Brother HL-L2460DW Wireless Monochrome Printer

So this was really easy to set up from the Quickstart guide. Just download the software, your quickstart guide gives the website address. Don’t use the included disk because it will be out of date. Plug in the printer, plug in a USB printer cable, no it doesn’t come with one but I have spares from old dead printers. Plug cable into computer, turn on printer. Windows will automatically install drivers, this isn’t a problem. Run the software installer. It will walk you through the installation. Put in your network key when it asks you, not your router password. It connects right away to your network. Unplug USB from computer. After installation you can use the included IPrint & Scan software tool icon to tweak your printer settings from browser based ip address that opens automatically when you click on the tool icon. You can log into your settings using the admin password that’s on back of the printer and this will give you a more complete set of settings. You can print out the initial settings from there as a baseline in case you change something and don’t like it. The menues are pretty self explanitory though lack detailed info. You can download all the many printer guides from the Brother site for your printer. The complete online guide is good for opening in your web browser and being able to click on the table of contents to quickly get to what you want. If you save it as a PDF you won’t be able to click the TOC links. It’s too fat to print out unless you like wasting toner and paper. This guide gives all the printer menu options on the LED and how to access them from the printer. You can set the toner Continue mode from computer, the deep sleep mode has to be set from there printer. I haven’t had any problems with it coming out of deep sleep. The printer automatically enters sleep mode but comes out fast, warms up fast from power on and prints very fast. The double sided setting works very well. You can set your print preferences from your print options menu from whatever program you are using, toner save, paper type, toner density etc and save them in custom settings tab. I’m using a 20 lb paper, so it does curl from the heat. I’ll try a thicker 32 lb paper for when I need better copies. I ran 80 lb smooth cardstock through and it handled it well but did get some heat curling. The printer doesn’t feel hot. Paper just doesn’t like heat. It’s not that big or heavy and fits well in my small office. The cord is a decent enough length, 3 pronged. Paper tray is adjustable to different sizes. Print is good and clear, toner can be adjusted from very dark to toner save, in your printing preferences. Sign into brother-usa.com to register your machine. I’m using this to print plain documents and high quality black and white graphics. Grey tones are good too if that’s what you are needing. Brother Creative Center has lots of free projects you can use for printing or to use their graphics. I like Brother products, have had good experience with them. Haven’t decided if I’m going to use after market toner or stick to Brother. Depends on how fast I end up going through toner. I’m giving a 5 star rating for tech support though I haven’t called them for this printer, that rating is based on tech support I’ve received with my other brother all in one ink jet and my brother scan n cut. The printer came new, well packaged and fairly fast. It’s not pretty if you’re looking for pretty. Please note I’ve had this printer only one day and if things change I’ll update to reflect that. I paid full price for this printer, 115.00, so this review is totally my own.

Fast b/w duplex printing
Wifi a fiddle to set up but once done it works
no trouble with the sleep mode from Mac, windows or iPhones, unlike other reviews – however I did update the firmware
3rd party toner worked for me but if not you can always take the chip off the old cartridge

E’ un’ottima stampante. Dopo anni con una vecchia stampante con il solo cavo USB, adesso è magnifico stampare a casa tramite rete WiFi, in fronte-retro, oppure con l’App dallo smartphone in WiFi o WiFi-Direct.
Ottimo acquisto.

I laughed when researching which B&W printer to buy, because I consistently read people saying “Find whichever Brother printer is on sale and buy it, no need to research more”. They weren’t wrong. I bought the 2460DW model, because it does duplex printing and also works on wireless. I print from my laptop, my kids laptop, or my iPhone.
Set-up was extremely simple. Unboxing, putting in the toner and printer took all of 5 minutes. I chose to manually enter my home wifi network and password using the printers tiny screen and buttons. Took maybe 4-5 minutes. My iPhone printed perfectly from a GoogleSheet the first time, I didn’t even have to try and add the printer. From my PC laptop, I just had to “add a printer” and it found it right away and everything worked perfectly.
The prints are crisp. And they are FAST – I’d forgotten just how fast 36ppm is, it’s practically instantaneous for a document that’s just a few pages. Also, the printer is quite small, compact, nearly silent when turning on or printing, and it warms up and is ready to print in I think less than 10 seconds?!?
I couldn’t be happier with this as my printer for anything that can get by with B&W and page sizes of 8.5×11 or 8x5x14 (legal size).

Was up and running on wi-fi in less than 10 minutes.
Replaces a Brother 2240 which refused to turn on despite trying
every trick I could find on the net. Lasted about 3 years — hope this one runs longer.
(Note: no cable included if you want to plug it into your computer)