Features:

  • Fast, business quality printing at up to 33ppm color/black
  • Low cost printing with Brother Genuine Super high-yield 6,500-page Replacement toner cartridges (approximate yield based on ISO/ IEC 19798)
  • Flexible connectivity with Gigabit Ethernet or Wireless networking and convenient printing from nfc-capable mobile devices^
  • Print from mobile devices over a Wireless network
  • 250-sheet capacity paper tray adjustable for letter or legal Plus a 50-sheet capacity multi-purpose tray. Total capacity expandable to 1,300 sheets with optional trays.
Great printer for large jobs that need crisp images

This printer was exactly what I hoped it would be. Run a small business, and we got sick of paying exorbitant fees to print out our flyers. So we decided to try out this Brother printer. So far it is perfect. Super easy to setup and connect to computers over wifi. Prints super fast. Images are almost clearer on the page than on the computer screen. Even using cheap printer paper the flyers look great. And with a slight gloss on the paper, they are incredible. Will update if anything goes wrong, but so far it is great. Ink seems to be holding up pretty well too.

I LOVE THIS PRINTER

First of all, I own MANY printers, and I have owned about 20 different color laser printerS (HP, Xerox, older Brothers). I am a printer fanatic, and currently have about 8 in operation in my real estate office. I LOVE THIS PRINTER!!! Setup was very easy (for wireless printing), or for USB. The instructions were clear, and the printer set itself up all on it's own. The time to 1st page out for full color printing is about 20 seconds, which while not the fastest on the planet is great for me, as I print LONG print jobs (mail merge letters of 1200 pieces at a time). The print quality is superb! I compared it side-by-side to output from a Xerox Versant 80 (a $70,000 printer), and the Brother prints we better! The cost per page is outstanding! Using 3rd party Super High yeild toner (which works great), the cost per page for full color is less than $.02/pg. I have printed a couple of thousand pages so far in the first few days, and everything is working. The rated print speed is 33 pages/minute. On long print jobs the actual was more like 29 pages/minute as the printer stops to cool down from time to time. A couple of minor complaints I have: 1. The output tray only holds about 200 sheets. I wish it were bigger. 2. There is no "tray full" sensor to stop printing when the tray is full (the top of the printer). If you don'y keep removing the output as it prints on large jobs, the output pages go all over the floor. 3. The printer produces a slight curl in the printed pages, particularly with heavier stock.. Other than that, I love this printer!

Junk your inkjets...Get this!

After 6 months I still love this printer! My previous Brother printers were always reliable and so is this one. When I need it to print a certain way it just does it. Manual feed, easy. Envelopes, easy (with envelope levers down). Thick stock. Lots of paper capacity. Color reproduction is excellent! I was expecting only color documents but poor photo quality but NO...to my surprise this prints better than my 4-color photo optimized inkjet and I just got frustrated and tired of all the inkjet maintenance issues. Occasionally there are some minor color reproduction errors on some photos but I wont dock any marks because (1) I have a "printer's eye" - so I'm naturally picky...my parents owned a print shop, (2) color lasers are not intended as photo printers (3) It is very minor and much less than I anticipated as a color laser.

Brother HLL8360CDW Color Laser Printer - Excellent Printer and Excellent Value for the Money

I purchased this printer based on my research and the fact that this printer is an PC Magazine 2017 Editors Choice Award winner. Brother printers have been very reliable at work and having one at home just made sense. I was originally going to get monochrome only, but my Epson Artisan 835 ink cartridges were not lasting very long, so I found this printer was color. I Also purchased a high capacity toner cartridge and now print black and white 90% of the time and color only when I need it. This is a heavy printer and build quality is very high. The output is superb. I printed pictures of a white board from a meeting and the pictures were crisp, clean, and clear and color was accurate. Printing is FAST! Setup was relatively simple, once you setup the wireless LAN connection to your router, installing the software is a breeze on your computer! The touch screen is superb and works very well. I highly recommend this printer. It is a good value for a color printer and I am very happy with the purchase.

