Officeworks brought the price down to $36.88 and The Good Guys strike back making it even cheaper. Brother HL-1110 is $35 from TGG at the moment. Cheap and cheerful monochrome laser printer with 150 sheet feed. Consumables are DR-1000 drum unit and TN-1000 toner cartridge which have cheap compatibles on eBay.
Also available on TGG eBay store for the same price with free pick up. You could also combine it with other purchases to get a further 10% off when spending $100.
I've bought a couple of toners from ebay for <$20, lasting me through my masters!
link please…
You can just ebay similar toners but I went through my ebay for these, here ya go:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1-x-Compatible-Toner-TN1070-for-B…
even cheaper when you buy in bulk
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/131095600725?_trksid=p2060353.m14…
Yeah those are the exact cartridges i buy for my Brother DCP-1510 MFC which i've had for about 2 years. Used many of them and they work a charm.
I'm not the sort of selfious couldn't care less for the environment person who buys a printer only to throw it out after the original printer cartridge is drained.
There's also the 4 cartridges for $48 delivered. You could barely buy one genuine cartridge for that price.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/4-x-Compatible-Toner-TN1070-Broth…
Just buy generic toner and refill the original cartridge. It's cheaper and works better than using "compatible" cartridges with dubious quality and parts.
Do you realise that they only come with starter cartridges?. They are not the full 1500 page cartridge.
And you'll end up with a cupboard full of printers clogging up the garbage dump but i guess there's people who couldn't care less for the environment. Whatever gets their cheap one use disposable printers.
whos fault is it? the printer companies for using a crappy business model (ala razors and cart blades) or his fault for buying a heap of cheap printers?
if its such a problem, complain directly to the people making the cheap printers and expensive cartridge refills
They aren't holding a gun to your head. That's a massive cop out!
but i guess there's people who couldn't care less for the environment
Yep, couldn't give a dam personally. But please don't let that stop you from lecturing us all about your personal opinion.
@PainToad: Wow. You must be in a world of pain if you don't understand that the environment that you don't care about is sustaining your painful existence.
Or perhaps you are just trying to be "cool"…
@reu: Gone native have we…Gaia would be proud.
PainToad is right, we could all do without the patronising schoolyard environmental hypocrisy.
Sorry if I upset you guys. My sincere apologies. I do struggle not to be patronising when some people's comments just can't aline with common sense.
Would love to continue the pointless discussion with you but I don't think you understand the word hypocrisy and this is OT.
I bought two of these from DSE. Haven't bought any replacement toner yet, after they both ran out.
Well replacement compatible 1500 page toner cartridges are $16.90 delivered on eBay which is not exactly going to break the bank. Actually these printers are quite economical to run considering how cheap the compatible cartridges are. It would be less than 2c per page.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1-x-Compatible-Toner-TN1070-for-B…
What you don't realise is that it's not so much the toner as the drums that jack up the running cost, hence why it is literally cheaper to keep spare printers on hand at these prices than start shelling out cabbage for drum units.
Maybe complain to Greenpeace about that one…
I'm still on the original drum after about 2 years use on my Brother DCP-1510 (which uses the same TN1070 cartridge). No problems at all but probably need to replace it some time soon.
You don't replace the drum every time you replace the toner cartridge in fact you don't need to replace it very often at all in an average home use environment.
But if you do need to eventually replace the drum you can buy replacements on eBay for $25.50 delivered. Now that's not too expensive is it?.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1x-Drum-Unit-for-Brother-DR1070-D…
@hollykryten: IME with these, you're lucky to get more than 2 toner carts to a drum…very different to other models I've had in the past…I suspect part of the planned obsolescence business model.
I don't know about you, but I'm not paying $25 for a generic drum unit for a $28 printer???
I've gone through about 10 cartridges and still running off the original (altough the genuine) drum unit and it's still working. This is the drum unit which came with my Brother DCP-1510 printer. I really only go through one cartridge every few months or so.
Hi is it a good printer? Thanks
it prints things, so i'd say yes it's a good printer
Yes. Coming from a Canon pixma…..so much better and faster.
Just bought a Brother wireless laser one for $96 on ebay, sick of so many usbs around.
OfficeWorks sells Brother wireless laser for $75: http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/brother-hl-…
Thanks good price, but no duplex printing.
The Fuji P115 w is very similar to the HL-1210W, even to the point that Brother is mentioned in the drivers for copyright reasons.
Could be that Fuji Xerox rebadged Brother models.
Paid $49 for that one.
I bought one of these from officeworks. Fits snugly on the desk and toner is cheap on eBay. Good buy.
Can't go wrong for the price. I have an older HL-2040 I've had since 2006ish and have only had to replace toner once.
