MFC-L2720DW and High Yield Toner

This is my third Brother printer (along with several AIOs Ive used in various workplaces). Compared to an older machine, this Brother has a small color touchscreen that is a huge improvement on the two-line LCD matrix display, and it is much quieter. It still uses the two-part consumable cartridge system (separate toner and drum), to which Ive become accustomed. A new user might be a little befuddled by nesting the toner cartridge into the drum cartridge on first installation. Imaging quality remains very good, and for most tasks the imaging engine is very fast. Duplexing on this machine does not add appreciable time to page output, as Brother seems to have eliminated the maddening pauses between side A and side B. On a Mac OS X machine, the printer driver supports all functions of the printer. Networking is another story. I wanted to hang this machine on my Ethernet network. After weeks of troubleshooting non-responsive print jobs and weird results, it appears that the Ethernet interface does not always respond to "Wake on LAN" requests. It also appears that the interface does not sync properly to the network. I finally abandoned Ethernet and switched to WiFi, which works flawlessly and fast. I would have preferred to keep the printer off the wireless network, on principle (in my mind, its a fixed utility, not a mobile device, and should be networked as such). Oh, well. Consumables are relatively inexpensive for OEM, and really inexpensive if you use a third party cartridge. Look for one that is compatible, not remanufactured.

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Two issues: 1) It will print double-sided but it wont scan double-sided, meaning the document feeder is useless if youre scanning a two-sided document, and you have to flatbed scan each page. This is an incredible hassle, especially since Apples scanner interface is not the greatest. 2) If you use an Airport Extreme base station to connect to the internet, and something goes wrong with the base station, the solution might subsequently cause problems with the printer. I was having a problem with my base station and once I fixed it, the printer would disconnect from the wifi as soon as it went into "sleep mode," meaning every time I had to print something, I had to reconnect it to the wifi. If I had to print multiple documents in a day, with more than a minute or so in between each one, it became really annoying. I spent a lot of time trying to fix the printer, but ended up solving it by resetting the base station. Theres a compatibility issue there that should be addressed. Otherwise its good quality and Ive never had a problem with the printer in itself.

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This Brother Printer MFCL2720DW had a high rating from many reviews which helped me make this selection. I have not been disappointed. Out of the box and plugged it, it immediately saw my local WiFi, I entered the password and every Apple computer, iPad and iPhone in my home was able to print to it. Later I purchased an Android phone and Chromebook and the Brother process getting the printer on the Google Print service was convoluted and difficult to follow. Apparently the different varieties of Android OS and the different models of Brother printers required me to get a code from Brother, register it with Google Print, then connect the printer to my Chromebook. Even then, the wait time to print a page on the Chromebook was 10 times longer than it was on any of my Apple devices. If it would have been easier to set up and would print better from my Android devices, I would have given it five stars.

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Once up and running very nice and fast high quality printer. My only issue was the difficulty getting it hooked up to two different computers behind a firewall - one with USB one over wireless. The wireless took several attempts and a full uninstall/reinstall to finally work. One computer wires I would definitely give 5 stars. The support pages online did eventually resolve my problem, but it took 1.5 hrs.

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