Customer Ratings & Reviews

Arrived well packaged and easy to unbox. Was a breeze to set it up using the quick set up guide and works flawlessly. Prints come out very crisp looking. Will recommend and would buy again

I recently purchased this Brother printer, and I couldn’t be happier with my choice! Right out of the box, it was clear that this printer was designed with the user in mind. The setup process was incredibly straightforward – the instructions were easy to follow, and I had it connected to Wi-Fi and ready to print within minutes. Navigating the printer’s settings is intuitive, even for those who aren’t tech-savvy. The touchscreen display is clear and responsive, making it simple to select options, scan, or adjust settings on the fly. The printer’s mobile app is also a fantastic feature, allowing me to print directly from my phone or tablet, making printing on the go a breeze. Overall, I’m extremely pleased with how user-friendly this Brother printer is. It’s perfect for anyone who values efficiency and convenience. Highly recommend it!

This is a wonderful printer that works exactly as presented. While I don't use it every day, when I need it, I need it. I'd would recommend this printer to anyone needing a great black and white laser printer. What do I like most about it? Answer: I like that it only has to take 1 black cartridge and I get 3,000 copies out of it. Go for it! PS It also prints two sided printing as well!

Very good printer – smart, fast, and easy to set up and use. Great for home or office tasks

This printer is an excellent choice for home use. We don’t print often and don’t require color, so it’s perfect for our needs. The cartridge lasts years and won’t dry out like typical home printers. Setting it up was a breeze, and I love printing directly from my phone.

Takes a few minutes to set up, wish they had an individual video for each product but honestly such a joy when it started print. Screw ink cartridges for life! Fine to keep on the floor as shown, connects to a wall outlet fairly easily (cable is decently long.)

I have previously owned HP printer and it constantly wouldnt connect to wifi. I downloaded the Brother APP and connected first attemot. And I have had no issues connecting from other devices and tablets.

This is a fine little printer. I went for the two-sided option to save a bit of paper from time to time. The printer likes wireless access with both Windows and Linux machines. Much appreciated! The unit is light in weight, which makes it simple to move from place to place. I consider that an excellent feature.

I’ve gone through a few HP and Epson printers, wasted so much money on ink cartridges, $30-$50 each that feels like they need to be replaced every 50 pages. Prints are blurry especially with usps bar codes. Finally switched to this Brother printer since I mostly print black and white. It prints so much more quiet (I used to hear my Epson printer from downstairs while it was upstairs) and so crisp! The usps bar codes are so fine and so clear. Can’t complain, also, this timer looks like it will print hundreds if not thousands before it needs to be replaced. No regrets here!

I bought the a Brothers Laser Printer because I owned 2 other printers with ink cartridges that broke down. The set-up was very easy and now enjoy the quality printer.

This is a good printer. Easy to install and setup! I recommend for purchase.

It’s very easy to set up it connected with no problem or hesitation. It walked me through the instructions. The only thing that’s disappointing is that it doesn’t have a copy feature otherwise it’s great and very very user-friendly.

Once I got it running, it works great. I like this wireless basic black & white printer! It's our third Brother printer - we'll always get another Brother.

Great product. It works very smoothly. It is durable.

This is a great value ! Starter ink gives 500 pages. Once you need to replace toner it is a very easy process. Very happy to have this at work !

I got an old printer sold as new for full price.My warranty was from last year and I just got it this June Got with customer care and wasn given any discount nor any extended warranty rather was with best buy agent for almost an hour. They tried to sell me annual best buy membership!! I was cheated and scammed by best buy and they didn’t even bother reducing price to that of a used printer!! Never buying again!!

