Brand New Brother HL-2140 Laser Printer, $50 @Bestbuy

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Sales Ended as of now :(

I gave this exact printer model to my girlfriend as gift for her work years ago, brought it at egg for $110. She loves it.

Saw this deal today, brought one for myself just now... Don't miss this chance, its a steal for a laser printer of very good quality.

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use bing.com cashback and you'll save even more

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I know I really want the wireless version so bad.

Few friends and me own the 2140 and it is the best budget laser printer there is.
 
What is good about the wireless? Don't most of us have ethernet at the same spots we have electricity? Or is there more to wireless that is good?
 
[H]'er;1034953378 said:
What is good about the wireless? Don't most of us have ethernet at the same spots we have electricity? Or is there more to wireless that is good?
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Well the 2140 doesn't have lan nor wireless but the 2170 has both.

Although I use desktop most of my family has converted to laptop. Having a network printer makes life easier. Though I hate having my family come in and out of my room all the time. So with a wireless printer I can set it up in another room without being bother 24x7.
 
DTN107 said:
Well the 2140 doesn't have lan nor wireless but the 2170 has both.

Although I use desktop most of my family has converted to laptop. Having a network printer makes life easier. Though I hate having my family come in and out of my room all the time. So with a wireless printer I can set it up in another room without being bother 24x7.
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I'm sure a networked printer is great, but a wireless printer is kinda silly to me I guess...IF you already have a wireless network. If you have NO wireless network then it might be awesome I guess.

It's like having a wireless refrigerator, never move it, needs additional power, ugly to look at. :)
 
lol. Ah I think I should clear it up. The wireless ability of the 2170 isn't a direct wireless to computers. It connects to your wireless network and from there any computers on your network can print to it.

So in my case I have the router in my room and I live with a quite a large family. But it would be annoying for them to constantly barge in to pick up their prints. If I had the 2170 I would set the printer downstairs in the guest room or kitchen and everyone can pick up their printouts from there.
 
I just wanted to put in a good word for this deal. I have a Brother HL-2070N laser that I bought like 3 years ago (via a hot deal posting here if I recall correctly), and it's been fantastic. Great quality, Great Price, Great Dependability. Even the toner carts are cheap by comparison to others like HP. Can't say enough good things about Brother. If you can live without color, then this is the printer you need for your house. No more worries about the kids eating up expensive color ink rapidly, or worry about ink drying out if you don't use it frequently enough.

Ok, enough fanboy-ism. Go buy it! LOL
 
If you're all concerned about networking the printer, just connect it to your main desktop in the office or family room or wherever and share it through Windows. Then it should be available as a discoverable printer (you'll have to have network discovery on for your home network) or you can type in the \\COMPNAME\PrinterName in the address bar of the "Find Network Printer" wizard or whatever.

Then you can share it without having to hook it up to Ethernet.
 
Just grabbed one from Amazon. I need a printer since I'm going back to school in Jan. Can't beat a $50 laser printer.

So where do you guys get paper for cheap?
 
[Tripod]MajorPayne;1034953616 said:
If you're all concerned about networking the printer, just connect it to your main desktop in the office or family room or wherever and share it through Windows. Then it should be available as a discoverable printer (you'll have to have network discovery on for your home network) or you can type in the \\COMPNAME\PrinterName in the address bar of the "Find Network Printer" wizard or whatever.

Then you can share it without having to hook it up to Ethernet.
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Yet the computer it's hooked up to needs to be left on...

Networked printers are great, we got an older brother... maybe 8-9 years old that had networking... still running too :D

It's a laser, so when it gets sent a print job over the network it powers/warms up, prints out, cools down and goes back into a sleep mode. I dunno, we've had it forever and constantly use it so it's nice when anyone can print to it at any time...
 
Question on toner - how often do you guys need to replace it for a laser? I'm not gonna be printing a ton, but I would like a ball park on how long it lasts, and how much replacement toner costs.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPCGZZIdXyM

A little note... they do display the light a little early on... but you gotta pay attention, once the quality starts to degrade you should probably swap the toner out, you don't want it to run dry. So I wouldn't recommend printing a few hundred pages then walking away if you were lowish on toner.

I have an HL-1270n which is the much earlier version of this, I know I've had the same thing, I think we were getting a couple thousand out of the high yields. And again we've had this thing for 10 years and I think replaced the toner twice so far... There was one problem that happened where someone tried to print envelopes through it, it got jammed and a sensor got stuck so it constantly "detected a paper jam" we ended up taking it apart, resetting the sensor (which was just a little piece of plastic) and worked flawlessly ever since.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=hl-2140&x=0&y=0

More stuff from newegg... you can probably find cheaper...
 
Cannot answer one of the posts above, but the replacement toner
(mfc-something, not this one) is $50 -70, howsoever, the
"low on toner" appears, and the cartridge can run a FULL-HALF-YEAR
with low usage (maybe 2000 more past the 5000 rated (if those are
the numbers) )
 
GJSNeptune said:
Just grabbed one from Amazon. I need a printer since I'm going back to school in Jan. Can't beat a $50 laser printer.

So where do you guys get paper for cheap?
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I shop at Sams club and get the generic copy paper. Has worked very well for me for the past few years.
 
[Tripod]MajorPayne;1034953616 said:
If you're all concerned about networking the printer, just connect it to your main desktop in the office or family room or wherever and share it through Windows. Then it should be available as a discoverable printer (you'll have to have network discovery on for your home network) or you can type in the \\COMPNAME\PrinterName in the address bar of the "Find Network Printer" wizard or whatever.

