Brother DCP-L3510CDW Colour Laser Printer – All-in-One
Brother DCP-L3510CDW Colour Laser Printer – All-in-One, Wireless/USB 2.0, Printer/Scanner/Copier, 2 Sided Printing, A4 , Small Office/Home Office , UK Plug
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| Weight: | 21.7 kg |
| Dimensions: | 16.14 x 18.7 x 14.49 cm; 21.7 Kilograms |
| Brand: | BROTHER |
| Model: | DCP-L3510CDW |
| Colour: | Light Grey/Dark Grey |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | BROTHER |
| Dimensions: | 16.14 x 18.7 x 14.49 cm; 21.7 Kilograms |
Smart piece of engineering, multifunctional and shipped with1000 pages ink supply. Promptly dispatched and easy set-up. Excellent agent support including registration and swapping out as soon as fault found with fan of first delivery. High quality print and multiple variations on output easily selectable using led screen.
This is a LARGE printer, suited to a small office. Print quality is good and off brand cartridges are reasonable, especially when compared to the dreaded inkjet! It has features such as double sided printing and full colour. One problem we have encountered, it recently and spontaneously lost connection to our PC leading us to use a USB cable!
– Read the dimensions! We just made it fit where we needed it although it is wireless so could be set up anywhere with sufficient space.
+- The toners cartridges are pricey but work out better than inkjet page per print
+ No hassle or faults that come with inkjets
– Periodic long-term maintenance as the drum will need replacing eventually
+ Overkill for the home environment but with 4 kids doing homework all sent online but requiring printing it seems like this will be a solid investment
+ Paper feed scanning plus scanning bed,
+ duplex printing without turning the page by the long side and reinsert paper thank god
+ Software is easy to use, set up Install and WiFi instructions clear and easy, don’t forget to get the password and SN number off the back for firmware updates and registering for warranty.
+ In summary use laser printers at work and love how quick efficient and low maintenance they are. Our old inkjet from certain brand that now has disgusting chipped ink cartridges forcing buying from them saying empty when not and even when you buy only official product 2 out of 3 cartridges have to be returned as the don’t work. Paper wouldn’t feed right is now where it belongs, in the scrap. Expensive buy in but to press print and it work flawlessly is well worth it.
Would recommend over any inkjet.
I like this as it’s compact and perfect for the home office. Wireless printing works well and colour quality is good enough for document use. I haven’t tried it with high quality pape
So much better than ink jet printers. Expensive yes but the toners last a long time. If you want high quality prints I suggest you get one
Windows 10 onwards has the basic drivers required pre-installed for printing but you’ll need to download a driver for scanning or you can use the drivers on the supplied CD.
Setting up Wi-Fi connection was again straight forward the only pain being entering the password on the small LCD screen means you have to scroll through upper & lower case alpahbet for each letter but you only have to do it once.
Printing from an Android phone is again straight forward once you download an app. The Brother iPrint & Scan app doesn’t have great feedback but for basic printing etc. it works fine. Setting up is just selecting the model of your printer once it’s scanned for those available and allowing access t media etc.
For a basic home printer it does what you want without any frills it’s great. If you need scan multiple docs or print lots of pages really fast you’ll need an higher spec model.
I haven’t tried every feature on this printer yet, but it was very good value, delivered 2 days ahead of estimated arrival date by Amazon Prime. It was a doddle to set up by downloading drivers from the internet. Set up is simple and intuitive.
Value for money not the fastest print speed but good quality if you use the write paper. Easy to install but recommend buying a USB cable just in case WIFI goes down. Strong signal and clear display. This company I would buy from again.
The printer was very easy to set up on a local Wi-Fi and works very well. Printing quality is excellent and the ability to print double sided automatically is great, as is the ability to auto scan double sided pages. The scanner isn’t the fastest we have used, but is more than adequate for what we need. It is good value and I can thoroughly recommend this printer.
