Brother Color Laser Printer with Wi-Fi

This laser printer is of great quality. I do not use it in a business environment, but I can’t see myself needing any additional cartridges in years. I wanted a solid printer that won’t fail after a couple months and for which cartridges are not too expensive.

Now, some might say, “A full set of cartridges on this printer can run you around $200! That’s not cheap!” and to those people I say, “Yes, but that’s for thousands of pages, which is magnitudes more than what other printers give you. AND, those cartridges won’t dry up.”

Excelente desempeño muy rápida la calidad de color de la impresión es genial los cortes no de corren
Excelente compra
El único inconveniente es el tamaño

The short version is that my wife & I are really liking this printer so far. As the headline reads, the color prints look great (including photo prints) and it prints fast (even from startup).

So I chuckled reading some of the reviews (which I carefully did for several models). People talk about this printer being hefty (aprox 40lbs). This printer replaced an old HP 4550N Color LaserJet I had. THAT printer was hefty (113lbs!). So, the approx 40lbs was a JOY! 🙂 I was very pleased with the HP but it was just getting old and was well beyond end of life. So I’ve been an HP fan for many years and felt I was really taking a risk trying out the Brother. My wife is a teacher and prints a lot of “stuff”. So far we (especially my wife) have been just very impressed by this printer. I even printed my first double sided print (full duplex) today and it worked great. We’ve probably printed 30+ color pages and the toner and other perishables don’t even show a dent in utilization (still 100% across the board). So thank you Brother for sending decent starter toner cartridges!

I appreciated the one reviewer providing the password “initpass” for the built in web server on the printer. The information and configuration options on the printers web page are impressive.

The pictures above are of the unboxing process. There are about nine pieces of tape that have to be removed and there are these orange clips that keep the toner cartridges in place during shipping. They are fairly easy to remove. You will need to pull down the main front door and pull out the cartridge drawer to get to them.

Last, it has been great getting this printer. It immediately prompted me to download and install updates (twice). My WIN10 PCs immediately see the new printer and it worked flawlessly. We own iPhones and we can print very easily from them straight to the printer. On the iPhones, if the photo is large it takes a little longer to print which I assume is because it’s going over WiFi to get to the printer. Speaking of which, I have this printer plugged into my network and am NOT using the built-in WiFi.

APPROX. 1 YR UPDATE
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So we purchased this in August of ’19… now July ’20. So far this printer has been VERY impressive. We’ve gone through the starter toner… got approx. 2k prints from those alone!!! I purchased the high yield toner cartridges… that’s pricey but not when you compare number of prints to traditional toner. We’ve been so pleased I recommended this to my mother (and she purchased it). I’ll occasionally log into the printer and upgrade the firmware (if a new one is available) and check the stats. So far we have 2,650 color & 151 b&w prints. Excluding toner, all the perishables (drum unit, fuser unit, laser unit, etc are above 90% with most being just under 100%.

OVER 2 YR UPDATE
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Printer is still going strong! My wife is a teacher and prints tons of stuff… I have three teens cranking out reports, you name it. I’m on my second FULL toner cartridge set (four). That is to say, I’ve gone through the starter, a regular full set and on another. So far I have 6,690 color pages & 548 B&W pages. As I mentioned… I have my second FULL / extended toner set in and they are almost 100% each. Sad to hear anyone has issues with this model… I can just tell you my experience. I DID however have one issue where I purchased a full (black, yellow, cyan, magenta) Brother toner replacement. ONE of the toner cartridges didn’t work… it was brand new out of the package and the printer showed empty. I tend to purchase this stuff some months before they run out so I don’t get caught empty. The bad thing about that is that it was past the seller’s return date. I was disappointed with the seller for that. Unfortunately Brother wouldn’t help me out either BUT… to Amazon’s credit they gave me some credit for the single toner. I ended up purchasing a stand alone toner cartridge to replace the “defective” one and it worked great.

I buy a lot of printers for my businesses. The last 5 HP printers I purchased I had problems with of one kind or the other. I have had a few Brother printers and I noticed that even the old ones were still working so I bought another Brother. Right out of the box it worked flawlessly. Easy to hook up and install and problem free. This is what a printer should be like. My take is that HP, which has a million models, has the strategy of flooding the market with models but the quality over the years is terrible. They look nice but 5 printers all with issues ranging from not connecting to the network, not printing, dropping pages in a print, and blurry, is not a coincidence. Their quality is terrible. This Brother, and all of my Brother printers, are work horses. I hope this helps you.