Brother DCP-L2660DW

Print, copy, and scan with this compact 3-in-1 laser printer. Delivers fast 32 ppm print speeds, easy wireless or USB connectivity, and a large 250-sheet paper capacity. Review: Lightweight Great Doc Printer! 1200x1200 DPI, usable immediately just after connecting to WIFI - 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. Review: Superb printer - I am really pleased with this printer. Firstly, it was extremely easy to set up. There are not many instructions, but the diagrams on the accompanying sheet were easy to follow and I was able to get the printer set up, cartridge installed and printer connected to the internet within a very short space of time. I didn’t even have to bother with a USB cable for connection to the computer either, because the Brother software is very easy to download and install on the computer and automatically takes you through the setup procedure for internet connection to the printer. Same with phone and iPad, very easy to connect to the printer using the Brother software. Secondly, the size of the printer. It doesn’t take up much space, the paper tray holds plenty of paper and the lid for the scanner can be extended higher to scan bulkier items. It’s no larger than my old inkjet printer in terms of width and depth, in fact it’s a couple of centimetres smaller. It is about 10cm taller than my old inkjet printer though, which is fine. And finally, the print quality is very good and it prints extremely quickly. There is nothing to dislike about this printer, it appears to be well made, compact, easy to use and efficient.