Review on Laser printer Brother HL-L2340DWR by Wiktor Ambroziak ᠌

Name: Laser printer Brother HL-L2340DWR
Item: Laser printer Brother HL-L2340DWR
Rating: 4

May 13, 2023

A good balance of price/quality, recommend it.

I will not draw conclusions about the advisability of the acquisition. Everyone decides for himself. If you need wireless printing, then it's easier to purchase a Deshman router with wi-fi and connect the printer to it via USB. Overpaying for a wireless connection in the printer itself by almost 2 thousand is not worth it. Doubtful "savings" when purchasing fresh models of Brothers due to the high cost of cartridges and a separate photoconductor unit. Although not chipped and self-refueling is possible, but .

Pros

Excellent speed and print quality. Turns on quickly. 32 mega RAM contribute to this. Double-sided printing allows you to save paper and not suffer from shifting the leaves (and guess which side and orientation you put). A huge plus is the closed paper tray. Put a couple of hundred sheets and forgot. Dust will not get inside. This is especially true for those who type infrequently. And in general it is more convenient and more aesthetically pleasing than when "everything is out." The printer is not noisy! There is also a low noise mode, but I have not tried it yet.

Cons

Firstly, I was unpleasantly surprised by the high cost of cartridges. The cheapest standard capacity costs 2200. For a double-sided i-sensys installed at work, a cartridge (new) costs 1250. Those. the price difference is more than 2 times! Even a non-original cartridge for Brother is more expensive. At the same time, the photodrum in the Brother is installed as a separate unit. Its declared resource is 12 thousand copies, which is doubtful. If we take into account 10 years of experience in refilling cartridges, we can say that 5-6 refills (maximum 7-8), and then the photoconductor in the cartridge needs to be changed, because. streaks in printing are unavoidable. And this is where imaginary savings come up. If Canon and others have a photoconductor in a cartridge (when buying a cartridge, we get a new photoconductor), then you will have to buy it separately from Brother. And it costs 3 pieces. Question - how often do you have to buy a photoconductor for a brother? 6-7 refills of a high-capacity cartridge and you need to buy a new photoconductor. That. a separate version of the photoconductor and the expensive toner cartridges for the new Brazer models make the purchase not optimal. Unfortunately, I did not see that the cost of new cartridges would be higher than the cost of previous models. The ability to self-refuel and the lack of chips eclipsed the rest of the criteria . Consider this. Secondly, I could not connect the Brother via Wi-Fi. The unintelligible instructions that came with the printer did not say anything at all. The supplied CD is unreadable at all (tested on 4 computers). I had to download everything from the site. The interactive instructions on the manufacturer's website did not help either. The printer was either connected or not. At the same time, the printer automatically printed a sheet or several sheets of reports each time. Used about 30 sheets of paper. Once I still printed it through a wafer, but the next day the tasks sent to print remained hanging and were not printed. I had to buy a cable (which is not included) and print via USB.