Brother HL-1435 Laser Printer

• Monochrome laser printing at 1,200 x 600 dpi
• Speeds up to 15 pages per minute
• 4 MB non-expandable memory; optional networking
• USB 1.1 and parallel interfaces; PC and Mac compatible
• 1-year warranty with express exchange service

I bought this printer because I needed to print out lengthy manuscripts, as well as graphics-heavy PDF files. This printer does both very well. It prints very fast if you have one or two pages. When I printed a twenty-page document, it paused every few pages. The entire document printed, crisp and clear. I was particularly impressed with the graphics output, which came out much clearer and sharper than my old HP laser printer.

I would recommend this printer to anyone who needs an affordable laser printer. Be aware that you will need to get a USB cable.

Buy Brother HL-1435 Laser Printer Now

I could''nt afford to spend a thousand dollars for a printer. Basically I needed a laser printer to print my manuscipts and to get away from the annoying inkjet printers. I was losing money from the inkjet because of the costley cartridges. If you do not use them within 6 months, the cartridges dry up. No need to worry about that with a laser printer. I have been very pleased with the Brother. It performs and looks good. I certainly did not find this printer in Office Depot or Office Max. Glad I shopped with Amazon to purchase this item. Quality merchandaise for the money. Time will tell if this printer will hold up with continuous usage.

Read Best Reviews of Brother HL-1435 Laser Printer Here

I picked this printer over the others from Samsung and HP in the sub $200 level because of the black & sliver color, which was probably not the best way to choose in hindsight. I''m using the printer with a parallel cable on Windows 2000 and the performance is great. The warm up time is short, probably 10-12 seconds, and it actualy does print @ 15 PPM on text and close to that on .pdf files with a mix of text and graphics. On large documents it only stops to reload the memory about every 50-60 pages and the paper tray is quite large for this price range. On the first toner (~3000 pages) I only had one paper jam using cheap copy paper. To load small media, such as labels and letters, there is a seperate tray with plastic slider guides which is quite handy and works perfectly.

I have only experianced one major problem and it was probably not due to Brother''s design. I was printing when the power went down and when I tried to turn the printer back on I found that it had had a CPU fault. The tech support Brother had on the matter was friendly, but a bit long winded in that I spent 30 minutes going through the same procedures for hard reset over and over. They did replace the printer under warrenty (purchesed from Amazon) with second day Fedex and paid for return shipping, which I thought was more than reasonable. All in all my experiance has been possitive and I would definitely purchase again.

Want Brother HL-1435 Laser Printer Discount?

It is very easy to install this printer with CD instruction. The speed of printing is sufficient for personal use. In addition, I think that Brother toner is cheaper and has availability to print more sheets of paper than others. So, I think that this printer is best for personal use. If you use USB cable, it must be shorter than 6 feet.

I purchased this printer 6 months ago. I had been very satisfied with it up until recently. Unfortunately, three issues have come to light that you should know about before buying this printer.

First, Brother shipped my printer with a cartridge low in toner. Though I''ve had this printer about 6 months, I''ve actually only printed only several hundred pages with it over that time (the cartridge is supposedly good for 3,000). So imagine my surprise when the printer indicated it was low on toner. Since it''s past the 6 week toner cartridge warranty, Brother refuses to rectify this situation and insists that I pay them another $70 for another toner cartridge. I guess that''s why they can get away with selling their printers so cheaply--they can force you into shelling out more money just as your warranty runs out. I even had a low level technical support rep admit that they intentionally ship their printers with a low cartridges (he called them "tester" cartridges)!

Second, this printer is designed in such a way that when the printer senses that it is low on toner, it will NOT PRINT AT ALL. THERE IS NO WAY TO OVERRIDE THIS FEATURE. It is not a driver issue, but a hardware one. In my case, I was about to leave for the airport and needed to print out my presentation notes. But the printer absolutely refused to print! It was midnight and I was leaving first thing in the morning, so I couldn''t just go out and get a new cartridge. You can take out the cartridge, shake it around it bit, and MAYBE get one or two more copies out of it. But other than that, you simply CANNOT print when the toner is "low" (even though there IS toner left in the cartridge!). So if you don''t have an extra cartridge on hand when the printer decides that your toner is "low", you''re in trouble! This is a maddening feature of this printer. Brother says it''s to "preserve print quality," but I''d prefer if they''d let the user decide when she or he wants to "preserve print quality" versus printing nothing at all! I''ve never had a printer do this. I could print for weeks (even months) when my old NEC laser printer indicated it was "low" in toner. If I had known that this was not the case with this printer, I would not have purchased it. It''s simply another way for Brother to get more money out their customers with their overpriced printer cartridges.

Third: Brother customer support. While it was quick and courteous at the first level of technical support, it is slow and irresponsive beyond that. My complaint about the low printer cartridge was "escalated" twice--I was promised a call back on two occasions from two different managers. It''s been over two weeks and no call backs!

Caveat emptor. My advice? Don''t be wooed with the low price--keep shopping!