Brother HL-L2340DW Compact Laser Printer, Monochrome, Wireless Connectivity, Two-Sided Printing, Mobile Device Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Enabled

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Beware, if you are just reading reviews people post a few months after buying! Until it bricked itself one year in, I was happy with this printer too. It worked with basic installation procedures, and I didnt mind that princessy, unwakable sleep issue. I just walked over and pushed the button. I dont print that much. Im still on my first toner cartridge. But two weeks ago, it stopped working completely. Display and wifi light just blink now. It wont turn off with the power button. My computer cant detect it, even plugged in, even when running th Brother Remote User Software package. No way to update firmware or drivers on a printer that cant be found. Trouble ticket to Brother is in, but has produced zilch in the way of solutions. I think this printer is hosed, and I think one year before obselescence is ridiculous. My old Samsung laser lasted 9 years. Booo! And, beware!

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This printer is a pain in the ass when you change a wifi. You had to call the help line and download the firmware again, which requires a special JavaSE software that you have to go to Oracles website and download it. Then you have to update your firmware. Then you have to go to print settings to change the deep sleep mode time setting because the default setting is 1min. And after 1 min you wont be able to print anything because the printer will pick up jobs. Your computer will say "Looking for printer... uncle to find printer" and the printer is in "deep sleep" mode. So you have to turn the printer off and turn it on to get it out of the deep sleep mode. Its PAIN in the ass.

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this printer is the worst of the worst. do NOT buy this piece of crap. 1) it produces this extremely annoying high frequency whining noise ALL THE TIME, even when its not printing. 2) it goes to sleep and does not wake up at all. i have to restart the printer every time i try to print something out if its just only been a few minutes since i last printed. is it really THAT hard to make a printer that just print stuff out??????? Brother, you are the worst bro. i will never buy any of your crappy sheet from you again EVER.

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NIGHTMARE. This was a nightmare to deal with in spite of them advertising it as easy set up! Before buying this, take a look at the top of the printer: there is a teeny little window and in teeny little letters it sayssleep or deep sleep and there are arrows. There are no clear instructions, and there is no clear message window to tell you what the problem is. I tried rebooting, and tried many different wi fi devices (ipad, kindle, macbook and my samsung phone) and if it had just printed from even one of them easily, I would have kept it. I would unplug it, try to reboot it and the only thing it ever printed out was the alphabet and not understandable directions. If you want to take HOURS and hours of time to try to get it to work, then THIS is the machine for you! If you are technical and know the numerous letters of your network or can easily contact your cable company (which also takes hours and hours) then THIS is the machine for you. In the 21st century, there is NO reason why all wii fi devices cant easily sync with a printer. In the 21st century, a company COULD give you a window and an 800number that could assist you with set up. I will never buy another Brother product - thats for sure. Thank goodness I was able to return it!

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The printer is trying to communicate with you by printing. So, I wasted more than 30 pages to check my wifi connection status. It doesnt ask me whethet you want to print it or not. Just print it with meaningless words. Moreover, the connection is unstable enough to disappoint me. I should check the connection per page. Most importantly, the margin is always cut off. I dont know why. Regardlss of computer and file type, the printed document is not centered. The worst printer ever.

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Had a Brother HL-2140 for years and loved it until it shorted out. Thought I would try another one of their products. Bought this one as an upgrade mostly due to the Automatic Duplex Printing function. Once I installed printer to find out that it does NOT have AUTOMATIC duplex printing, only MANUAL duplex printing (see screenshot). I spent 45 minutes on the phone with Brother trying to figure out why to have the rep tell me that theyre packaging and website are wrong and the printer does not have the feature. They offered no apology or response, then when I asked which of their printers actually did have automatic duplex printing the rep couldnt tell me and just referred me to their website despite their website being wrong about this printer as well. Unfortunately, I cant trust them now so will be looking elsewhere.

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skip this item! i owned a brother laser printer similar to this one lasted me for about 4 years with no issues. i use it every single day, i dont print a ton of pages, mostly shipping labels, so about 3-7 a day for the last 4 years, but it finally died, and it was cost effective to just buy a new one than try to fix this one. i figure i would get the wireless one, even though my old printer was hooked up to my main desktop computer thats always on so i did have a "wireless" connection to my old one figure it being built in would be a plug, boy was i wrong to print wireless literally takes a minute for 2 for the signal to be read by the computer, i couldnt imagine how long it would take if you had to print a ton of pages. it FREEEZES a lot, almost every other day, and you literally have to unplug the unit for it to reset, as their is no hard switch on this device or a cable to unplug, the plug is built into this unit, so you need to unplug from the wallsocket which for me is a hassle because its located behind the desk an not easy to reach without moving things around. also unpluging it resets the wireless settings, so you have to do that all over again. just horrible, i plan to return this model and find another one, possibly the simple one without wireless printing as i stopped using it due to it takes absolutely forever to print.

