Customer Ratings & Reviews

I needed a color printer to replace existing inkjet. Although the printer is bigger than I would like but the picture printout was better than I had expected.

Haven't had this long. . .but I already like it way more than my previous hp experiences.

(Disclaimer - I received this printer in exchange for my fair and honest review.) The Brother HL-L3210CW Color Wireless Printer is a terrific value for both small offices that need an inexpensive, fast option for color printing and for home users and college students with the space and the need for printing multi-page documents quickly, quietly, and inexpensively. My first impression is this printer is larger than I expected, though not without good reason. Since this printer uses an evolution on laser printing technology, it uses toner cartridges instead of ink cartridges or tanks. Toner cartridges are large, but you get a far higher number of prints from a toner cartridge than you do an inkjet cartridge, and you don't have to worry about print nozzle failure like you do with tanked inkjet printers. The available high capacity toner cartridges will print 3000 black and white or 2300 color pages each; the toner cartridges that come with the printer will cover around 1000 pages each. Physical setup is easy enough with the HL-L3210CW. The toner cartridges come in the printer and will require you to remove protective pieces of plastic. There are also protective sheets inside of the printer that keep everything in alignment for shipping that you'll need to gently remove before powering the unit on for the first time. Software setup is even easier. For the easiest setup, you will need a USB cable and a Mac or Windows PC. Macs running El Capitan (OS X 10.11.6, Sierra (macOS 10.12) and later versions are supported, as are PCs running Windows 7, 8.x, and 10. While you can use the included installation software that comes on the CD in the box, you're better off to download the latest version of the software from Brother's website (which is easy to find). You'll want to connect the printer to your computer via USB, which will allow you to easily configure the wireless network connectivity. Once this is done, the print driver is installed on your computer and you're ready to go. If you don't have a Mac or Windows PC, you'll have to enter your wireless network information through the single-line display and control panel on the laptop. While this does take a bit longer, it's not difficult to do; just a longer process than it should be. AirPrint is a nice touch. No configuration necessary to print from iOS devices (and most Macs, too). One thing sorely lacking from this printer is an Ethernet port. With the fact that this printer didn't include a USB cable and its usage of the full-sized USB-B port instead of a Micro USB or USB-C connector means you'd need an expensive USB cable for this printer that you would use once or twice during the course of ownership. This would also allow for Android and iOS apps to do the initial wireless configuration of this printer. So how's the printing quality? Overall, it's pretty terrific. Nothing beats toner for black and white text. Solid colors and line art look great as well. Colors are bold and bright. However, photographs and gradients tend to have some visible cross-hatching, though the colors are realistic. I averaged about 18-ish pages per minute, though the initial warm-up before the first page can take upward of 45 seconds depending on the content. Prints are consistent between Windows, Mac, and iOS devices. So can I recommend the HL-L3210CW? Yes. It's a quality printer, supplies aren't expensive once you consider the number of pages they can print when compared to a ink jet, it's quiet, and fast. If you have space and you need to print a lot of things in color, this is a great option.

It’s wireless, it’s color, it’s laser, it’s everything you need in a printer.

After one week of testing the Brother HL-L3210 CW I found this product to be a great deal for the money. At the date of this review, the product was listed for $199.99 on the Brother and best Buy. When testing a product, I understand that different price points may have different capabilities. I found this product to be excellent with black and white printing and only good at color printing. Good for presentation but you wouldn’t want to use this product as a photo printer. At this price point, I think that would be understood. After reading other reviews I understand there are some concerns with the deep sleep function on this unit. I wasn’t able to duplicate this issue, therefore, I suspect that the problem has been resolved. I also didn’t experience the ink level issue either but this was a one-week test. If this is an issue, I will revise this review. This is a small office or small business printer with lots of options. Its 250-page feeder, wireless network printer. The footprint is a bit large for say a student dorm room but perfect for a home office. Its fast laser quality printing for a very good price. I would highly recommend this to everyone.

Not many years ago having a color laser printer at home would be cost prohibitive. This printer shows printing has come a long way by providing a great quality printer with excellent features at a very reasonable price. It's now possible to have a laser printer for home or SOHO use. The wireless feature was easy to set up on the network and was found by all machines. The print quality was very good but you may want to print greyscale if you don't need color to save toner. I haven't had the printer long enough to know how much toner will be used but it is something to keep an eye on. Typically laser printers get better yield than an inkjet. I really like this printer and would recommend it.

