Brother HL-L2405W Wireless Compact Monochrome Laser Printer with Mobile Printing, Black & White Output | includes Refresh Subscription Trial(1), Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready

llego muy rápido y en excelentes condiciones

I finally had enough of fooling around with my HP printer that I bought this one and I'll never go back! What a quality printer. Simple, well constructed, and ink lasts a long time. Set up was fairly easy (easier than hoops HP makes you do). Works great with my laptop and android phone. Prints clear and fast. Much faster than ink jet printers. Brother is now my new printer brand of choice.

Muy buena, pero gasta mucha tinta por impresión, aunque pongas "draft" en config. Pero imprime excelente y nunca he tenido problema con conexión a mi compu / cel.

Some of you considering this printer might be wondering how difficult it is to set up and connect. This is especially true if you are considering it as a gift, or if you just want a simple setup experience so you can get your printer going fast and get on with your workday. This review is limited only to initial set up and first use (I haven't owned this long enough to provide feedback on reliability, ink toner capacity, or similar long-term characteristics). Almost all printers are not very intuitive or easy to set up initially, so I'm comparing this printer with other printers that I've set up. No set up is perfect, but this printer is certainly above average. I set up my HL-L2405W printer using Win11 and chose to use a WiFi setup, which is what the majority of users will likely do. The printer also comes with a LAN cable that plugs into your computer's USB. I like having this option in case there are any future issues with connectivity. To set up the printer using WiFi you must first make sure the printer itself is connected to your router. Whether you're doing this for your home office on your home router, or at work using a workplace router, the process is the same: The printer takes only 10 minutes to completely unbox, setup, and power on using the convenient quick start guide. The quick start guide is pretty good at getting you powered up and going. The only thing that confused me a bit was a green tab on the toner cartridge. There's a diagram showing the green tab moving back and forth and it almost appears like you are supposed to remove the green tab. Do not remove the green tab, just slide it over and back one time to get the toner "primed" and then leave it alone. The quick start guide instructs the user to input your WiFi network name and password. It takes a while to enter in all the numbers and letters to do this, but it's straightforward. A couple of times I wasn't sure what to do and had to back out on the menu and then go back in before I could find the next step/screen. It took about 10 to 12 minutes to get the printer connected to my home's WiFi. Then I went into Windows 11 and simply opened the Settings/Bluetooth & devices/Printers & Scanners screen. Click on "Add device" and your new Brother printer will show up. Click on it and it will automatically start downloading whatever drivers/software is needed (less than 30 seconds). Total time from unboxing to printing the first page was less than 30 minutes, and for many people it will likely be even faster (I tend to go slowly and methodically). When I went to print a test page, I got an error screen. You may or may not get that too. Simply close the screen and try to print again. For whatever reason when I tried to print again everything worked great. The printer will eventually "fall asleep" but if you send something to it for printing, it automatically "wakes up" and does the job. Printing is not necessarily quiet, but also not noisy. Pretty much average noise level. It takes up a bit of desk space, but I'd rather give up desk space and have a more "substantial" printer than the space-saving compact printers that can be more difficult to setup and maintain. This may have only been a 4-star stetup, but compared to other printers it's a solid 5. I love, love, love that it didn't force me to opt out from or download a bunch of software that I don't want/need. No terms & conditions to sign off on, no "agreements" to acknowledge, no bloatware asking for your email or credit card information, no auto-installing apps. None of that. This is the cleanest install I've ever seen from any printer, period. That is also what makes this a 5-star experience.

I print from my laptop, never my mobile device. Setup for this printer is via a QR code, so after spending more than an hour going through the registration/setup process, I was only able to use the printer via my phone. Useless to me. At the very end of setup, there was a message to go to the Brother website to setup to print from my computer. Geez!!! Just show the computer setup option without having to scan the QR code and wasting time setting up on a device I never print from. I then spent another hour+ setting up for my laptop. Before printing, I clicked the Brother Print&Scan icon to register my printer. It didn't recognize the password on the back of the machine and it didn't recognize the password I'd assigned from the mobile set up. Brother wanted me to enter the serial # on the back of the printer. I'm old. My eyesight isn't great and after 4 attempts to enter the serial #, which BTW, cannot be displayed as you input it, there was no way to confirm if I'd made a mistake keying the # or if it was because I couldn't tell if the last digit of the serial # was a zero, letter O or a Q, and besides, by that time I was too tired and too irritated to continue because I'd already spent more than 3 hours unboxing and setting up. Setting up this printer was ALMOST as bad as getting a new computer and trying to figure out all the settings. Next, I set up the dashboard. After entering all the required info, I received a message saying that processing dashboard setup would take an hour, please be patient. OK, it was 10pm. I was not in a good mood. I tried to turn off the printer by pressing the power button. The machine stayed on even after multiple attempts. I said the F word and unplugged the printer. (The following day, there was enough light to read the display and I noticed a "Shutting Down" message after pressing the power button, so after waiting patiently, the machine did finally shut down.) At 7:54am the following morning I received an email saying my dashboard was available! Whoo Hoo! - only 10 hours later, and only to find out that the "dashboard" was designed to sell me products, not to configure print options as I'd expected. I spent the next 7 hours procrastinating weather or not I had the sanity and/or energy to actually test the printer. I finally sucked up and tested the printer, which worked like a charm and gave me decent quality albeit somewhat dark prints. As an artist who uses B&W photocopies in my collage work (the main reason I bought the printer), I did appreciate that the copies are more like old school photocopies that lack the shiny quality so often part of photocopies from Staples, etc. nowadays. The matte prints are easier to hand color with colored pencil or watercolor. And, MOSTLY, I also appreciate that I can now print from home instead of having to go to Staples every time I get a collage inspiration. Would I recommend this printer? No. Setup is definitely unnecessarily complicated - even for a 71yo former software analyst. The footprint is bigger than I expected, and because I'll only be using it intermittently and the manufacturer tells me not to keep it plugged in when not in use, I will probably find it a hassle to crawl under my desk to plug and unplug it every time I want to use it. Edit: I discovered that I can make lighter prints from MS Word by selecting "Printer Properties" then selecting "Advanced Printing Options" and clicking "Toner Save Mode". The lighter prints are exactly what I was hoping for and I'm happy to conserve toner to extend the toner cartridge life. I've run an extension cord to make plugging and unplugging the machine relatively easy. Patience has taught me that when the machine is in "Deep Sleep" mode (which happens within seconds of printing), I have to press the power button then wait for the machine to enter "Sleep" mode. Once the machine is in "Sleep" mode, I can finally press the power button again to shut down the machine. Edit #2: Changed rating from 3 stars to 1 star. The annoying things I've discovered about this printer after using it for a couple of weeks are #1 despite selecting collate from my print options, machine always prints the last page first so I have to hand collate everything AND #2 I have repeatedly selected toner save mode and pressed the default button within documents AND I've also set toner save mode from my default new document, AND I've tried to set toner save mode from the Brother icon, but the machine will not set toner save mode as a default - meaning I have to select toner save mode from the advanced settings EVERY time I print a document! Edit #3: It's slightly more than a month after purchasing the printer. Yes, I've been printing lots of images. I'm in the middle of a collaborative project where I have to make 25 copies of an image with a dark background. The toner ran out after 13 copies and the machine won't print another copy until I replace the cartridge. The last copy was totally acceptable, but unlike other printers I've had in the past that just give you a replace toner message and allow you to continue to print, this one is obstinate. The new toner cartridge will arrive in 6 days. In the mean time, I can't print. I've even tried tricking the printer by removing the toner cartridge and replacing it. No go! Grrrr!