Brother HL-2030 Reviews: Brother Home Black & White Laser Printer

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Score: 9.0/10

107 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

+ This printer scores high on speed. - It has no outstanding negative points. “A low priced printer that is reasonably fast to warm up and print.” Anonymous verified purchaser View all 107 real customer reviews

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107 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
92% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (107)
Compatibility9.1
Print quality8.9
Speed8.6
Value for money (at time of purchase)9.3
Overall rating9.0
Business user (8)
Frequent home user (7)
Occasional home user (2)
Other (90)
 

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Anonymous verified purchaser

+ A low priced printer that is reasonably fast to warm up and print.

- A little noisy and the casing does not appear to be particulary robust.

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19 of 20 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Jan 2006

Score 10.0/10

Victor, Barking

+ I have always used brother laser printers, and find it good value for money, i like the low running cost.

- has't got network connectivity

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13 of 13 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Apr 2006

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Happy”

+ Easy set up and easy to use! Can be used on any computer just by connecting it and then printing! I don't know what i would have done with out it.

- I have no bad points for it,i have had no trouble with the product so far.

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Mick, scarborough

+ as i dont want to print pictures its perfect no cleaning ink jets just press print super fast warm up of about 10 secs

- none apart from toners being 40quid but you get 2500 A4 sheets printed per toner

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Feb 2006

Score 8.0/10

David, Sheffield

+ Speed, Ease of use

- not enough information to enable user to fix simple error massages when inserting new toner cartridges

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 May 2006

Score 4.0/10

Andy, Aylesbury , “Small business owner”

+ Readily available consumables, low initial cost

- Jams regularly and overall poor build quality. You never expect to have this printer in 2 years time yet my previous Canon laser printer lasted 6 and was only abandoned because of compatibility problems.

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8 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Jul 2008

Score 9.0/10

Ali, Manchester

+ I have used this printer for a month now and I have not had any problem. I recommend it.

- Reviewer left no comment

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Oct 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Speedy and very good print-out quality.

- None

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Oct 2005

Score 10.0/10

anne, merseyside , “retired office manager..”

+ in conparison to my lexmark colour printer,it is so cheap to print invoices.its so easy to load paper.it switches off after each task,i am very pleased a five star printer......and at a great price....

- none....

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Does what it says on the tin

- Reviewer left no comment

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 Mar 2006

Score 9.0/10

Terry, Mansfield

+ Easy to use, very economical,long lasting cartridge and outstanding value for money

- It is cheaper to buy a new machine than bother to replace a drum on this machine.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Aug 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ fast print, clear print

- bends paper as it gets too hot on long run

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Aug 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It's quick and easy to use.

- It's quite large.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Sep 2008

Score 7.0/10

Ahmed, Birmingham

+ Cheap & reliable stuff

- Still i did not find any thing bad

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Oct 2005

Score 9.0/10

Lilly, Glasgow

+ Easy to set up.

- Quite big and noisy.

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Nov 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anthony , Birmingham , “Business www.clickonstore.net”

+ Good low cost printer simple to install and use,

- Drum and cartridges can be expensive to replace

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

MikeT, Cheadle

+ Quality. Value

- Not made clear that I would need to buy the printer separately. My old printer included the cable.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Apr 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ No frills, no nonsense mono laser printer. My last Brother did the job for eight years, so another Brother was a no-brainer.

- Reviewer left no comment

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Jul 2008

Score 9.0/10

Renate, Selby North Yorkshire

+ Great to work with, easy to install, love the papertray.

- Every now and then it shoots the printed pages out onto the worksurface, but I live with that little problem.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Aug 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to load, quick, efficient at a low price

- Haven't found them yet

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Oct 2005

Score 10.0/10

john, Salford

+ Good value for money, fast and very cheap to run when compared with inkjet printers.

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Jan 2009

Score 10.0/10

bad, london , “cool”

+ ok so far

- can't print both sides of paper

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Feb 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “home user”

+ quiet, fast and reliable

- cost of spares - but this is a problem with all brother printers due to the drum and toner being seperate, however, compatible ones are available at a reasonable cost.

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Feb 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ Compact
Reliable
Always works
Quite fast
Consumables last a long time

- Can stop working when you print a non-standard a4 sheet- this clears when you use the single sheet feeder but fooled me the first time as i thought it had broken. now i know it's no problem at all. overall very pleased with it

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 May 2009

Score 9.0/10

Paul, Sheffield , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ Quick to print, as a student it does everything I need. Long lasting toner

- None as of yet

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Oct 2009

Score 9.0/10

Melvin, Warminster , “Business user” More like this »

+ I already have a Brother 2030HL and finf it's very simple to install, misfeeds are easily cleared and changing the toner cartridge is easy too.

- Can't think of any other than the price of replacement toner/drum assembly.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Oct 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Seeks good value quality”

+ It "does what it says on the tine"

- None

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It small and it doesn't tak so much space in a flat.

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Thomas, Glasgow , “Over worked”

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Not enough paper storage

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 May 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Excellent value for money

- Non, for the price

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purchased 28 Jan 2006

Score 9.0/10

Maxwell, Bristol

+ Easy set up, good print quality

- Difficult to load paper quite noisy

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purchased 09 Sep 2006

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ low cast , speedy, performence

- i m still using it but havent find any problem yet

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purchased 28 Nov 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Speed

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 29 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Works fine

- replacement components (cartridge etc.) very expensive compared to cost of new printer but the same can be said of many printers.

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purchased 10 Jan 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Great functional printer - does what it says on the tin

- Just a tad slow but you know that from reading the spec

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purchased 04 Dec 2008

Score 10.0/10

susan, northampton , “retired lady, works partime”

+ easy to use

- n/a

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purchased 25 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Quick and efficient printing. Easy to use and set up.