As an Epson and Ricoh man changing manufacturers was a bit daunting. As my GP surgery seemed to have no problem with brother lasers I took the plunge and bought this. I have been genuinely pleased with both the print quality and the quietness of the printer. The only down sides are: don’t try filling the paper to the max marl – leave it 5mm below the mark as sometimes it has trouble pickup top sheets after a refill. I cannot seem to print in black if a colour toner is empty or missing. (I need to play with this some more). Overall a fantastic small business printer.
This is very easy to set up- especially using Air Print on Apple devices. It is a large and heavy printer but runs very quiet and fast- print quality is superb and consistent and far better than an inkjet.
Not the cheapest but easy to install, seems good quality and the starter toners have a reasonable capacity
Setting up to Wifi is as simple as it gets, just push the wps button on your router and the wifi button on the printer and it’s done. WHY THE INSTRUCTIONS DO NOT JUST SAY THAT! is one of life’s annoying mysteries! I set it up using my iPhone and it was sorted without the usual hair pulling and swear words. Printing is clear and I use 120gsm paper without problems.
Even though I checked the measurements this printer is huge and heavy! I like the sleep and auto shut off which is a necessity for my poor memory. The printer looks and feels solid made and everything looks and works as it should and price wise for a colour laser is one of the lowest I’ve seen, replacement toner’s are reasonable compared to some other models but it’s always something to check out before purchasing so you know it’s agreeable with your budget.
The app (for iPhone anyway) is rather basic and seems old as it’s not user friendly or particularly easy to others I’ve used. Every time I open it I must sign in and it seems slow, luckily I don’t have to use it and just print with air print but if you want to change the settings then prepare for a quiet undisturbed time so your swearing won’t bother other family members.
I would buy again in future but I do hope they make it smaller and lighter in years to come.
I use it on Linux and Windows and it works fine as a scanner and printer. The bundled set of Apps that windows comes with are useful but notifications can be a little annoying it like me you turn it off when not in use.
Problems are around the installation. It asks you to either use a cable to connect it directly – a cable that isn’t provided. OR you connect via WIFI.
Connecting via WIFI is where the problems start. It asks you to provide an IP address which you can’t get until you connect it to WIFI so it can get a WIFI address. Leaving you in a catch 22 situation of which there isn’t enough web pages, help guides and logic to get passed.
Linux has something like 12 ways you can connect to it, all require you to know in advance what the IP address is.
Save yourself a load of hassle and buy the cable you need. (See picture for the two ends you need, luckily I had one from an older printer) It is a USB A to USB B style cable. You only need this to help setup the machine in the first place, then you can rely on WIFI.
Even when installed and working the Machine tells me the IP Address correctly on its display, the BT Home hub tells me the IP address is 0.0.0.0 and can’t detect it as being turned on. Even when it is printing from my PC via WIFI.
Only had it a week, so not much usage to review yet. I used a USB cable to connect it to my MacBook Air, which recognised it straightaway, so no faffing about with WiFi or downloading drivers. Pressed print from one or two of the built-in Apple Apps and it printed perfectly (and with a lot less “clattering and bonking” than my old inkjet!)
Setup was a breeze. There isn’t really much to do to get it physically working. Until I tried connecting it to our wireless network. I was expecting some troubles as we have a very secure WiFi setup and very few things will connect automagically. I ended up having to connect using the printer’s virtual keyboard on the touch screen. And that’s where the problem came to light.
The keys on the virtual keyboard are tiny. It was impossible to touch the correct key without touching at least three surrounding keys. Luckily, I have a capacitative stylus (that I got to avoid using my finger on supermarket touch screens). Even then, I had to use the fine point.
Once it was setup, however, it’s been a dream. Print quality is very good (except for colour photos, but I expected that) and using the scanner to produce OCR’d PDF documents works so much better than it had with my HP monochrome MFD.
The printer is in my bedroom, so noise levels were important. And it is unexpectedly quiet.
One week after delivery I am totally satisfied.