Love These Brother printers and cheap ebay cartridges, you really can't buy better for a monochrome reliable printer.
No wireless no thanks
my $50 Fuji laser, wireless & duplex still going strong after a year. haven't changed toner yet too!
Yep I got same one of these as well. The wireless capability on it aint the best, e.g. takes 20-30 secs to print a page from my iPhone but it does the job.
Ah the lure of the cheap printer!
http://brother.com.au/products/printers/monochrome-laser-pri…
1,000 pages toner yield (in-box toner at 700 pages)
10,000 page rated drum life.
Fine if you don't print much, but…easy landfill if you do.
It still pays to pay $200+ for a half-decent mono laser which allows you to use toner with 5-8x the capacity (for the same cost) & a better drum life. Oh well…the disposable society continues on its path.
10,000 page rated drum life.
Having been through a few of these now, I can assure you that you won't get 10k out of these drums.
Currently sitting on 13000 pages on the starter drum. Nice little printer imo
I've gone way over 10k out of my original genuine Brother drum. I can assure you can actually get over 10k on a genuine Brother drum (not talking about a reconditioned compatible drum).
if this is the case, is Brother under-selling their budget model to get you to spend more?
It's the luck of the draw mate, some will get lucky, many others will not…I prefer to plan for the worst, hope for the best. It's also noteworthy that you don't actually have one of these models, you have a different 2+ yo model.
Anyway, this is becoming one of those pointless OzB pissing contests…how's about you do what's good for you, I'll take care of myself, eh.
Not sure. But my Brother DR-1070 drum is from a DCP-1510 MFC which is only just slightly less budget than these HL-1110 printer. But i would have thought it would be exactly the same drum on both printers.
Yeah it could be just a bad batch of DR-1070 drum units out there.
Brother HL-1110 & DCP-1510 printers both use exactly the same toner cartridge TN-1070 and drum unit DR-1070 so my comments are valid. Still on the original drum unit since i purchased the printer about 2 years ago but i don't use it every day.
At least even the cheap Brothers have separate drum + toner cartridge units. DR1070 is about $25-$30 on eBay although I think those cheap printers will probably fall apart after going through 2 drum units (20k pages). Yes TN1070 has pretty low capacity (although the compatible ones are also pretty cheap). Anyway, as you've said "fine if you don't print much". I don't think this printer is a suitable office printer either or if you need to print hundreds of pages each week.
…although I think those cheap printers will probably fall apart after going through 2 drum units (20k pages)
yeah, more landfill for the nature strip.
I started on a printer with 100K drum life and 3,000 page toner (and still have it running today). The reduced specs on these makes me shake my head. Of course I paid over 300 for the printer, but it was wort it.
^This.
Laser consumable specs have been taking a significant nose-dive over the past few years, particularly drum life. That's why previous models are not comparable to new units.
As somebody else noted, I also still have an old 2040 on it's original drum, which has easily outlasted any of my 1110's 10:1…YMMV however.
Is the USB LEAD included ?
Computer says no
Bad Points−
There was no printer to computer cable provided. You have to buy it separately (USB 2.0-A male to B male cable)
Confirmed purchase: 25 August 2015
Published on: 04 September 2
Hehe thanks
These are good for the home user who doesn't print very often/doesn't print photos. I got one of these a year ago and couldn't be happier. Heaps better than an inkjet printer that's head dries up if not used often, cheaper to run too thanks to eBay toner and drums.
I have the multifunction version of this printer and it still works fine after the box flew off the back of the ute at about 80 kph. Really well built machines.
Does the box look sturdy and does it have a carry handle on the box? I want to have a portable printer for work as I'm always on different client sites. The last one was a $35 Fuji-xeox which had a carry handle in the box. I do minimal printing, but it is handy to have!
I bought the previous version of this printer about 5 years ago and it's still on the original laser toner cartridge (granted these days I only print the occasional document). There is a bit of a scam going with the toners though, on YouTube there are instructions on how to tape the cartridge once it says it's empty. I've managed to get hundreds of pages out of the toner cartridge that said it was empty. Still at this price it's cheaper than buying toner…if not environmentally nuts.
Ive had this same printer purchased back in 2013 during a similar sale I think I paid $29 form office works or something….. i dont use it often but it still has the starter cartridge in it and still works perfectly every time. cant go wrong for the prrice I guess.
It says $36 on the website. Has the price changed?
Appears to be the case. Mark as expired.
5% price match at OW you can still get lower than $35
Available on officeworks ebay for $36.88 - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Brother-HL-1110-Mono-Laser-Printe…
I remember getting a cupboard full of these from DSE for $28 each with free delivery…I can't remember the last toner cart I bought…good times! :)