Brother HL-2070N Network Monochrome Laser Printer (Black)

by Brother

Product Details

Product Manual [2.02mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 15 x 15 x 7 inches ; 17.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 19 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0007KNZ8M
• Item model number: HL-2070n
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (225 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 14, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer The HL-2070N laser printer is ideal for users who need to share a printer. Offering the same footprint, print speed, and paper capacity as the HL-2040, the HL-2070N also includes a number of additional features. These include 16MB of standard memory, PCL6 emulation, and a built-in Ethernet network interface. It comes with Web-based printer management capability, as well as other network management tools to make setting up and using your printer on your wired or wireless home network fast and easy. These features make the HL-2070N ideal for home or home office printer sharing.

Convenient manual-feed slot

Printers that deliver outstanding print quality
The HL-2070N is ideal for anyone who needs to produce high-quality output. With HQ1200 print resolution (up to 2,400 x 600 dpi), these printers can deliver the crisp text and graphics to produce professional looking letters, reports, spreadsheets, and other important documents. The HL-2070N will ensure that your work always looks its best.

Paper handling flexibility
The HL-2070N can handle a wide variety of media. It features 250-sheet paper capacity and a single-sheet manual feed slot. The manual feed slot accommodates letterhead, envelopes, or other media up to 43 lbs.

Toner Save Mode
To help you save money and toner when printing a variety of text-based documents, the HL-2070N allow you to choose a Toner Save Mode. Most text-only documents can be printed using Toner Save Mode with minimal impact to print quality. For documents that include graphics or a combination of text and graphics, the printer's default mode (Toner Save Mode "off") is recommended for the best quality output.

Access powerful features via easy-to-use driver software.

Advanced features that go beyond your expectations
The HL-2070N printers offer many advanced features that will exceed your expectations and reaffirm their value. These include:

• Watermark Printing
• Poster Printing
• Booklet Printing
• N-Up Printing
• Toner Save Mode
• Manual Duplex

Extensive user support
The HL-2070N printers feature a variety of innovative and useful support tools. A user-friendly driver installation routine auto-detects your operating system as well as any installed options. Animated tutorials answer common maintenance and support questions. This highly visual system provides direct, step-by-step help. For added support, the Brother Solution Center (http://solutions.brother.com) is an online repository of information, driver downloads, user manuals and FAQs to help you get the most out of your printer.

Service and support are part of the package
Your technology investment is backed by our dedication to comprehensive service and support. We provide toll-free technical support, a one-year limited warranty, and the online Brother Solutions Center, all backed by our nationwide network of authorized customer-care centers.

Extensive compatibility
The HL-2070N is Windows and Mac compatible and come with a complete set of drivers for both platforms. The printer also offers USB 2.0 full speed and parallel interfaces for greater flexibility (cables not included).

What's in the Box
Printer, drum unit and toner cartridge assembly, quick setup guide, CD-ROM, AC power cord; USB, Ethernet, and parallel cables not included

Product Description

Network-ready laser printer offers a stylish and compact design. Designed with the printing needs of a small business in mind. Small enough to free up much needed space on the workstation or desk, yet comes complete with a range of features you would expect to find in larger models, including a 133MHz processor. Impressive print quality and speed makes it the ideal choice for your mono printing requirements. Prints 20 pages per minute with resolution of 2400 x 600 dpi. First page comes out in less than 10 seconds. The machine is network-ready straight from the box. Together with its 16MB memory and a 250-sheet paper tray, it can easily cope with the demands of multiple users. 10/100 BaseT Ethernet, Parallel, USB interfaces are standard. USB and parallel ports mean the printer can connect to both a desktop and laptop, and with the Quick Start Guide and installation CD you'll be printing in minutes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

116 of 118 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll never go back to inkjet after using this - Easy setup (Mac or PC), speedy, good quality, compact, and networkable, October 11, 2005

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booshleeg - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother HL-2070N Network Monochrome Laser Printer (Black) (Office Product)

I was a little worried about the paper curling issue at first, but having used this printer for a while, it is not as bad as some people make it out to be. Yes, the paper is curled slightly when it first comes out, but if you set it aside on a flat surface and let it cool for a few seconds, the paper will flatten out by itself. I have seen other laser printers that do far worse curling.

