Brother HL-L2370DN Mono Laser Printer - Single Function, USB 2.0/Network, 2 Sided Printing, A4 Printer, Small Office/Home Office Printer, Dark Grey/Black

I strongly dislike printers.I don't mind spending money, I just mind spending it on a printer.Anyway, all's well that ended well. After 16 days of excel spreadsheets comparing and contrasting print costs against features, this was top of my list. It's a personal list - not a universal list. I'm not claiming this is the best printer ever.NOTE re the included toner!---The included toner provides enough for only 700 pages, NOT the 3000 pages quoted as its maximum capacity. Personally I think it's poor form that the product description on Amazon mentions 3,000 pages, but nowhere does it even mention that the "inbox supplies" (i.e. what's actually sold with the printer) only gives you 700.On the other hand, you still break even really quickly - see below.PRINTING COST CALCULATION:---Let's say you use Amazon to buy third party toner replacement (twin pack of 3,000 yield for £25), and a box of basic paper (5x500 reams of 80gsm for £18.99). Total cost per print: 0.42p + 0.76p = 1.18p per print.BREAK EVEN SUMMARY (compared with high street prints)---Compared with printing at Ryman, we have broken even after 10 months. (See calc below.) After breaking even, we will save £154 per year.This is based on 36 pages per month, which is the exact amount we have used since buying the printer. We are a small family of 3 who print a few exam past papers, single pages notices / return labels / concert tickets etc... We do NOT make routine prints for work, or large print jobs over 15 pages, and note that I personally avoid printing where possible.So if you have 2 or more kids, or you print for work etc., your break-even and ongoing costs should be more favourable than quoted here.BREAK EVEN CALCS:---This printer currently costs £131 and includes 700 pages. Ryman currently charges £0.37 for an individual page to be printed. For the printer+toner alone and printing at the quoted 5% coverage, it would take 354 prints to break even. Or 362 prints if you account for the cost of paper. According to the web interface of the printer, we have printed 400 pages in 11 months. My break-even is therefore at the 10 month point.ABOUT THE PRINTER---This one is made of shonky plastic, like everything is these days, but I like the design in general and the web interface is only marginally rubbish. Also it's not made by HP, so this product has definitely exceeded my expectations.I guess most people want a colour inkjet for home use. Or even a colour laser. Or one of those printers with a colour screen that shows you the photo on the USB stick that you are about to print. Or some oversized, [seemingly] under-priced thing with a scanner and FAX FUNCTION whose ink replacement costs make you question your life choices. I am definitely not any of the above people.I was in the market for the smallest black and white laser printer that would work on my home network, small so it could fit in this little cupboard on a shelf. Preferably with an ethernet interface and not wireless (did I mention, I hate wireless printing, and all the gimmicky consumer wireless printers that have been invented, which infuriate me and make me want to give up on life?)Although this wasn't quite as small as my previous printer (Samsung ML1860, sadly no longer available), it does have a network interface making it far more reliable.In fact, if you are still reading this, you are probably a bit of an IT geek like me, so you will understand I actually bought a network-based USB hub, which allows you to publish USB ports over ethernet, especially for my old small USB printer, so I could print from a virtual machine on my home server. Literally every non-IT person has clicked away from this review now, right? I have to tell you, that idea sounded far better than it turned out to be. I thought - wired printing through USB over ethernet is still more reliable than wireless printing. Alas, not so.Anyway, that's mostly irrelevant as this printer has wired ethernet. I no longer swear at the printer, and my wife has said a number of times how happy she is about how easy it is to print. By default I ignore comments like that (made by anyone I hasted to add, not just my wife, I'm not a sexist pig) but on this occasion I do happen to agree.This thing has Apple print or whatever it's called - Air Print - which means that after you whack it on your network, it magically appears if you go to print from your iPhone (which you didn't know you could do, because who does that? But you can.)I have high hopes for the lifetime of this printer. My last one went for about 12 years. Admittedly in the last 5 years of its life, you had to feed paper in manually one-by-one, if you attempted more (or heaven forbid, use the paper tray), it would jam and you'd need to remove a shelf to get this thing out, onto the table, to take it apart. I will not miss those days. Eventually it just stopped printing and the error light didn't relate to anything in the troubleshooting section of the manual, so I took that as a cue to thump it really hard in the manual feeder tray before finally succumbing to buying a new one.Highly recommend. And sorry for spending most of this review talking about my old printer. I think I may have some undiscovered trauma now so I'll call a therapist, thanks, bye.

I looked at reviews of inkjet printers, as mine recently failed (HP, again). I'd also used Epson (regrettably). I suppose you pay the price for low cost inkjet machines, high cost of ink and really low quality/reliability (for my budget and infrequent use).So I looked at laser, which have come down in price. I looked at others, but Brother looked good and at a very decent cost. Yes people say the replacement toner cartridge is expensive, but still has many benefits. Low cost per page, good for infrequent use (think how much ink used to clean the heads after a month or two in the cupboard) and decent quality. I needed something for graphics use. Well, I was VERY amazed today when this Bro' come to me!Firstly, the USB cable is not included, but I had a spare from the old printer. It is monochrome (Black/white only) as it is a budget machine and not WiFi enabled (no automatic wireless network built in).Hey, pay more = get more, so no complaints for me.So, I used the cable (see image), used the CD that came with the machine and wow, the setup was easy!In no time I was test printing. (See images printed from coloured PDF and Jpeg image).This was a bargain, easy to setup, worked first time and converted me forever to laser print!Enjoy! I will.

I have been using the printer for some time now and have had no issues with it. The print output is crisp & clear, also the duplex printing saves on paper.It also has a relatively small foot print

Love this printer. Plugged it into home WIFI router through Ethernet cable, and every iOS device in my household instantly recognised the printer through Airprint. Zero setup needed for iOS devices. However, as far as I know, Airprint only works if the printer is connected into a wifi router and not directly into a computer as the router broadcasts the Airprint signal. The printer itself has no WIFI. The printer also automatically showed up in the printer prefs on my mac and all I needed to do was to add it without installing any drivers.Print speed and quality is fantastic even on eco mode. Printed pages comes out cool and doesn't curl up unlike some other hot laser printers. Double sided printing at this price is also a bonus. It's great that the paper tray slides in under the printer which saves space and prevent dust from getting in.The only negative is the manual. It's awful. Looks like it was written by the engineers.Cannot say what the printer is like if it's plugged in directly through a computer, but as a network printer it's great in every way.