Customer Reviews

Brother LT5300 (250 Pg) Lower tray for HL-5200 Series Printers

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

Honestly, this lower drawer is more dependable than the printer itself (which I also love). Adds tremendous functionality to the printer. A great addition to a great printer family.

The LT5300 is listed as not applicable to the MFC-8480DN laser printer. However, the MFC-8480DN users guide lists this tray as an applicable accessory. The tray installed as documented and is working fine. Tip: If you are adding the tray to an MFC-8480DN, lift the printer straight up.

Buy the tray. It significantly enhances the MFC's capability and you're going to end up wanting it anyway.

I got my printer as a reconditioned unit, so this tray was relatively expensive. It was still worth it as a time saver. With this 2nd tray, I don't have to open the paper tray just to print on different paper. The Multi-Use paper option works, but that requires me to go over to the printer to open the MP tray door, and set the paper correctly, and to remove any extras I didn't need, after I print.

Bought the lower tray to print envelopes because we do 10-15 envelopes at a time. Tray worked well at first but now when envelopes print they come out so hot that it seals the seal on them. If you open the back door there are two little blue tabs that if you push them down you can print envelopes without them crinkling....our envelopes still crinkle. A litte disappointed because it would be REALLY nice to have a printer that you can have a spefic envelope drawer and not have any problems and I thought this was the one.

Life is so much easier with a second tray to hold legal size paper, rather than empty and switch that we had been doing. A good investment

We bought 2 of these to be the 3rd tray in each of our HL-5370s (which already had 2 trays in them.) The way they work is if tray 1 is empty it'll automatically pull from tray 2. We added this tray 3 thinking when tray 2 is empty it'll automatically pull from tray 3. It does not. You have to manually tell it to use the tray 3. So if you are adding this to a printer that already has 2 trays, you'll have to manually tell it to use this one. Otherwise a useful product.

My Brother 5000 series printers are great. The spit out printing like crazy compared to my HP4000,BUT!! every time I turned around I was having to feed it more paper during tax season. I missed the full ream capacity of the HP4000 more than I ever expected. So for a little over $100 I figured I'd try this add on tray.

What a great add on. I literally just set my printer on top of it and it automatically connected. I had to tweek a few printer setting before it recognized the tray.

Extremely happy with this item

I bought this tray for my Brother HL-5370DW. (FYI- Some sites on Amazon said this tray doesn't work with this printer. It does. ALWAYS check the manual or the manufacturer's website for accurate compatibility info.) Installation is very easy, just follow the 4-step instructions included with the tray, which is basically this: unplug printer cables, place printer on top of the tray, plug cables back in, use "Printer Properties" to configure the tray's default properties. The whole process took me about 5 minutes.

It makes the printer about 3" taller, and the style and color are so close that it doesn't look like an "add-on". I use it to hold printer checks.

While a little expensive (I paid about $110), it is much more convenient than changing paper out all the time, or using the manual tray. If I had bought the printer WITH the extra tray I would have saved about $50.

We print a ton of legal and letter mixed documents. Well worth the investment. Can print a 200 page mixed document (legal and letter) in under 5 min.