FIRST TIME PURCHASING A COLOR LASER PRINTER AND IT IS GREAT

The printer comes with four standard toner cartridges that they are practically giving to you for free. The Super High-Yield color cartridges cost $173.48 per cartridge. The Super High-Yield Black cartridge costs $82.48. A full set would set you back $602.92. Third party cartridges are hundreds of dollars cheaper, but the build quality of the cartridges is worse and the quality of the toner is not very good. You risk damaging the printer or the toner can leak into the printer when using third party cartridges. You won't run out of toner for a couple years. The toner will outlive the printer most likely. Laser Printers use toner and Inkjet Printers use ink. Toner lasts much longer than ink. Make sure you maintain the printer and avoid paper jams as much as possible. You can order the printer with one paper tray or two paper trays. You can buy additional trays later, but they cost more individually. The paper trays are not for thick paper, glossy paper and envelopes, but the multipurpose tray is for thick paper, glossy paper and envelopes. It has an easy to use interface on the touch screen with access to a couple of applications. You can print from Google Drive and what not. This printer can't scan, copy or fax documents, it only prints. It has Ethernet and Wireless connectivity. I chose to connect it via Ethernet to the router because a direct connection will always be more reliable than a wireless connection. I don't know if the wireless connection is good, but I assume that it doesn't disconnect as much as the HP Photosmart 7520 I have. It doesn't support Gigabit speeds over a wireless network as it isn't 802.11ac ready and it can't connect to the 5 GHz band if your network broadcasts on the band. I am not able to install the utility on macOS 10.13.2, but I'm able to install the utility on Windows 10. Drivers for the printer are great, but they don't offer any additional features that can be used for print jobs. I almost forgot to tell you that you can print from your iPhone or any modern mobile device. If your mobile device supports the NFC technology, then you can print without being on the same network as the printer, but you have to be near the printer. I have had no issues thus far. It's a business printer and I'm using it for home and personal usage, so it should perform very well. This is my first color laser printer and thus far I'm happy.

Worth the purchase just to save money on toner.

Bought this because we print a lot and the cost per page is supposedly far lower. It looks as if the Super High yield Black toner will cost us about 1/4 what we used to spend on toner, and the Super High yield color toner cartridges will cost us a little more than 1/2 what we spent on color toner with our old color laser printer. If you don't buy the High yield or Super-High yield cartridges, it uses toner at the same rate as our previous laser printer (We've tested this because it comes with the lowest yield cartridges). We've just replaced the 3 color cartridges that came with it but black is still almost 1/2 full. At first, we felt the print quality wasn't quite as bright and bold as we were used to, but either it got better within a couple of weeks, or we got used to (and happy with) the print quality - text, graphs, and photos! Our old laser printer was working just fine; we bought this one just to save money, and we're glad we did.

A sturdy Beast that can survive the worst UPS has to offer. Like the HP Laserjets of the 80's.

After reading all the negative reviews AND living in an area where UPS delivery consists of kicking the package from one end of town to the other (after it is been opened to see if there is anything to steal) I was expecting the worst. That I would have to return it. Sure enough the box was badly mauled and dented as is every package I get from UPS. But I opened it up anyway. No damage to the printer and nothing missing. Yea!! The printer was very heavy. A good sign! And when I plugged it in it worked. The WPS did not work. But not being a novice, I had no difficulty setting it up on WiFi. Really its completely straightforward with no surprises. Once I had an IP address for it I downloaded the Brother Linux driver and it installed perfectly. Zero knowledge needed, the driver works by itself. And it prints beautiful full color pictures that look like photographs (because they were). My hat is off to Brother for supporting Linux just as well as HP does. They had better if they want to sell printers in China! Some people complained about a delay before printing. Yes,,, but the delay is no different from the HP laser jets I have and all the laser jets at work. In fact the longest delay is only after the printer has not been used for a while, lasts for about 30 seconds and then subsequent prints are much quicker. THATS A GOOD THING PEOPLE!! It means that Brother is not burning your electricity keeping the drums warm! In an office environment it would never be an issue because the printer would be constantly in use and the electricity saver would never kick in. The noise is no worse than any Laserjet I have had for the last 20 years and it is a lot quieter than most. The Laserjets at work make much more noise (but at an acceptable level - (the noise is useful because the printer is 20 feet away and thats how you can tell it worked). This printer could sit on your desk without a problem. The color on this printer is every bit as good as my old HP K80 office inkjet and the 2000 dollar commercial HP color laserjet at work. I am deducting one star because the instructions are not adequate for a beginner. There are plastic pieces and tape to be removed deep within the bowels of this beast that are nowhere in the instructions. And the instructions gives no hint that they are incomplete. I suspect the negative reviews are because people had no way to know they needed to take the thing apart to get all the tape and orange plastic gizmos out. Also while it may be Centurylink's and not Brother's fault, the WPS doesn't work at all even for an experienced person. If I run into any problems I will update but I am a very happy camper right now and recommend this printer. I did forget to mention that the printer does slightly curl the paper. My guess is that the drum is too hot. I will contact Brother to see if that can be adjusted. In the meantime the curl is not very bad so I can live wth it. EDIT: A year later still works perfectly. Zero problems. I have been printing almost every day and still have not had to replace the starter toner. Which is annoying because I bought new toner so I would have it on hand and its in the way! I keep hoping the starter toner will run out but it just keeps going. Also works perfectly with the Windows 10 I installed. Works perfectly in LINUX and Windows 10.

