Brother HL-2130 Toner Reveiw

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Mono laser printers kick off at less than £100 and the entry-level model in Brother’s collection is the HL-2130, which may be acquired for only a little more than £80. For this, you receive a rudimentary, yet highly functional personal laser for the home or small office.

It’s actually a very discreet little printing device, in a light grey shell. Basically cuboid, it has got large radius vertical corners front and back, that lend it a current day, if slightly busy look. The top surface has got a substantially indented output tray, including fold-out paper stop at the front and also a secondary flip-over tab further back, the sole obvious function of which is to raise the output paper load for easier handling.

Left of the output tray is a basic control panel, made up of four LEDs for toner, drum and also other errors, a Ready light as well as a button marked Go, the key purpose of which seems to be printing a demo page.

The main paper tray can take anywhere up to 250 sheets, which is actually a healthy provision in a small model such as this, however, there is at the same time a single-sheet feed slot for the purpose of special media just above, where you may feed envelopes as well as odd paper sizes. At the back is a sole USB socket, the only data connection on the printer.

There isn’t a lot of software available with the HL-2130, however Graphics Device Interface (GDI) drivers are supplied for Windows plus OS X. Though there continues to be no Linux drivers on the given CD, there is as a minimum an option within the setup menu that will take you straight to Brother’s support pages, where you can download the correct driver.

Brother rates the HL-2130 at up to 20ppm which is not far off the mark. A lot of this very good performance is caused by the fairly brief time it takes the model to start printing. There’s hardly any pre-processing so complete print times, even on short files, are surprisingly swift.

The prints which come from the system are well formed as well as densely black. Its standard resolution of 600dpi is more than enough to result in properly rounded characters, totally suitable for business and also home or student documents. Toner save mode doesn’t reduce the print quality substantially, hence for day-to-day printing you may save money by applying it as the default.

The machine is not so content with greyscales, unfortunately, generating blotchy and banded elements of fill and also finding it tough to discriminate between lighter and darker mid-tones. Even when ramping the resolution to the printer’s uppermost 2,400 x 600dpi for the picture print, these matters are still observable in points of uniform tone, such as in skies.

Brother uses a two-part drum and toner cartridge, where the drum may last for about 12,000 pages, and the toner cartridge needs replacing every 1,000 pages.

Compared with quite similarly priced models this Brother appliance appears rather costly to run.

This is a nicely conceived, entry-level mono laser printer for use in a small or home office. It is quick as well as quiet and creates quality print, though it’s not the cheapest of its peers to operate. Just as much at home coupled to a Windows, OS X or Linux device, it largely does what it says on the box and at a pretty reasonable price.

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