Brother HL-1270N Laser Printer

Rating:
Summary: Almost really satisfied
Review: I have been giving Brother products a try lately. They offer a number of features at a relatively affordable price. I purchased the HL 1270N because of the affordability of toner and drum, the USB port and its built-in network interface card. Installation went fairly smooth. I found myself at the Brother website downloading Windows 2000 drivers which is no big problem. My hope was to configure the printer as a server through its NIC on my network. After three aborted attempts I attached it to a client using the USB port and went back to work. I haven't had a chance to get back to Brother customer service to try to set it up properly. I have been almost satisfied with all of the Brother products that I have purchased recently. My dissatisfaction could stem from our choice of the Windows 2000 operating system, but Brother should fully support Windows 2000. If you are not using Windows 2000 you stand a good chance of being a satisfied customer.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent feature set, not very robust
Review: This printer has the best feature set of any sub-$500 laser printer. It comes standard with 4 Mb RAM and PostScript 2 emulation, 1200x600 dpi resolution (not interpolated), USB and Parallel ports, and a built-in 10/100base-T network card that supports AppleTalk. To get these features on an HP printer you would have to spend twice as much.

But with an HP printer you would get a much more reliable and robust design. When we put one of these printers into service it printed one page then had a hardware failure. Brother sent a replacement within 2 days, which worked fine. Then we had a catastrophic paper jam which required a service call.

All-in-all, I would recommend this printer to anyone who is savvy enough to know that they need the features, since they would also be savvy enough to deal with any problems that might come up.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent feature set, not very robust
Review: This printer has the best feature set of any sub-$500 laser printer. It comes standard with 4 Mb RAM and PostScript 2 emulation, 1200x600 dpi resolution (not interpolated), USB and Parallel ports, and a built-in 10/100base-T network card that supports AppleTalk. To get these features on an HP printer you would have to spend twice as much.

But with an HP printer you would get a much more reliable and robust design. When we put one of these printers into service it printed one page then had a hardware failure. Brother sent a replacement within 2 days, which worked fine. Then we had a catastrophic paper jam which required a service call.

All-in-all, I would recommend this printer to anyone who is savvy enough to know that they need the features, since they would also be savvy enough to deal with any problems that might come up.