 6050DN

HL 2040 Black and White Laser printer review

Advantages: Small, Cheap
Disadvantages: Errrr not many really.

...This is a nice toy. Entirly functional admitedly but its good at what it does. Its one of those items that just works flawlessly. You know when you want something to do its job when its told to and sit quietly in the corner for the rest of the time. (Unlike windows) this printer does it. It is described as a Compact personal printer and it definatley is. In my house it is networked (via a print server, while you can get the 2040N its double the price I paid) and has never had any issues with the high workload of 6 final year degree students using it as their main printing source. When printing text it is at its best but also does a good job on images of any sort, sadley as with all lasers an particularly dark images don't come out very well. (but atleast you don't get saturated paper, unlike inkjets) As it has a 96Mhz processor...

Jon_Farrimond 13.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 2040

Just Like My Brother

Advantages: Wireless Printing
Disadvantages: Expensive

...The Brother HL-4070CDW color laser printer is not cheap, but it does have a lot of extras and upgrades that warrants the price. Unlike previous models, this newer version will allow wireless connection, duplex print and postscript emulation. The input tray of this printer will hold 250 sheets of regular typing paper, while the multipurpose tray can hold up to 50. With the LCD display screen, you will be able to know what job your printer is in the middle of, and if there is an error, the lighted display will alert you. When the Brother HL-4070CDW color laser printer is on or in printing mode, a green light will appear. During the process of making a change, the screen will flash orange, and a red screen will let you know that something is wrong and an error has occurred because of it. A red light can also mean that the covers are not...

bennyong 28.11.2008 · Read review
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