Brother HL-L3210CW Compact Digital Color Printer Providing Laser Printer Quality Results with Wireless, Amazon Dash Replenishment Enabled, White

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Update: After only a few thousands prints the toner transfer belt failed, now I have at least four 1/4 inch black bands that deface every printout. The printer is now worthless and the warranty period just expired. Buy something else One day when you are trying to print something important, it will refuse. It will not warn you that printageddon is coming. One day it will just stop printing until you replace the toner cartridges. This will frustrate you because you KNOW there is plenty of toner (that last page printed perfectly) and now you have a useless brick where the printer used to be. Its 11:30 at night and your term paper is due tomorrow... what do you do?! How to reset the fake "out of toner message" and instantly make the printer work again: 1. Open the top lid of the printer and leave it open. 2. Press and hold the “Secure” and “X Cancel” buttons at the same time. 3. Use the arrow keys to select the cartridge model you would like to reset and press “OK”. 4. Press the UP arrow to reset the cartridge. Once reset is selected you will see “ACCEPTED” on the screen. I reset them all by scrolling through the various colors on the menu. 5. Close the top lid. It will make a bunch of noise for a minute or so, then it will print like new again. Now the printer thinks you installed brand new toner cartridges, and you will get double or more the amount of printed pages from the same old "out" toner. When you notice the quality of the printouts degrading, THEN its time to replace the toner. Not before. While you are waiting for your new toner to arrive, take the old one out and shake it- prints will look new again for a short period of time. Buy toner when you are out, not when the machine tries to tell you what to do.

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I despise this printer with a seething passion. This is the worst printer ever. I have had this printer for 5 painful months. My 4th Brother printer. I almost pulled a disc lugging an older Brother color laser printer to the dumpster. I thought its absurd weight was just old technology. I was wrong. My Ford F-150 may struggle to get this new POS to a dumpster. I thought my prior Brother color laser printers tendency to be in Deep Sleep" and to jam on every other page was because I got a lemon. I was wrong. This 2018 purchase has less than 500 prints - still on the starter toner - and now it too has begun to JAM on every other page. - A jam means the FIRST and ALL subsequent pages will bunch up and be worthless. - A jam is toner wasted. - A jam is paper wasted, - A jam means going to the printer opening the rear door, pulling out cartridges, wasting time, losing business. - A jam in 2018 (every other page) is frustrating beyond expression. I now understand. Frustrated buyers who take valuable time from their day to leave a buyer beware review cannot be blamed for saying: "If I could give ZERO STARS..." I look to Amazon to filter out products that make people crazy angry. On the other hand, I cant fault Amazon in that this product has a solid crowd-rating of 4 of 5 stars. I dont want to rain on your parade, but this is a buyer beware review. I looked over other reviews to see if I am nuts. I learned that NOT SO MUCH... Many people are frustrated and upset. And... YES, I agree with MANY of the other shortcomings that a 2018 color printer should have years-ago remedied: 1 - Deep Sleep" - A huge inconvenience! Characteristic of ALL 4 of my Brother printers! There is no discernable way to disable it from going into deep sleep. 2 - Wireless Wi-Fi Reliability - Im Incredulous. Im no digital lightweight. I moved the 2-ton printer within 4-feet of the computer to be USB connected always. 3 - Programming Screen - The 1990s is calling: "We want our 16-character pager screen back!" My washing machine has a bigger screen and it can display more than 16 characters! Order reading glasses and a flashlight. 4 - Impossible Menus - Said 16-character screen menus are impossible to navigate. And if you DO see the MENU you were looking for, it will pass by, and backing up will malfunction! Rinse & Repeat while screaming and scaring small children.

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Im fairly tech savvy but there are issues getting the print drivers working in Windows 10, either on my wireless network or wired. I hired another person to come in and he was unable to fix the issue either. Apparently the installation CD makes some registry changes that are not correct. This is acknowledge on the Brother support site and indicates that this issue is "under investigation". If you want to take a chance on this printer working wirelessly on Windows 10, I strongly suggest that you enter your wireless credentials through the control panel and let Windows 10 select a generic driver. I would not use the CD. This worked on another computer in my office. I have contacted Brother and am waiting their response, but it appears that I will be returning this printer.

