Written by Space saving: The Brother HL 2040 Printer is a great little space saver although bit boxy in looks it is very compact measuring at a mere 6.5 x 14.6 x 14.2 inches and 14.3 pounds, still boasting with a two hundred and fifty sheet paper tray. A monochrome bargain laser for mainly text printing jobs. Just as light and easy to move as an ink jet taking up even less space. Also look for Brother HL 2040 toner.
Paper options: A variety of paper options are compatible with the printer including standard, legal, letter, A4 and special sizes. Some paper types will have to be hand fed, one at a time if larger sized media such as envelopes or legal. You will immediately know if the media is too thick as the main drawer will not allow you to load it or closing.
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 toner. 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.
No upgrading: Unfortunately, the printer does not come with optional extra’s to invest in. What you see is what you get. If you want to print more than 250 pages or do double printing rather opt for another model as trays are not sold separately.
Port options: The printer comes standard with Parallel and USB ports and no upgrading options to wireless or Ethernet.
Ports available: You will have to settle for the quite old fashioned port options of Parallel and USB and keep in mind that you cannot upgrade to wireless or Ethernet.
HL 2040 cartridge has the best capacity and quality. You can’t beat the preciseness of Brother printer toner cartridge.