As someone who has primarily used inkjet printers, I was excited to get my hands on this one. A color laser printer with a good price point is a good thing. The very first thing I noticed is how big and heavy this printer is! Wow! It is a load, lol! Once you get it out of the box and plugged in, setup is pretty simple. There is no printer cable, so setup for me was via wifi. Adding the printer to our computers and connecting via wifi was no problem. I was anxious to get this thing going so I could see if it was as fast as advertised. It absolutely is! This thing is great for large print jobs in a hurry! The specs advertise 19 ppm and it delivers. The quality is very good and I like the manual feed slot as I do print photographs and it is nice to just feed a sheet of photo paper through when needed. Photo print quality is very good. Other than that, there isn't much to write about. This is a stripped down printer that does not offer many features. One thing I did find funny was the very basic control panel. It's straight from 1995. So while this printer is fast and capable, it has no frills whatsoever. It is a perfect printer for the small business on a budget that needs to print big jobs quickly.

This is a really nice color laser printer. It comes with a toner value pack installed. A nice option for this particular printer as for replacing toner packages you have the option to put a higher volume toner cartridge in. Print speeds I got a range of 17-19 pages per minute. This is ideal for small businesses. It's super compact. The printed sheets come out of the top of the printer which is great again for saving desk or table space. It has two loading trays. It has a hidden input for different sorts of paper.. thicker for laser specifically if needed and slides allowing for size specific demands. Then the lower tray at the bottom holds up to 250 sheets of normal A4 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper but also has adjustable slides for different sizes as well. As far as connection is does have usb or you can connect wirelessly. One thing I wasn't fond of is the single line LCD. I personally like the 2.5 or 3 inch screens that some even have that are touch screen when selecting any settings or using any of the print features. Overall the print is crisp and clear no running as you may have with ink jet printers. I would definitely recommend this to those looking for a great high volume printer

I love Brother Laser Printers and this Color Laser Printer for needing four toner cartridges is actually compact and fits where my older Brother B&W Laser Printer was without taking up much more space. If you need color, and it needs to be a Laser, this is a good choice. *******SETUP******* Setup was fairly easy. They have good documentation on how to remove the packaging from inside the printer and set up the toner and everything. The hardest part was adding it to my Wi-Fi network since I had to scroll the password in. Only real knock was brother doesn't include a USB cable and I didn't have one handy to use so I did it via the console on the front of the printer. The printer could have paired via WPS but that is disabled on my network, so I had to enter my password by hand. Even doing that, it only took about 5 minutes to add it to my home wireless network. It attached to the network without any issue, and then running Brother's software, I found the printer right away, with no issues and was printing 2 minutes after that. I do recommend though that you connect to the Printer via your computers Web Browser and setup an admin password for the panel. The default password was Admin I believe, so you can see changing that as Brother Recommends would be a good idea. ****USE***** Windows 10 doesn't have any problem in my house finding the printer on the network. It just shows up as a printer and we can print right to it. It warms up fast and then prints out your documents with wonderful speed, and it isn't that loud either, unlike inkjets tend to be, so it doesn't disturb everyone with the printing. I printed a few things in color and they came out great, sharp and with good color. This is perfect for myself for when I need something fast in color or my kids for school projects and it won't cost me an arm and leg to maintain. I do like that each color toner is separate so I can just replace what I need based on usage and not the whole thing all at once saving money, since we do mostly print in B&W in the house. Again this is a great, simple to setup, fast color printer, that honestly I don't think you can go wrong with.