Wi-Fi works beautifully

I was a bit uncertain about ordering this printer because of the very vocal minority complaining about Wi-Fi issues. I’m happy to report that no such problems exists for me, and I suspect user error. To assure success from the get go, here’s what I did: - Turn on printer, dismiss setup wizard - Find network settings and turn on WLAN - Show info, and jot down the MAC address of the WLAN interface - Configure DHCP on router to assign a fixed IP to the jotted down MAC - Connect to Wi-Fi from printer - Confirm fixed IP was assigned After above, I opened a browser and navigated to the fixed IP, which brings up the printer’s admin page (default password was initpass). I was delighted by the myriad of supported protocols, and configured AirPrint, Google Cloud, and IPP. All of my devices (Mac, iPhone, Android, Chromebook, and Windows) were a cinch to configure. I only installed software on the Windows machine - all the rest required no drivers. Not surprisingly, the Mac with AirPrint was the simplest. Printer itself is fantastic. Great quality prints and very fast. It warms up in seconds from sleep and prints quietly. Changing paper type, etc. is very easy. No regrets! Note: my wireless access point is in a closet about 20 feet from the printer. Two walls in between.

Great printer for the price and features

I like this printer a lot. I got it to replace a 15-year-old HP 2600N that I was never able to get to work properly on the network. I just plugged a long USB cable into it when I needed to print in color. I got tired of doing that--and the HP didn't want to talk to my new Dell. So I got this Brother. It took me about 5 minutes to set it up on the network, and it works perfectly. I printed some photos to compare with the HP's quality when it was at its best. Impeccable photo quality is not what I was looking for, but this little printer does a more than acceptable job. If I want sooper-dooper quality, I'll just use my fancy (and expensive) Epson 600. A couple of things that surprised me: * The first print takes 29 seconds from a cold start, but then they come out very fast. Once the printer has waked up, the first print comes out in about 12 seconds. I'd say pages then print about 60 per minute. Pretty quick * The auto duplexing (2 sides) is fun to watch. The paper comes part way out of the printer, then gets sucked back in, as though it had changed its mind. Works like a charm. You have to configure that in the Properties dialog, but it's easy. * The big surprise is that it handles booklets automatically. All you have to do to produce a booklet of, say, 12 pages is to go into Properties, decide on a few options (like your paper size) and hit print. It preserves the aspect ratio of your pages, which is a good thing. I haven't run enough pages through the printer yet to know what the cost per page is, or how many sheets I can print before it starts to overheat, but so far I am very impressed. The quality and speed are amazing for the price.I would have expected to pay a LOT more for the features and quality. Even the size is surprising. It is very compact for a printer that has a 250-sheet tray. Highly recommended if you're looking for a color printer that won't ruin your budget.

Great Family printer.

I just love this printer. I have taken out all the printers in my house and replaced it with this beast. Yes, it is big and weighs about 50lbs or 22.68kg. I have it in my work room and everyone can print directly to this printer by using our WiFi network to print to it. No USB cables to plug into. What took me the longest time was to figure out how to set it all up. But once i figured it out (took about 1.5 hrs) everything runs smoothly. The kids print out their assignments with the option to print in color if needed. Mostly they print in black and white because they are just writing papers or printing worksheets. With electronic documents printing at home is increasing especially for my older daughter who is in college. I highly recommend this printer for any family that just wants one printer in the house that can print quality documents. It even prints on both sides. Just remember to make ample space for it because this is no desktop printer. Take the leap and go wireless. You will not regret it.

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