Brother HL-L2300D Monochrome Laser Printer with Duplex Printing

This is basically factory-crippled garbage. The toner "page count" is a hard stop, meaning the printer will stop working when Brother wants to extort you into buying a new cartridge, even if, as in my case, there is no sign of lightening, streaking, or any other indication that toner is even low, much less out. Several other posters have said that you can reset the page count with a complex series of button pushes. It is ridiculous that you should have to go through this, and the advice is conflicting, but the following worked for me. In any event, I will NEVER buy Brother again. How to reset toner count (it tells you its empty well before it is.): --Open front cover. leave it open. --Turn printer off. --Hold go button while turning printer on. --After 3 seconds of printer being back on, release both buttons. --Press Go button 9 times. -Yellow LEDs will lite up. --Press go button 5 times. --Close the cover. Toner is now reset.

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I printed approximately 500 pages total. Then one day, about 1 hour later after printing 30 pages, the printer caught on fire. Update July 2017: I contacted Brother because this printer was 1 month outside the Amazon warranty. Brother at first refused, and inferred I may be lying, stating there is no way the printer could have caught fire in the way that it did. I had the printer placed alone on a wood shelf with nothing around it, and the power cord plugged into an outlet few feet away. I printed about 30 pages in a row, picked up the paper and immediately left. When I returned a few hours later there was a strong smell of electronics fire, and the printer was as pictured (not on fire, but still warm). There is some light evidence of flames on the bottom of the shelf above, but no other evidence of fire anywhere around. The printer shows signs of the fire starting internally. This printer certainly did catch on fire. After fighting with Brother for a few weeks they finally offered to replace it with a refurbished model, never admitting any fault. I realize this isnt a common issue with these printers or Im sure we would see more reports. I dont rule out that this was a freak accident and unlikely to happen again. Im just sharing my experience with this product.

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Brother is still playing their stupid game with toner. I get a hundred pages out of their "starter" toner cartridge, and then the printer will not let me print anymore. IT decided my toner was low and needs replacing (based on page count?). That it is printing just fine for my purposes, is irrelevant. That I dont mind having less than 100% toner density is irrelevant. It physically stops the printer from functioning until I go out and buy another toner cartridge. Or until I go back on line and google the reset sequences to fake it into thinking it has a new cartridge. My customer is standing here and I cant hand him a !_&&%$@!$ receipt! This is almost criminal. Its my printer, I bought it, and if I want to print until the letters are barely visible, thats my business. At the point mine locked up and refused to print, the print quality was visually indistinguishable from when it started.

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Have had NOTHING BUT TROUBLE with this printer since purchase. Have purchased two drums because I was told that may be the problem as to why its putting lines across every other page. As a court reporter, my transcript pages must be pristine, with no lines or blemishes. Im now investing in a laser printer about three times the price of this one and hope thatll do the trick......at least it will hold twice as much paper as the tray with this printer holds and will print 21 more pages per minute than this one. Im very disappointed and feel I wasted my money. Will now send to be recycled.

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FIRE HAZARD-DO NOT BUY IF YOU LIVE IN AN OLD HOUSE.As several other customers have noted, the printer is loud and hot and in my case, caused the lamp sitting about two feet away to flicker whenever I printed something. I live in an old house from the 50s and I think our electrical outlets are not designed for a device that uses this much power. The other awful thing about this printer is that the on/off switch never worked--right out of the box. It was pain in the butt to add paper because the paper trays are right on top of each other at the bottom f the device. I always pulled out the wrong tray. After six months, it died altogether and I got an HP Officejet 3830 which is quiet, doesnt pull much power and has a working on/off button.

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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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