HL-L2445DW

I've owned a HP Laserjet printer for years and as it had started to malfunction I decided to buy a new one. I'd never used Brother printers before but was aware that they had a good reputation, so I chose this one and it's absolutely brilliant. Inside the box you'll find the printer, a power cable, a toner and drum cartridge, some booklets (quick setup guide, safety and warranty information - no full user guide as is the case these days) and a lot of polystyrene. The printer is quite a large, square, boxy thing, not as tall as it is wide, and feels plasticky but solid, and isn't too heavy. Setup took a matter of minutes, and the guide was absolutely fine - take everything out of the box, remove the toner and drum cartridge from its bag, take the protective orange clip off it and insert it into the printer, put some paper into the tray, power it on, and connect to wifi with no drivers, software, or apps required (I was using Windows 11 and an Android phone, the latter able to print things like downloaded PDFs straight away without having to install anything). Connecting to wifi was easy. The printer has a single line LCD display, and I quickly found the network settings, selected wifi, chose my network, entered the password (lots of up & down and OK key presses here to select the relevant characters) and that was that, everything could connect straight away. If you don't want to use wifi the rear of the printer has a USB port (a printer USB port, so a square-ish D-shaped port, not a standard USB or USB C port) but no cable is included, and also an ethernet port if you wish to connect it to your router, but again no cable is supplied. In use, the printer is noisier than my old HP one, but the sound you can hear is like a fan, presumably the one that cools the inside of the printer while it is working. I'm delighted to find that the printer does double sided printing without having to manually reinsert the paper as my old one did, and is extremely fast, printing around 32 pages per minute. The included toner cartridge is apparently good for over 1000 pages - so far I've done maybe 60, so I've got some way to go before I can see how accurate this is. When not in use, if you leave the printer on it will enter a sleep mode so power consumption is minimised, and as soon as you send a print job it wakes up and starts straight away. Print quality is great, whether printing text or images, but as this is a mono printer it's obviously just black and white, which is exactly what I wanted as I mainly print documents. I'm absolutely delighted with this, and so far it seems that Brother's great reputation for laser printers is warranted.

After replacing all of the ink cartridges in my admittedly excellent ink key printer I wondered if I could do something to reduce printing costs as ink prices are huge. I've dabbled with laser printers over the years and remember the early huge expensive models with few features. Researching the current market, Brother printers are rated highly and so I decided to take the plunge on this model which was also selling for just over the cost of a full set of ink cartridges... I have to say I'm absolutely blown away by how good this printer is, especially compared to my experiences of old. It was easy to set up (scan the QR code and follow the instructions on your phone or go to the Brother website on PC), it has ethernet and WiFi connectivity, it prints duplex, has high print quality and it's very fast when printing. Wow. It comes with a 1,200 page toner cartridge and you have the option of choosing higher capacity replacements when the time comes. Excellent work Brother and now I can keep the ink key for photo prints only where it truly excels.

This is for HL-L2445DW printer. It's surprisingly light, feels way lighter than my Canon TS9xxx and TS8xxx inkjet. It's also in a perfectly compact size. To start with, I just need to remove all protection tapes, put in toner and paper, plug in the power cable, connect to Wifi using the pathetic few buttons and the tiny single line display, it's all up and running. It's also super fast. Didn't time it exactly but feels like all the claims in the spec are legit, as well as double-side printing (duplex). This is night and day comparing to inkjet. After switching on, it falls into deep sleep in about half a minute, and it wakes up immediately if I need to print anything. This comes in a benefit of energy saving. When its switched on, its energy consumption shoots to over 900W for a fraction of a second, then down to below 100, and pulse to over 600W every few seconds, only for a fraction of a second only each time. Then it falls to Sleep in about 15 seconds staying at about 2.3W, in another 15 seconds into deep sleep staying at 0.3W. When printing, the power pattern is similar as switching on, while during printing it stays at 300-over 600W. Then the above sleep cycle start kicking in again. Pretty efficient for how fast it gets back to power saving. The key feature catching my eye is its 1200x1200 dpi printing. To be fair, this is a document printer and we should never expect professional photo printing quality even on colour laser printers. I'm just doing the tests to see how its resolution look like, performance likely for some docs with some inline graphics. Document printing in text is as crisp and contrasting as usual laser printer. Included some test print samples and doesn't seems any settings allow me to lower its dpi, or whether its just a matter of detail dithering only? I didn't examine laser printers so I'm not sure how a normal 600dpi printing looks like or comparing. The hair printing sample is actually a snippet of a full A4 print of a photo taken by iPhone. We can see strips across the printing, however, it looks like the strips are more prominent in fine/best mode regardless of using the App or AirPrint. However as I mentioned, there doesn't seem any difference in resolution no matter which mode using. For your comparison, also include another printing sample, which is the 1st full res photo of this printer listing, which is at 1500x1048 pixels only. Printed on full page A4 and take some close up of the details that you may compare with your printers. To use the app or AirPrint or other methods? The App only allows print from files or photo library. If you need to print directly from any other iOS apps, the only way is still via AirPrint. Not sure about Windows and Android, guess more users will share soon. One of the feature to use the app, maybe to check the toner levels. Not sure if it's accurate or not. If the inbox toner is 700 pages capacity, it seems I've used up more than 10%, but I've definitely not yet printed more than 70 pages so far, maybe 30 only. Maybe those A4 graphic prints consumed a lot more than text prints. Will see how it goes in the long run. Just a little tip, if you don't wanna dust it very frequently and keeping it dust free, especially the rollers required to roll the paper back in for duplex printing, I stick a plastic file on top of it. It still works perfectly printing single and double sides, while keeping the printer output area dust-free. Update 20240331: The more I use, one issue needs to manage own expectation when using as document photocopying. I have other printer scanner scanning text docs or music scores, no matter how high contrast B&W (from eg histogram), printing on this laser printer will still be rendered as if graphics and resulting in dithering edges, ie losing all sharpness of docs and music scores. In this case, I still print from inkjet so the original sharpness can be replicated.

Took 5 days to hunt down various problems. Good price but not user friendly to connect.

Good price good printer easy set up and easy to use

Fed up if my current laser printer constantly dropping off my WiFi network, I wanted a printer with a hardwired Ethernet connection. This Brother printer offers the best of all worlds. Ethernet. Wi-fi (including AirPrint and 5mhz), Wi-fi direct and even USB. Print quality is great and now that the printer is plugged directly into my hub, printing is fast, reliable and every computer can find and connect to the printer. It was so easy to set up and use. Really pleased.

Rapide, pas trop bruyante, configuration wifi facile à mettre en place. Par contre, l'installation du logiciel sur ordi est longue et contraignante (e-mail, mot de passe, etc.)

me ha sorprendido esta impresora. por ponerle un pero...con las actualizaciones de software no reconoce el código que viene detrás.