DCPL2540DW Wireless Compact Monochrome Laser Printer, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready

I've had the printer for about four months at this point, so I figured that was long enough to write a fairly honest review (though I'll certainly update in the future as I have more experience with the printer). I'll start by saying that I love this printer so far. I've really had no negative experiences with it that would cause me to regret the purchase. If you're in the market for a laser printer, you'll be happy with this product. Ink consumption: As stated, I've had the printer for about 4 months, and with the "starter cartridge" supplied, I have about 1/3 ink left, which I feel is pretty good considering the amount I print. I've printed quite a few full images with the printer which uses a lot more ink than just text, so I consider that one reason the ink has gotten down to the 1/3 mark already. I also use "full quality" for most print jobs, though there is a "toner saver" feature if you want to really squeeze all the print jobs out you can. Quality: text is perfect, I have no issues. Image quality is decent for a laser printer, but I'd warn against buying this one if you need it primary for image printing. You'll be better off with a color printer. But, if you need to print out the occasional graph or something, it's not too shabby. But let's be honest, you don't buy a laser printer for great "photo quality" prints. This sucker is speedy. I don't time it, but usually by time I walk into the other room (My printer is in a different room than my computer), the print jobs are already done and waiting. The scanner works as hoped. The copier works perfectly. Really, nothing awful to report here. There is a small learning curve when using the automatic document feeder. If I remember correctly, it's only used when making copies, and not for scans. I may be wrong about that though. The wireless setup was a snap. I connected it, and then I just leave the printer "always on." It goes into "sleep mode" when idle, and wakes up for print jobs. I'm not certain, but I think this is actually better for electrical conservation in the long run, as startups and shutdowns use more electricity, generally speaking. This also ensures you don't have to wait very long for the printer to warm up. (Please let me know if I've got this wrong, or if it's bad to leave the machine on, but I think it's okay). One side note, since this was the biggest concern I had when purchasing the machine: You CAN print multiple shipping label sheets from the normal document feeder. The machine will prompt you to use the front facing feeder, where you have to feed in one sheet at a time, but it doesn't force you to do so. I usually just choose "widest thickness" for paper type, and then choose "labels" when printing. I've done up to about 6 sheets at a time, though I would warn against too many, as the hotter the machine gets, the more likely it is a sticker might peel from the label sheet and gum up the works. To be clear, this is not suggested by the retailer, and might even void the warranty if you were to have an issue, but so far, I've had no problems. Overall, this was a great value. The printer is going strong after 4 months of medium use, with most features being used.

I bought one of these in 2014 and another in 2016. Both are still going strong. Easy to print, scan, copy, and cheap to use even when using Brother cartridges. Joining a wireless network by network name involves slightly tedious button-pushing input, but I appreciate the machine's solid performance and the ease of setting it up in a new network. This is a true workhorse. I did finally have to replace an important part on one of them (maybe a print roller?) but it was a job I could do myself! Both printers have lasted longer than many marriages.

