The Brother HL-2040 Printer is primarily for test printing, at 20-ppm your assured excellent text quality. It’s a good value printer, with fast performance and a 250-sheet paper capacity that’s appropriate and easily large enough for personal printing.

In a review on ciao.co.uk they seem to not like this printer…here’s what they think

Then there is the toner cartridge, this appears to give you about a 5 page warning of when it’s going to run out! There also appears to be no consistency on how long they will last.

Finally there appears to be a problem with the way the printer tells if the toner is used us, this could mean that usable cartridges are being discarded, and at between £30 - £35 that’s too much.

So overall this is a basic printer and aimed at the low requirement user but for the price it’s got to hold it’s own.

The HP Photosmart Pro B9180 printer is designed for photographers who need fast, durable printing up to A3+ in size, believe it or not the B9180 uses eight large cartridges of specially developed Vivera pigment-based inks and has four print heads with over 1800 nozzles per head.

This printer is really aimed at professional photographers and semi-professionals but don’t let that put you off if you’re looking for quality. If you’re a Photoshop user HP have included a Photoshop plugins called ProPrint plug-in for Photoshop. The have also included the HP Colour Centre software.

Overall, the HP B9180 is hard to beat. If your looking for quality prints this might just be the printer for you. With the new pigment inks this printer give you more colour and dynamic range from their prints than what was previously available.