Then you can share it without having to hook it up to Ethernet.
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Ok but your PC will have to be on for the printer to be available.
Super annoying setup that I am trying to get out of.
 
anyone else notice that best buy will sell you a 6' usb cable for a deal with your printer purchase: "only" 19.99 LOL :rolleyes:
 
[H]'er;1034953533 said:
So the 2170 is ethernet only?
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It has both ethernet and wireless on it.

Thus you do not need to keep the 2170 in the same room with the router.
 
Mav451 said:
Question on toner - how often do you guys need to replace it for a laser? I'm not gonna be printing a ton, but I would like a ball park on how long it lasts, and how much replacement toner costs.
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note the toner cartidge will say its empty and actualy refuse to print at a certain point u need ot get black tape and cover the sensors on each side of the cartidge and it will work again.. ive goton a good 750pages so far atleast since it said it was empty. that said the toner is expensive fin cheap 3 packs online easy
 
Can you put tape on the cartridge when you first put it in? And does it give another warning when it really is empty? Or just wait for it to print a sketchy, faded page?
 
yeah, with bing cashback at bestbuy it's same price as amazon if u pick it up in store. I'd prefer do it that way though, ready in 20 min and if something goes wrong i can always go return it :D
 
Gas money!

If it's messed up, Amazon will give you a pre-paid shipping label to slap on the box to return it.
 
Thanks. Picked one up, and its ready for store pickup now. Will go grab it after dinner.

I was growing really tired of the damn HP printer we've got now making it through maybe 100+ pages. 28$ for toner on newegg seems like a good deal too considering what we've paid for ink. The fiance wants to keep the HP for copying and color printing, so we will have two.

They will both be hooked up to the server, so it didn't matter to me if it was wireless or not, as it will be networked either way.

Cost $37 for me after tax with my 10$ Gift card and 5$ of reward coupons.
 
Good printer for the money. Brother are my fav laser printers.

Bought one for my GF in Sept 2008 for $20-25 AR.

Can also buy some toner kits online that will fill the toner twice for just $20. Quality of toner is the same as OEM too. :c)
 
Thanks for the heads up guys. Went into Bestbuy to buy a new phone and browsed the computer area and remembered seeing this post so I decided to pick one up and so far so good. Thanks again!
 
The starter toner I got roughly 1200 pages (I print at 300dpi instead of 600).

The 2nd toner (the TN-350 or 360 I forgot. Whichever is the expanded capacity) last me roughly 1800 pages (I didn't use 300dpi this time around).

Now I'm using a refilled TN350/360 I got off of ebay for like $22. So far so good.
 
2140's pretty good, got it refurb from Staples , 30 after rebate... not bad, still think they might still have it

have it hooked up to my thin client(that does nothing but be a tiny file server/downloader/print server)... definitely do the tape trick(use tape to cover the sensors on the cartridge)... i'm still on the starter toner, it first complained 200 pages in, but still running after 800 pages with the tape trick... got an extended 3rd party 2800pg toner cartridge from Meritline standing by
 
This is a nice deal. Reminds me of when I picked up the Samsung laser printer for 39 bucks a couple years ago. I saw a stack of these at the Best Buy B&M where I live. I was almost tempted to buy one, even though I already purchased a new Samsung MFC.
 
Picked it up from the store and easily installed alongside my hp aio color. Now things that need to be black and white don't waste all the ink in the other printer, as that sucks ink like no tomorrow.

I found the perfect place for it and I love it. Feels decently well built for the money. Glad I checked here and actually jumped on it. Was getting so tired of picking up ink every time I had a paper to write.
 
DTN107 said:
The starter toner I got roughly 1200 pages (I print at 300dpi instead of 600).

The 2nd toner (the TN-350 or 360 I forgot. Whichever is the expanded capacity) last me roughly 1800 pages (I didn't use 300dpi this time around).

Now I'm using a refilled TN350/360 I got off of ebay for like $22. So far so good.
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There is a stupid mechanism where it stops at exactly certain page number on starter toner... I think it's 1500? You can easily get another 500+ from it by covering tape over a hole. If you google around there are more detailed info and even youtube vids.
 
glad more people could save some money on ink jet cartridge by using a laser printer!

Here is the link on how to get over 1500 pages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPCGZZIdXyM

got it!!! compare to my canon 8.5x11 inkjet photo printer, its still small

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FYI, everyone, Office Depot has the exact same printer for $50 + tax out the door (at least, my metro ATL location did).

They also have the 2170-W for $79.99 I believe. Not a bad deal for ethernet/wireless capability!
 
On the MFc-something, mentioned above, the "low on toner" is
distinct and way earlier than the "out of toner." I've never run
the cartridge clear to the latter.
 
My solution was to plug a regular printer into a WHS box, enable printer sharing. BAM! the printer is on the network and anyone can print to it thorugh a wireless connection... Well anyone running windows that is!
 
Anyone using this printer with a D-Link DIR-655 and using SharePort? And Windows 7 x64? SharePort can't detect it. I've installed drivers, installed the most recent SharePort. What's the trick? I got SharePort to work my girlfriend's Dell A940 printer that's probably six years old. Hard to believe I can't get a modern laser printer to work with it.
 
GJSNeptune said:
Anyone using this printer with a D-Link DIR-655 and using SharePort? And Windows 7 x64? SharePort can't detect it. I've installed drivers, installed the most recent SharePort. What's the trick? I got SharePort to work my girlfriend's Dell A940 printer that's probably six years old. Hard to believe I can't get a modern laser printer to work with it.
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there are 2 versions of shareport depending on what firmware is on the 655r. i got it working fine on win7 but gave up after the software would not work and made windows act all funky on my girlfriends xp machine.
 
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