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Pros: Easy to setup; toner lasts a long time; compact model; when it prints, the quality is excellent. Cons: Lots of error messages halt printing (like having a tray full of paper and the printer insisting it’s out of paper); cannot reset printer after an error message — have to turn off/unplug; nonexistent explanation(s) for error messages (must Google the problem for solutions); has difficulty printing on glossy paper (mangles the paper half the time); paper jams can take days to clear (no exaggeration). When this prints, its a decent piece of hardware. But when it wont print -- which is more often than not -- you will wish you had bought a different printer. For years I have loved the Brother brand, but this POS is the worst thing to ever come off their assembly line. Paper jams are common with printers, but when this has a paper jam, these are the steps you need to take to clear it: 1. Clear the jam. 2. Read error message stating paper is still jammed. 3. Search for additional paper jams. When you find none, turn printer off and then back on again. 4. Read error message stating paper is still jammed. 5. Remove back panel searching for nonexistent jammed paper. Cancel job on both printer and your computer. 6. Read error message stating paper is still jammed. Et cetera. Dont buy this printer. Its beyond frustrating.

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Ive owned this printer for 7 months and hate it with a passion. I primarily use this printer to print shipping labels and order details for my eBay/Amazon/Shopify home business. I have thrown away so many misprinted labels that its just costing me to much money to keep it in operation. Last week every single paper started jam up unless I opened the back panel. Nothing I have tried has been able to make it stop jamming. I googled the problem and its a know issue. There is an online tutorial that shows you how to take it apart to fix the underlying issue. I cutting my losses and replacing this with something else.

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This printer is 4’ away from the router, so WPS direct connection was a key feature in my purchase. However, the printer suffers frequent WiFi disconnects, each time requiring deletion of the printer driver, reinstallation of a new printer driver, and configuration of the WiFi. Oftentimes (but not always) the printer refuses to connect via WPS direct connect. I’m sure that if asked Brother would blame the router. I have given up with WiFi and connected a USB cable, which is much faster anyway.

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First, I was surprised at how heavy this printer is, if you are going to waste your money on this make sure you have a sturdy enough printer stand. Also, dont plan on printing on anything heavier than standard copy/printer paper.. I bought this specifically because it was a Brother product and I have been very happy with the all-in-one B/W laser printer and I need something that could print 24 lb paper (not heavy card stock). and the description said that it could be done through the manual tray. It cannot. If by some chance, you can get it to go through, it cannot run more than 1 copy. I put three sheets in and it couldnt handle it. When it did go thought, it was crooked every time and yes, I made sure the guides were adjusted properly. I had to stand next to the printer with my hand nudging the paper through and hold my breath that it didnt jam, which it usually did. I wasted 20 sheets of a very expensive paper just to get 4 useable copies, only one of which was straight. I wish there was an option for "less than 0" stars. So completely disappointed. Cant even return it because it is so heavy I cannot repackage it. Huge waste of money, cannot emphasize it enough.

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I love the printer itself. I use it at home and purchased it because I like it from using it at work. However, the toner notifications make owning this machine too much of a pain. You get a daily notification of low toner being WAY before you are going to run out. This was true even in an office where I did much more printing. I waiting a while before ordering the toner and did so on June 22. So for over two months now, I tell it every single day that I know I have to get toner. There is no way to tell it I actually have the toner on hand. Every time I print, I get a notification that Im low on toner. Even with that, I might have been able to tolerate this nonsense. But the every 3-4 hours, every single day, having a popup tell me Im low on toner is intrusive, unhelpful, and maddening. Just to shut it up, I changed the toner. There was still toner in the cartridge, but I have had it. There is no easy way to turn this off, although there are myriad complaints about it online. So, in order to not be annoyed by technology, I just wasted a whole bunch of money (toner being the most expensive substance on the planet) and this is unacceptable. I dont really care how good a product is, it is not supposed to be this annoying just to own it.

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Update 8/26/18: I fell in love with this printer even though i had to scan pages in with a different printer before printing it in color on this printer. It worked great for maybe 3 month and now it wont work at all. Deleted the drivers and reinstalled.. still wont print. Hooked it up directly with a USB plug and it wont print. All my computers can print on my other printers just fine except for this one. Will be looking for a different one. Sad it is only a printer... but I do love the quality of printing. I mostly need it to print my file folder games...

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If you are buying this to print wirelessly, dont bother. I have an Apple iMac and Apple MacBook. With BOTH, I have downloaded all current drivers available from Brothers site as well as updated the firmware. The issue is that the printer goes into sleep mode and will NOT wake when you send a document, which is, amazingly, the POINT of wireless printing. If the printer is "awake", the prints are lovely, fast, and I bet if I was connected to the printer by Ethernet or print cable it would work fine, but I bought it SPECIFICALLY so I DID NOT have to sit next to the machine. I have looked up the issue on the Internet and it goes back AT LEAST a decade. I am not sure WHY this is still an issue, but it is. And it sucks.

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