Brother HL 1250

I had been researching a home/small office laser printer since November 2000 before buying this in August 2001. I had no previous experience of Brother printers, or any other make apart from HP, as I had owned 3 previous HP inkjets and had borrowed a LaserJet. SETTING UP THE PRINTER The set up of the printer was fantastically easy thanks to the provided quick setup guide. Having never set up a printer before, I don?t know what I would have done without the included poster. Instructions were precise and included pictures to help. INITIAL THOUGHTS The first thing I did was to print out a test page, as advised in the quick setup guide. I was a ...  Read the complete review

A box arrived in our office a few months back with a new office printer. I was told it was a laser that cost under £350 so I was sceptical to say the least. We brought it out and it was tiny. Sure it was only an office printer between 3 guys but it was really small. Then I found out it could handle a full ream (500 sheets) of paper and was impressed. I was also impressed by the fact that the network interface was standard on this model (Duh, it's the network model!) It came ready-stacked with 32MB of memory and a toner cart was shipped with it. The image quality was exceptional for something in this price-range and the network functions superb. All sorts of groovy ...  Read the complete review

My old HP LaserJet III gave up the ghost around three months ago. I loved that old printer – reasonably fast, cheap to run and a real workhorse. HP were very high on my list when looking for a replacement. To my absolute horror, it would appear that HP have more or less priced themselves out of the SO/HO market. A new printer was likely to set me back a minimum of £500. After a quick re-think, I decided on a budget of £400 max. This narrowed the options somewhat and in the end it was a toss-up between a few Samsungs or Brother printers. The spec on the HL-1250 easily matched that of the Samsungs and I felt that Brother was a more ...  Read the complete review

I first encountered the Brother HL-1250 Laser Printer at Office World. (I know many people do not like this retail outlet, but I found the staff very helpful on the day I visited). Back to the printer. This printer system is computable with Epson, IMB, PCL6 and Windows emulation. The Windows drivers include features such as a ‘quick print set-up’ (allowing control of the print settings on the task bar) and ‘on screen help’. This copier is ideal to use within a professional environment, daily. It produces excellent print quality, whilst being economical enough to use at home as well. The Brother HL-1250 Laser Printer is versatile, being ...  Read the complete review

Now this is a great value printer! Need i say more! well yeah go on then :-) Well this is a quick printer also and at about £250 it is not at a bad price at all. Unlike many laser printers it also does not take all to long to print out the first page (which is a slow process on many lasers). Also the feature that you get which allows you to print muliple pages on one sheet is VERY useful if you are just printing out copies of things and stuff. Also the toner is not all to expensive (about £35 i think - not that i have ever had to replace it or anything!). ...  Read the complete review