Brother HL-L2300D Monochrome Laser Printer with Duplex Printing

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Bought this to save money on ink and pleasantly surprised at how fast it is from warmup to printing. Also prints fast. I have a Canon MP480 which has good color reproduction but is not great on text... could be because it is a photo printer. The Brother ,as some say, does not do as well with pictures but it is not terrible and is expected from a laser printer meant for sharp text. Yes, unfortunately, my lamp and ceiling light flickers briefly before each print job but I use it mostly during the day when they are not in use. It also is very compact and easy to setup. I thought about the stepup wireless laser but too many reviews about it losing connectivity... could be the user but there are lots of complaints so I avoided it altogether. I could not be happier. I actually enjoy printing if that makes sense. Like others I realized that I dont need color much and was wasting money but I still have my Canon if I need a picture printed. This really makes you feel great about giving out a professional looking hardcopy. Thanks Brother for such an affordable gem and to all the positive reviews. I have attached a comparison picture of prints from both printers and the actual website they were printed from... You be the judge! My Canon missed a number of things but the print out from the Brother printer matches EVERYTHING as exactly as it is on the website and text is super sharp and not too thick or thin... just perfect. I did expect text to be better but this was better than I thought because of the great price. A keeper for me.

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I bought this to do foiling with, and it works great! Because a lot of people were saying that laser printers cant handle card stock, at first I was worried that my really thick card stock (120 lb. card stock/~236gsm) wouldnt go through. However, it works perfectly! I just use the single-sheet manual bypass and it goes through without a problem. I had to adjust the settings a little bit to get the toner to lay on densely to get the foil to stick properly to it. I set it to 600 DPI, Print density: 6, and set it to print Text instead of Graphics.

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The duplex ability has quit working and now I am having to deal with the manufacturer. I bought it in January and has worked pretty well until 09/22/2016. I wish it would have lasted a little longer. Ive been on hold with brother for 22 minutes and all they want to do is a computer trouble shoot. The problem with the printer is obvious because you see how the mechanism of the wheels on top not being able to pull the page back in for the duplex feature. They will not honor warranty and amazon will not help either. Do not buy because neither company will help even with the one year warranty still active.

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After a couple of weeks of very light usage the unit overheats and will no longer print. All the lights flash on the front of the unit. Didnt even get a chance to replace the starter toner cartridge. The last few print jobs before failure totaled 23 pages. Other than the inordinately short life span (14 days) the unit is rather quiet in operation. Perhaps as its holding in all that heat. But, this is my last Brother printer purchase forever. I have used Brother printers in the past and they performed well (except on now discontinued models for printing pdfs from networked machines). Our two Brother laser fax machines have been fantastic and still working after 5+ years of reliable service.

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I have now owned 2 of these. The first died a few days after the warranty, I ordered a second one and picked up the extended warranty. Now let me tell you why this printer has now been smashed and is in a garbage can instead of being returned for warranty repair. Both printers did the exact same thing. 1 at 1 year and a month or so, and the second within the first month. toner everywhere, mainly consisting of thick vertical lines... I removed the toner, cleaned the transfer drum, and it would be back on the next print.. When using duplex printing, the problems are 10x worse, so maybe it isnt fusing correctly, either way, i decided the chance that me sending it in and someone else ending up with this pos printer as a refurb were high enough for me to justify just destroying it and tossing it.

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totally didnt do my research and thought this was wireless. It is not! I still really like it though. I can print a ton of stuff and not have to worry about ink. Of course its just black and white but it does what I want it for. I love love love the double sided printing! So useful. If you need a printer to just print random things that you may need, this is it!

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Arrived fast and no shipping damage packed well. Arrives in the manufacturers box. I am computer literate so setup was a breeze. This DOES NOT come with a USB cable so keep that in mind. It uses a standard printer USB cable. Includes a CD with drivers for windows and Mac OS. I am using this with Linux Mint and printer driver installation is straight forward and linux driver is available on Brother website as a .deb package. Comes with a starter toner that just snaps in the front follow the instructions on the included setup fold out. Print quality is sharp and a huge improvement over my inkjet printer. Large adjustable slide out paper tray holds plenty of paper. Prints really fast if your use to waiting on inkjet pages. I use this for my ebay business so i print high volume mailers, instruction sheets and nice sharp postage labels for shipping. I use the two panel label sheets for paypal postage and they work just fine through all the rollers inside. Overall I highly recommend this if your looking for your first cheap laser printer. Will be very economical for small business with high volume print needs.

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I bought this to replace a very old Brother HL-series printer and its been absolutely flawless. This unit was less expensive than replacing the consumables in the old one (it was good otherwise, if a little dirty), so it was an easy choice. Its just for printing occasional home documents (under 200 pages a month) so I dont expect workgroup performance out of it. The docs are sharp, clean, and straight. Im printing from Linux, Mac and Windows machines using my router as a print server, since it lacks network connectivity of its own (which is fine for the price). I havent had any issues with print connectivity, and its only jammed once (it only thought it was jammed, so I just had to open all the doors and close them again). The only thing not fine for the price is the incredibly low RAM -- youll never hit the rated page speed when printing graphics-heavy documents. I didnt take a star off, since I realize this is the base unit, but its also 2017. RAM is so cheap that another 8 or 24Mb (yes its megabytes) would have been a trivial change (if any) to the wholesale cost of the unit and done wonders for speed on even moderately complex documents. The real test will be printing Christmas card envelopes with the manual feed this coming holiday season. Take note from other reviews, make sure you activate the Toner Continue function, since the printer calculates available toner based on pages printed and will stop at a predefined limit if the option is not set ahead of time.

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Do you find yourself having to allocate an extra thirty minutes to an hour to a project when you realize that you have to print it? Do you find yourself having to buy ink thats more expensive than your printer EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU NEED TO PRINT SOMETHING? Does the idea of printing stress you out? Have you found yourself searching solutions to an error code that your printer is displaying, only to find YouTube videos of people throwing said printer out of a three story window because there isnt a fix (I actually had this happen when my old Epson errored out!)? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, buy this printer. Seriously. My relationship with printers has changed because of this baby. I didnt know that a home printer could be good before I bought my Brother. Im someone that only prints once in a blue moon. When I do print, its usually between 5 and 10 pages. With my old printers (I went through five in college undergrad trying to find something that didnt make me want to die), I was having to buy new ink every time a professor insisted on having a paper printed instead of emailed because the ink would dry out between uses. I was having to prepare back-up plans for what I was going to do when my printer inevitably didnt print. I was budgeting in the twenty cents per page that my college library charged to print in B&W and the $1 per page for color. Then the thirty minutes to find a parking spot, twenty minutes to wait in line for a computer, time for THAT printer not to work, etc etc. It was hell. I wish I had this during undergrad. Heres the most glowing thing I can say about this printer. No matter the circumstance, I press print and what I need printed prints. It just works. It doesnt sass me. It doesnt error out. It doesnt say that the toner has run out. Ive had this printer for almost a year now and NOTHING has gone wrong, not even installation. It just sits next to my home computer, loyal as can be, ever ready to do what it needs to do. It wont let you down.

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Such a happy day! I dumped my Epson inkjet into the garbage. The nozzles were constantly plugging up and used a ton of ink for cleaning. Didnt realize I could get a laser printer so cheap. Flawless setup, started printing immediately with the cartridge that came with it. I usually get my inkjet cartridges filled by Cartridge World, and they are the ones that recommended getting a Brother laser for dependability and cost of toner. Extremely Happy with this purchase!! Also, its small and feels heavy...seriously well- built little printer.

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