Received within stated delivery timeline. Having read a few reviews before purchase I was a little wary of setting the printer up. I needn’t have worried. I’m not particularly tech savvy but I found the whole process simplicity itself. I used the CD to load the programme and just followed the ‘bouncing ball’ instructions. I had a USB lead on standby but the Wi-Fi signal was acquired and everything was completed within 20minutes. I have printed and scanned a document by way of a test without any issues. It’s a solid unit somewhat bigger than the unit it replaced but it doesn’t dominate the room, a small office (junk room). I’m a home user so hoping that the cartridges will last for sometime.
In this 3000 series, Brother has produced a ridiculously easy printer to set up and use, which gives crisp and accurate results. The printer is quiet in operation, though there are mechanical clicks in feeding, etc. It is quicker than any consumer inkjet as well as far cheaper to run. It works well with the cheapest paper, even double-sided, and gives superb results with heavier papers and thin card – there’s a straight-through feeder if needed, though you’ll need plenty of space behind for that.
Some rival models have cheaper-to-use ‘official’ consumables, a few have cheaper-to-use remanufactured toners.
But if you buy remanufactured high-capacity toner cartridges and then refill these several times, in the way that U-refill Toner Ltd. recommends, it’s about as cheap as any colour laser printer gets. There are no cheating lockout chips which prevent using third party consumables or refilling.
Operation is very straightforward: press ‘on’ and allow a few seconds warmup (the failing of all laser printers, though these are actually LED , not laser), then print from your USB, wired or wireless network; it can (I think) also be set to print wirelessly from a phone. Copying and scanning are as straightforward: a few seconds after switch-on, press the touchscreen for what you want and feed the originals in. No messing about unless you want something awkward, in which case the manual is voluminous and online – I downloaded it as a PDF and have it ready in the computer.
This model is ‘basic’ in Brother’s L5000 touch-screen controlled printer/copier/scanner/fax series; the top model is faster and is the only one with auto-duplex copy/scanning as well as the duplex printing all models have. Worth 100 more? Your call. They share consumables with the MFC-L basic printer-copiers and and HL-L printers, including new drum units at 18,000 cycles, waste toner box similarly and transfer belt and fuser unit at 50,000 cycles. That’s better than most rivals, and low-volume users will probably not get to replacing the last two before wanting a more modern replacement – 100 packets is a lot of paper!
The paper draw (the usual half-packet paper load) is at the bottom of the printer. Single sheets can be fed in from a drop-down tray just above the paper draw – all very convenient. The 50-sheet auto-feed scan unit lifts up for flatbed copying, and rises to accommodate books and hold them flat ; below it, the paper is delivered onto the top of the ‘works’ in the centre section. Paper is fed from front to rear, and unless the ‘straight-passage’ exit is opened at the rear, paper then exits forwards between the printer and the scanner; there’s plenty of space for a pile of copies.
Unpacking and setup is similar to other lasers, beginning with getting rid of plenty of sticky tape, and removing the securing whatchamacallits – Brother has allowed for serious mishandling during shipping across the world. There’s a driver CD in the info pack and a fold-out setup sheet, but best to go online for help. The instruction sheet is OK, and the YouTube setup videos meticulous.
The central ‘works’ of the printer includes the four “drum unit + toner cartridge” sets, the paper transfer belt below them and the fuser at the back. A latch opens up the whole scanner and top of the printer to replace these; they’re very easy to get at – drum/toner units just lift out. Essentially, to set up a new printer, each of the four drum unit/toner cartridge assemblies needs to be taken out (just slide the lock tabs and lift), the securing cradles removed and disposed of, then the units dropped back in, one by one. Takes a few minutes. Note that, as with all lasers, don’t touch any roller surface or gold electrical contact or you’re likely to damage it with finger grease. While they’re out, check one for how to pop out the toner cartridge on its own – by sliding the green tab on the right when pulling the handle. This is what you’ll replace when toner runs out. Only a ‘Toner Value Pack’ starter is supplied as new – typical these days.
Finally, a WARNING.