The brother HL-L2460DW is an excellent low cost and efficient printer. I use Brother laser printers from monochrome to color and all have been great. The 2460DW is replacing a Brother 2070N I got in 2006 that lasted through multiple drums and toner and never stopped cranking out paper. But it’s gotten old. I got it in 2006 for $140 and the 2460DW is basically the current version of it now for an MSRP of $160. More memory, more features, and 17 years of improvements. I got the 2460DW because I want an Ethernet port on the printer to connect to my home network. Anyone operating wirelessly can still connect and print to the printer. The printer also has wireless (2.4GHz and 5GHz bands) built in, and an USB connection. One big difference between the 2460DW and the non ethernet versions, the 2400D and the 2405W, is the 2460DW has double the memory of them. The 2460DW has 128MB RAM the others only 64MB RAM. The 2460DW also prints faster in single and double sided mode than the other two versions. The 2460 is compact, about 7”x14” and 15lbs. and holds 250 sheets of paper (20 lbs). It has automatic double sided printed if wanted. It comes with a standard toner cartridge, ~1200 pages, and has an XL cartridge, ~3000 pages. The cartridges are the TN830 and TN830XL respectively. Setup is easy. Basically, unpack and slide in the drum/cartridge unit, plug int and turn on. There is a 1 line LCD screen to help in setup. I was able to assign an IP address directly through the interface. If not, you can use wi-fi or USB. Setting up the printer through the software was simple too, although for wired you use the wireless selection, and it installs fine. The 1 line LCD screen conveys a lot of information and lets you alter the printer as you wish, but it’s easier through the software. For low end printer you won’t get an LCD screen, but, the 1 line LCD line does the job. A sticker on the back has the default password and MAC addresses. The Brother BRAdmin Professional 4 software utility picked up my printer and all its settings with no issues. I can see it with all my other Brother printers. If you don’t want to install the full software and just print, using the Windows add printer function will also work fine. Windows saw the printer and installed the basic drivers on other computers and laptops. You can also get software to print from mobile devices. I had no issues using them. The 2460DW prints up to 1200x1200 dpi. Black and white and grayscale look fantastic. Letter size 1 sided is up to 36 pages a minute and 2 sided up to 8.5 double sided pages a minute. First page can print in less than 8.5 seconds. I used with standard 20lbs paper and had no issues. No jams or blemishes on the paper. The printed area will hold up to 100 pages. There is a manual slot for envelops and other paper types too. Overall, it’s not too loud and prints come out great. Saves a ton of money over inkjet if you don’t need color. Laser printers are precise, fast, and this one not too expensive. Manuals and printer specific software and drivers can all be found on the Brother website if needed or wanted. If you don’t need a scanner/fax/copier and don’t have huge volumes to print this Brother printer works. Its recommended monthly volume is ~2,500 pages. It’s a simple printer and works, and the build quality seems good. The printer can also be used with Brother refresh if you know how much toner you need on a consistent basis. I expect this printer to last a long time.

