Manufacturer | Brother Printer |
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Brand | Brother |
Item Weight | 24.9 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 16.1 x 15.7 x 12.5 inches |
Item model number | MFCL2700DW |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Color | Black/Grey |
Number of Items | 1 |
Sheet Size | 210 x 297 millimeters |
Manufacturer Part Number | MFCL2700DW |
Item Weight | 24.9 Pounds |
Max Input Sheet Capacity | 250 |
Wattage | 480 watts |
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Brother MFCL2700DW All-In One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Enabled
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Brand | Brother |
Connectivity Technology | Wi-Fi |
Printing Technology | Laser |
Special Feature | Auto-Document Feeder |
Color | Black/Grey |
Printer Output | Monochrome |
Maximum Print Speed (Color) | 25 |
Max Printspeed Monochrome | 27 ppm |
Item Weight | 24.9 Pounds |
Product Dimensions | 15.7"D x 16.1"W x 12.5"H |
About this item
- B/W & Color Scanning
- Optical Scan Resolution (dpi): 600 x 2400 dpi
- Standard Input Paper Capacity: 250-Sheet Input Capacity
- Print Technology: B/W Laser Technology
- Printer Driver Compatibility: Windows & Mac OS
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Print Quality | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
Sleep mode | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
Tech Support | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
Touch Screen | 4.5 | — | — | — | 4.3 | 4.3 |
Value for money | — | 3.9 | — | — | 3.6 | 3.6 |
Sold By | Photo Supplies Online(Serial Number Recorded) | planet technology (we record SN) | M-X-C Tech | MeimeiGo | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
printer output | Monochrome | Monochrome | Monochrome | Monochrome | Monochrome | Monochrome |
printer technology | Laser | Laser | Laser | Laser | Laser | Laser |
paper size | 210 x 297 millimeters | — | — | — | Paper Tray: Up to 8.5" x 14" (legal) Manual Feed Slot: 3" to 8.5" (W), 5" to 14" (L) | 8.5 x 14 |
print media type | envelopes, paper plain | envelopes, card stock | envelopes, card stock | envelopes, labels | paper plain, card stock, envelopes | paper plain, envelopes, card stock |
max input sheets | 250 | 250 | 250 | 50 | 250 | 250 |
connectivity tech | Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi, USB | Wi-Fi, USB | Wi-Fi, USB, Ethernet | USB | Wi-Fi, wired |
From the manufacturer
MFC-L2700DW
This Compact Laser All-in-One with easy-to-install Wireless Networking, Automatic Duplex Printing, and Enhanced Mobile Device Connectivity provides fast, low-cost output for your home office or small office.
Thanks to its fast print speed of up to 27ppm, and automatic duplex printing, it's ideal for printing business documents including reports, spreadsheets, invoices, and more.
Compact Laser All-in-One with Two-Sided Printing and Wireless Networking
Standalone copying with valuable features including:
ID copy, Sort/Stack, Reduce/enlarge documents from 25-400%, and N-in-1 copying.
High-Quality Colour Scanning
Offers a variety of 'scan-to' and advanced features, including ID Scan, Blank Page Skip and more.
Automatic Document Feeder
35-Page Capacity Mobile Device Printing Automatic Document Feeder, convenient for copying, scanning or faxing multi-page documents (up to legal size).
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ASIN | B00MFG58N6 |
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Customer Reviews |
4.4 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #76,103 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products) #157 in Laser Computer Printers |
Date First Available | July 31, 2014 |
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Monochrome laser all in one for small or home office use. Connect via wireless or wired networking or USB. Print and copy speeds up to 27 ppm. Color scanning, plus high speed faxing. Auto duplex printing. Adjustable letter/legal 250 sheet paper tray, 35 page auto document feeder. Print from compatible mobile devices over your wireless network.
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Customers like the quality, performance, and ease of setup of the printer. For example, they mention that it does a great job at everyday document printing, and that duplex printing is awesome. They appreciate the value for money, saying that the toner refills are much cheaper. Customers also appreciate speed. That said, opinions are mixed on connectivity, scanner, and readability.
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Customers like the quality of the printer. They mention that the print quality is sufficient, it does a great job at everyday document printing, and the duplex printing is awesome. The copying, faxing, and printing are all very functional. The first test printing went well, with no wireless issues. The printer itself is fine and gets the job done. It's well designed for a pretty small footprint, and produces crisp and clean text.
