MFC-L2700DW

I just bought this printer to replace a piece of garbage HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 in my office (as in my actual place of business). Our paralegal has a similar Brother MFC (6 years old), and we have a smaller Brother MFC in our home office (8 or 9 years old). Both of them have been great work horses, and although they have some limitations (the biggest being that they're not wireless), we've been generally happy with them. Given that I went through 2 HP printers in 3 years in my office, I figured I'd go back to Brother, and the price was right. I even chose the L2700DW over a newer model that was twice the price (MFC-L2740DW) because even though it was faster, it didn't seem to offer anything additional that I felt justified doubling the price. (Parenthetical update on December 2, 2015: the MFC-L2700DW has come down $20 on Amazon since I bought it, and the MFC-L2740DW has come down about $60. If, when I bought this machine, the prices were as they are now, I might have sprung for the newer model.) On the whole, I'm happy I went back to Brother. The speed of printing, scanning, and copying are hugely improved over the HP. I don't need to print in color, and I was getting increasingly annoyed by the fact that, in the HP, somehow your color ink gets depleted even if you never print in color, meaning that it would refuse to print, even in black, unless I had color ink available to it. You know that ink's not cheap, either. With this Brother, I obviously don't have that problem because it only has black toner. Now the toner is expensive (because when is it not?) but with our other Brother MFCs, I've shopped everywhere, including Costco, and found that nearly 100% of the time, if not 100% of the time, Amazon has the best price on Brother toner. I do have a couple of issues with this MFC, and I've got an e-mail in with Brother in hopes that they can help me fix them (Edit: please see update from 12/9/15 at the bottom): 1. Deep Sleep Mode - This model does NOT have an option to disable Deep Sleep, only set it to a chosen time interval, the longest of which can be 50 minutes. According to the interwebs, older models do have the option to disable it. The problem lies in that this MFC is supposed to "wake up" from Sleep or Deep Sleep mode when you send it a print job. Pressing buttons on the printer is also supposed to "wake it up." However, neither works for Deep Sleep mode. My only option is to turn the printer off and back on again. (To its credit, my HP was screwing up and making me do that multiple times a day, and it took a lot longer to reboot.) However, even though I set the Deep Sleep mode to max out at 50 minutes, it keeps resetting itself to 01 minute, meaning earlier today my multiple print jobs that were 2 or 3 minutes apart required full restarts of the MFC in between. This is incredibly inefficient, and if Brother can't help me fix it, I'll be returning this machine. (PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATE ON 12/9/15 AT THE BOTTOM REGARDING THIS ISSUE.) 2. Stack/Sort (a/k/a Collate) - This MFC is set to "Stack" copies, meaning if you are making two copies of a 2-page document, it will print in this order: page 1, page 1, page 2, page 2. Multiply this out for longer documents/more copies, and you can see how inefficient and frustrating this could be. (Seriously, I hope you have a big table/counter and some time to organize all your copies.) I looked it up and discovered that you can change your copy options to set it to "Sort," meaning it will collate your copies (page 1, page 2, page 1, page 2, for two copies of a 2-page document). Great, right? Well, it would be if I could set that as a permanent setting, but I can't. I can only set it to Sort with each individual copy job. I can tell you that when I'm copying certain documents, that is going to get really old, really fast. My old HP required it for each copy job, too, and it annoyed me then. My guess is that collating requires that the printer use memory, then print it in order (which is why collating doesn't work fully on very large copy jobs). Stacked copies mean it doesn't store the documents in its memory, just prints them as it scans. I'm checking with Brother to see if I can set the MFC to Sort permanently, though based on my experience with the lack of permanence of the Deep Sleep mode setting, I'm not holding my breath. It's not a deal killer, but in my opinion, if they give you the option to collate at all, there should be an option to keep it that way long-term. If this is of utmost importance to you, you may need to buy a higher-level machine or an actual copier. Overall, I expect this printer to be as reliable as our older Brother MFCs, but many of the limitations that exist in the older models still appear to exist. If they'd fix the two issues I mentioned, they'd have a perfect 5-star machine. It's hard to complain for the price, but, like I said, if they can't fix the Deep Sleep problem, I'll have no choice to send it back. I just don't have time to reboot my printer for every single print job that comes more than 1 minute past the last one. TL;DR Pros: solid printer, decent speed in print/copy/scan, will likely last a while, price is good Cons: Deep Sleep mode keeps resetting to 01 minute, no option to disable Deep Sleep, issues waking up from Deep Sleep (PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW FROM 12/9/15), no option to collate copies as a rule instead of with each copy job UPDATE (December 2, 2015): I have gone back and forth with Brother customer service over the aforementioned issues. They have not addressed the collate issue with copying, but I suspect that is just something I'll have to live with (and can live with). As for the Deep Sleep Mode issues, I have updated firmware, I've reset factory options and reconnected it to my network, then reset the options, I've set it up to access printer settings remotely from my computer, etc. Basically I've done everything that Brother has told me to do that they expected would fix the problem. About 50% of the time the machine will "wake up" from Deep Sleep mode if I send a print job to it, but even if I have the machine set not to go into Deep Sleep Mode for 50 minutes (the max allowable), every print job resets it to 01 minutes. So even if I just send it one page to print, I have to remember either to go to the printer itself and reset Deep Sleep Mode or to do it from my browser. It's getting very old, very quickly. Brother is allegedly going to call me to help me with this. If they cannot help me, I will be returning this machine, and I may try the MFC-L2740DW in hopes that a better machine will mean better performance and no Deep Sleep issues. I will update further. UPDATE (December 9, 2015): I have upgraded my review to 5 stars from 4. I got a call from Brother yesterday after a bit of phone tag, and they were super. The tech was incredibly nice and friendly and didn't talk to me like I was an idiot. He didn't make me repeat the steps I'd already been instructed to do and immediately jumped to the weird fix that - get this - actually fixed the not waking up from Deep Sleep problem! The phone call was all of 10 minutes, and that included time waiting to make sure the fix worked. So far, so good. Deep Sleep Mode still resets to 1 minute after each print job, even if I set it to 50 minutes, but I don't care now that it wakes up properly when I send a print job. The tech still didn't know why that happened, but I told him that it wasn't worth trying to fix if it was waking up as it should. Also, he said that there is a way to disable Deep Sleep Mode that they had to figure out because the engineers in Japan didn't tell them about it, but I didn't care to ask further about it now that everything is working properly. All in all, I'm very pleased with the way the issue was handled and resolved, and I am keeping my machine :)

