BROTHER HL-L8240CDW Professional Compact Colour LED Printer,Single function, Wireless, USB 2.0,UK Plug

Once I'd taken the printer out of the box and placed it in position, it took me six minutes to install. Installation consists of removing all packing tape and all orange plastic transit items on each side of the toner cartridges. This last point is not complrtrky clear on the instructions. Then I connected power and usb and the printer printed. Clean, crisp printing.

My first double sided colour laser was a Samsung (think it had tie in with Kyrocera?). It was big. It was fien for text but less good with photos. I used to print a third to a half of documents which were hard copies of PowerPoint workshop presentation for classroom candidates. It accepted non-Samsung toners but photos were even worse; the gradations were blotchy. Nevermind, got a Canon A3 photoprinter to print the certificates for candidates so as to avoid them feeling cheated of their course fees. Years later moved onto an all-in-one printer scanner by Canon. The photos and certificates output were fine especially once laminated but of course nowhere near the A3 photo printer quality. after 12 years the Canon won't print more than one sheet at a time. It served longer than its useful life and was not worth a service & repair cost.This was 2021 / 2022 and I was going to buy a HP colour laser as replacement, not cecessarily all-in-one. Had in mind a HP because of all the 40 or so my work assignments sent me to during the previous decades, one by one, brands stopped producing PC's etc. One by one, Sony VAIO, Toshiba, they disappeared. However HP brand remains the consistent brand one could find in countries few have heard of. But then in computer magazines I came across articles reporting HP (among others) have started putting recognition micro-chip onto inkjet cartridges. So a year later upon reading reviews by others here they kindly reminded me situation is same on laser toners. Thus no rush, spent a few months on and off reading as many reviews as possible to select replacement. It was thanks to other reviews that I chose this Brother for I would not have given Brother another thought. All I knew before this printer was Brother made sewinng machines, well in Asia where Singer didn't have as big a presence.Some good points of this Brother HL-L8260CDW. Partly due to it being just a printer rather than all-in-one, I could manually handle it to the first floor office by myself. However, the footprint size is still the same. It is also fortunate that the ventilation slots is on the right hand side because its placement is right angles on top of a filing cabinet (but unfortunately the button are therefore on the inside (butt against a wall)). No worries - saved by the fact that the machine sleeps and wakes very quickly. The Canon multifunction printer used to take couple minutes to wake up, warm up before able to print. This Brother can do it is about 15 seconds, not sure, but certainly far faster than booting up the laptop. So switch it on at the start of day and forget and it won't use much energy.The best aspect of this printer ? Yes indeed, it can use non-Brother toners. Amazon cookies popped Cool Toner. It even tempted me to buy it at a discount price of about £60 for a set of 4 colours. When setting up the printer, took out (almost tempted to bin the original Brother toners but didn't because that would not be responsible); anyway put the 3rd party toner cartridges instead. No complaints. Works fine but of course can't tell you now how good compared to original Brother toner.This was going too good to be true.Always wanted to get rid of the cable and cable protector around the office. So let's try wireless connection for printing. Not being a computer geek, here was the first hurdle. Owing tom company security policies and therefore the privacy settings used with FireFox browser, most things are disabled so as to prevent data leak of clients' data. Thus could not get onto the website support page indicated by the Brother documention which came with the printer. Nevermind. With different search engines and different browsers eventually found U-Tube tutorials. However, not quite enough tuturials to lead me by the hand to set it up. What is SSID and what is router? Is it any different with was supplied by the ISP? No mention. So using logic and thought it backwards, the laptops, all out laptops, could only connect wirelssly to one connection at a time. So deduced the wirelss printing facility must use this same "circuit". Thus what the tutorials referred to were what the ISP supplied (as I had not changed them).Hurray it worked. One after another got each laptop connected. They were Win7-64 Home, Win7-64 Pro, Win8.1, Win10, and Win11 operating systems. All connected 5 hours after unpacking the Brother printer.Would I recommend it ? Yes with one reservation. When taking old Canon to local municipal tip for disposal, they would not accept it - told me to take it to a waste business machine disposal company. But the local tip would have taken a smaller inkjet printer for disposal. This Brother would be the same but nevermind, the £ saved on ink by using laser toner would go towards proper disposal come ??? 10+ years time.

This is a lovely Printer, something i’m used to using in the NHS. The Delivery of this item was poor, it got stuck in the warehouse for a few days and turned up with a very wet box, although the item inside was undamaged . setting up via the app is really frustrating one app not recognising my IP address then passing me onto the other app, so unable to register.Packaging was very good, very big box lots of plastics!!!it all setting do not work like calibration and secure printing. I can’t scan documents via the auto feeder on top, and only the flat bed can be used to scan. However for copping the auto feeder does work.The quality is not true colour as in my phone which is annoying, i have contacted the support website as stated on Amazon and this helped a little, but again being past from pillar to post, why can’t things be simple??!!!But over all i am pleased with the printer, but just take note the heat roller inside only lasts for 30,000 prints, so not such a long life printer.but cost of ink powders and the printer works out better in the long run than an inkjet that costs £50+ for Inks, (we are such a throw away society it annoys me), as the last printer was only £60 to buy.The Brother print quality is good, but i struggle to reflect my colours from photo editing, it seems to like unedited photos with added brightness for the best results. And the printer apps give little in terms of adjustment, which is very frustrating and disappointing. Text is faultlessi’m a bit disappointed in this area. If you want photo quality stick with inkjet printers!!!Brother seems to be a good make, and an NHS printer i’m familiar with, i would think about buying again if it was not for the total cost

It just works. Such a relief after years of fighting with an inkjet. Only significant issue is it can't handle anything thicker than 160gsm so no cards.

This is a large printer, so it is probably best to double check that it will fit in the space available.This is NOT one of the small desktop laser printers.Out of the box, you remove some plastic clips and some tape with excellent instructions and then you can turn it on.Now the fun begins.The instruction for setting up WiFi in no way relate to the process.I was able to find a YouTube video, and then setup was a breeze.Why these steps were not in the instruction only the Head of Customer Confusion at Brother would know.Once set up on your WiFi network away you go.The print quality is exceptional, with strong, solid colours, and a very fast print speed.Would I buy it again?Yes, without hesitation. For the quality of print, and speed of print the price is exceptional value.This review is based on the single function (print) version of the HL-L8260CDW.Talking of which, why do printer manufacturers give their printers such stupidly long code names.But that is another rant, for another time.Hope this was helpful.

So far the best printer we've had, very large compared to other printer with same spec and functions, but it's very reliable and superb quality, so far so good very pleased

Unfortunately this printer is mostly a waste of money. Now that Adobe charge for converting MS Word documents to PDF, we all use printers that can print directly from MS Word. This isn't such a printer..