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Summary: Best Deal Out There
Comment: After research on cost per copy, speed per copy, etc., Brother was the best deal by far. So far it cost me around one cent per copy using the high yield cartridge. I've had no problems with jams or smears. Plus, I love the duplex capabilities. You can't do better for a black and white laser printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Printer
Comment: My printer purchase was great; it shipped fast and works fast! I'm happy to recommend this product and this seller.
Customer Rating:
Summary: great product
Comment: This is actually my second one that I bought for work (I'm a teacher and the workroom printer was atrocious).
It works great and I LOVE the duplex (double-sided) printing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent value for the money
Comment: I purchased an HL 5250DN over a year ago for home use mainly because other buyers had mentioned that the support for Macintosh was good. (We have Mac's at home) Then later on, at work (I'm the network admin) two of our aging Panasonic copier/printers starting to breath their last. They had been getting increasingly expensive to maintain for a long time.
We had the local Panasonic rep out to quote us some new machines, but the prices were really high and gave us pause. Based on my experience at home - the wife is a doctoral candidate and has lots of printing to do all the time- I recommended trying the Brother printer. It was less than a third of the cost we were being quoted, but was rated for the same 20,000 pages per month duty cycle. If it didn't work out, it was a cheap experiment. If it did, we were money ahead. And in the current economic environment that's a BIG consideration.
Well, I can report that after 13 months on the job everybody -especially the chief bean counter- loves the Brother HL5250DN. The duplex works great. Printing does curl envelopes a little, but if you are using LASER envelopes -as you should with this kind of printer- the curl is not that bad. The total cost of ownership is low, and when we bought it, these things were going for $250. In our office the printer usually does about 6 - 7 thousand pages per month, so it's nowhere near running at capacity. We ended up buying an MFC6880 refurbished multifunction network ready unit (has the same printer) based on the experience with this machine. It's also going great guns after 8 months on the job, and is a first rate copier/fax/printer/scanner.
A note about the drum yield: With a Brother brand (OEM) drum -rated for 25,000 pages- we actually got about 39,000 pages before we needed to replace it. The Brother brand toner carts, rated for 3,500 or 7,000 pages, will give that many and a little more IF you use the "toner save mode". We have tried refurb/refill drums and toner carts, but were disappointed. The remanufactured drums only lasted about as long as one high capacity toner cart before they started streaking the pages, and the refill toner carts didn't work out very well either, dumping excess toner on pages after just a couple of thousand impressions. Switching back to new OEM products solved both problems instantly.
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Summary: Yet another winner
Comment: This is the second Brother printer that I've owned. The other is a few years old, an HL-5170DN with much the same featureset.
I haven't put the HL-5250DN through all that much, but I have been printing like crazy. I'm required to read a lot of technical papers, and they're much easier to read on paper than screen. I've printed hundreds of pages, almost all duplexed, and *one* has come out wrong, and that's because I tried to print a PDF inside a browser using the browser's print dialog rather than the Acrobat plugin's print dialog. Excluding that one mistake on my part, everything has come out quickly and perfectly.
For anyone wanting a printer, I highly suggest going with a Brother laser printer. They're nicely priced (especially if you can find one refurbished) and very reliable.
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