"...Duplex printing is awesome, so fast and a real paper saver! QUIET compared to other lasers I've had and the price at the time was unreal...." Read more
"...It warms up quickly, prints quickly and I get good clean copies. Right now it is the best printer I've seen...." Read more
"...It is economical, prints fairly fast, and the text is very crisp and clean. It is economical to use and has a good third party toner following...." Read more
"...If you're looking for a versatile, dependable all-in-one printer, the Brother MFC is a fantastic choice that delivers excellent value for your money." Read more
Customers like the performance of the printer. They say that it works well, all functions of the print work well, and is easy to set up. They are happy with the performance, saying that it gets the job done. The auto feeder works great for back to back copying, and it's been a consistent performer through different PCs and homes. The copying and wireless scanning functions work well.
"Update May 2016: printer still works great. Aftermarket toner cartridge I mentioned before working great. I print about 30 pages a week...." Read more
"...This time I chose USB when installing it. Now everything works fine. It warms up quickly, prints quickly and I get good clean copies...." Read more
"...It does that very well. The scanner works fairly well, albeit pretty slow. At 1200 x 1200 a scan of an 8 x 10 will take almost 2 minutes...." Read more
"...Not a deal breaker, just a wish list item.Overall this works great and offers a lot of value for the money, and Brother printers have a..." Read more
Customers like the ease of setup of the printer. They mention that it's very easy to set up, unpackage, and install. They also appreciate the ease with which the network can be set up. The operation of the product is a breeze, and the wireless printing setup is simple and pleasant to use. The scanner is also easy to use, and it installs the drivers without error. Customers also love the ease to select double sided printing when printing documents from their computer. Overall, customers find the setup process to be quick and easy.
"...Setup was easy with the supplied disk. I liked the fact I could use it wireless. It worked like a charm...." Read more
"...The print quality is sharp and consistent, and it handles high-volume tasks with ease...." Read more
"...And I love the ease of use of selecting double sided when printing documents from my computer. Easy as selecting a check box...." Read more
"I would give this 5 stars but only gave it four because of difficulty in getting it set up on my Apple wireless network and OX 10.10.1 Yosemite..." Read more
Customers like the value of the printer. They say it is great value for money, the toner refills are much cheaper, and it uses economical Brother toner cartridges. Customers also say that it is a real paper saver, and starts printing right away. They appreciate that there is no bloatware or 10 different applications.
"...3 years in my office, I figured I'd go back to Brother, and the price was right...." Read more
"...Duplex printing is awesome, so fast and a real paper saver! QUIET compared to other lasers I've had and the price at the time was unreal...." Read more
"This is a good printer as suggested by its popularity. It is economical, prints fairly fast, and the text is very crisp and clean...." Read more
"...the Brother MFC is a fantastic choice that delivers excellent value for your money." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the speed of the printer. They mention that it prints very fast, and copies come out of the front of the machine. They appreciate the quick scanning and printing capabilities. Customers also mention that the printer produces beautiful, crisp black and white pages very quickly. They say that it boots up quickly and is fully functional in 10 minutes.
"...On the whole, I'm happy I went back to Brother. The speed of printing, scanning, and copying are hugely improved over the HP...." Read more
"...Duplex printing is awesome, so fast and a real paper saver! QUIET compared to other lasers I've had and the price at the time was unreal...." Read more
"...Now everything works fine. It warms up quickly, prints quickly and I get good clean copies. Right now it is the best printer I've seen...." Read more
"...It is economical, prints fairly fast, and the text is very crisp and clean. It is economical to use and has a good third party toner following...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the connectivity of the printer. Some mention that the wireless connectivity makes it incredibly convenient, while others say that they were unable to connect it to the network without using their Apple or a Windows.
"...But had a real hard time with the install. Our Macs could not find the printer wirelessly...." Read more
"...USB is fool-proof. I have no need for color printing nor do I need high quality scans...." Read more
"...Ultimately the issue was that the printer never said it wasn't connecting because my wifi requires a password, something you would expect in pretty..." Read more
"...The printer would work wireless for a minute and then I would go back to print something and I get a message "No Airprint Printer Found"...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the scanner. Some mention that it's great, while others say that it is slow and difficult to learn. They also mention that the UI is poor and the scanning is not as efficient as they had hoped.
"...It does that very well. The scanner works fairly well, albeit pretty slow. At 1200 x 1200 a scan of an 8 x 10 will take almost 2 minutes...." Read more
"...On the whole, I'm happy I went back to Brother. The speed of printing, scanning, and copying are hugely improved over the HP...." Read more
"...The printer does take about 15 seconds to wake up before it starts to print from my command of print, but once printing, it prints fast...." Read more
"...Its multifunctionality is a game-changer, offering printing, scanning, copying, and faxing capabilities in one machine...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the readability of the printer. Some mention that the scan quality is great, the print quality is sharp and consistent, and the double sided printing works well. However, others say that the single line LCD display is almost impossible to read, with no backlight.
