Brother

Brother HL-L2400D

Mono laserTonerBrother Refresh EZ Print

USB cable, 250 sheets, automatic duplex, thirty-two pages a minute, no network of any kind. The HL-L2400D is deliberately the least connected printer in this catalogue and that is why people buy it: plug it into one computer, it prints, and there is no app, no account, and with no network connection it never updates its own firmware. It is also the entry point to the machine the internet has recommended for a decade — a cheap Brother mono laser that sits in a cupboard for six months and prints perfectly on the first page. Worth knowing before you buy: the toner in the box is a 700-page starter, and the high-yield TN830XL that replaces it is $98.29 for 3,000 pages, or about 3.3 cents a page. That is roughly eight times what a refillable tank printer costs per page, which is the part the recommendation usually leaves out.

Approx. price: ~$134
Cost per mono page: 3.3¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$298
Print speed, mono: 32 ISO ppm

Best for

One computer, one cable, black-and-white documents, and no interest in an app ever being involved.

marks an estimate. Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. Purchase price plus ink or toner over the pages shown, assuming four mono pages for every colour page. Price is an approximate snapshot from our last catalogue update.

What it costs to own

Black consumable: Brother TN830XL high-yield toner · 3,000 ISO pages · ~$98.29
Cost per mono page: 3.3¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$298
Cost to own, 200 pages/month for 3 years: ~$370 (7,200 pages)

Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. How this is worked out

Cost to own · 5,000 pages

Brother HL-L2400D~$298
~$134 printer + ~$164 supplies
Brother HL-L2405W~$303
~$139 printer + ~$164 supplies
Brother HL-L2460DW~$343
~$179 printer + ~$164 supplies

purchase priceink or toner. An estimate: purchase price plus 5,000 pages at each printer’s computed cost per page, assuming 4 mono pages for every colour page. Printers whose consumable price we could not source are left out.

Specifications

Manufacturer-published figures. Cost lines are computed from the consumable figures above and are estimates.

Approx. price: ~$134
Cost per mono page: 3.3¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$298
Cost to own, 3 years: ~$370
Technology: Laser
Ink system: Toner
Inks: 1
Black consumable: Brother TN830XL high-yield toner · 3,000 pages
Ink in the box: 700 pages
Third-party ink lock: No
Ink subscription: Brother Refresh EZ Print
Print speed, mono: 32 ISO ppm
First page out: 8.5 s
Functions: Print
Two-sided printing: Auto
Document feeder: None
Paper capacity: 250 sheets
Max paper size: Legal
Borderless photo: No
Resolution: 1200 × 1200 dpi
Mobile printing: App only
Display: None
Dimensions: 14.0 × 14.2 × 7.2 in
Weight: 15.6 lb
Released: 2023

Features

32 ppm with automatic two-sided printing
1200 × 1200 dpi output
250-sheet tray plus a single-sheet manual feed
USB only — no network, no app, no account
No liquid ink, so nothing dries out between uses

Auto duplex No ink lock

In its favour

Prints on the first try after months unused — the reason lasers get recommended for light printing
32 ppm and automatic duplex for under $140
No network stack means no app, no account and no automatic updates
Text at 1200 dpi is sharper than the 600 dpi budget lasers here
No subscription or supplies-lock programme to enrol in

Against it

About 3.3¢ a page on genuine toner — eight times a tank printer's mono cost
The cartridge in the box is a 700-page starter, so the first real purchase comes fast
USB only: no Wi-Fi, no Ethernet, no phone printing
Black and white, print only, no display
Brother firmware updates have been reported to interfere with compatible toner, which Brother denies — skip updates you do not need

What owners say

No owner discussion has been collected for the Brother HL-L2400D yet. The specifications above are the manufacturer’s published figures and the cost per page is computed from them — but nothing on this page claims to know what living with it is like, because nobody here has read owners on it.