The lifting points of the printer (it’s quite heavy, though much less than older models) are at the BOTTOM SIDES and nowhere else. Unlike some other brands, there are no warnings or help at all for where to lift the printer out of its box (except on the printer, so only visible when it’s already out!) The correct lift points are difficult to access and not at all obvious, deep in the box. I found ‘secure’ points halfway down, but they turned out to include the handle to open the printer, and by lifting there, the safety catch is operated, so that only the securing tape then holds most of the weight. If this breaks, the printer falls apart – which can destroy it! In the end, I discovered that the strong bag in which the printer is packed in the box can be used to lift it out safely – though it needs to be pierced to construct handles.
This printer is a high quality desktop unit. It’s pretty big and weighs a ton but you can tell it’s well built.
I read that others found it hard to install. For me it took literally 2 minutes. It searches for WiFi and is simple to follow. (I use all mac).
My first job was to test from each device (desktop iMac, MacBook Pro, and IPhone 11pro and iPhone 6. Worked first time with each.
I leave mine in all the time. No issue with standby – the prints aren’t as good as my my Ricoh (but that was a commercial colour copier costing 9k) however fir a home unit it’s hard to fault.
Not tried duplex yet as so far not needed but no doubt this would be ok.
Scanning is also very easy and fast – no issues and the detail is great.
Overall I’m glad I paid a little more for this as it’s well worth it.
The print quality is ok, maybe not super perfect when you print the pictures, but this is not a photo printer.
I print occasionally and I’m really happy.
I printed maybe 300 pages and did about 50 documents scan.
Double side printing works great.
I was also surprised that if you put a multiple pages for scan it picks up one by one with no problem.
App for the phone is great. Prints directly with no issue.
Scan quality is more than acceptable but not the same as on the huge office printer.
As for a small office and home purposes I give 5 stars.
Installation is “idiot proof”. You connect, setup wifi and it will be discovered by your computer. But the best is if you install a software first.
What are NEGATIVES? until now I found one – software for a scanner for Mac is much better than for PC. Easy to add more pages in one scan.
I already have a trusty Brother laser printer which i’ve had for years. It’s done masses of printing and hasn’t put a foot wrong. I wouldn’t even be buying this printer were it not for the fact that my daughter needs the colour option for her school work. Given my Brother laser has been the best and most long lived printer i have ever owned ( and i’ve owned a few) i didn’t actually consider another brand. I selected this simply because it was a Brother and on the functions i require.
The printer arrived safely in it’s original box well cushioned in frames of polystyrene. I ordered it from the UK to be delivered in France. Happily it came with a continental plug rather than the uk one so for me that was great ( i despise rewiring plugs!)
The downside was it came with instructions in german…not so good. However i persevered and continued with the installation. There were numerous bits of blue tape securing things. These were easily removed. It came with 4 preinstalled colour cartridges which required the guard taking off (HINT move the yellow tabs to the side to release the cartridge and they pull out easily).
With all this done i powered up. The touch screen is good although i’d like to see a firmer screen more akin to a modern smart phone. This screen has a bit of give but it’s fine. Navigation is easy.
You aren’t provided with a cable to connect it to the computer but i have about a thousand of them collected over the years so not a problem. My plan is to have this wifi anyway so i’ll only use that if i have to.
A google search on the matter advised me to download the “brother printer app”. I’m on android and this was quickly found on PLAY. Then i had to just follow the instructions and link up the two. This wasn’t intuitive and i would not have worked it out without the internet instructions. The info was easy to find so don’t be put off by that. The app is easy to navigate and with 10 minutes of powering up i had my first wifi colour print out in my hand. The quality of the print is pretty good. All that remains is to see how well the cartridges last.
Pros
Minimal junk in the box
Easy to set up based on simple internet instructions
Good print quality
Sturdy build quality
Cons
Lack of instructions in english (easily solved with internet search)
Lack of cable to link to PC but as wifi this is largely a moot poi
It isn’t the quickest printer I’ve ever used but it’s much better than the HP inkjet it has replaced. The print quality is sharp and it’s very quiet. I didn’t have any setup issues. The scanner is easy to work out and it is quick to upload the scan to my computer, it’s also straight forward to add more pages. This is a great colour laser printer without having to spend too much on it.
Item was well packaged and secure, no real comments there.