This Brother DCPL2540DW Monochrome Laser Multi Function Printer / Copier / Scanner has a small footprint, and comes with a 35 page automatic document feeder (ADF), adjustable 250 page capacity paper tray, starter toner cartridge, but not a USB cable (most printers these days don't ship with USB / printer cables anymore). The on-device control interface has a two-line lcd display and a few labeled buttons. The on-device menuing system is at most 3 levels deep only, and is easy to navigate using the MENU, +/UP, -/DOWN, OK, and STOP/EXIT buttons. The device is easy to set up for wireless printing, and if you have a USB / printer cable, for wired printing as well. The included Basic User's Guide is minimalistic but sufficient to get you started in the right direction, and a link to a fuller online user's guide is provided. I have a USB cable so I initially set this device up for wired printing from my Windows 8.1 computer. The device driver that's automatically installed after Windows detected the device is not a full-featured driver, so I installed the MFL-Pro Software Suite from the included CD. Once that software suite has been installed, if you bring up the Devices and Printers view from the Windows Control Panel and right-click on the icon for this printer, you'll see that the context menu that pops up has separate Printing Preferences and Printer Properties menu items. The Properties dialog box gives you options such as what pages of your document to print, and a check box to select or unselect duplex printing. The Preferences dialog box gives you options such as enable Print Preview, and Print Document with a custom settable Watermark (such as the word Confidential, or Draft, etc). After some initial testing of the printing and scanning functionalities (discussed more below), I went back to the MFL-Pro Software Suite mentioned above to set the device up for wireless operations, which required some software to be installed, detection of your network, and providing the appropriate password for your wireless network. The set up process was a breeze and I did not encounter any problem. * PRINTING The print speed is as advertised -- about 30 pages per minute (ppm), slower of course if you're printing double-sided. You can set resolution to 300, 600, and 1200 dpi. Both text and graphics outputs are clear and crisp. To save money, if the documents you're printing are not that important, you can enable 'Toner Save' option, and / or print multiple document pages per output page. I've done several 30-50 page print jobs, and have so far not experienced paper jams. You can use different sized paper, including legal and envelopes, by just adjusting the paper guides. Printing on envelopes requires more work that's described in the user's guide, but there is a cool video in the manufacturer's support website that shows you what to do. If you have the MFL-Pro Software Suite mentioned above installed, look for the Brother Utilities desktop icon and click on it, then choose Support -> On-line help and FAQ's. On the manufacturer's "FAQ's and Troubleshooting" web page that this gets you to, look for the Video FAQs in the "Other" category, and you'll see an entry for Printing on Envelopes. One thing I noticed with printing is that once a document is opened, changes to Printing Preferences (say, enabling or disabling printing watermarks) do not take effect until you close and reopen the document, which can come as a surprise to some. * SCANNING You can scan by putting your documents through the automatic document feeder or placing them one at a time onto the scanner glass. There is an on-device SCAN button that you can press, but I find it easier to control scanning using the software installed on my Windows computer. Click on the Brother Utilities desktop icon if you have the above-mentioned MFL-Pro Software Suite installed, then select SCAN -> ControlCenter4 (CC4). With the CC4, you can do Image or OCR scans, and save the results in formats such as JPEG, TIFF, Windows Bitmap, PNG, PDF, Searchable PDF, etc. By default, the results will be saved to labeled folders within the Control Center 4 folder under Documents>Pictures, unless you specify a different location. If you have a supported email application such as Microsoft Outlook, you can set things up so that scan results can be automatically attached to an email. Because I only use free web mail services (which are not supported), I wasn't able to test this functionality. Scanning speed is fast. In my testing, I can confirm that saving results into JPEG, PDF, and Searchable PDFs did work without a problem at all (I did not attempt to save the results into the other possible formats). * COPYING There are two limited ways you can achieve 2-sided copying if you want to save paper. The first way is to place the document you want to copy one page at a time onto the scanner glass. Before you start copying, press the on-device OPTION button to navigate to the Two-Sided menu option, temporarily enable it, then press the START button. With this method, you will be asked to manually flip the document when the device is ready to fill up the back of an output sheet. The second way is to feed the pages of your document through the automatic document feeder (ADF). Again, before you start copying, press the on-device OPTION button to navigate to the Two-Sided menu option, temporarily enable it, then press the START button. What you'll get is the following: Say you feed two sheets of paper to the ADF, and each sheet contains the word "FRONT" on one side, and "BACK" on the other side. If you stack these input sheets such that the sides with the word "FRONT" are facing UP, both sides of the single output sheet will contain the word "FRONT." So this method makes sense only if you want to save paper by copying single-sided inputs to double-sided outputs. * TONER CARTRIDGE You can replace the included starter toner cartridge with either the TN630 (max yield approximately 1200 pages) or TN660 (max yield approximately 2600 pages) cartridges. At the time of this review, the TN630 and TN660 are selling in Amazon for about 43 and 68 dollars, respectively.

