Printer Deal?

[robpay]

Amazon has the Brother 1650 laser printer, with built in duplexer for 368.94.

If you use the Amazon code for $20 off in electronics you get it down to 348.94 with free shipping.

Not bad if these Brother printers live up to the hype.

Good luck though, I haven't been able to get Amazon to work too well -- they must be getting spammed today.

 

[bonk102]

i'd rather go with the $70 laser printer deal from last week, but thanks

 

[Pyramor]

May have to retire my E600. Might just be the ticket.

 

[icantiwont]

First of all, yes the Brother laser printers lives up to the hype. In June, 2001 I purchase the HL-1250.
They (the stores) were pushing the HL-1240. The HL-1250 is upgradeable (RAM) and the HL-1240 is not.
In any event, I guess you can say I'm a high volume user. I used the printer for my thesis and it worked
flawlessly. After about 2,000 pages I had some spotting going on. I thought I had to take it in for service.
When I called in they simply said clean off then drum with a Q-tip. That did the trick! Don't get sucked in
by HP. Yes, they make good printers, but why pay more when you can get the same quality with Brother?

 

[Steltek]

Make sure wherever you buy it you get free shipping -- otherwise, it'll run up the price..... these things are fairly hefty.

I bought one several weeks ago through Dell (during the last stackable 10% off/free shipping/$25 off coupon extravaganza) and am very satisfied with it -- the output looks really great.

I originally was going to get the 1450, but finally decided to pay the extra $$$ for the 1650 to get the duplexer (came to the conclusion I had better things to do with my time than to continue to impersonate a duplex module).

I don't like the Brother duplexer as much as the one on the Lexmarks we have at work (with totally internal duplexing, whereas the Brother has to run out the paper into the upper tray, then pulls it back down into the printer to duplex), but you get what you pay form ---- those are pretty expensive network lasers. The Brother unit does get the job done, though.

One thing - the standard 8mb memory provided is pretty lame, especially for printing anything halfway complex at higher resolutions.

The easiest way to cure that is to use the 15% off forum link to Crucial to pick up a 100 pin DIMM upgrade module. I added the 128mb module (why skimp, considering that they are so cheap now), but the 64 (or even 32) mb modules would probably have sufficed for most uses.

 

[VH2000]

I almost bought this one or the 1440 the other day from Amazon.
Only problem now is that the $20 off coupons are no good any longer!

We'll have to wait on this!

 

[SLEEPER5555]

besides a duplexer what more des this have than the 1440?
What is a duplexer?

 

[VH2000]

<< besides a duplexer what more des this have than the 1440?
What is a duplexer? >>



A duplexer means that it can print on both sides of the paper without
taking the paper out and flipping it after it prints one side.
A duplexer will do it all in one step. Pretty slick if you plan to do alot of duplex printing!

 

[RossMAN]

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<< besides a duplexer what more des this have than the 1440?
What is a duplexer? >>



A duplexer means that it can print on both sides of the paper without
taking the paper out and flipping it after it prints one side.
A duplexer will do it all in one step. Pretty slick if you plan to do alot of duplex printing! >>



SLEEPER5555 - He's right, if you don't need a duplexer then definitely get the Brother HL-1440. I own the previous model, the HL-1240 and it's worked flawlessly for over 2 years now.

 

[VH2000]

RossMAN - Yeah, I did pickup a new Brother MFC-8500 MultiFunction Laser and I think it's pretty much a 1440 with a fax/scanner/copier
thrown onto the top of it (built-in of course!). But, the thing is very quiet and works great! So, I imagine the regular laser printer
performs the same way. I would definately buy the 1440 and almost did!!