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Pros: Easy to set up (wireless is way easier than my previous Brother), works well, has the functions I need, toner is less expensive. Has an LED display to tell you whats going on. Cons: Had to look up how to cancel a job. No button for that. The manual feeder -- be careful to adjust the guides and get your paper in straight. I had to reprint a bunch of stuff that came out crooked. This is a big issue for me as I use the printer to print sheets of labels, and it does not want to take the label sheets through the tray. Its not super speedy. No LEDs to instantly tell me what is wrong -- have to get out of my chair to read the display. Its a perfectly fine printer and I hope to get several years of use from it. Due to the "cons" above, its not a 5 star, though. Update: Ive downgraded my rating. It ran out of toner on me with no notice, and in the middle of doing something important. The printer was very noisy before it ran out of toner. I got an icon in my task bar, but when I clicked on it, there was no content. Plus, the manual feed issue is a real pain. I print labels every week, and messing with the alignment is not worth my time. I contacted Brother, and I was told that there is no way to print labels outside of the manual feed. I decided to keep it till the toner ran out, then get rid of it. Toner is out. Bye bye Brother! Unfortunate since my last Brother was a workhorse for 5 years.

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I would not recommend this printer to anyone looking to print from a Mac because it was a huge pain to set up and then keep it working properly (read on to understand why!). Id keep looking for a better option with foolproof installation on all platforms. I bought this printer based on the good reviews to print both from my kids chromebooks and my MacBook Pro (OS 10.8.5). It took longer than it said it should to install including enabling Google cloud printing for the Chromebooks, but I was able to print from both devices. However, the next time I tried to print from my Mac, it could not find the printer. After some research online, it appeared this was due to the printer being in deep sleep mode and the printer not automatically waking as it should when sent a print job. I didnt think this would be too bad of an issue if I could remotely wake the printer each time before sending the job. But when I accessed the printer settings page (http://10.0.0.130 for my printer) I could verify the printer was in sleep mode, but there was no way to change it or wake it up. I was annoyed at the thought that I was going to have to walk over to the printer every time I wanted to print and press one of the buttons to manually wake it up before sending a print job (defeats the purpose of having a wireless printer!), but the printer didnt even wake up pressing its buttons (despite the manual saying this should work). Alas, more research revealed that the REAL problem might be my Mac wasnt finding the printer because of its IP address. I was first clued into this by dupuytren in this thread -- http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1849993 -- where he said that the printer and router address need to be similar, i.e. starting with the same numbers as in 10.0.0.XXX. His werent and changing his printer ip to be similar to that of the router fixed his problem, at least until he ran into another issue that caused him to buy another router (no thanks!). But this thread (http://www.fixya.com/support/t6151863-mfc_7840w_printer) gave me hope my Mac still wasnt finding my printer because of its IP address. So (thanks to dupuytren instructions) I looked up and verified my printers ip address on the printer itself: 1. On printer press Up/Down or +/- button until you see Network. Press Ok. 2. Using Up/Down, follow WLAN>Press OK>TCP/IP>Press OK>IP address. 3. Write down IP address, including all 0s. Mine was 010.000.000.130 Then I went on my Mac to see if I could manually add the printer using this IP address. So I opened System Preferences, Print & Scan. Hit the (+) button to add a printer. (Note my printer did not show up on Default tab since my whole issue is my Mac cannot find the printer!) On IP tab under address, entered the IP address I just wrote down (010.000.000.130), leaving Protocol as "Line Printer Daemon - LPD", Queue empty, Name - gave it something useful, Location empty, Use - picked this printer model driver (guess it was there because I previously installed it). Viola! I sent a print job and it found the printer and started firing up! Why did this work? Actually Im not sure. I find it hard to believe that the when I set up the printer set up on my Mac by IP address that the extra 0s mattered. Though I had previously tried adding this printer on my mac using the IP address without the extra 0s (10.0.0.130) but it gave me an error. Now, I wonder if it has to do with the "WLAN" setting on the printer. I read somewhere that Brother printers wont enter deep sleep if that is on. So may that is why it is printing fine now -- it no longer seems to be entering into deep sleep mode. To check your printer WLan setting, go to the printer page in your browser and under Lists/Reports, print "Network Configuration". Note, one