Considering I bought this while it was on sale, I can say it was definitely a steal. It was shipped straight in the manufacturer's box, which is very well padded and arrived without a scratch. Unboxing was a breeze. The machine and the Laser cartridge each have a clearly identifiable plastic orange strip to remove. Snapping the Laser cartridge into the drum and then inserting the drum (with the cartridge) into the machine is painless. Be sure to push the drum in firmly, as there's a small amount of extra wiggle room that may not be apparent. If you are going to connect your machine to the network via Wi-Fi, here is my experience. The machine supports 802.11b/g/n; note that 802.11n is 2.4 Ghz band only (no 5 Ghz). Do not start by pressing the "WiFi" button on the control panel, as this puts the machine into an endless state of trying to connect with default settings. Instead, go to Menu > Network > WLAN > Setup Wizard. The machine will scan for available SSIDs. The last item in the list allows to enter an SSID manually, and as my router does not broadcast its SSID, I chose this option. Unfortunately after painfully entering the SSID one character at a time using up/down keys, the machine asked for a WEP passphrase without offering WPA2 as an option. Fearing the worst (no support for WPA2?), I temporarily set my router broadcast its SSID. Selecting the SSID from the scanned list correctly asked for the WPA2 phrase and connected without issue. I used DHCP, but of course the options are there to manually set the gateway, static IP, subnet, etc. Warning: do not disable the Wired ethernet setting! There appears to be a bug that prevents the Wi-Fi from working properly if the Wired interface is disabled. I had to do a full network reset on the machine to restore. As a user of primarily Apple devices, I found it to be completely unnecessary to install any Brother software (either from CD or via download). OS X and iOS both work out-of-the-box via the AirPrint functionality the machine provides. The machine is automatically detected on the network - no need to go hunting for it. The printer works flawlessly, including double-sided printing. The scanner works great using the built-in OS X utility. Support includes use of the document feeder, DPI settings, detection of multiple items on the flatbed (perfect for scanning in old photos 4 at a time to separate output files), and output in various formats (TIFF, JPEG and PDF, among others). Scanning to PDF from the document feeder generates a single PDF document containing all pages. Android is mildly annoying as the operating system does not come with built-in AirPrint functionality. It took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to set the printer up to use Google Cloud Print. Hint: you need to access the Web Based Management webpage of the machine. Once configured, install the "Cloud Print" app from Google onto the android device, and you are good to go! I did a quick check within Windows for the purpose of this review. While the printer and scanner appear to be available and useable without installing any additional software, I did note at least the lack of support for double-sided printing. Windows users are therefore likely advised to install the Brother software to ensure all features are available to use. I performed a firmware update for the machine, which completed successfully. The machine was shipped to me with version 'K', which was upgraded to version 'L' by the update. Check the download section on Brother's website or the firmware section of the Web Based Management tool for the ability to upgrade the firmware. As a smaller consumer model, this machine is only missing one useful feature: easy scanning and copying of double-sided documents. You cannot place a document that has print on both sides in the document feeder and instantly make scans or copies, as this model does not come with the technology required to automatically flip a document on the scanner flatbed. Do not be mistaken, you can in fact make copies of double-sided documents. It is just a matter of convenience as it is necessary to place the document on the flatbed to scan the first side, after which you flip the document over yourself to scan the other side. If you anticipate needing to make double-sided copies frequently, you may want to invest in a model with "Duplex Capabilities" that includes scan and copy. If I am not mistaken, this means purchasing an MFC model. All in all, this is great machine! I have not experienced a single issue thus far. While initial Wi-Fi setup could be made a bit easier (why doesn't pressing the "WiFi" button simply launch the Setup Wizard?), once you get configuration out of the way, everything works as flawlessly as you would expect. Great product if you are looking for a Black and White Laser printer and copier, with a colour scanner.

Impresora muy sólida y confiable, fácil de instalar en celular y lap. Buena marca la Brother. Me salió en $3,200, algo así, y ya llevo más de 1 año con esta impresora.

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Es una buena impresora. Rápida al sacar las copias manualmente, funciona perfectamente el ADF y es muy rápido al leer los documentos... Lo utilizo para un negocio y la verdad me ha gustado la productividad. Lo bueno: Es rápido Conexión inalámbrica, alámbrica y de Red Rj45 Imprime a doble cara Imprime tamaño oficio y carta y medidas A4, A3 y A2 y además en opalina delgada Botón para copia de ID Botón para escanear directo al pc o celular (necesario guardar ajustes) Modo Ahorro de tóner Ver vida útil de las piezas (tóner y tambor) Escaneo y copias a tamaño oficio y reducciones Escaneo a color Compatible con tóner Cartridge (genérico) Tambor remplazable de manera individual Pantalla con iluminación Desde la Pc se puede realizar la configuración, actualización y seguimiento de la vida útil del tambor así como el nivel de tóner Lo malo: Viene desactualizado los driver en el disco. Recomiendo descargarlo desde la pagina de Brother El tóner que viene es de prueba con lo cual máximo te va dar un rendimiento de 650 hojas. Para que cales la impresora Ya no contiene cable para conexión alámbrica La recomiendo si no eres muy exigente, para mi cumplió ampliamente mis expectativas