Brother - HL-2170w Wireless Black-and-White Laser Printer

I found out the hard way that Vista64 is not compatible with some older printers like my trusty ten-year-old network NEC SuperScript. NEC won't provide any 64 bit drivers for this printer because "it's at the end of its service life" (NOT!), nor would they supply the source code so I could recompile to x64 and make my own driver. NEC and I are finished doing business. I did my homework and decided on this printer mainly because of price and small size. I paid a whole lot less than the listed price now. I'm glad I bought it when I did. I set this one up as a local printer for my Vista64 machine using USB without any problems. Not all software installs automatically - I had to sniff around the CD to find some of the utilities that enable toner saving and other good stuff. When printing this thing is noisy - I thought it was falling apart the first time I used it. That's just the way it is. Print quailty is exceptional considering the price. I use it for printing reports and it does the job just fine using 600x600 resolution. It's interesting that the replacement drum unit costs more than the printer does! Disposable printer? I don't know how durable this printer is. Only time will tell that. It's fast, and if you can get it for what I paid, it's a real bargain.

I bought this printer for my home office about two weeks ago. I totaly love it, coming from a junk ink-jet this thing has increased my productivity to where I can actually work from home on a regular basis. Wireless easy to set up, just follow directions and use the temp. ethernet cable method. As fast as the big printer at the office! I have printed about 75 pages and still on the original toner that came with it, I have it set to toner save mode but everything looks great! Sleep mods works well, I have it set for 15 min, when a job is sent to it while asleep takes less than 10 seconds for it to print the first page. It's sort of loud but all laser's I've used are. Does not come with ethernet cable just so you know. I am very satisfied with my purchase, especialy since it was on sale here for $89.00.

I was looking for a laser printer with a few basics: wireless built in, ease of setup, an actual tray to load a stack of paper, an optional manual-feed tray, speed and the ability to print high quality. This product meets all those expectations and exceeds them in speed, quality, ease of setup, and price. I was printing wirelessly from my laptop within 20 minutes of opening the box. Adding the drivers (and wireless-ready config) on additional computers takes less than 5 minutes each. The "starter" toner cartridge provides a reasonable 1000 prints (replacements offer 1500 or 2500). Perfection at a great price! Now we'll just see if it lasts.

I bought this printer about 5 days ago. I wanted wireless capability because I had no choice other than to put the router and printer in separate rooms. Set up was easy. Just temporarily hook up the network cable, and follow the instructions from the CD. The software found my SSID, so all I had to enter was the WEP encription key. I was printing wirelessly in just minutes. The printer is really fast, with only a slight delay from pushing print to having the print job waiting for me at the printer. The print quality for text documents is great. It rivals some of the laser printers at work. The fan is a little noisy, but the printer is in another room, so I am not there to hear it. Viewing and adjusting the settings is quite easy too. Just click the printer icon in the task bar and select printer home page and change any settings you want. The task bar icon will also let you view any messages sent from the printer such as low toner, or error messages like paper jams. Aside from the fan noise, the printer is great for its price. It is great to print from my laptop from anywhere in the house.

Fast & inexpensive laser, i suppose there are lots of those. but this one's wireless, which puts it ahead of the pack. small form factor allows it to be put anywhere there is a power outlet. mine is on a closet shelf. silent when not in use, responds instantly when print jobs are routed to it. One piece of advice, use the manual. I tried to ad lib the setup. I got very close, but never got anything more than the test page. Once I opened the manual, I had the printer setup and on our wireless network in 5 minutes. Note that my router is an older Apple Airport, so I needed to use the manual setup with an ethernet cable. So I can't report on the automated setup that newer wireless routers support. We've had the printer in service a month, has worked flawlessly. Recommend highly.

This printer is perfect! The quality is exactly what one would expect form a laser printer and the speed is more than adequate. You have to connect to the printer on a LAN with a Cat5 cable to setup the Wireless part, but it's very simple to do. The only complaint is when the printer thinks the Toner is low it stops printing until you replace the Toner. I put this to the test and put a piece of tape over the on the side of the Toner cartridge and sure enough I have printed over 400 more pages that are absolutely perfect and there are no signs the Toner is on empty. That means the Toner that came with the printer will print well over 1,000 pages (the advertised amount). Best Buy sells the replacement Toner cartridges in two sizes. When I truly run out of Toner I will replace it with the bigger cartridge that advertises 2,300 pages. With some luck maybe I will get at least 3,000 out of it by taping the hole on the side!

Setup is a breeze in both USB and wireless modes, as long as you follow the directions. Prints beautifully and quickly locally and on the network. Couldn't believe the features for the price!

I love this printer, very fast, and the price is right. All my computers in my house is setup to use it. the wi-fi is setup to use the wireless router, so all the Wired Lan computers can still use it wireless. I have not Wires attached to this printer. you will need to attach to a computer by wire the first time setting and manual config the ip address, dont use the DHCP, because if the power goes out, it will have problems reconnecting, once setup is finished, disconnect the wires and put this printer anywhere in the house. By the way in your router, use the mac address to keep it paired, by use of Wireless Card Access List.