Brother HL-1250 Laser Printer

by Brother

Product Details

Product Manual [157kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 14.2 x 9.3 inches ; 20.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 26 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: B00004Y87V
• Item model number: HL1250
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

For professional-quality printing, the Brother HL-1250 laser printer offers crisp 1,200 x 600 dpi graphics resolution and a quick 12 ppm speed. The printer's speed and clarity make it ideal for both business and home printing requirements.

The HL-1250 printer is compatible with Windows and Macintosh systems and has both standard parallel and USB ports (print resolution is 600 x 600 dpi with iMac/G3/G4 using the USB interface). It is powered by a 66 MHz image processing engine to optimize your business text and graphics.

The HL-1250 features two adjustable paper cassettes for demanding workloads and 61 resident fonts for a variety of design options. It prints on letter, legal, and executive stationery, heavy card stock, transparencies, labels, and standard envelopes in several sizes. You can use the face-up output tray, which holds up to 50 sheets, or the face-down output tray, which holds up to 100 sheets. Automatic e-mail printing software is included for convenient printing of e-mail messages at prescheduled times.

Upgrades and options can boost the power of the Brother HL-1250. You can increase the memory from the standard 4 MB to 36 MB, and an additional 250-sheet paper cassette is also available. --Emily Bakko

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars faulty carriage return, December 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Brother HL-1250 Laser Printer (Office Product)

The Brother HL-1250 monochrome laser printer works great up to one point. The carriage in the laser printer is susceptible to breaking if the paper gets jammed or is too thick like in card stock. It can break. It broke once under warranty; it broke a second time outside of warranty.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best., September 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Brother HL-1250 Laser Printer (Office Product)

I bought this printer about half year and never had a problem with it. Print quality is very high and it starts very fast and prints fast. It's a very quiet printer with a low price per page (a suggestion: go with a high-yield replacement toner cartridge). It may be true that output is a bit fine, but for 99.9% of users it will be perfect in my opinion. Overall, very happy with it.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Printer is designed wrong and cannot be fixed, July 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Brother HL-1250 Laser Printer (Office Product)

I purchased the Brother HL1250 laser printer for use in my home office connected to a Dell pc operating Windows 98 and Office 2000. I only print 25 pages a day average but want top quality. With most typefaces I use, the printer will not print in normal "black" ink--it comes out either medium gray or dark gray. This is true with the typefaces: Courier, Times New Roman and A Garamond. I immediately called the Brother Service Representative (per instructions on the box) and was told that this is not fixable but most people don't object and that I should try Arial typeface that prints a little bolder normally, and it did. It will print "black" when you select to make your typeface "bold," so it's clear the printer is capable of proper black intensity--simply not designed to do so all the time. I don't know how it will do with graphics or other normal needs and can't take a chance. It only gets a low one star rating because it simply is incapable of normal printing needs outlined above, which is acknowledged by Brother. With considerable disappointment and aggravation it was returned to Amazon (cheers for Amazon) and the whole selection process starts again.