I wasn’t sure what to expect with this printer when I received it. It looked like it might be a great performer but it also looked a little basic from what I read of it. Here is how it went. Unboxing: The package is rather large. Fully packed, it weighted about 44 lbs. Inside there is not a whole lot but it is very will packaged. You will find the printer, a power cable, documentation and that’s pretty much it. Set up: When removing all the tape holding the moving parts together, I was surprised to see how large the toner cartridges were. You will find a Bl C M Y colors. I did some research and each cartridge provides around 1300 - 2300 pages depending on the capacity you buy. So even though they might be pricey, they will last a good amount of time over an ink jet. After removing all the tape, I installed the brother software on my Mac. The drivers are on the Brother website and print software is found on the Mac app store. It was pretty seamless. What was a little annoying was the wi-fi setup. Since the interface is a single line, you are best trying to set up the wifi via a USB cable to your computer. If you do it via the screen and buttons, you will be working on that for a while as you need to press up and down to make every selection. Also, I might have missed something but it looks like the High speed USB 2.0 cable is using the older USB type B (not mini) printer size. I was just surprised because I don’t see these much anymore. Use: Use was a breeze. Printing had zero issues when the drivers and printer were installed. There are not a lot of settings to choose from when printing so it is essentially black & white or color. Be aware that there is no duplex ability. This was not an issue for me but for some office work I can see it being a big problem. I have never had an electrophotographic LED printer before so I was very pleased with the results. Text we much crisper then that on an ink jet and print speed was much better as well at around 19 ppm. Quality is essentially in between that of an ink jet and a full on laser printer. Text looked amazing as did simple graphics. What did not look so great was photo printing. Now to be fair I only tested this on plain paper, not photo paper, but colors were overall washed out and I could see a lot of banding that was not visible on screen. Results might be better with photo paper. A positive to this though was the fact that the photos didn’t have any real “dots” that I could see like would be visible on most ink jets. Summary: I highly recommend this for small office work. For text and graphics, it is great. Speed is amazing and you will get lots of prints out of it. I take away two stars since I would really like to see duplex printing and a better interface on the device itself. I do not feel too bad about the photo quality as I do not feel that this would be a use for and office printer anyways. I would say 3.5 out of 5 if it were an option. So in lack of a 1/2 option, I am going to round it down to a three.

At first glance this printer looks like a great deal... and it is. The problem is, it sacrifices some really nice features in order to do that. With that said, it does have some good qualities. To start with, it is wireless which is a good thing, and something literally everyone expects these days. Now a lot of printers offer a slew of different ways to connect to them aside from WiFi. Your only option with this printer is connect it to a computer with a USB cable. There is no Bluetooth and no hard wired network connection. So be sure you look at what this printer offers if you need a specific connection type. It is quite basic for a laser printer. It has only a set of buttons and a one line small display for interaction (no touchscreen here). I do however like the fact that it is pretty straight forward. Not a lot of misleading display text, etc.. It has two LED's on the front edge, one for data, for when the printer is receiving data and one for error. It's actually nice to see some feedback for this purpose for a change. I'm tired of asking myself on every other printer, did it get what I sent it? WiFi was relatively easy to set up although it did take several tries for it to finally find my network and walk me through setting it up. It will also print from a mobile device if you're so inclined. It has a nice big paper tray which is always a plus, until you realize that you're going to go through a lot of that paper quite fast because it has no automatic two sided printing. There is a manual two sided mode, but... enough said. Without the auto two sided mode, this printer is not good for any business environment or even a house with kids and school papers, or even just anyone wanting to print out a hard copy of a users manual. The print quality is crisp and clear, as you would expect from a laser printer. And the printer is very quiet and fast. And if that's all you're interested in, this would be a great printer for you. I just really think that a printer of this variety excels in busy homes and small offices, which is how Brother is marketing this printer, but without the auto two sided printing, it's just a no go for me. Bottom line: If you want a laser printer for the quality and speed, this would be a good choice if that's all you needed. The price is certainly right, and when you consider that replacing the four toner cartridges will cost almost twice what you paid for the printer in the first place, it's not a bad deal (depending on how long they last). But if you need more of the basic features that everyone expects these days on a printer, you might want to consider something else.

Let me start by saying years ago I tried some Brother Products and was not impressed, So now years later, thought it would be nice to print on a Laser Printer. Expectation was, newer technology should be an improvement! Well, there are definitely some cons and a few pros. It would have been nice if Brother included a few of their recommended types/brands of paper. Just a couple of sheets to show the printers capability. So, Instead, I purchased gloss brochure laser paper and printed a few pictures. The printer is very fast, The included iprint&scan software works very well. The print quality is terrible. Most of what I printed had a heavy red faded hue. I re-read the manual and checked all printer settings, checked to make sure cartridges were in their corrosponding locations. Tried another brand of laser paper. Tried another photo program to make sure correct colors from software, tried printer color calibration. nothing worked. Still terrible results. The other thing I noticed is the power consumption is heavy. The printer itself is built quite well, very solid design. I consider this to be a good document printer, but will continue to use my inkjet for photos. Unless the performance of this product improves, I cannot recommend it.

