Brother HL-L2350DW
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I.S.WH! – Love my brother HL-L2350DW. She might not be the sharpest most Hi-def printer on the market, but when it comes down to brass tax, $50 second hand on facebook marketplace and a new toner to boot, this unit has got my back through university and beyond. Efficient and friendly, an industry standard workhorse, hands down. Show details
Unreliable HL L2350DW – Had nothing but drama with the HL L2350DW I operate an extremely busy business and need reliability in all aspects.It fails miserably.Installed Brother 2450 toner.When it prints sometimes it prints are completely faded,other times perfect. Frustrating.Help. Show details
Love this little printer – Has WSP WIFI setup - doesn't even need to be connected to a computer at any point if your router supports WSP. Does the job just fine. Two-sided printing is a plus for saving paper and resources. Using it for several years now. SAFE ON TONER REPLACEMENTS: log into the settings menu using your browser (you need the IP address of the printer - can… Read more
be found in your router menu) and set cartridge use to continuous mode. Brother cartridges come with a set "lifetime" for which Brother guarantees print quality. Brother estimates the cartridge lifetime from number of pages printed and "coverage" (amount of toner used). This means that the printer will stop printing even when there is toner in the cartridge left as Brother won't guarantee print quality beyond this point. Toggling the printer into continuous mode overwrites this setting. In my experience there is always toner left for many, many more pages and I replace the cartridge only when the print quality visibly detorriates.
Printer stopped working after One year – Purchased Brother printer in April 2022, used printer twice but last week, printer would not work, kept showing “Receiving Data”. Contacted Brother tech. from Phillipines, they tried every way to help me but printer would not print. So now I have to take the printer to a Service Centre and pay for the repairs. What a waste of plastic parts and it is brand new. Show details
Very difficult to Wifi connect to Win-11 – I bought this printer for my ageing father. Tested it at home first with my MacBook Air. No probs, it was totally simple to wifi connect and print. Tried to wifi connect it to Dad's Win-11 laptop no, no, no! 1.5 hours later on Brother phone support (who where very patient) and it printed but unformatted like a text dump or blank pages. Take 2,… Read more
another hour on the phone and still getting nowhere. I mentioned that I have an old USB printer cable. I could hear the support lady cheering from Manila. I plugged that in and 15 mins later with phone support it prints. Not happy.
This is the Fuji Xerox Docuprint rebadged – I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this on the shelves. It's absolutely identical. Do not buy it. Whilst on the few occasions it worked, the print was fast and clear, large print out workloads were swallowed with ease, these occasions were, alas, few and far between. It loses wifi and USB connectivity for no apparent reason. The tiny… Read more
screen is a nightmare to read and the instructions near unintelligible. After many hours of my life (that I'll never get back) trying, again and again to get it working, I eventually wrote it off for the sake of my sanity. Maybe a computer geek could figure this out, but for a typical home user (for whiom it was marketed) it is a nightmare. Make sure you get a cast iron money back guarantee if you're still willing to take the risk.
A single use printer – Like most printers, this Brother has problems, probably more than most. The wifi continually drops out. It goes into deep sleep mode all the time and requires unplugging and restarting. By the time the initial toner cartridge is empty, the drum needs replacing and these cost more than a new printer. It's terrible that this kind of techno-waste… Read more
exists.
Add to that the quality of text is bad and print, very bad and what have you got? Another tech headache. Whether better printers exist is problematic - inkjets dry out and clog, the ink costs a fortune. Lasers have drums that fail and expensive toner. Probably hand writing or fax is more reliable.
Do Not Buy ! Not Reccomended. Not Cheap, But Nasty. Rubbish ! – Oops... HL-L2305W NO support. OLD. has windows XP drivers inc. How old is this "THING"? WI-FI.... WHAT A JOKE. setup is complicated. NO instructions.(figure it out yourself) VERY basic "how to"... does NOT come with USB cable. buttons etc on top. can't see them if on a shelf. BADLY designed. Show details
no longevity poor printing – Bought this 15/02/2017 but gave up trying to remove spots from copies over 2 years ago. Ink on roller wouldn't come off. I spent hours trying with alcohol wipes etc. Watched all the videos to try and get rid of spots. I am looking for another printer and find that this one had great write ups. Didn't happen to me. I got maybe 3 yrs from it. Show details
Simple, Solid and Robust – So simple to set up, the wifi connection is very efficient even in a two story house. Printing from mobile devices is easy. The double sided printing is so handy. A well built printer with great print quality. Printed work is clean and straight. The only downside is the design and function of the On/Off button. It's reliant on a relay and often… Read more
takes too long to respond. Switching on is slow and is far more difficult to switch off. I can see this delicate switch being the first thing to fail eventually. I currently have my printer connected to a wall socket so switching On and Off is now instant.
Brother printer lack of support – The machine stopped printing and the support was woeful. I had to lodge it in a chat platform via their website then they couldn’t address the issue so they finished the chat and sent me instructions via email. I am now expected to fix it via email conversation! So much for ‘brother support being right by your side’. No am still waiting for their response. Show details
Does what a printer does best – Do what a lazer mono printer does. No complaints. Also using a similar model in the workplace. Show details
Great reliable printer – Very good reliable toner printer. I've had a previous model as well which was also good. You can buy generic ink cartridges which makes it even more affordable printing option. Would highly recommend this printer. Show details
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Very Good – I think I got an OK price considering it's well into lockdown 2021 and these things are in shorter than ever supply. At least it was delivered to my door for the money. My B&W printing needs are more than ever. I wanted something to cope with that higher demand at home and that could also network for others here. My HP inkjet is still going… Read more
fine but the ink costs rake up and it's getting on and has been used loads. The new one needed to cope with my everyday needs and the inkjet can do my colour / very finest needs as and when.