My review is going to focus on setup, build quality, print quality and cost to use. I won’t be repeating specs and features because that’s already stated. The printer was well packed and included a power cord and the drum and toner assembly. The instructions showed how to remove the tape and use a QR code to go get the app(s) you need to set up the printer. I set mine up on my S23 Ultra, iPad and Windows PC via WiFi router. The procedures were easy and I didn’t have a problem. The power cord plugs directly into the printer, no power brick or wall-wart. WiFi connection is dual band. You can also connect via ethernet cable or USB 2. Build quality feels sound and the printer isn’t any noisier than any other. There is a cooling fan on the right side that runs as needed. You can hear it running, but it’s quiet enough as to not be distracting. There’s some function buttons on the top left and a single line alphanumeric LCD display that shows status and scrolls messages when needed. The paper bin is on the bottom. There’s a place to load paper above that for one-off things. Paper discharges on top. See specs for more on paper capacities. Does double sided printing. Print quality is good, but a mixed bag too. I compared it to an HP Laserjet tank 2504DW laser printer and a Canon Maxify GX3060 inkjet printer that uses pigment ink as opposed to dye ink for deeper blacks and colors. See scans. Print Quality Options: Sharpness The Brother’s printer software gives more print resolution options (4) than the HP’s (2) and Canon (3). The Brother offers 300 dpi, 600, dpi (default setting), 1200 dpi and 1200HQ. I couldn’t tell any difference between 1200 and 1200HQ so didn’t include a scan sample of the two. There’s also a setting for printing text or graphics / text. Graphics / text is the default setting and did the best job. Text was only very slightly improved in the Text mode and if you printed any graphics with any kind of gradient, Text mode made it look pretty bad. 600 dpi is the default setting and looks as good as the 1200 setting for text. The 300 dpi did good as well for text. Photos and gradients is where you would see the difference. At 300 dpi the gradients look like pattern dithering you would see in Windows 3.1. It gets better at 600 dpi and looks its best at 1200 dpi. Of course, this isn’t a photo printer, but there are plenty of times where graphics with a gradient to a tone between black and white will need to be printed. That’s why I’m covering it. I printed my test sheet from Photoshop with default settings, and a sample part of another review I did in Google Docs and printed from Chrome at 600 dpi. I scanned it at 1200 dpi to show detail. See scans. Compared to the other mentioned printers: Color to grayscale When printing a color page to grayscale with default settings where the printer handles the color to grayscale conversion, the Brother came in last. The HP first and the Canon inkjet second. I expected the inkjet to win here. The Brother’s output was darker than the others and had lines. The HP did much better, but even it had some lines visible. Tone between black and white is better on the color chips and the two black to white gradient bands are smoother. The Canon did the best with the color chips but where is the yellow gradient to white line at? No surprise that the deepest blacks go to the laser printers. I also included the original file I use to test printers and scanners with. See scans. Compared to the other mentioned printers: Sharpness It’s a tossup between the Brother and HP in default settings (600 dpi) on plain paper. If it were printed on photo paper that doesn’t (barely) bleed, the Canon would win. The Brother’s 300 dpi draft / “eco” mode beats HP’s “eco” mode hands down. See scans. Why I included an inkjet: Just to give readers something else to compare to. Cost to use: The Brother is the most expensive to use based on the cost of toner cartridges, there are two sizes, and the number of sheets of paper they will print per said cartridge. This is going by the industry standard that companies base their specs on. Also, the included cartridge with HL-L2460DW is only a starter cartridge good for 700 sheets. Low price on the front end and high supply cost on the backend. This is a common practice among all companies making printers. Ok if you don’t print much, but if you’re going to be using it a lot, there are other options for less expensive use in the long run. But it will cost you more up front when you buy the printer. The HP I compared it to costs about twice as much to buy, but you refill it with cheaper bottles of toner that produces more printed sheets than either Brother replacement cartridges. It also comes prefilled with 2 bottles of toner. Same with the Canon, but with ink. And it came with 4 full bottles. Not “starter” bottles that are less than one quarter full. The “starter” practice shouldn’t be allowed, and all the printer manufacturers are guilty. The HP is the cheapest to operate of all three. Pros: Easy to set up and use. I like the apps on all the devices I installed it on. I like the little single line LCD display. The HP lacks this. Fairly small footprint. No power brick. Good print quality for the price. Best draft / eco print quality. Replaceable selenium drum. Cons: Expensive to use. Very expensive if you plan on using it for those high duty cycles it’s rated for. Noticeable dithering patterns on gradients and possible on gray tones. Conclusion: If you plan on printing mostly text with low use rates, this will fit the bill. Test is its strong point. For moderate to high usage, I’d consider another printer that is cheaper to use. If what you’re going to print is going to have any kind of graphics that have any kind of shading or gradient that go from light to dark, you might want to consider a different printer. Be it a laser or inkjet.