"...The LCD display cant be seen. Its a non-back-light type...." Read more
"...The print quality is sharp and consistent, and it handles high-volume tasks with ease...." Read more
"...The LCD screen can be difficult to read in low light conditions, and you may need to read it when doing copying or faxing...." Read more
"...Text is crisp and clear — no complaints there.Images are another matter — that output is only “acceptable.”..." Read more
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On the whole, I'm happy I went back to Brother. The speed of printing, scanning, and copying are hugely improved over the HP. I don't need to print in color, and I was getting increasingly annoyed by the fact that, in the HP, somehow your color ink gets depleted even if you never print in color, meaning that it would refuse to print, even in black, unless I had color ink available to it. You know that ink's not cheap, either. With this Brother, I obviously don't have that problem because it only has black toner. Now the toner is expensive (because when is it not?) but with our other Brother MFCs, I've shopped everywhere, including Costco, and found that nearly 100% of the time, if not 100% of the time, Amazon has the best price on Brother toner.
I do have a couple of issues with this MFC, and I've got an e-mail in with Brother in hopes that they can help me fix them (Edit: please see update from 12/9/15 at the bottom):
1. Deep Sleep Mode - This model does NOT have an option to disable Deep Sleep, only set it to a chosen time interval, the longest of which can be 50 minutes. According to the interwebs, older models do have the option to disable it. The problem lies in that this MFC is supposed to "wake up" from Sleep or Deep Sleep mode when you send it a print job. Pressing buttons on the printer is also supposed to "wake it up." However, neither works for Deep Sleep mode. My only option is to turn the printer off and back on again. (To its credit, my HP was screwing up and making me do that multiple times a day, and it took a lot longer to reboot.) However, even though I set the Deep Sleep mode to max out at 50 minutes, it keeps resetting itself to 01 minute, meaning earlier today my multiple print jobs that were 2 or 3 minutes apart required full restarts of the MFC in between. This is incredibly inefficient, and if Brother can't help me fix it, I'll be returning this machine. (PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATE ON 12/9/15 AT THE BOTTOM REGARDING THIS ISSUE.)
2. Stack/Sort (a/k/a Collate) - This MFC is set to "Stack" copies, meaning if you are making two copies of a 2-page document, it will print in this order: page 1, page 1, page 2, page 2. Multiply this out for longer documents/more copies, and you can see how inefficient and frustrating this could be. (Seriously, I hope you have a big table/counter and some time to organize all your copies.) I looked it up and discovered that you can change your copy options to set it to "Sort," meaning it will collate your copies (page 1, page 2, page 1, page 2, for two copies of a 2-page document). Great, right? Well, it would be if I could set that as a permanent setting, but I can't. I can only set it to Sort with each individual copy job. I can tell you that when I'm copying certain documents, that is going to get really old, really fast. My old HP required it for each copy job, too, and it annoyed me then. My guess is that collating requires that the printer use memory, then print it in order (which is why collating doesn't work fully on very large copy jobs). Stacked copies mean it doesn't store the documents in its memory, just prints them as it scans. I'm checking with Brother to see if I can set the MFC to Sort permanently, though based on my experience with the lack of permanence of the Deep Sleep mode setting, I'm not holding my breath. It's not a deal killer, but in my opinion, if they give you the option to collate at all, there should be an option to keep it that way long-term. If this is of utmost importance to you, you may need to buy a higher-level machine or an actual copier.
Overall, I expect this printer to be as reliable as our older Brother MFCs, but many of the limitations that exist in the older models still appear to exist. If they'd fix the two issues I mentioned, they'd have a perfect 5-star machine. It's hard to complain for the price, but, like I said, if they can't fix the Deep Sleep problem, I'll have no choice to send it back. I just don't have time to reboot my printer for every single print job that comes more than 1 minute past the last one.
TL;DR
Pros: solid printer, decent speed in print/copy/scan, will likely last a while, price is good
Cons: Deep Sleep mode keeps resetting to 01 minute, no option to disable Deep Sleep, issues waking up from Deep Sleep (PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW FROM 12/9/15), no option to collate copies as a rule instead of with each copy job
UPDATE (December 2, 2015): I have gone back and forth with Brother customer service over the aforementioned issues. They have not addressed the collate issue with copying, but I suspect that is just something I'll have to live with (and can live with). As for the Deep Sleep Mode issues, I have updated firmware, I've reset factory options and reconnected it to my network, then reset the options, I've set it up to access printer settings remotely from my computer, etc. Basically I've done everything that Brother has told me to do that they expected would fix the problem. About 50% of the time the machine will "wake up" from Deep Sleep mode if I send a print job to it, but even if I have the machine set not to go into Deep Sleep Mode for 50 minutes (the max allowable), every print job resets it to 01 minutes. So even if I just send it one page to print, I have to remember either to go to the printer itself and reset Deep Sleep Mode or to do it from my browser. It's getting very old, very quickly. Brother is allegedly going to call me to help me with this. If they cannot help me, I will be returning this machine, and I may try the MFC-L2740DW in hopes that a better machine will mean better performance and no Deep Sleep issues. I will update further.