THIS ITEM CAME WITH A UK PLUG AND INSTRUCTIONS (for me anyway – I have seen a lot of reviews stating it came with german/dutch instructions and a european plug – this wasn’t the case for me – intitally these reviews put me off).
Very easy step-by-step instructions to follow with diagram guide to get all set up. I chose to go wireless and this was also super easy except my computer couldn’t find it which meant I had to manually set up the wifi on the printer itself – P.I.T.A when coming to put my wifi password in when all you have are up and down arrows to chose your lower/upper case letters, numbers and symbols, so good luck if you have a fancy pants password like Y0Lo#4/yF
When installing all the software and getting to the point where you want to install updates, it does ask for a password, the software states this ‘password’ was on the back of the printer – however there was no password to be found (although it does give you the two default passwords that brother uses – one of these worked for me).
All-in-all about 30 minutes to unpack, install and update.
As far as print quality goes – I’m not too impressed (otherwise would have given 5 stars), doing the whole page covered in a rainbow gradient – there are horiontal lines running the full length of the page, I can only assume that this is due to the toner cartridges as there are starter cartidges that come with the printer. I can only hope that when I replace these with full fresh toner cartridges that this problem might rectify itself.
Also, when installing the software/drivers from the brother website (I didn’t touch the CD at all) for some reason searching via model number didn’t work, so you need to do the ‘browse devices’ option.
I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of setting up and operating the Brother HL-L3270CDW Colour Laser Printer directly out of the box on Christmas day without the need of in depth studying of its operational manual . The printer’s operational reliability and the quality of the script printing and graphic plotting in black & white and colour is outstanding and the cost is unbeatable. My family and I tested the HL-L3270 printer by simultaneously using five different computers located in different locations throughout our apartment. We tested and evaluated the quality of printing in different scripts and in different formats and the plotting of numerous graphics, engineering drawings, sketches and photographs. We found the printing and plotting quality of the HL-L3270 printer to be excellent in comparison to other printers of similar or higher price.
This is an efficiently functional, boxy, but pretty rugged all in one wireless printer/scanner/copier. The plastic it’s made from is matt and for the most part fairly pale in colour, although around the output, flatbed, and controls, there’s a darker contrasting grey.
I connected this directly to my router from the machine itself. Setting up in this way is slightly fiddly as the on screen keyboard is tiny, making selecting the correct characters a bit awkward. Apart from this, the printer has a fairly easy to use combination of touch screen and button interface, although it does feel a little odd to have to use a physical back button rather than an onscreen one. The screen is decent enough for the job it does — but in quality terms not remotely comparable to the touch screen on a smartphone.
The printer is supplied with a software installation disc, but can be downloaded from the manufacturer’s website if you don’t have a drive — indeed, as long as your broadband is decent speed, this is probably easier than faffing about with the usually out-of-date software supplied in hard format with a new printer. I didn’t need to install any new software as my preceding printer was from the same brand, and I’d kept my software up to date — to connect, I just sought out a newly available printer with my iMac, and it connected without issue. The software isn’t always intuitive/as easy as it could be to navigate. Features such as double-sided or reduced quality printing aren’t available from the top-level menu. Draft/resource-saving options could be made more prominent.
You can also print to this from a smartphone/tablet, if you install the Brother app. I have an iPad and an Android phone. The app was easy to install on both, and with this in place the printer could be identified immediately. The space/memory saving interface of the app isn’t my favourite thing ever, but works reasonably well — and even using this you have options to make resource-saving choices such as printing multiple pages to one, and using the duplexing unit to print double-sided. The problems I have discovered with using the app to print are that this does seem to impose constraints on printable file size that aren’t present when working from my desktop, and processing files for printing can be quite slow.
Output speed is a reasonably quick 18ppm (at 5% coverage), though if duplexing function is used this does work rather more slowly.
The copier function works really well, using either the flat bed or sheet feed options with A4 pages, and can also cope with reproducing book pages (though thicker books need to be opened out well to prevent light bleed from turning the centre of a copy black). Adjustments to copying settings can be made fairly easily via the touchscreen menu.