Update May 2016: printer still works great. Aftermarket toner cartridge I mentioned before working great. I print about 30 pages a week. I'll never buy another printer that isn't duplex capable as it saves so much paper. Update February 2016: Just now ran out of the starter toner. I took a chance (it had good reviews) and bought E-Z Ink (TM) Compatible Toner Cartridge Replacement for Brother TN630 TN660 High Yield (1 Black Toner) toner to replace it ($13 for the high yield cartridge vs. $50 for the genuine Brother product, so far, so good). Printer still works great. Only have had a couple jams, but they weren't really jams, probably just mis-feeds, which register as a jam. Duplex printing is awesome, so fast and a real paper saver! QUIET compared to other lasers I've had and the price at the time was unreal. Price is about $40 higher now on Amazon. UPDATE November 2015: I've had this printer about 6 months now. So far, it is still working great. Brother also didn't drag their feet creating a driver for Windows 10. It works great in Windows 10. I don't do a ton of printing, average about 5-10 pages a week. The "Brother Status Monitor" says I have about 40% left of the starter toner cartridge. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Pros: Small footprint and height, excellent price for the features, duplex printing Cons: Only starter cartridge, no duplex copying I have owned mostly HP and Brother printers in the past 20 years. I have continually been frustrated and angered by HP printers due to their poor reliability. I have owned 3 Brother printers now...a dot matrix in the 90's and now two different all-in-one laser units. The previous Brother laser all-in-one worked great for over 5 years before the document feeder started "jamming" (no jam was found, but the printer said there was). After a pro tech cleaned the unit, it worked great for another year before it started "jamming" again. Other than that, the device worked like a charm. I paid I believe about $300 for a refurb model in 2005. For the $130 I paid for this 2700DW model, I am floored. I've only had it about 6 months, but no problems so far. If it lasts at least 5 years it will have been worth it. I hope it lasts much longer than that so it just doesn't end up in a landfill. But the price is amazing. I also love that it is about 1/2 the size of my previous Brother 8440. The size of all-in-one lasers is what kept me away from them as my daily office printer. They have now come down to a manageable size and price for me to warrant to ditch inkjets forever. I will be updating the review every year or two as to how long it lasts. Brother has a pretty good history of durable office machines and my experience with the previous two concurs. My main use of this device are regular document printing and copying. Occasionally I scan documents. I use the ADF (document feeder) almost exclusively, so this is a very important feature to me. I connect only via USB as my experience with wired and wireless network connections with printers in the past is they work great until they don't. USB is fool-proof. I have no need for color printing nor do I need high quality scans. Tip for scanning to PDF: Get the free program (for Windows, not sure about other platforms) called "iCopy". Best little program I have found so far for this purpose. After minor one-time setup in iCopy, place your page(s) in the ADF or glass and press the big blue "COPY" button in iCopy. I will scan all your pages and spit it out into a PDF file. My only gripe I have had at all with Brother had not to do with this model but the previous MFC-8440 all-in-one laser. Brother never created Windows 7 drivers, which resulted in me having to use the generic Microsoft drivers. The Brother software wouldn't work on Windows 7, though I was able to create several workarounds to get the functioning out of the device that I wanted. It was frustrating, though, as at the time, the device was not that old and I had expected that Brother would update their software for it. I wrote and called to them about this but they were unable to help. HP seems to tend to better on this issue than Brother has been, but it's pointless if the hardware craps out all too easily. That being said, Brother has already updated the driver and software package for the 2700DW for Windows 10.