I’m already a Brother printer fan. I bought one about 10 years ago that I use for printing shipping labels and it’s still going strong. The new Brother printer HL-L2460DW is smaller - roughly 14x14x7 inches. It’s strictly a printer and doesn’t copy or scan. It has a one line LCD screen and 4 navigational buttons - Back, OK, Up and Down. There is no keypad to input letters or numbers. I had a horrible experience with the wireless set up. My first try was through the app. The app told me to press the wireless button and when “Check PC/device” showed on the printer screen to go to the “next screen”. “Check PC/device” showed up on the printer OK, but there was no next screen on the phone or on the printer LCD. The app couldn’t find the printer, the printer timed out, and after 5-6 tries, that was the end of that method. Next I downloaded the set up software and tried that way. The instructions were poorly written and it still couldn’t find the “machine”. The only recommendation was to unplug the router and retry. 10 times of that method got me nowhere. I was just about ready to buy a USB cable and resort to that method when I remembered the printed Quick Setup Guide that came with the printer. On the back was a Manual Wireless Setup section. The instructions omitted some steps that were needed to find the Network menu option using the 4 buttons on the printer, but I was eventually able to find it and then WLAN (Wi-Fi). The printer quickly found my router and I selected it. Then it asked for the Network Key (password), followed by a blank screen. How was I supposed to enter my password without a keypad? The answer is: press the up and down keys to cycle through numbers 0-9, then a lower case alphabet, an upper case alphabet and finally about 20 characters. I couldn’t type ABCabc123 quickly because the next character up was random. It took at least 500 button pushes to enter a 10 character password. That was ridiculous. There should be a way to connect where the password can be typed using something that has a keypad. At least I shouldn’t have to do that too many more times. The menus are a little tedious to navigate with just one line of text and 4 buttons. I was able to find a list of the menu options and sub options in the online manual which helped me find my way around. When I first used the printer, it was quite noisy and made me jump when it started. Changing it to quiet mode helped. I also changed the “Replace Toner” setting from “stop” to “continue” when low toner was detected. The printer is great. The shipping labels are clear and clean. The ink doesn’t smear or chip off. Some other printer brands I tried didn’t get hot enough to fix the toner to the label. There have been no paper jams or network issues. It quickly goes into deep sleep (sleep timing can be adjusted in the menu) but when it gets a print job, it’s ready to print in a few seconds. With any luck I’ll get more than 10 years out of this one too. Like most printers these days, Brother offers a toner refresh program. I haven’t been able to calculate cartridge purchase vs. subscription price because I can’t find TN830 toner for sale anywhere yet. With the subscription (which allows Brother to monitor your printing), 300 pages a month costs $9 and 100 pages costs $3.49. Three cents a page could be a little below retail but if I pay for more pages than I use or if I have to buy additional sets of pages at 5 cents/page, I lose the savings. When printing shipping labels I print on half the page and put it back in the printer to print the other half later. That would count as 2 subscription pages. For now, I’ll just hope that there is enough starter toner to get me through until TN830 is available for sale.

This printer replaces a +20yr old Brother printer. I went to get a toner cartridge for it and it was hard to find, and when I found it it was more expensive than I expected. My old printer was 300dpi, this one is 1200dpi. My old printer printed 10-12ppm, this one prints 36ppm. My old printer was not wireless, I could not easily print to it from my phone or tablet. My old printer had no security services, this one has all the latest. My old printer consumed 12w in standby, this consumes 0.4w. Both printed double sided, but this one is SO much faster. my old printer had 4gb memory, this one has 64gb (handling graphics much better). And this printer is so much quieter when printing (49db). I took the toner out of its package, removed the protective plastic on the cartridge, ran the cleaner back and forth (green tab on cartridge) and then inserted the cartridge. I turned it on, and then followed instructions using the Brother "Mobile Connect" application, which optionally allows you to print on your printer from anywhere in the world (over the internet, when registering it and setting up an account with Brother). And this printer is eligible to work with the Brother Refresh program, which will ship you new printer cartridges before you run out of toner (program based on number average number of pages printed per month). Set up was complete in under 5 minutes. Extremely easy to do with their app. I printed a couple of documents that I had on my phone and found that the quality of normal and fine printing to be nearly identical. Normal uses less toner. And the speed to get the first page printed was under 8 seconds. The output was exceptional. So for a few dollars more than a new cartridge for my old printer I have a printer that is 3x faster, with 3x the quality output and it's quieter and uses far less power and I can print on it wirelessly. New standard output cartridges are about $50/cartridge (less than half what I need to spend on a new cartridge for my old printer. Seems like a winner all the way around. I am most happy with my upgraded Brother printer. If I get another 20 years out of this printer it's an excellent deal.