Some reviews mark it as difficult to set up for wifi. Some are from so-called "real" reviewers. I would agree the printed "quick start" guide is pretty poor but a quick Google gets you to some good YT vids and it's all easy and ultra-quick provided you have a WPS button on your router. WiFi will be labourious if you do not.
There is no ethernet port, which seems a bit mean but not an issue for me in our "standard" sized area I need the WiFi option to work in.
I did download the drivers for the main PC that it's hardwired to, but that's me. It was easy and I may or may not use the extra functionality offered. Away from my main PC the windows 10 generic drivers give nothing to complain about.
It has a small footprint and is lightning fast to start printing connected by printer cable to my PC. Over networked WiFi any sized job takes say 20 seconds (max without timing again) to start printing. I have not tried the WiFi direct as I don't need it.
Not timed anything but its claimed print speeds look very believable - plenty for me.
Some reviews point to only average text quality. I disagree. I think this would serve any use case for text and its graphics are more than passable. I have sat in many meetings and I just don't see anyone complaining. Having said that some real final presentation where everything counts I might use my inkjet in finest mode on thicker paper.
For those that care I have attached some photos. They are scans from the same document, save for changed settings descriptor fields, printed in different quality settings from a well-known document creation application. Very little difference between all 3 but I would tend to leave it on 600DPI /set to Text/plain paper in that application in the printer properties (fields on left of each document contain those descriptors). The paper I used for this test was the ubiquitous good office staple, "Rexel Ultra White 80 GSM". YMMV with a different paper. The paper type selection in that application made the biggest difference in my simple quick test..
The settings window on the printer is a bit small and this is not really very intuitive for that reason, but I won't be using it often so not an issue either really.
Overall it's a super little printer taking up little room and goes about its working life quietly with no discernable vibration.
Amazing Printer – wifi...double sided printing, super economical, prints from iphone, included cartridge lasted more than three years and still printing...no paper jams, no connectivity problems ever....This printer is insanely good, very user friendly. Show details
Easy to set up, affordable refills you can't ask for anymore than that – It works every time quality of print is great and does loads of copies. We had a brother inkjet before but the laser is better no worries about ink spills etc Show details
Seems good quality but setup wireless printing was not easy! – Instructions does not show AT ALL how to set up wireless printing. Have to search online and found a guy in US who had made his own video, thank goodness for that! Even though I am on MAC OS Catalina and it states no need for a driver to use it, I had to download the driver and set the printer up in the "old fashion way" to finally work… Read more
wirelessly. With the IP address; it does not want the printers IP but my network IP. I am not a tech person and it was not stated anywhere. Spent hours on this!!
Laser printer to replace inkjet – After doing some research, finally I decided to purchase this laser printer. It has a much lower running cost. The printer is reasonable silent. Printer quality is very good. It does double side too which is a plus. Also it has wireless so I can place it anywhere in the home. Will highly recommended this printer. Show details
The Power Cable is Non-Removable – For those that have a 'Printer Cupboard' and rely on the priner power cable going through a small hole, don't buy this - the power cable is sealed into the Printer and is non-removable Show details
Works Wonderfully Well! – Having previously had a very good run from a Brother HL-2150 mono laser-printer, we decided to get a new Brother HL-L2350DW. This model features duplex printing capability ... can print both sides of a page in one process. As is common these days it also provides wi-fi connectivity. This is particularly useful as we have two computers and had… Read more
previously to constantly swap the USB cable between them - it also allows for printing direct from mobile devices (e.g. iPad and phones). It's early days yet, but so far the machine has operated flawlessly, quickly and quietly printing clear, clean copies. Highly recommend: office_supplies_pennant_hills_2120 (on eBay) from whom we bought this item. The price was so good that, even including shipping (via Australia Post), it was still significantly cheaper than buying from a local shop + ordering was super simple and delivery to Adelaide from Sydney took just two days.
A great WiFi laser printer for the price – Suites someone who wants a wireless B&W wireless printer. Packaging: Lots of it, polystyrene and plastic bags :-( Ease of setup: Very easy to setup though I do work in IT. Startup: A small sound at start then it's quiet after that. No driver was required, Windows 10 recognised the unit straight away. Printing: I have connected this unit to the… Read more
home Wi-Fi, adding the key from the menu of the printer, easy. Windows 10 then picked up the printer, set as default and away you go. Speed: From click to print was only about 5 seconds to send a single page PDF. This is not bad at all. Quality: Print quality was excellent. The text was clean with no ghosting. Even fine Japanese text came up very clear.
A top value mono laser printer for the home office – My Canon inkjet failed me after several years of great service. It was a colour inkjet, but was almost always used for printing black eBay address labels, so I decided to look at mono lasers. I usually do a bit of research before making a purchase and this one rated right up there on Choice's review site - and I must admit to putting a lot of… Read more
faith in the depth of Choice's testing and reviews.
The HL-L2350DW printer scored a very high 74% in their testing and offers low operating costs at approx. $64 year, which I thought was great value. I've only had the unit for a couple of days, but so far I love the fact that the magazine holds up to 250 pages of paper. It is also really fast, in fact, it can print up to 30 pages per minute - though I will rarely need that speed. It's also very quiet.
I bought the unit off of NES Printer Supplies and Services (eBay) for $122, compared with the Good Guys $149 RRP, so I saved $27 as well. All in all - I'm a happy customer.
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