Brother Laser Printer: Is the New One Worth it?

[@HenkdePeuter]

If you buy the older model (second hand), you might have to replace the drum. That's quite expensive! Replacement is needed at approximately 12000 (single) printed pages.

[@RealMasky]

Brother printers seem incredible, old yellow laser printer at work still going strong. Thinking of getting the HL-L2460DW for my home.

[@Kleinzeit1]

Old ones, sure! New ones? Not so much. Lots of people are buying new ones on the basis of a reputation that's now completely out of date.

[@FadiAlzammar]

@@Kleinzeit1 What makes you say that? Are there a lot of failures even though the new printer is less than a year old?

[@creamepiecharlie]

Brother printers are like Honda vehicles. These two printers are likely printing very similarly so if u can get a deal on either one of these, go for it. Duplex and single envelops prints, as well some wireless/BT differences. DPI diff are hardly noticeable while printing anything other than pictures. Speed to me doesn't matter. Just great printers all around. Good review sir.

[@shayneoneill1506]

Im not even sure the toner is a big issue. My old brother laser printer was printing about 10-20 pages a week and the toner lasted about 8 years before I needed to replace it.

[@Tennouseijin]

I think it's not that uncommon to print graphics/pictures on a low-budget monochrome printer. Sure, a high-end color printer will give you much prettier pictures, but at a much higher initial and per-page cost. If you're on a tight budget, I'd rather have cheap grayscale pictures, vs having none at all, or having to pay much more for a color one. Especially in cases where monochrome is 'good enough', like graphing data or printing maps for personal use. For a family photo, you can pay extra and have it printed for you by a professional service. Makes more sense than buying an expensive color printer just because you need high quality color prints once a year. So, it definitely makes sense to look at graphics/picture quality even when comparing low-budget monochrome printers.

[@SarcasticTruth77]

Do these work with AirPrint? Got spoiled on my old HP by not having to install drivers and bloatware. Not going back.

[@igenr8]

Very very helpful. Thank you so much.

[@jakubmarkiewicz1769]

This was very helpful. Thank you!

[@keithoehme8729]

Good review!

[@Eric13478]

thank you! used your links :)

[@kathleenhayes2219]

The problem I'm facing with my 3-year-old Brother HL-L2370DW is it needs a new drum. The cost of the drum is $60 less than what I paid for the printer.

[@tahaoz2122]

Buy a compatible drum. They are just fine.

[@dm55]

Nicely done. Thanx

[@robnation2475]

uninstall and reinstall if your old Brother printer isn't responding to drum reset etc.

[@payrus963]

i bought the new version and they sent me the old version 😭😭.

[@deancordova6914]

My printer Says no paper

[@blazedbasil]

new printer toner is expensive

[@Raznak]

According to Brother’s website, no brother printer supports 5ghz wifi