UPDATE (December 9, 2015): I have upgraded my review to 5 stars from 4. I got a call from Brother yesterday after a bit of phone tag, and they were super. The tech was incredibly nice and friendly and didn't talk to me like I was an idiot. He didn't make me repeat the steps I'd already been instructed to do and immediately jumped to the weird fix that - get this - actually fixed the not waking up from Deep Sleep problem! The phone call was all of 10 minutes, and that included time waiting to make sure the fix worked. So far, so good. Deep Sleep Mode still resets to 1 minute after each print job, even if I set it to 50 minutes, but I don't care now that it wakes up properly when I send a print job. The tech still didn't know why that happened, but I told him that it wasn't worth trying to fix if it was waking up as it should. Also, he said that there is a way to disable Deep Sleep Mode that they had to figure out because the engineers in Japan didn't tell them about it, but I didn't care to ask further about it now that everything is working properly.
All in all, I'm very pleased with the way the issue was handled and resolved, and I am keeping my machine :)
Update February 2016: Just now ran out of the starter toner. I took a chance (it had good reviews) and bought E-Z Ink (TM) Compatible Toner Cartridge Replacement for Brother TN630 TN660 High Yield (1 Black Toner) toner to replace it ($13 for the high yield cartridge vs. $50 for the genuine Brother product, so far, so good). Printer still works great. Only have had a couple jams, but they weren't really jams, probably just mis-feeds, which register as a jam. Duplex printing is awesome, so fast and a real paper saver! QUIET compared to other lasers I've had and the price at the time was unreal. Price is about $40 higher now on Amazon.
UPDATE November 2015: I've had this printer about 6 months now. So far, it is still working great. Brother also didn't drag their feet creating a driver for Windows 10. It works great in Windows 10. I don't do a ton of printing, average about 5-10 pages a week. The "Brother Status Monitor" says I have about 40% left of the starter toner cartridge.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Pros: Small footprint and height, excellent price for the features, duplex printing
Cons: Only starter cartridge, no duplex copying
I have owned mostly HP and Brother printers in the past 20 years. I have continually been frustrated and angered by HP printers due to their poor reliability. I have owned 3 Brother printers now...a dot matrix in the 90's and now two different all-in-one laser units.
The previous Brother laser all-in-one worked great for over 5 years before the document feeder started "jamming" (no jam was found, but the printer said there was). After a pro tech cleaned the unit, it worked great for another year before it started "jamming" again. Other than that, the device worked like a charm. I paid I believe about $300 for a refurb model in 2005.
For the $130 I paid for this 2700DW model, I am floored. I've only had it about 6 months, but no problems so far. If it lasts at least 5 years it will have been worth it. I hope it lasts much longer than that so it just doesn't end up in a landfill. But the price is amazing.
I also love that it is about 1/2 the size of my previous Brother 8440. The size of all-in-one lasers is what kept me away from them as my daily office printer. They have now come down to a manageable size and price for me to warrant to ditch inkjets forever.
I will be updating the review every year or two as to how long it lasts. Brother has a pretty good history of durable office machines and my experience with the previous two concurs.
My main use of this device are regular document printing and copying. Occasionally I scan documents. I use the ADF (document feeder) almost exclusively, so this is a very important feature to me. I connect only via USB as my experience with wired and wireless network connections with printers in the past is they work great until they don't. USB is fool-proof. I have no need for color printing nor do I need high quality scans.
Tip for scanning to PDF: Get the free program (for Windows, not sure about other platforms) called "iCopy". Best little program I have found so far for this purpose. After minor one-time setup in iCopy, place your page(s) in the ADF or glass and press the big blue "COPY" button in iCopy. I will scan all your pages and spit it out into a PDF file.
My only gripe I have had at all with Brother had not to do with this model but the previous MFC-8440 all-in-one laser. Brother never created Windows 7 drivers, which resulted in me having to use the generic Microsoft drivers. The Brother software wouldn't work on Windows 7, though I was able to create several workarounds to get the functioning out of the device that I wanted. It was frustrating, though, as at the time, the device was not that old and I had expected that Brother would update their software for it. I wrote and called to them about this but they were unable to help. HP seems to tend to better on this issue than Brother has been, but it's pointless if the hardware craps out all too easily.
That being said, Brother has already updated the driver and software package for the 2700DW for Windows 10.
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