Brother HL-L2460DW Wireless Compact Monochrome Laser Printer with Duplex, Mobile Printing, Black & White Output | Includes Refresh Subscription Trial(1), Works with AlexaEPEAT

I laughed when researching which B&W printer to buy, because I consistently read people saying "Find whichever Brother printer is on sale and buy it, no need to research more". They weren't wrong. I bought the 2460DW model, because it does duplex printing and also works on wireless. I print from my laptop, my kids laptop, or my iPhone.Set-up was extremely simple. Unboxing, putting in the toner and printer took all of 5 minutes. I chose to manually enter my home wifi network and password using the printers tiny screen and buttons. Took maybe 4-5 minutes. My iPhone printed perfectly from a GoogleSheet the first time, I didn't even have to try and add the printer. From my PC laptop, I just had to "add a printer" and it found it right away and everything worked perfectly.The prints are crisp. And they are FAST - I'd forgotten just how fast 36ppm is, it's practically instantaneous for a document that's just a few pages. Also, the printer is quite small, compact, nearly silent when turning on or printing, and it warms up and is ready to print in I think less than 10 seconds?!?I couldn't be happier with this as my printer for anything that can get by with B&W and page sizes of 8.5x11 or 8x5x14 (legal size).

Back in June of this year I purchased an HP inkjet printer. I will not go too far off topic but it was one of the most frustrating purchases of my life. I bought it because it was a cheap little printer, under $50 and it fit on the bookshelf where I needed to place it, which was a big consideration for the printer purchase, along with the fact that it had to be hooked up wirelessly also.After three days of trying to get it to work with senseless App control HP made me get could not get it hooked up. During the initial setup process out of box - HP setup a password that I did NOT know about and when I reset my internet router it asked me for this password. I was so perplexed and frustrated I could not get past this step. After two days of talking to HP they finally helped me get wireless setup complete.But then the stupid printer broke and made horrible sound when it would try to grab paper. I simply had enough. So I decided to spend more money on this Brother Laser printer. I hate to spend the more money, but I was ready to throw HP printer up against the wall. So to keep my sanity I paid the more money.This Brother printer was easy to setup and easy to connect to my ISP and router. Took no longer than one minute to get to where I could print. This printer is fast and prints without acting like it's going to have a heart attack like the stupid HP crap I had before.So if you do not need color printing this is very good for small to medium workloads.I don't need color printing really so this is very good.

It has an LCD screen the size of a bean with mysterious settings and protocols that are unexplained unless you have a printed manual for the entire settings menu.Do not subscribe to EZ print subscription or you will end up getting their company servers to remotely brick your printer on a whim!!!!I purchased this brand name printer with brand name toner in the starter kit for my mother. My mother subscribed to EZ print, completing all of the appropriate registration, serial number, payment info, and agreements. I guided her on the process and helped set up her printer. It worked fine from Nov. to April. They never sent her the subscription ink she needed next. Then when her starter cartridge ran out within a few months, instead of contacting her or charging her for ink or clarifying what the “free plan” really means, they bricked her printer!!!When Mom called customer service, they told her that her toner was not brand name (forged??!). She then drove into the city (1 hour each way) and spent time looking for brand-name printer toner and spent $50 on the new cartridge to return home in order to fix her printer.The printer did not work after toner replacement.The customer support gave her misinformation!!I checked her toner it’s real Brother.I learned later that EZprint Subscribers must receive Brother toner with a “S” mark on the packaging from the company, and if the cartridge does not have the “S” mark on it, then apparently the machine can be remotely shut down by their servers with error. Printers can be thrown into a deep sleep, can be given multiple connection problems, and continually errors out while demanding subscription toner even when the new brand name toner is inserted!!!!My mother is elderly and does not need this headache when she’s trying to mobile print a 1pager from her iPad.The customer service on the phone to her was appalling, misleading her to think that she had fraudulent toner in this printer.I have 10 years experience in providing IT support and computer science teaching. When I helped her after work, it took 2 hours for me to troubleshoot and research. It became very clear that Beother. Atoned service lied. This was official brand name, Brother toner, but it was just the starter toner “TN” as usual, which runs out quicker than high-yield toner that would be purchased in the second round. I spent over five hours troubleshooting with the tiny bean-sized LCD screen. My AIO Brother printer at home has a nice easy to read LED screen that makes adjusting and diving into settings much easier. I connected my mom’s faulty printer to my laptop by USB and did some troubleshooting using the correct drivers and system software, but the system software they give you for printer management is horribly inept.I really enjoy my brother printers that I have at home. I have two others: one for printing receipts for the business and another all in one printer that is amazing.I have to say that this printer is absolutely the worst brother printer that you can purchase and I recommend two things:1. Do not ever subscribe to EZ print subscription or you are giving the company permission to remote control your printer like dictators.2. And do not buy this printer because it has an LCD screen the size of a Bean when you could get a printer with an LED screen that is the size of a Post-it.

Easy to set up, great quality! It works really well and is fast. My husband has the same printer for his classroom and we bought for home because it’s a great printer.

I only took away 1 star for one reason: the printed sheets lay directly on top of the flat printer regardless of whether you prop up the little risers, making it difficult to pick them up. I do not see others complaining about this, maybe I have dry hands and they just slip over the back of the pages more than other people, but there is no way to easily grip the printed pages. Otherwise on a Windows PC the install was easy and it is an accurate printer, the print quality is very pleasing. I am mainly using for invoices for a small business so black and white is all we use. It's been running for a week and never enters a sleep mode, so it's always 100% ready to go which is what I needed.