Brother HL-L8260CDW Business Color Laser Printer, Duplex Printing, Flexible Wireless Networking, Mobile Device Printing, Advanced Security Features – Amazon Dash Replenishment Enabled

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For years we have had a Canon printer that gave us nothing but trouble. The lovely printer is fast and easy to use. We use the wireless connection to link our computers with this printer and it was so easy to connect, When we connected the Canon to the computers it took us over an hour to connect just one of our computers. I contacted Brother for another issue and the customer service was excellent. The paper is also really easy to load into the feeder tray. We are so glad we updated our printer and wish we had done so long ago!! I think that Brother is an excellent company and really thinks through the simplicity of use and functionality of all of its product. I highly recommend this product.

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Beither makes some great printers and I have been fan if them for years - low prices, cheap ink and toner and almost never jams or has print quality issues. My only beef with this bad boy is that often he tells you that something has printed when it actually has not, then you get a message about 10 minutes later that there was an issue with printing (consistently 10 minutes, in fact) Troubleshooting led nowhere, but rebooting it manually seems to take care of it. Not a big deal, just trying to save you from a headache and maybe give the manufacturer a hint that they need to work on improving their drivers.

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Once the toner cartridge drops to about 50%, the print quality suffers greatly. So you have to plan on only getting half of the pages per toner cartridge, unless youre just printing drafts and dont care about quality.

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Been very pleased with with unit so far. Networking was a bit quirky when I set it up at first (and I do networking for a living). It all cleared up after I disabled IPv6 on both wired and wireless.

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Like: Fast, high quality text printing. Easy installation. Dislike: Price of replacement toners is ridiculous. Over $300.00 for a complete set of Genuine Brother toners. Have not tried 3rd party options which are advertised as compatible. Will try them when needed. Additional Comment: Weve only had this printer for about a month so I cannot attest to its reliability yet. It is very heavy. Recommend help in placing on printer stand. Its too large for desktop placement unless you have a very large desk! Price of replacement toner prevents me from giving it 5 stars.

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I have been using brother printers for a long time. I had a Samsung last time and it was great but something went wrong with the firmware or at the motherboard or something. I tried to get Samsung to help us fix it but they did not even though it was only two and a half years old. At this price point it was more expensive for me to take the time figuring out how to fix the old one than to just buy a new one. I really did like the Samsung but since it broke and they didnt help me I decided to go with brother this time. The print quality is excellent and the toner prices reasonable so I think Im happy but Ive only had it about two months. If things change I will update the review.

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Easy to set up, is relatively quiet, and delivers smooth color printing. It has been "no hassle, no drama" 3 months into ownership (light usage, about 10 pages/week). It can print double-sided (lets save paper), and we had no problem printing from a cellphone either. The cartridges for this model cost a LOT less than for the other Brother models, and less than comparably equipped printers from other manufacturers. The cost of ownership is not the printer - it is the replacement cartridges. Do your homework before you buy. Ive been thrilled with this printer.

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Great value for home office. My printing jobs are big but relatively infrequent. This printer is always ready when needed and the results are more than adequate. It’s connected to the office network and can be accessed from our networked PC, Linux and Mac computers and wireless iPads. That said, while the cost and ease of operation is outstanding the results from printing photos leaves much to be desired.

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On my other printer models you could open the cartridge door and press secure+cancel at once to reset the cartridge count. My new printer already has a low black in warking and it turns out THEY REMOVED THIS FUNCTION FROM THIS PRINTER. My other printer HL-3170CDW still has this function! However it prints about 20-30% slower. So if you want to stick with brother, then you may want to get that one instead of this one. I think theyre trying to raise their bottom line by strong arming people into not using their equipment to the amount that it could be. Brother is turning into HP!

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Ive had this printer almost 2wks, printed ~200-300 pages, and so far LOVE it. Prints very fast, has auto duplexing, and colors look great! The printer is much quieter than my HP printer, and I can make it even quieter than normal using Brothers "quiet mode" (see picture). This slows the printer only slightly, but nice to have this option since Im an early riser and dont want to wake my family when Im printing. Its the quietest printer Ive used. Ive owned several HP printers over the years, but I doubt Ill ever buy another one. Ive had so many problems with connectivity, print quality, speed and annoyingly-small paper trays. (Really, HP? 150 sheet input trays??). My wife has the HP Laserjet Pro M252dw in her home office and Ive put the Brother 8260CDW in my office, replacing my HP M251dw. By the specs, my wifes HP is supposed to print 19 ppm and this Brother 33 ppm. In practice this Brother printer is EASILY 3x as fast. The Brother printer also holds twice as much paper (300 sheets vs. 150 for the HP printers). Were constantly refilling the HP printer. Even the more-comparable HP model ( HP Laserjet Pro M452dw ) only prints 28 pgs per minute and holds only 250 sheets, although I dont own that one so cant make a direct comparison. The only con for me is the bigger footprint of the Brother printer (16 x 19 vs. 15.5 x 16.5 for my wifes HP), but at this point Im so tired of constantly refilling paper and dealing with poor print quality/yellow streaks that Im happy to have a slightly larger printer. Again, to be fair, the footprint of the more comparable HP printer is 16 x 18.5, so if you want a faster, higher-output color laser printer than just the basic entry level ones, there really is no disadvantage here. I had been debating whether to buy the Brother HL-3170CDW for a while, but it was released in 2011 and I have a hard time buying 6yr old technology. So when this was released last month (Mar 17), I snatched it up. Im glad I waited, this is super fast and quiet…5 stars.

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