Brother DCP-L2530DW Mono Laser Printer – All-in-One
Brother DCP-L2530DW Mono Laser Printer – All-in-One, Wireless/USB 2.0, Printer/Scanner/Copier, 2 Sided Printing, A4 Printer, Small Office/Home Office Printer, Dark Grey/Black
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| Weight: | 10.3 kg |
| Dimensions: | 15.67 x 16.14 x 10.71 cm; 10.3 Kilograms |
| Brand: | BROTHER |
| Model: | DCP-L2530DW |
| Colour: | Dark Grey/Black |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | BROTHER |
| Dimensions: | 15.67 x 16.14 x 10.71 cm; 10.3 Kilograms |
Works fast easy to use once the WiFi setup is done it’s all a breeze a nd 0 hastle.
Just be careful when you want to load from the front tray. It’s a sneaky one and will load from the bottom ignoring the command so remove the bottom tray
I bought this for my Mum as her aging ink jet was playing up.
Laser printer with scanner for under 150….I will never buy a multi-function inkjey again!
Also replacement cartridges are cheap as chips.
When my inkjet bites the dust or HP bricks it to stop me refilling or using compatible cartridges I will not pay them a penny more and buy one of these for me as 2 sets of HP black & colour original cartridges is more than what this printer costs!
Nice quality prints delivered quickly. The device itself is small enough to hide away in the home office. I have used it with Linux, Mac and from iOS using AirPrint. No complaints.
I’m very pleased with all aspects of this printer the quietness in operation, print quality, ease of use including the software and the functions all work well like the double sided printing. I would certainly recommend it having used it in my home office environment.
P.s. Bought from Amazon Warehouse – absolute bargain!
Arrived in a timely manner.Bought to replace ink jet colour printers which only seemed to last at best 3 years in our house due to infrequent usage.Happy with this purchase.Very fast printing,double sided printing,decent size paper tray,upto 700 sheet (not tested)capacity for toner cartridge,simple to use and only 1 black ink toner cartridge to worry about.I believe this type of printer doesn’t suffer with issues relating to ink jet heads drying out regularly with infrequent use.Time will tell for longevity.
After over 30 years of being an HP customer, HP insistence on knowing your address, email, bank account details so that they could push “Instant Ink” was the final straw for me,.. beware “InstantInk”
We print maybe once a month, and got sick of ink jet cartridges running out,. So after much thought we switched to monochrome laser,. No regrets , very happy with this printer,..
I bought this as I was sick of HP and their dodgy business practises regarding ink. I read multiple reviews online and on forums talking about how good Brother laser printers are. They were not wrong, the printer just feels quality. The set up was surprisingly easy and this thing prints very nice quality pages. Even the wireless function works easily.
I highly recommend buying this printer if you are looking for one.
This is a little gem of a laser printer:-) Despite Which? *falsely* claiming that it does NOT support ethernet connection, it has a FULLY FUNCTIONAL USB socket for superb setup and running (took me all of five seconds!). Plug it in and off you go… Driver software easily downloaded and installed from Brother web site.
Best value laser printer on the market!
For various reasons I bought two printers. This and a more expensive HP. The HP I ended up giving away. It worked but is not as good as the Brother.
After multiple tech issues with multiple inkjet printers I took a chance on this black & white laser printer, which was easy to set up while watching a YouTube video of someone unboxing & setting it up.
The included cartridge should last for a few hundred pages.
It works fine, seems very reliable and I’m happy with it.
I purchased the brother MFC-L2750DW in August-2023.
Day-1 review:
Setup & installation to both my windows laptop & iPhone mobile was easy & straightforward.
I tried the automatic 2 sided scanning & copying, worked very well.
The automatic document feeder has auto duplex from scanning & printing which is great & save me time.
A well designed printer. Apparently the deep sleep mode consumes very little power over a year, so I am leaving it switched on. The Wi-Fi capability means I can keep the printer off my desk and it wakes up quite quickly from the deep sleep mode. I found that the printer did not connect to my Wi-Fi at first attempt but I followed the advice of others – unplugged the power cord for a minute and then re-connected. It then worked fine.
I don’t mind spending money, I just mind spending it on a printer.
Anyway, all’s well that ended well. After 16 days of excel spreadsheets comparing and contrasting print costs against features, this was top of my list. It’s a personal list – not a universal list. I’m not claiming this is the best printer ever.
This one is made of shonky plastic, like everything is these days, but I like the design in general and the web interface is only marginally rubbish. Also it’s not made by HP, so this product has definitely exceeded my expectations.
I guess most people want a colour inkjet for home use. Or even a colour laser. Or one of those printers with a colour screen that shows you the photo on the USB stick that you are about to print. Or some oversized, [seemingly] underpriced thing with a scanner and FAX FUNCTION whose ink replacement costs make you question your life choices. I am definitely not any of the above people.
I was in the market for the smallest black and white laser printer that would work on my home network, small so it could fit in this little cupboard on a shelf. Preferably with an ethernet interface and not wireless (did I mention, I hate wireless printing, and all the gimmicky consumer wireless printers that have been invented, which infuriate me and make me want to give up on life?)
Although this wasn’t quite as small as my previous printer (Samsung ML1860, sadly no longer available), it does have a network interface making it far more reliable.