step I had also done (but I dont think made a difference), is change the IP setting on my printer to be static instead of the default auto (used the buttons on the printer and the directions provided by dupuytren). But I dont think this mattered in my solution because I never changed the IP address and it has remained the same since I first connected my printer. But this will prevent it from changing moving forward. As to my rating, I really like the speed and output of this printer but cannot give it more than 3 stars since it was such a pain to get working with a Mac, which is advertised as being compatible with! 4/11/25--UPDATE Since I got this printer successfully printing jobs from my Macbook, I noticed the printer no longer enters DEEP SLEEP mode only SLEEP mode. Im not sure what change I made that caused this to happen, but I suspect this is why I am able to print. 11/20/2015--UPDATE For whatever reason, this week I had a problem with my printer set-up. I think somehow the static IP address I set was changed, but the problem it caused was that my kids Chromebooks could see the printer but it was showing as "offline" so they could not send it print jobs. This problem persisted even after I reset the printer to the same static IP address I had been using. So, I figured the best thing to do would be to delete the printer from Google, re-register it to my account and then reshare the printer to my kids google accounts. Well thats when my problems really started! When I went into the printer web interface (http://10.0.0.130 for my printer), selected the "network" tab, then "protocol" and then clicked on Google Cloud Print, I got to the page with the button to "register" my printer with Google Cloud Print. Well it didnt work and gave me an error that it couldnt connect to Google. After calling Brother support, they told me it was a problem with my Google account. I disagreed with them, as it was never getting to the step where it prompts you for your Google account information. After much insistence, the support person escalated my call to "level 5" and said Id get a call back from a software engineer-type person the next day. Meanwhile, I kept repeatedly going through the network setup wizard (using the buttons on the printer) and lo and behold it finally set it up slightly differently. It automatically used I think DCHP as the boot method and then that caused the "gateway id" and "subnet mask" to be populated with real numbers (previously both all zeros). When I retried registering my printer with Google, it worked! I since went back and changed the boot method to static ip address (it had already assigned the same static ip address value I had been using). The only other parameter difference I noted is ipv6 is now off (had turned on earlier to see if that would help). Needless to say, I printed out all the printer settings, so if I ever have an issue again I can reset the settings to this now working state. As an IMPORTANT aside....in all my research to get this working, I found online directions on HOW TO DISABLE THE DEEP SLEEP (that is not an option in the printer web interface or on the printer itself, well at least not an obvious option). Again, Im not positive if the Deep Sleep mode being activate is why I had my original problems with my Macbook not being able to access the printer, but Im pretty sure it was the reason, so Im happy to know how to turn off DEEP SLEEP and keep it off (as when my new issues began this week, DEEP SLEEP was somehow reactivated on my printer). To cancel DEEP SLEEP on Brother Printer, using the buttons on the printer... (source: http://serverfault.com/questions/416422/brother-4150-cdn-deep-sleep-how-do-i-disable) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Use arrow buttons to scroll through menu choices... Go to General Setup then OK Ecology then OK SLEEP TIME then OK While sleep time is display push Down Arrow and BACK at the same time! Then press OK. DEEP SLEEP on/off toggle by Arrow keys OK to SAVE Deep Sleep off. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Re: brother support, I finally did get a call back (2 days later) from a software engine-type who was more knowledgeable. I had already fixed the problem by then on my own, but he did seem interested in testing some of this out. Also surprisingly he had never heard that the DEEP SLEEP setting was something that could be turned on/off, and said while it might be something they dont want to advertise to the general public, it would probably make sense to incorporate it into their own internal support database.

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This is a nice printer when it works. I read the comments about the Deep Sleep issue and I should have paid more attention to them. I would rename if Deep Coma as it will not awake when using the wireless connection unless you turn it off and then off again. To bad, very easy setup on wireless. Suspect that if you use the printer hard wired it will wake up when you send a document to be printed but when on wireless it wont. Again, nice unit but I only wanted to use it wirelessly. Attached a screen shot of what happens when you try and print wirelessly and its in the Deep Coma stage.

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