Brother HL 2040 – Keep Your Wallet Heavy

Super compact: The Brother HL 2040 Printer good value for money while being small and cute weighing in at 14.3 pounds and measuring at 6.5 x 14.6 x 14.2 inches and 250 page drawer. The design is a little conventional, so don’t expect it to win the prize for looks but in terms of space saving it is definitely top on the list with the size of an inkjet printer. This laser is perfect for everyday use and text printing. Also check out HL 2040 printer cartridge.

Easy Controls: The Brother HL 2040 Printers’ controls on the build in panel is exceptionally easy and straightforward. Three LED lights indicate warnings and a single buttons controls print start, cancel, error clearing restarts and waking from sleep mode. Primary control will be done from you computer via software drivers included with printer software.

User-friendly Panel: The Brother HL 2040 Printer control panel easy to understand with only a couple of warning light- three to be exactly and only one button to start printing under various conditions such as waking, error clearing, general start-up and cancelling. Your computer will be the main printer control as the software provides for handling different operation situations from you computer instead of the printer itself.

Text and Photo print quality: Print quality in general is okay while boasting with twenty pages per minute at 2400×600 dpi printing with Brother printer toner cartridge. Laziness is definitely not something we can find the printer guilty of. Graphics and photo printing is near disastrous with graininess, dithering, posterization and blow-out appearances. Text print quality is rather good, a little above standard with a couple of flaws in terms of askew envelope printing, jagged edging on small characters and blemishing. However the printer performs the almost impossible task perfectly by printing closely spaced bold characters still separated. Another rather time consuming and irritating disadvantage to the printer is paper curling and folding.

Well-illustrated manual: The user manual is well illustrated and instructions clear on setting up the printer. However the manuals’ overall look is colourless and boring. Same priced printers’ instructions are included in the booklet, so you will have to skip anything not applicable to your printer, making it a little confusing. The manual is available on the software CD-ROM in PDF format as well.

Forget upgrades: If you love adding and upgrading your printers avoid this one, as no accessories are available. You will have to be satisfied with what you see and get. If double printing be required or print quantity increase you will have to borrow the neighbours’ printer as you will not be able to add another tray. If you foresee any such event rather buy another model printer.

Ports: The printer is chop-chop connected to your computer via USB or Parallel ports. Ethernet as well as wireless are unfortunately not available with this model or as upgrade.

A Brother HL 2040 toner is included. Brother HL 2040 toner has a 1500 page print capacity. For more information, check out our site http://www.qtoner.us.

Brother HL 2040 – Keep Your Wallet Heavy

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