In fact, if you are still reading this, you are probably a bit of an IT geek like me, so you will understand I actually bought a network-based USB hub, which allows you to publish USB ports over ethernet, especially for my old small USB printer, so I could print from a virtual machine on my home server. Literally every non-IT person has clicked away from this review now, right? I have to tell you, that idea sounded far better than it turned out to be. I thought – wired printing through USB over ethernet is still more reliable than wireless printing. Alas, not so.
Anyway, that’s mostly irrelevant as this printer has wired ethernet. I no longer swear at the printer, and my wife has said a number of times how happy she is about how easy it is to print. By default I ignore comments like that (made by anyone I hasted to add, not just my wife, I’m not a sexist pig) but on this occasion I do happen to agree.
This thing has Apple print or whatever it’s called – Air Print – which means that after you whack it on your network, it magically appears if you go to print from your iPhone (which you didn’t know you could do, because who does that? But you can.)
I have high hopes for the lifetime of this printer. My last one went for about 12 years. Admittedly in the last 5 years of its life, you had to feed paper in manually one-by-one, if you attempted more (or heaven forbid, use the paper tray), it would jam and you’d need to remove a shelf to get this thing out, onto the table, to take it apart. I will not miss those days. Eventually it just stopped printing and the error light didn’t relate to anything in the troubleshooting section of the manual, so I took that as a cue to thump it really hard in the manual feeder tray before finally succumbing to buying a new one.
Highly recommend. And sorry for spending most of this review talking about my old printer. I think I may have some undiscovered trauma now so I’ll call a therapist, thanks, bye.
Very happy with this and find it a brilliant printer compared to an ink cartridge one that became problematic after a while and expensive to keep buying cartridges. It was recommended that I bought this type of printer and after looking at the choices decided on this as I only wanted a basic one for occasional black and white printing. I was unable to set it up totally and had to get a computer friendly friend to help who sorted it right away.
Install the driver from Brother’s website! The default Windows10 driver cannot draw correctly anything but Word-typed text. I was initially appalled at the drawing quality, as even printed text from web-browsers or PDFs was not easily-readable. Lines would be all very jaggy. After installing the driver, I everything is good.
I can now make PCBs with 50-micrometer traces thanks to this amazing printer! This matches professional quality!
The only problem was the occasional black marks up the left side of the prints. When I changed the toner cartridge I noticed clumps of toner had accumulated at the left edge of the drum. I removed these clumps and it’s been perfect prints (five stars) ever since.
Easy to setup, easy to use, connect your Wi-Fi after that it’s a breeze, very satisfied with the brother environment/app etc, using the mobile iPrint&Scan app gives access to all the settings on your iPhone or iPad which is all I use the app for as I primarily use air print or windows computer for printing, a little bigger than inkjets but well worth it, it’s so superior to inkjet printers I wish I’d got one earlier, best printer I’ve owned so far. Wish I’d gone the extra mile and purchased the colour.
My requirements were (and all these are met)
* laser printer
* auto duplex printing
* wireless printing/scanning
* scanner functionality
* Linux compatibility
In addition to the above, it gets bonus points for
+ large capacity paper tray
+ ID copy functionality (2 in 1 copy)
+ “Driverless” printing!
+ Easy setup.
+ Flatbed scanner (better than portable document scanners)
+ No silly “ink subscription service”
On the first day, I connected the printer to our wireless router over wifi. It is possible to do so from the printer itself, without having to do a wired connection to the computer. Entering the wifi password takes some time, and after that it connects with zero fuss. Once, it is connected to the wifi, it is discoverable over the wifi network from Linux, , Mac, and Android. It “Just works” for both printing and scanning without the need to download or install any drivers.
On Linux, I needed to ensure that /etc/nsswitch.conf had a “hosts” entry like this, to make it auto-discoverable and truly driverless.
hosts: files mymachines mdns4 mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns mdns4 myhostname
I have not discovered any cons to this printer/scanner. It is compact, the setup is painless, when turned on it connects to the wifi within 10 sec, it works when I need it to work, and printing is quick and easy.
I researched infrequently used printer and that’s why I settled on laser rather than inkjet (nosels/blockages).
I’ve set it up, typing in the WiFi password on the printer, which didn’t take as long as I thought it would, but still a bit fussy.
Only one wire for power if you have it on WiFi, two if you’re going to connect it to your router.
Prints quality prints, quickly. I haven’t tried to buy new ink and install so ill update when I do.
NOT great at photos but then I knew it wouldn’t before purchase.
Always research. Check out YouTube. They will always have useful into about all products.
This printer is fantastic, you don’t need to fight with it, brother are a great company I’ve heard story’s of their printers lasting 20 years!
If 99% of what you need to print is text, get brother laser, you won’t regret it.
Don’t be tempted by the cheap 30 printers from the likes of HP. They are horrible I ended up smashing mine as I could not barwbthe fight.
Pay extra and you won’t have “No Brother”
Simply put I say print, brother prints, works fine on all devices, extremely easy to setup.
Ill only get brother printers and Louis rossman on YouTube speaks highly of them so you know they are a good company.
For brother deciding not to rip people of with subscriptions, I’ll only by brother acxeories or paper to support them.
Brother is one company that does not support you will own nothing and be happy.
I just wish my brother would do what he’s told
The only reason for the drop to four stars is that, when received, you could clearly see that the box had been opened and re-taped and when I opened it the drum unit was already in, so I think this was a return. It works great so I am happy to keep but it was sold to me as new/unused and should have been a warehouse sale with a slight discount.