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Brother HL-L2340DWHardware

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Who uses, recommends or left Brother HL-L2340DW, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Kamal and Omarchy; co-owner and CTO of 37signals.
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the Brother HL-2340DW. I think that's the model number of my beloved printer and the reason why it's so beloved is it was the first printer I ever bought that I just plugged in and it worked.

On David Senra's podcast (episode published 2026-07-26). Asked about the printer he keeps buying again: he needs black-and-white prints for wet signatures and wants it to work the same way ten years from now. He said the model number as "HL-2340DW" and hedged it ("I think that's the model number"); Brother's wireless mono laser with that number is sold as the HL-L2340DW. The captions read "HL-2340DW", Whisper heard "HL2340WD"; the quote keeps the captions' DW, which is Brother's suffix. Quote from YouTube's automatic English captions, checked against a Whisper large-v3 transcription of the same clip; the link opens at the second it was said.

2026-07-26·youtube.com ↗

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