Looking for a black-and-white laser printer for your home or small office? If so, the Brother HL-2230 may be a great place to look. With fast speeds of 24 pages per minute, it should keep up with most offices quite well, and it can reach high quality resolutions as high as 2400×600 dpi. It also has a fast first page out time of less than 8.5 seconds. Up to 250 pages can fit inside the unit’s input tray. There is no room for expansion in this area like there are for many printers, so if you need a larger input tray, you may want to look elsewhere.  Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems are all supported by the HL-2230, and up to 10,000 pages can be produced each and every month. However, Brother recommends that it is only used from 250 to 2,000 pages every month.

One drawback to this machine is that it doesn’t come standard with a LCD display. It does, however, have a CPU speed of 200 MHz and a printer toner save mode. Many media types are supported like bond paper, plain paper, transparencies and labels. Sizes like legal, letter, executive, A4, A5 and A6 are all supported. For those who need it, envelope printing is also supported. The input trays can hold up to 250 sheets of these papers, and the output tray can hold around 100 sheets. It is Energy Star compliant, meaning it is more environmentally friendly than the majority of units on the market.

Weighing only 14.8 pounds, this unit will be great for those who need portability and mobility from their printer. It also has a very compact size of only 14.5×14.2×7.2 inches, making it simple to find a place for or store away too. Upon purchase, you receive one toner cartridge and one drum unit that will last 700 pages and 12,000 pages, respectively.