Brother HL-L3220CDW Wireless Color Laser Printer – Compact Home Office Laser Printer with Fast 19ppm Speed & Mobile Printing

I purchased this to give me a color option to the Brother HL-2350DW B/W laser printer I've had for nearly 10 years. The print quality is great -- well after I ran the calibration/registration cycle. The color is quite nice. It it every bit the HL-2350DW that I've known and trusted for so long but it's color. The only thing I would change on this printer would be to have it automatically run the calibration cycle every time you removed or changed a cartridge. Heck, it would be nice to even mention in the setup guide. I had already known that calibration was an issue so when I noticed that some of my first prints looked smeared, I knew what to look for. I hope others who don't know about it don't give up on this great machine because they missed this simple step.

Great printer, easy to use and set up, no problems and prints great. Been using for 4 months without issues. The color ink that comes with it lasts for a long time. The black ink lasted an ok amount but easy to replace with large capacity cartridge

Perhaps the easiest setup and best home print quality I’ve ever had. Setup took less than a minute and it has worked flawlessly with network printing via desktop, iPhone, iPad, whatever. Quality is perfect. Very happy. Only wish it had a scan feature.

El printer es muy bueno pero pienso que se gastó muuy rápido el toner negr duró de julio a octubre y solo lo uso poco lo cambié y ahora salen unas líneas negras al menos en las primeras páginas, el respuesto que compré fue el TN229 XL Es costoso por lo que pensaba que duraria más pero en realidad cuando funciona bien las copias son muy buenas. Es rápido y eso si pesa mucho.

I had an older (discontinued) Dell Color Laser Printer that failed after six (6) years of somewhat regular use. I had to find a replacement, that would come along with a corresponding commitment to a new but dependable brand. This printer received excellent reviews from independent sources, and DEFINITELY performs as advertised. It is fully featured (with what one expects from a modern color laser printer). I got it for a good price from Amazon.com. It hasn't jammed yet, is not overly noisy, and seems to digest all of the different sizes and thicknesses of paper (and envelopes) that I throw at it. It connected to my network seamlessly and works just as well on the network as it does via the USB cable. The Duplex Printing Feature is saving me paper. The interface for Windows 11 is very functional and efficient. I have had it for four weeks, and it appears to be very economical with the toner use; and the (B&W and Color) output are excellent. VERY PLEASED. Definitely worthy of 5-Stars.

Works fine. Connecting bluetooth was hard. Directions should be more detailed. Had to have professional set it up he ended up using phone to enter required data instead of screen on printer.

This Brother Color Laser Printer is HEAVY (It says so in BIG LETTERS right on the box!) not so much you can't lift it, but dropping it would be a DISASTER. It might weigh 50 lbs, so you might want some help moving it around. The (included and already installed) BK C M Y toners are High-Yield, good for thousands of prints, and the included printed setup directions easy with clear diagrams on what to open, take out, and to remove shipping tags and plastic protectors. So far though, turning the printer on and pushing the right buttons for the prompts on the LED display is mysterious. (There's a handbook for this printer I'll have to download!) I didn't do enough research and the printer will ONLY work with Windows 10 & 11 32&64 bit, Mac OS and Linux, so my W7pro computer "To be printed files" are being downloaded to a nice new Windows 10 pro i7 with massive storage and RAM before I can do any printing. Getting the installation and setup programs is easy, (setup.brother.com) but none of that information is useful without at least a Windows 10 system that's compatible with the drivers. I got this printer because an ink-jet just doesn't have the quality for a long-lasting print, no matter what kind of paper it's printed on. A laser print on good paper will last for hundreds of years. That's value. A good reason for my purposes, but I also like the USB-connected printing capability (which it has) and don't like WiFi for the security concerns. (Two Days later) On the Windows 10 pro computer the Brother Color Laser installation was over and done with quickly. I had downloaded the "full" install version that includes the driver. The installation gave me the option of USB or WiFi and after that it was done. I just printed a photograph in rich darks and contrasting light tones from the open document in Photoshop 9. There was NO problem in recognizing the printer. The print only took about 10 seconds and came out beautifully, like the picture I took with amazing, perfect, details and exactly delicate colors and contrast. I had just resized it from 28 x 22 @ 180 to 10.5 x 8 @180 for normal A4 paper and printed, just to see what it would do. It prints Art! I thought this would be a good idea, but it's even better than I thought.

This is the most compact unit by Brother that adds the color capability to the previous generation's flawless and excellent "black and white only" printer I owned and was super happy with. It is as small as it can be at 15.7"D x 15.7"W x 9.4"H. Like its predecessor, the speed of processing is fast, there is rarely if ever a jam paper situation and if you run into one, it is easily remedied. Connection to the computer and devices are also a breathe. Also, you get an incredibly high number of prints before having to replace the cartridges. In contrast to the garbage ink guzzling bug ridden Canon printers that used up ink at jaw dropping rate. There is also black and white only print mode, so you won't use the color cartridges for black and white prints. You can also print on both sides of a page to prevent waste of paper. It doesn't have a scan function but that is really superfluous these days. You can use your phone or a dedicated camera set up to take photos with an overhead fixture with as much resolution if not more without limitation of the size that a built in scanner would impose or if you have serious scanning needs, you can invest in a standalone scanner. What is more important to me is the reduced weight and compact size of the unit. A disappointment that became an issue after purchasing the unit is that it doesn't support MCIR inks for printing checks that can be read by the financial institutions. It is rather surprising that there is no support for MCIR for any of the Brother's printers. They also don't recommend third party MCIR inks as it may damage the machine or impact the print quality. There are some issues with this unit that I found the solution to, which I didn't run in the ultra reliable black and white only model I used earlier. Occasionally, the prints you send to the queue abruptly disappear. The printer makes a noise and appear to be processing the job but then it stops. When you look at the queue list, the file is gone. You do not get an error or an explanation as to why this has happened. I am on Mac by the way OS Ventura. After troubleshooting I found out that very high resolution files are not liked by the printer. If this happens to you, reduce the resolution of the print jobs you send to the printer. I had created a number of high resolution 300DPI files and they invariably ran into this issue. Sometimes a complicated file name that has numbers, atypical characters, etc and is too long runs into the same issue. You have to rename the file to something simpler and then it prints. I have also printed designs on thick cardboard greeting cards and envelopes and it does an excellent job but you might run into jam errors depending on the thickness of the cards. The fix is very simple. You just open the tray and take the jammed card out and try again. Almost invariably the 2nd try works and the card itself is not chewed up or damaged. This is the most amazing thing about this printer; it leaves the paper intact if there is a jam. By the way the jamming only occurs with specific thicker paper types like this cardboard greeting card. Otherwise, I've never ran into an issue with label sheets, other paper types, etc. The print quality is very good. It dries fast as well so no worries about smudging the ink. Upgrading the firmware can be made easier. You have to go the link on the web that may trigger unsafe link warning from your browser (Brother suggests to ignore it and proceed with the link) in order to get to the section that allows you to upgrade the firmware. You have to enter the password printed in the back of the machine to complete the step. Nevertheless the firmware were updated but I didn't get a notice that a new update was available. I only learned of the update when I searched manually. An easier way is to download the Brother app and update the firmware easily that way. The app itself doesn't have much of any other use.