This is a good printer as suggested by its popularity. It is economical, prints fairly fast, and the text is very crisp and clean. It is economical to use and has a good third party toner following. It does what it is intended to do - print a relatively large number of text documents at an economical price. It does that very well. The scanner works fairly well, albeit pretty slow. At 1200 x 1200 a scan of an 8 x 10 will take almost 2 minutes. I know that isn't bad for a high resolution 8 x 10 scan but compared to high end scanners, it isn't all that great either. I know, I know, this isn't a high end machine, it is an economical machine! Take a break, I gave it 4 stars because it does what it is suppose to do. This review is really about taking the printing to its limits and comparing it to a higher end machine. Nothing wrong with that. Better to compare it to a better machine and know what you are getting than to have you dreaming about getting a Mercedez at a Ford Focus price. This is not a Mercedez and it was never presented as such, so don't get all bent out of shape. Let's look at its print quality for anything other than text. I am a teacher and a professional photographer. I have been teaching for 12 years and I have been a professional photographer for 25 years. So what you say? I present this only as information to show that I know something about printing - especially images. I know, I know this is not a photo printer - I get that. However, as a teacher, we often include photos and clipart on our student worksheets. I need to be able to print a decent photo that I can send to my copy lady, run it through the big copier, and print 500 copies with descent quality images. I am not talking photo quality. I can't afford a top quality photo laser printer for this purpose so I need a relatively economical printer that can print descent photos for a worksheet. So I purchased this printer and am comparing it to the much higher priced HP Enterprise M605 printer. The M605 prints nice smooth gray scale photos that copy just fine. I don't have one of these at home, where I do most of my work, so I was hoping the 2700 would fit the bill. It does not. The images below were printed and then scanned using the 2700 scanner at 1200 x 1200 DPI. The images were brought into Photoshop, cropped to the same resolutions and adjusted using a black point set and a white point set, nothing else. The image is a professional calibration image provided by a professional photo lab. It is clean and represents the entire range of hues and tones contained in most photographic images. Photo one below is the full image from the M605 printer. Notice the image has a full range of tones from white to black. Look particularly at the girls, the skin tones are relatively smooth. Look at the calibrated tonal range bar on the right - Nice smooth gradations from white to black. Now look at the 2700 image number 2. The first thing you will notice is that the girls hair and the black end of the tonal range bar are blocked up. The blacks and near blacks get run together. The tonal ranges are not smooth. They are streaky and again, the last two black and near black squares are run together. If this image were used in a worksheet, it would need to be adjusted before insertion while the M605 would not need any adjustments at all. Now lets crop in and enlarge the part of the print with the girls. The third image is the cropped image from the M605. Notice that you can clearly seen the limitations of the printer. The M605 is not a photo printer either. But the skin tones are smooth and the tonal range is good. The fourth image is the crop of the D2700 print. Again, the blocked out blacks can easily be seen. But look at the skin tones. They are not smooth. There is clearly more streaking in this image than in the M605 image. I keep saying, this is a fine printer and I am trying to get it to do something it isn't designed to do. I acknowledge that. Most people who buy this printer are not going to print photos on it, but I have a special need to include small images in my student worksheets. I will say that it does a good job with graphs, most clip-art, and of course text. The papers I give my students are leaps and bounds above the purple ink mimeograph worksheets I had as a kid. So I will keep this printer and either continue my search for an affordable laser that will meet my needs, or I will use this one for text and print on the school M605 when I have images in my documents. Buy this printer and use it knowing it does a great job for the price. Just know its limitations and if you need to insert photos in your documents, you many need a different or a second printer.