The Brother HL-L3210CW is a mix of good and bad. I really wanted to like this printer but I’m not sure who the target customer is. It’s promoted as a budget unit for a small office but it misses the mark in several areas. First thing, this is not true laser printer, the HL-L3210CW is an LED-based color printer. Not that it is a bad thing, but I wonder if that has to do with the slower print speed compared to black and white laser printers. Additionally, there are some quality differences (albeit small) between LED’s and laser printers (laser printers are just crisper in their prints and the colors are more even.) In reference to print speed, it matched the advertised speed for basic text. It was crisp, clean and uniform. However, for mix of text and graphics with color, the printer is as slow as a middle level ink jet. In my unscientific testing, it seemed to be less than half the full speed of text printing. I did a direct connection via USB and the only other option is wi-fi connection. So that begs the question, why is Brother creating a printer for an office environment with no ethernet connection? I prefer an ethernet connection for all my printers. To make things even more odd, even though this is a wifi printer, you cannot use Brother's cloud based apps ( I think all of their other printers can use that.) You can still use Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print and Wi-Fi Direct. So back to my initial statement in this review of who this printer is for? Yes , it prints both color and black and white but who is printing in color in a small office environment? If someone needs color , they certainly would want something higher quality than a sub $200 printer. Most office environments need a fast reliable black and white printer . For a reference point, HP has a printer that is about the same price , same foot print, has an ethernet connector and prints literally at twice the speed. So would I recommend this printer? Unfortunately, no for most. It is a good printer - the quality is good, it is well built and prints okay. And I am still giving it 3 stars. So why the no? Because for $50 more you can get the next level printer in the Brother line up or a competitor and the upgrade will give you a faster printer with a more robust feature set. I understand that Brother is trying to keep the price down for this “budget entry” but you get so much more for a little more money or a much better black and white printer at the same cost. So in Summary, if you are on a tight budget and need low volume color printing from a good manufacturer than this might be a fit. If you can spend a little more, go for the upgrade.

This review is based on home office use and mobile printing. Out of the box you have the printer, power cord, instructions, driver CD and the pre-installed ink cartridges. Note this printer is substantial in both size and weight, due to this it resides under my desk versus on top. You will need to follow the unpacking guide to remove the shipping packaging on the ink cartridges. Overall, 5 minutes of setup total to remove each cartridge shipping material and reinsert. Next you will need to pair with wireless or USB. For this review I'm using the wireless setup, but you can also use a USB cord as well (not included). The pros for this printer are speed, affordability, quietness and the basic essential features it offers. As far as cons, my biggest complaint is that the printer display interface is small and cumbersome, with the menu not being intuitive. It took me a few tries to get through the wireless setup pairing with my Android device. For me, this was the one big miss on this printer - either a better app than the Brother iPrint to walk through connecting or a larger display menu to easily complete setup. Between this and the included driver CD, it feels like Brother's tech team may be about 10 years behind. Second is a lack of features, I didn't find that the wireless printing options provided on my Android gave me much flexibility, for example options for double sided printing and lack of different paper sizes (legal, letter, a4, a5), Overall I like the Brother 3210CW as a basic, limited use printer, it responds quickly and gets large volume prints completed within minutes. If you need a fast printer that you will connect with USB and only make copious amounts of single sided prints, this is easily a 4 star printer, however if you have additional printing needs, need a scanner, or want something that is quick and intuitive to switch between printing styles, this won't be the best fit.

It's overpriced. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this printer, it's just not worth $225 after tax. Older models of these Brother printers produce the same quality prints for half the price. There's not enough new features to justify the price for this printer.

This is the first time I have had a color laser printer, I have only had inkjet or laser black printers in the past. The print quality on this is very impressive, and it prints so much faster than an inkjet printer! I have printed off several color pages already and they all look perfect, I am very happy with this printer!