Brother HL-L3270CDW Compact Wireless Digital Color Printer with NFC, Mobile Device and Duplex Printing - Ideal -for Home and Small Office Use, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready

When I purchased this printer less than 2 months ago, I was very excited to use it in order to streamline our restaurant/bar menu printing process. This listing boasted the capabilities of auto printing duplex, high quality color, and speed. Since day 1, this printer has delivered on none of these qualities. The only thing is has delivered is a headache and time wasted each time I had to use it.1. Color - Every time I hit print it's a nice surprise to see what color it's printing for the day. Will it be the nice light dusty blue my file shows, a bright blue raspberry, or maybe purple?! As of recent it's been an interesting dyed looking combination of all three. The color is so inaccurate and inconsistent I can't even imagine feeling comfortable selling this as a 'color printer'. Perhaps a "you get what I feel like printing today" printer.2. Speed - While this printer does print somewhat quickly on the days it decides to work, these days are few and far between. More frequently, the printer will cancel prints mid-job requiring the job to be resent and adjusted to line up with the last page printed, adding an extreme amount of unnecessary wasted time to a print project.3. Duplex "Capable" - When I purchased this product, I was careful to do research to ensure that it could print on A5 paper, as this is the dimensions of our menus. I was thrilled to find that it was, in fact, A5 compatible. Another important box to check was finding a printer that was auto duplex capable, as our menu pages are front and back. Upon receiving this machine, I could not for the life of me figure out how to get it to print duplex for these menu sheets. It was not until I was deep down a rabbit hole on the phone with support that I tried to send a file to the printer to duplex via Microsoft Word and it prompted a pop-up that the duplex option is not compatible with the A5 size. The support staff had been unable to share that very important piece of information with me. The seemingly random page sizes it is compatible with are A4, Letter, Legal, Mexico Legal, and India Legal. So now we have a printer that can't print color accurately, is not fast, AND cannot print duplex on the supposedly compatible paper size that we need it to - unchecking all of the boxes we had checked before ordering it.4. Support - Possibly the most frustrating issue of all is being sent to a support team that seemingly knows nothing about these printers or printers in general. After numerous conversations and hours of time spent on the phone, nothing has been fixed and the support staff repeatedly gives up on finding a resolution for the issues.5. Return Policy - The two best words to describe this printer are inconsistent and unreliable. My place of business has been a Brother user/purchaser for years and has had good experiences with these machines in the past. For this reason, and because the printer has OCCASIONALLY worked since purchase, I was hesitant to return the item, thinking issues could be resolved with a support specialist and because we did really need a printer for our business to run as usual. The return policy is only good for 30 days - I am now less than 2 months since we received this product and am unable to return it to either Amazon OR Brother. After spending so much time trying to get this machine to work correctly, I am really under the impression that it is just a defective product/brick that I am now stuck with. It doesn't even make a pretty paper weight.Please be WARNED. I don't ever write reviews, but this is one that I feel passionate about as I have spent so many days/hours trying to get a brand new product to work correctly - on the brink of mental breakdown each and every time. Because Brother's support staff is so unhelpful, please know that when you make this purchase and run into issues (and you will), there will be no one to help you and you will be on your own.Do.Not.Buy.This.Printer.

Brother HL-L3270CDW Compact Wireless Digital Color Printer with NFC, Mobile Device and Duplex PrintiAt less than $300 this printer is, in my opinion, a bargin. This printer is ~40 pounds, but the box arrived with barely any damage via USPS (pleasantly surprized). Print quality for fonts is sharp. Print quality for pictures and images may not be as well defined and posibly over saturated (I didn't calibrate). I printed a artist's rendering of a girl meeting a young deer, in a forest, and the face of the deer was dark and lacked definition. The whole print was over saturated and didn't look that bad, but wasn't true to the picture I had downloaded from deviant art dot com. I don't think I am allowed to upload the print due to (c).The toner will likely last years based on the fact that I don't print much, but if it were an inkjet I'd need to buy new ink every few months I wanted to print a form, map, evelope, letter, etc... 'cause the inkjet heads would dryout and clog.Duplex printing is a plus!My previous printer was a Brother Inkjet, and I liked the ease of use, and quality.I recommend this printer if you're not using it for photographs, or to print nice pictures, but why would you use a laser printer for that?!I paid full price for this product and received no compensation for the product nor review.

I've been the proud owner of a Brother MFC-8690DW all-in-one (monochrome/black) laser printer/scanner/copier/fax for more than 15 years now. I've never had the first problem with this older workhorse, so it was a no-brainer that I remain loyal to Brother when choosing a color laser printer.I ordered this printer via my Prime account on a Thursday afternoon, and the USPS delivered the item the following Sunday. The unit arrived packaged in the original box, free of any damage. I followed the easy instructions for unpacking the printer and setting it up. Installing the printer to my Windows 10 PC was simply a matter of powering on the printer and connecting it to my home wireless network; as soon as the printer connected to my network it was "seen" by my PC and was automatically installed within seconds. Installing the printer to work with my iPhone was a simple matter of going to the App Store and installing the free Brother Mobile app. Once the app was installed on my phone it was just a few simple steps (which took less than five minutes) and I was printing directly from my iPhone.Although there's no indication that this particular printer is suitable for printing photos, I loaded some glossy photo paper into the 250-sheet paper tray and printed several beautiful 8 X 10 photos. I framed six of them which I intend to hang on the wall in my office.I feel that purchasing this Brother HL-L3280CDW Wireless Compact Digital Color Printer has given me a substantial amount of bang for my buck. I can't say enough about the ease of setup and the high quality pages it prints. In a nutshell, I was printing fine, superb quality pages in less than 15 minutes from the moment I opened the box. I highly recommend this printer!

I was initially skeptical about paying this much for a printer, I had never paid more than $50 for a printer previously. But this printer is well worth the money. I have printed out hundreds of sheets of paper and the toner levels are still hovering around 80-90%. It prints quickly and dependably in both wired and wireless modes. The printing quality is fantastic for text, and very good for photos. A quick note is that this printer seems to draw a lot of power, because the two lamps in the room flicker whenever this printer receives a signal to start printing. But that has never been an issue.