Network setup is very easy, especially if you're using Mac OS X Tiger or Panther. I was able to connect both with Bonjour/Rendezvous wirelessly via Linksys 802.11g router after installing drivers downloaded off Brother's website. Also was able to connect a PC running Win XP, which required an extra step or two. After you're connected, if you need to change any default printer settings, it's all done through a web interface (both FireFox and Safari worked fine).

Overall print quality is noticeably better than any inkjet and as good, if not better than similar laser printers in this class. Even graphic printouts were much better than I had expected and is perfectly fine for non-photo quality jobs. There are settings for 300/600/1200 dpi, a toner saver feature, power saver timeout, print density, and paper type selector (someone mentioned that selecting "thin" paper type causes less curling). Various other advanced printer and networking settings, and emulation modes exist also.

Print speed is very good. It takes about 10 seconds from the time I click the Print button to when 1 page in 600dpi with a fair amount of of text is printed out, even having just awakened from sleep mode. No problems printing out MS Word, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat documents.

I've printed a couple hundred pages so far, and have not experienced any printer errors or paper jams. (The printer also keeps a tally on the number of jams and an error history of the last 10 errors.)

Firmware version on mine is 1.11.

Overall, I would highly recommend this printer for anyone looking to save money on inkjet cartridges and want a very good quality, speedy, easy-to-setup, compact, networkable B&W laser printer for their home or home office.

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Printer For The Whole House, September 18, 2005

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Greg Bulmash (Lynnwood, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother HL-2070N Network Monochrome Laser Printer (Black) (Office Product)

This is a great way to let all the computers in your house share one printer. In my house I have 5... my PC, my wife's PC, a laptop each, and a low-end DIY box I use for playing with Linux.

The installation of this printer was really easy. I plugged it into one of the wired ports on our wireless router and had all the PCs in the house printing to it within 10 minutes. I not only got our Windows machines using it in minutes, when I recently did a test install of Linspire on my DIY box, Linux printed to it with no problem too.

The output quality is great and it warms up pretty quickly. The only "bad" part is when I'm at my desk upstairs (where the printer is), my wife is downstairs with her laptop, and she prints something. Having the printer start up and print without warning was sort of spooky and took a little getting used to.

But all in all, this is awesome. One printer serves the whole house, gives great-looking output, and was a snap to get working.

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brother Quality Continues to Impress, October 23, 2006

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Robert L. Stinnett (Boonville, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother HL-2070N Network Monochrome Laser Printer (Black) (Office Product)

This makes my third Brother laser printer that I have owned over the years. All three printers continue to be operational despite heavy workloads that I put on them in my small business. In fact, the only reason I bought the 2070N was because I wanted the convenience of the built-in networking capabilities. When it comes to quality, Brother shined above all the others and continues to do so.

The 2070N is a 20ppm monochrome (black and white) laser that can hook right up to your existing network. There is an optional wireless adapter you can purchase if you don't have a cabled network. One of the things that impressed me the most was how easy it was to get setup and running on the network. I had used HP printers years ago that were 'network ready' only to spend hours trying to figure out how to get the rest of the computers in the house to see it. With Brother, it was a matter of "plug and play". I took it out of the box, hooked it up and it automatically was assigned an IP address and the included software saw the printer and setup the necessary drivers. It doesn't get any easier than that!

There are a lot of features built into this printer that you wouldn't expect to find on a consumer model. For instance, the printer has a web interface that you can use to administer and check the status of the printer. There is also a built-in FTP server so you can literally FTP your large documents over to be printed. Errors and such can be setup to be e-mailed to you automatically so that, for example, when you are running low on toner you can get an email alert before you run totally dry.

The printer warms up faster and from sleep mode to print usually takes less than 10 seconds. Though some of the earlier 2070N models apparently had a problem with heat and curling paper, it appears that Brother has fixed this as I have never had my paper curl -- even during large print jobs.

Overall, you can't go wrong with the 2070N. It's a low-cost workhorse that will serve you well for your print jobs in both your home and small business environment.