I bought this printer after years of frustration with my Cannon MF series printer ($500 printer btw) and I got to say, my wife and I love it. We own a small business that we run out of our home, and this printer really fit the bill. Frankly I was a little leery to order a $100 printer to handle our home office, but brother is a brand name, and with the review I read, I decided to chance it. The following is my experience to date. 1. Easy network set up - I hooked the power in, plugged in the fax line, plugged in the network cable and installed the software. The software installed very easily with no problems and found the printer IP address right off. I have had a couple power cycles in the office, and the IP address did change on the printer, and the software auto updated the change in IP address automatically. So no interruption in service. 2. Prints duplex great! I use a lot of double sided documents, and it works great. 3. Faxes with no problems - my first fax was sending a 41 page document. No problem. 4. Scanning a document to PDF is GREAT!!!! With my last printer, I had to open the software on my computer, set up the printer to scan and send it to the computer, then hit the start button on the computer, then hit the scan button on the printer - a real hassle - but I scan a lot of documents to PDF to save them on my server. With this little beauty I hit scan, answer a couple questions on the screen and it automatically scans and sends it to my computer as a PDF files - was a breeze. I would recommend this printer to anyone, the price for toner is not bad at all, the price on the printer is great, and it works just like I need it to. The only bad thing I would say, is it is a loud when it prints, but it is not crazy loud and I like everything else!

4-9-2018, Revision A: Poorly thought through design (if you can use "design," here)... Problems: --- The AC cord is permanently attached and is not a std computer cord (not removable), and its too short (less than 3Ft), to make it to my computer power strip. --- The issue is that you cant unplug your old Brother Printer and put this in its place. I had to take apart my home office to access the next nearest AC plug (via a power strip to get all the way over there)... ========== Because of the above, this printer took more than an hour to physically install it (this does not include the clean up time)... --- USB is supposed to auto update and connect the to printer. It tried twice. It did not work. I had to mess around with this for more than 1/2 hour. --- The LCD display cant be seen. Its a non-back-light type. If I place my head over it, the display is clearer, but I block the light - Still cant see it. ========== I purposeless bought the non-touch screen type, because they never work and have even more narrower viewing angle. I cant access the angle the touch screen, if I had it. I can only access from on top. ---- Printed paper come out in the front. I like this except its almost like its stuck inside the printer. I expected it to come out the top, like all printer like this do... --- The supplied disk was rejected by Windows 7 Pro, reported not comparable. --- Supplied disk, drives "Pro????" required you to allow program to regularly connected to the internet, and sell, bug or otherwise annoy you (I'm on WildBlue (slow BW limited internet, 12GB per Mo, we run out of internet 1/2 through ever month, from background windows and other devices, that suck inter down without you consent or control), and here is another internet vampire - I said no... I've not yet used the FAX (I need this), or copier, etc =================== I eventually I got it to work. What a piece of junk... Pluses: Its gray and black It dont have a touch screen It has USB (saves LAN connection)

I needed a printer to replace a Canon ink jet printer. I hated dealing with ink that constantly ran out. I'm stuck with about $100 worth of cartridges but it is worth it after buying and using my new laser printer. I really didn't need color so I looked hard at this printer. I liked what I saw and I liked the reviews so I bought it. It also helped that the price dropped about $20 from the time I first considered it until I purchased it. Setup was easy with the supplied disk. I liked the fact I could use it wireless. It worked like a charm. I don't use a printer often but when I need it, I want it working. A couple of days after everything was working fine, I needed to print and received an error message. After troubleshooting the issue I still could not get it to work. I contacted Brother support via email. They were great. They worked with me to try to resolve the issue via email. When that didn't work, they called me to walk me through the problem. We got it working again. However it stopped again a few days later. I firmly believe that my problem was NOT the printer or software. I believe it had to do with my wireless router. I am in the process of replacing my router because of having to reboot it almost daily. I decided to resort to using a USB connection for the printer in the meantime. I did have to uninstall and reinstall the software to do this since I chose "wireless" connection the first time I installed the software. This time I chose USB when installing it. Now everything works fine. It warms up quickly, prints quickly and I get good clean copies. Right now it is the best printer I've seen. I remember reading where some customers didn't like the price of the replacement printer cartridges and wanted to use the cheap ones. From my experience in business I know that it is always best to use original replacement cartridges. I didn't want to pay for an expensive one right now since I don't know when I'll need it. So what I did was to purchase a cheap one to keep handy to use when my expensive one quits. Then I'll pop the cheap one in long enough to order a Brother cartridge. Then I'll package up the cheap one and put it away until my new Brother cartridge gives out. I highly recommend this printer if you can use monochrome instead of color. I also cannot speak more highly of Brother's support staff. I think they went above and beyond in assisting me.

