Product Description

Ideal for home or home office printer sharing, the HL-2070N is an affordable monochrome laser printer. Offering the same footprint, print speed and paper capacity as the HL-2040, the HL-2070N also features a built-in Ethernet network interface that enables it to easily connect to your wired or wireless router.

Product Details

• Color: GRAY
• Brand: Brother
• Model: HL-2070n
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 14.20" h x 17.90" w x 18.70" l, .0 pounds

Features

• 2,400 x 600 dpi resolution with laser print quality
• Up to 20 ppm black, first page out in under 10 seconds
• 250-sheet input capacity; supports a variety of sizes and envelopes
• Simple setup and operation; 16 MB standard memory
• Parallel, USB 2.0, and Ethernet interfaces; PC, Mac, and Linux compatible

From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer The HL-2070N laser printer is ideal for users who need to share a printer. Offering the same footprint, print speed, and paper capacity as the HL-2040, the HL-2070N also includes a number of additional features. These include 16MB of standard memory, PCL6 emulation, and a built-in Ethernet network interface. It comes with Web-based printer management capability, as well as other network management tools to make setting up and using your printer on your wired or wireless home network fast and easy. These features make the HL-2070N ideal for home or home office printer sharing.

Convenient manual-feed slot

Printers that deliver outstanding print quality
The HL-2070N is ideal for anyone who needs to produce high-quality output. With HQ1200 print resolution (up to 2,400 x 600 dpi), these printers can deliver the crisp text and graphics to produce professional looking letters, reports, spreadsheets, and other important documents. The HL-2070N will ensure that your work always looks its best.

Paper handling flexibility
The HL-2070N can handle a wide variety of media. It features 250-sheet paper capacity and a single-sheet manual feed slot. The manual feed slot accommodates letterhead, envelopes, or other media up to 43 lbs.

Toner Save Mode
To help you save money and toner when printing a variety of text-based documents, the HL-2070N allow you to choose a Toner Save Mode. Most text-only documents can be printed using Toner Save Mode with minimal impact to print quality. For documents that include graphics or a combination of text and graphics, the printer's default mode (Toner Save Mode "off") is recommended for the best quality output.

Access powerful features via easy-to-use driver software.

Advanced features that go beyond your expectations
The HL-2070N printers offer many advanced features that will exceed your expectations and reaffirm their value. These include:

• Watermark Printing
• Poster Printing
• Booklet Printing
• N-Up Printing
• Toner Save Mode
• Manual Duplex

Extensive user support
The HL-2070N printers feature a variety of innovative and useful support tools. A user-friendly driver installation routine auto-detects your operating system as well as any installed options. Animated tutorials answer common maintenance and support questions. This highly visual system provides direct, step-by-step help. For added support, the Brother Solution Center (http://solutions.brother.com) is an online repository of information, driver downloads, user manuals and FAQs to help you get the most out of your printer.

Service and support are part of the package
Your technology investment is backed by our dedication to comprehensive service and support. We provide toll-free technical support, a one-year limited warranty, and the online Brother Solutions Center, all backed by our nationwide network of authorized customer-care centers.

Extensive compatibility
The HL-2070N is Windows and Mac compatible and come with a complete set of drivers for both platforms. The printer also offers USB 2.0 full speed and parallel interfaces for greater flexibility (cables not included).

What's in the Box
Printer, drum unit and toner cartridge assembly, quick setup guide, CD-ROM, AC power cord; USB, Ethernet, and parallel cables not included

Customer Reviews

You'll never go back to inkjet after using this - Easy setup (Mac or PC), speedy, good quality, compact, and networkable
I was a little worried about the paper curling issue at first, but having used this printer for a while, it is not as bad as some people make it out to be. Yes, the paper is curled slightly when it first comes out, but if you set it aside on a flat surface and let it cool for a few seconds, the paper will flatten out by itself. I have seen other laser printers that do far worse curling.

Network setup is very easy, especially if you're using Mac OS X Tiger or Panther. I was able to connect both with Bonjour/Rendezvous wirelessly via Linksys 802.11g router after installing drivers downloaded off Brother's website. Also was able to connect a PC running Win XP, which required an extra step or two. After you're connected, if you need to change any default printer settings, it's all done through a web interface (both FireFox and Safari worked fine).

Overall print quality is noticeably better than any inkjet and as good, if not better than similar laser printers in this class. Even graphic printouts were much better than I had expected and is perfectly fine for non-photo quality jobs. There are settings for 300/600/1200 dpi, a toner saver feature, power saver timeout, print density, and paper type selector (someone mentioned that selecting "thin" paper type causes less curling). Various other advanced printer and networking settings, and emulation modes exist also.

Print speed is very good. It takes about 10 seconds from the time I click the Print button to when 1 page in 600dpi with a fair amount of of text is printed out, even having just awakened from sleep mode. No problems printing out MS Word, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat documents.

I've printed a couple hundred pages so far, and have not experienced any printer errors or paper jams. (The printer also keeps a tally on the number of jams and an error history of the last 10 errors.)

Firmware version on mine is 1.11.

Overall, I would highly recommend this printer for anyone looking to save money on inkjet cartridges and want a very good quality, speedy, easy-to-setup, compact, networkable B&W laser printer for their home or home office.

This printer's web page
This printer doesn't have the 'built-like-a-tank" feel or weight of my old Laserwriter IIg, but it's far quicker and less troublesome. If you want to do black-and-white printing on a budget, I highly recommend it. I use it to print book drafts and even the 8-point type in footnotes is sharp and clear. The driver installed quickly and worked without a hitch on my Mac mini and MacBook.

Installed to run over an Ethernet network, this printer has a rudimentary web page server that allows you to use your web browser to configure some of its features remotely, including the print resolution and a toner save mode. You can also see how many pages you've used on the toner and drum, so you have an idea when each needs replacing. The web page configuration information is buried in the Network User's Guide, so I'll post it here. (Voting this review helpful will keep in near the top and help others to see this posting.)

The web address is: http://brn-8c4310.local/printer/main.html

That'll give you the printer's home page. To change the configuration, you'll need this information:

The default account is: admin

And the default password is: access

Michael W. Perry, author of Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of the Rings

Great Printer For The Whole House
This is a great way to let all the computers in your house share one printer. In my house I have 5... my PC, my wife's PC, a laptop each, and a low-end DIY box I use for playing with Linux.

The installation of this printer was really easy. I plugged it into one of the wired ports on our wireless router and had all the PCs in the house printing to it within 10 minutes. I not only got our Windows machines using it in minutes, when I recently did a test install of Linspire on my DIY box, Linux printed to it with no problem too.

The output quality is great and it warms up pretty quickly. The only "bad" part is when I'm at my desk upstairs (where the printer is), my wife is downstairs with her laptop, and she prints something. Having the printer start up and print without warning was sort of spooky and took a little getting used to.

But all in all, this is awesome. One printer serves the whole house, gives great-looking output, and was a snap to get working.