Brother HL-3045

49 reviews

Dec, 2024

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 49 reviews of Brother HL-3045. The average rating for this product is 4.1/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the print quality. The performance also gets good feedback. There are some critical comments about the control panel.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Brother HL-3045

alaTest has collected and analyzed 34 user reviews of Brother HL-3045 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.2/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.8/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com.

82% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Dec, 2024

Expert review by : which_co_uk (which.co.uk)

Brother HL-L2400DW

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The Brother HL-L2400DW is a standard monochrome laser printer with wi-fi connectivity that can print on both sides of the paper. But what's the quality like, and will it cost you a fortune to run? We sent it to our test lab to find out. Read the full...

Dec, 2024

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Expert review by : David English (pcmag.com)

Brother HL-L3295CDW Review

Excellent print quality ; Competitive toner costs, especially for color prints ; Wide range of connection options, including NFC ; 2.7-inch color touch screen ; Ample-capacity paper output tray ; Expandable with optional paper input tray

Control panel messages can be cryptic

Brother’s HL-L3295CDW is the best color laser printer for budget buyers who print a lot, with top-quality printing, lots of connection options, moderately fast speeds, and super-high-yield toner options.

Oct, 2024

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Brother HL-3045CN

The two printers are built around the same LED engine. (LED printers work the same way as lasers, except that they use LEDs rather than a laser to draw the image of each page on a drum before printing.) Having the same engine gives them the same raw...

Fast. Ample paper capacity for a small or micro office or workgroup, plus manual feed tray

Although output quality is good enough for most business use, it's slightly below par across the board

The Brother HL-3045CN color laser offers output quality that's good enough for most business use, but its best points are speed and, to a lesser extent, paper handling.

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Consumer review (productreview.com.au)

It's a scam..

The printer comes with very little ink and the prices of cartridges are very high. The yellow runs out and now you can't print black and white pages. There's special mechanical dodads on the ink cartridge to try to stop you from reseting the ink levels...

Feb, 2015

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NOT RECOMMENDED ! Go for another brand!

We continue to get error messages saying that we should replace the Yellow Toner despite the fact that the software is set by us to print BLACK ONLY! We actually did replace one cartridge (and wasted dollars!) well before we discovered that it was a...

Mar, 2014

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Consumer review (productreview.com.au)

Good and well built at a great price. Works with Linux.

After no end of problems with ink jet printers.. with print heads ink drying out due to non usage for periods of time, I decided to give a laser printer a go. I settled on a Brother laser due to the wide range of drivers available, Windows, Apple and...

Well its a laser.. well built, great print, fast, low cost.

Not much except most laser printers dont quite do photographic images like a good inkjet can.

Feb, 2014

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Consumer review (productreview.com.au)

Laser vs Inkjets

I wasted a lot of money on slow inkjet printers. Cartridges that print between 60 to 80 pages cleaning nossiles paper jams expensive to run and in general just one big headache! The brother HL 3045 has no problems so far and it's fast prints well over...

reliable

Apr, 2013

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Consumer review (brother-usa.com)

Great Product

Very happy with the purchase. The set up was easy and user friendly. The print quality is great!!

Jan, 2013

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Consumer review (brother-usa.com)

another fine Brother product for me

The Brother line of printers is always my go-to line. The economy of this unit sold me. My HL1440 is still going strong after 9 years and over 50,000 copies, I expect the same from this new 3045. There is only one minor glitch for me. It is necessary...

Dec, 2012

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Consumer review (brother-usa.com)

Great Home Color Printer

I purchased this printer because I teach a night class and wanted to give printouts in color to the students. I had another brother laser B/W and this was an upgrade to get color. I'm very happy with the printer... it has great prints and although it's...

Dec, 2012

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