I've had this printer for nearly 10 years, and it has been a workhorse. Very few paper jams, good wifi connectivity, good quality output. I use aftermarket toner cartridges. The scanner has worked perfectly. But now it has developed a paper jam that I cannot see from the front and rear access panels, and I can't clear it without starting to unscrew stuff -- which I don't want to try. Professional repair would cost more than the price of a new smaller (but competent) printer, so I ordered a new one, and I'm donating the old one to a person who likes to tinker.

This multifunction printer works very well and its footprint is only a bit larger than the compact Brother laser printer it replaced. Print quality has been very good and you can adjust it to save toner without too much degradation in print quality. Duplex printing is a very nice feature and I haven't had any problems using run of the mill paper. It has a lot of flexibility as it can be connected via USB, Ethernet, or wireless depending on what you prefer. No cables except for a phone cable are included. Haven't had any problems, jams, or miss-feeds with it in its first month of daily use and it warms up and prints quickly, and then goes back to sleep drawing a mere trickle. Many have mentioned the LED display and they're right it isn't very bright, but I am willing to live with it for the few times I need to look at it. Almost 500 pages already on the original cartridge and no signs it is running out, though I went ahead and bought a couple of OEM replacement cartridges to keep on hand. The fact that there are good reliable OEM toner cartridges available at a reasonable cost is a real plus for this Brother MFC as some other models from Cannon, HP, and Samsung are pricey, and the manufacturer replacements can cost half or more of what you paid for the printer without any noticeable advantage. This is my fourth Brother printer and they all have held up well and just did what they needed to do without problems. This all-in-one Laser printer is well made and offers a lot of value for the money, and if you check around you might find it as low as 119 as the pricing varies almost daily. There are some other printers in this lineup that offer a few more features and might be a little faster, however you will want to weigh the value of a couple of extra features versus the additional cost. One thing I wish it had was a front USB port where I could just plug in a flash drive and directly print or fax a file. Not a deal breaker, just a wish list item. Overall this works great and offers a lot of value for the money, and Brother printers have a reputation for holding up for a long time.

Gostei da qualidade de impressão, mas o software para usar o scanner não é amigável.

Cumple todo lo que necesito. Fácil para conectar a WiFi. Buena calidad de impresos. Llegó rápido. Estoy Super contento con el producto y servicio

Der Drucker wird bei uns zu Hause ausschließlich über das W-Lan benutzt. Hier allerdings von einem MAC, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 Rechner. Alles funktioniert einwandfrei. Die Nachbartoner haben auch einen unschlagbar niedrigen Preis

SOLO QUIERO DECIR QUE TENGO DOS DE ESTE MISMO PRODUCTO, ES MAGNIFICO, LO RECOMIENDO AMPLIAMENTE TOMANDO EN CUANTA QUE IMPRIME POR AMBOS LADOS

Le menu de l'imprimante est en Français. L'installation en wifi ne prend que quelques secondes avec la fonction WPS, l'appareil se mettant immédiatement en contact avec la box internet. De meme, l'installation via éthernet a été tres simple (un cd est fourni) que ce soit sur le mac ou sur le window. Pour les fichiers a imprimer à partir du téléphone , l'installation du logiciel brother sur le téléphone, se fait en quelques secondes et le wifi donne des résutats immédiats. La photocopie doit etre réglée, à mon gout, en tonalité plutot claire pour un résultat parfait. Le scanner dispose d'une interface hyper simple a utiliser sur l'ordinateur. Il scanne en noir et blanc ou couleur selon votre souhait. La fonction imprimante en recto/verso est appréciable. Je n'ai pas encore de visibilité sur la durée du toner fourni avec l'appareil, je verrai à l'usage. Cet achat fait suite la mise au rebu de mon ancienne imprimante HP a jet d'encre, couleurs. Je ne voulais plus de jet d'encre (cartouches qui séchaient, vides, ou rejetées par l'imprimante si pas de la marque HP, lots de cartouches d'encre achetées en réserve qui desséchaient dans leur emballage ou date limite d'utilisation dépassée empechant le démarrage de l'imprimante.... étaient les inconvénients récurrents)