Nice laser printer Works fine for a little home office laser printer. Cartridge easy to install and so far seems to be working fine. I set to toner saving mode, so I'm hoping it will last a while.
Brother TN 360 High Yield Toner Cartridge Have used this product for some time now and it has ALWAYS performed predictably providing superior quality print.
Does the job I need for my heavy home printing use At a reasonable price, this high-yield toner cartridge slips in nicely and makes enough copies to keep this paper-based home office content. As a writer, I need to do a lot of printing - I print out research, drafts, manuscripts, press releases, emails and documents all day long. I need a dependable cartridge and buy this one every time.
A good hint, if you do a tremendous amount of print jobs at home, is to re-set your default printer instructions for the lowest-quality and "toner-saving" settings. The pages come out lovely for my own use (not too light at all), and the cartridge lasts longer.
It's worth it for the price to get the high-yield cartridge, BTW. You are really paying much more for the plastic housing than any actual ink.
Plus, as each one of these large toner containers has a large carbon footprint as it's produced, and creates toxic waste in landfills when empty, getting as much use out of one single, efficient product is better for the environment than any of the lower-yield versions.
Not so "High Yield" While other "High Yield" toners by Brother such as TN570 and TN580 print more than 6,000 pages, TN360's capacity is only 2,600 pages.Each page will cost you 2 cents while TN570 and TN 580 less than 1 cent, excluding paper and depreciation of the printer. In addition, the users of TN570 and TN580 have the choices between genuine and recycled toners.
While HL-2140 and HL-2170w (printers using TN360) are cheap, the total running cost is not as low as they appear. If you print a large number of pages, I would recommend other models
Deleriously Happy OK, I'm one of those work-at-home self-employed over 55 guys who can't get a job anywhere because we want too much money and won't put up with the everyday crap that most corp headtrippers demand. So I consult.
Along the way I needed a laser printer. I know it's a subtle difference at first blush between a laser-printed and inkjet'ed document, but there really IS a difference. So, a proper SOHO setup needs a laser print.
Point #2: This one has the wireless networking built in. Aha! Three minutes of setup each and all four of my computers can spit out high class documents. Spiffy.
Point #3: I read the other Amazon reviews and it looked like the Brother was as good (or better) than others. Thinking Amazon readers/buyers are damn smart folks, I bought one.
I told a colleague about my decision (a client actually). His (brand programmed) reaction was "You bought a Brother? Why not a 'bigger name' (two letter initials deleted out of respect). I said "Read the reviews, do the cost per print calcs and tell me why I'm wrong..."
Haven't heard back from him on this point. I think he brought the two-letter brand for about the same price. But without wireless. Me? I hate wires/mess/not being able to hit everything with 802.11.
When it comes to techie toys, there's fools and then there's damn fools. I've had the printer in for a couple of months - and turns out "I ain't no damn fool" and neither are the other positive reviews. Buy it. --- Updated Six Months Into Owning it: Still Deleriously happy with it. have printed a couple of thousand pages and still on the original cartridge. Yep. I'm a genius. You can be, too...
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