- Occasionally has problem feeding paper, but most of time is trouble free

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purchased 19 Jan 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Cheap to buy. Good mono print quality.

- Cartridges and drums too expensive.

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purchased 19 Apr 2009

Score 10.0/10

maxine, manchester , “I make greeting cards”

+ Very good printer, inexpensive, toner cartridge last for ages, much better than inkjet.

- I could not find any bad points with this product

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purchased 08 May 2009

Score 10.0/10

Keith, Kirkham

+ Compact, easy to use, fast, long cartridge life, excellent quality, good paper capacity, consistent results, reliable

- None that I can think of and it is the second one of I have bought. The first on lasted 4 years.

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purchased 03 Jun 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ I'm perfectly satisfies as it meets my needs - what more can I say?

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 12 Jun 2009

Score 8.0/10

Stephen, Aberdare , “Business user” More like this »

+ Excellent basic mono printer. Cheap to run.

- None

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purchased 10 Jul 2009

Score 8.0/10

david, mawdesley

+ it works well
easy set up
value for money

- a bit flimsy in general quality

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purchased 20 Jul 2009

Score 9.0/10

Rosemary, HOVE , “Business user” More like this »

+ compact printer, excellent

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 14 Jul 2009

Score 6.0/10

ALBERT, LONDON , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ VERY FAST

- NONE

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purchased 20 Aug 2009

Score 10.0/10

Jane, Uckfield

+ Very simple indeed to set up. Switches itself off when not being used.

- Bit bigger than I thought it was going to be, but looks like a serious printer, not a Noddy one.

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purchased 25 Aug 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Occasional home user”

+ Under £50 for a laser printer with toner to print around 1000 pages is pretty good value

- Very noisy

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purchased 10 Aug 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Low running costs- toner (and refills) readily available. Drum unit purchased separately.

- Paper drawer a bit flimsy.

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purchased 18 Sep 2009

Score 10.0/10

Fiona, Edinburgh , “Business user” More like this »

+ easy to install and print cartridges are easily obtainable via lasertech

- Should come with a USB cable or at least be given the option to buy one when purchasing this.

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purchased 02 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

diane , norwich

+ fast efficient printer

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 04 Sep 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ works well

- toner expensive

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purchased 05 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anthony, Birmingham , “Business user” More like this »

+ Simple, straightforward, does what it says on the tin

- Sometimes screws up the paper

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purchased 12 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very easy to set up. Holds masses of paper. Great if you need to print a lot at speed. Quality fine. But be aware it is mono and not suitable for printing photos unless you want them black and white. INCREDIBLY GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY! Can get toner cheaply from the internet.

- None! Expected to find some as it is so cheap, but honestly, no bad points at all.

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purchased 29 Sep 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ Cheap to buy, and cheap toner refills available

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 15 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Lorraine, Pontypridd

+ The speed and clarity and ease of use of this product makes it one of the best Epson printers I've ever owned. It also looks good and does not take up much space on my desk. The fact that the copy facility and the scan facility can be utilised without the computer being switched on is great and also the fact that it is Wifi means I can print from my laptop downstairs. Simply a great printer/scanner.

- Can't think of any

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purchased 04 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Fredrik, SVANESUND , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ Prints fast and perfect for me who prints out text lectures everyday for University. More pages per ink cartridge.

- KInd of ugly. For me who are using it in my student room it feels not so appealing. Look more like a printer for the office and not for home use.

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purchased 21 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ good basic printer

- none yet

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purchased 19 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Ceri, Fareham

+ I really like this printer, software works perfectly as does the printer itself A+++++

- None

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purchased 23 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Colin, Sutton-in-Ashfield

+ All round value for money printer, easy to set up and compatible with wireless modem.

- I have not found one yet

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purchased 22 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Norman, Edinburgh

+ Excellent value, very easy to set up.

- NONE

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purchased 16 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ Very compact and good quality prints

- Quite noisy when printing

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purchased 26 Oct 2009

Score 9.0/10

Mary, Loughton

+ Compact, easy to set up, turns off when not in use saving energy. Starts up quickly again.

- none so far

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purchased 30 Oct 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Quick, clear, clean print-outs.

- Makes noise for first 10 minutes or so after being switched on.

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purchased 15 Jul 2008

Score 9.0/10

leeds, Matthew , “surveyor for Robert Austin ”

+ all good happy

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 26 Aug 2008

Score 10.0/10

Barry, Eastbourne , “Business user” More like this »

+ It is all I wanted

- None

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0 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 May 2009

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Product Features

Print Technology Laser
Photo Printer No
WiFi No
LCD Display No
Ethernet No
PictBridge No
Memory Card Slot No
Built-in Scanner No
Built-In Fax No
Built-in Copier No
Maximum Paper Size A4
Print Colour Black & White
Bluetooth No
Portable No
Film or Slide Scanner No
Number of Colours (incl. Black) 1
Height in mm 166
Width in mm 371
Depth in mm 361
Colour White
Print Resolution (dpi) 600x2400
Number of Prints per Minute in Black & White 16
Sheet Capacity 250
Release Date 1 Jan 2005
Printer Type Black & White
Dimensions (mm) 371x166x361
Disc Printing Function No
Graphic Device Interface (GDI) Yes
Power Supply Mains
Borderless Printing No

Also known as: BROTHER HL 2030, Printer Hl 2030, Brother HL2030, Brother Hl2030zu1

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Manufacturer's Description

The HL-2030 is a laser printer perfect for the home or office environment. This home laser printer is the ideal entry level monochrome a4 laser printer.

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