Brother HL-2700CN Color Laser Printer

• 2,400 x 600 maximum color and black resolution
• Up to 31 ppm black, 8 ppm color
• 300 MHz processor, 60 MB memory, expandable to 576 MB
• Parallel, USB, and 10/100 Base-T Ethernet ports
• Automatic interface switching; PC, Mac, and Linux compatible

This is another good product from Brother. We use a number of different types of printers in our business and this is the best of bunch.

We have an all Mac office, and set-up was a breeze. We''ve networked it, and it also works well using the Mac''s built in printer sharing over a wireless network.

Color is great, with the right resolutions you get good photographic reproduction. We use it very effectively with brochures.

One of the downsides is that accessories are expensive. Another is that in operation it is a little noisy. While in operation it makes a number of clunks and bumps, something to do with the switching between the various cartridges I think.

All and all though a very good machine. And by the way shop around a little for toner. It can be had for a lot less then the list price.

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While I am very happy with the printer, Brother currently has a very serious supply problem. The printer takes something called a waste toner pack, or WT4CL. This is a little plastic thing that probably costs a dime to produce. The manual says that it lasts about 12,000 pages. After 3,900 pages, the printer''s red light came on and it would not function.

It seems that you can''t get these waste toner packs anywhere in the U.S. Amazon doesn''t have them, Staples doesn''t have them, buy.com doesn''t have them, etc. I did find them at amatteroffax.com, and paid for 2-day shipping, paid a premium over list price, and it took more than a week to receive. I also ordered 2 directly from Brother (after talking to them on the phone and wading through their phone trees...).

I just received a snail-mail letter from Brother saying "We are temporarily out of stock. Please allow 4 6 weeks for delivery."

Well, that is just great when your printer will not work without it. I have heard that you can empty it yourself if you are careful not to breathe the toner, but that will violate your warranty.

So -I love the printer, it prints quickly and the color looks great, but this supply glitch is ridiculous. How can I recommend a printer without supplies?

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I did some research and felt that the Brother offered better value than the HP color laserjets. The toner seems quite expensive, but it comes with toner about half-full.

The printer is very heavy, but once I got it out of the box, the step-by-step directions to remove the protective packaging were exquisitely easy to understand. (I am gratified that a company took the effort to really make directions logical and easily understood!)

Installing the software was SIMPLE and I was up and running on my home wireless network very quickly.

It spits out full-color as fast as a copy machine spits out paper. The quality is great for powerpoint slides, but not terrific for photographs.

No more telling my kids they can''t print their computer art because the inkjet takes 10 minutes -we print a lot now! It does take one or two minutes to warm up from sleep mode.

I have read reviews complaining that it is noisy when it comes out of sleep mode -this is true, although since I have a basement home office it''s not an issue for me.

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The Brother CN2700 has some nice features, particularly its network capability. I have it set up on my wireless home network so all 3 computers can print on it from anywhere in the house. Installation was a breeze, both with a direct USB cable and via network. Print quality is very good, and this printer''s strength is in low-cost color web graphics/line art. DO NOT purchase the printer for photos....the manual states that you CANNOT use glossy paper. Photographic print quality is decent, but NOT worthy of hanging on a wall. For that, buy a decent injet printer. The printer is loud with a fan and clunking noises upon startup, but shortly goes into standby mode and is perfectly quiet. Printing is quite loud, but impressively quick. The toner cartridges are very expensive, but notice that they give you twice as many pages as the competitions'' cartridges. They are half full in a new printer and should therefore last for over 3000 pages. This printer is LARGE, so don''t forget to look at the dimensions. It is quite a bit larger than my laser multi-function machine. It is also tremendously heavy at 70lbs. Overall a good buy, but make sure you have a large spot to put it. 4 stars because of supply cost...over $600 to replace all 4 toners when the time comes!

i just got this printer. used it yesterday and today to find out that the photo quality in not just "not amazing" but quite poor. solid colors are fine, but, for example, when printing an area that''s 100% yellow and 50% magenta, the dots are very noticeable. the registration of the colors is also quite bad, so it looks poor when, for example again, you print a size 12 font with serif that''s white on blue. you can see the magenta around the white font. blacks are fine at 100%, but any gradient under that looks just not satisfactory. you can easily notice the dots, and type in gray becomes had to read due to the lack of continued lines -because of the dot sizeand the inconsistency of the solid gray area.