Size and type options: The printer is a little fussy when it comes to certain paper types and sizes. It will accept standard, legal, letter, A4 and special sizes. However large quantities of any type or size will have to be manually fed for example envelopes. The paper tray is rather clever in that it will not allow you to load any thick media. Look for Brother HL 2040 cartridges.
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.
Control Panel: The Brother HL 2040 Printer control panel is very user-friendly and straightforward with three warning lights and one “Go’ button for starting, cancelling, waking and error clearing of print jobs. The drivers loaded onto your computer will be your primary control panel.
Print quality: This black laser printer produces a rather impressive twenty pages per minute at 2400×600 dpi with Brother HL 2040 printer toner cartridges, thus a flashy little worker with good quality laser printing for home. Text printing is good with font sizes set as low as four points still being easy to read with some jagged edging on diagonals as well as blemishing. Overall standards are very low. A great challenge achieved by the Brother HL 2040 Printer is the printing of closely spaced bold character still remaining separate. However photo and graphics quality is not good at all, to be honest just a cut above poor, with grained line art, obvious dithers, posterization and blow-out appearances with dark being overdone and highlights totally washed out. The printer also has two other great disadvantage in the form of a page curl tendency and askew printing on envelopes.
Guide: The user manual is well presented as installation and setup is explained extensively. Other same priced Brother printer options will have to be skipped as they are also contained in the guide. A user guide is also included on the printer software CD in PDF format.
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.
Toner: Brother HL 2040 Toner comes standard with a start-up 1500 page print capacity cartridge. Upon replacement you will pay approximately US Dollars 60.00 and for the printers drum assembly that needs replacement with every 12 000 pages for US Dollars 115.00. Brother HL 2040 Printer, Ideal Home Printer.
A Brother HL 2040 compatible toners is included. Brother cartridge has a 1500 page print capacity.