Features:

  • FAST PRINTING TO KEEP YOU MOVING: The Brother HLL3230CDW Digital Color Printer lets you get things done with up to 25 pages per minute print speed.
  • ENJOY EASY AND AFFORDABLE COLOR PRINTING: Affordably print professional-quality, rich, vivid color documents with laser printer quality.
  • VERSATILE PAPER HANDLING HELPS INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY: Help minimize refills with the 250-sheet paper tray, adjusting for letter or legal paper. The manual feed slot handles a variety of paper types and sizes, including card stock, envelopes, etc.
  • PRINT AND CONNECT YOUR WAY: The HLL3230CDW has mobile device wireless printing,(1) built-in wireless, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB interfaces.
  • FOR USE WITH BROTHER GENUINE TONER: TN223BK, TN223C, TN223M, TN223Y, TN227BK, TN227C, TN227M, TN227Y.
  • AMAZON DASH REPLENISHMENT ENABLED: Upon activation, Amazon Dash Replenishment measures the toner level and orders more from Amazon when it’s low.
Awesome color printer for mobile printing

Pros: - easy to setup for mobile and desktop - nice printing quality Cons: - not for printing photos - big # Print Quality I didn't buy this printer for printing photos. Printing pages with some color images is fine. If you want to print a photo, skip this printer and buy an inkjet printer. # Setup - remove stickers, protections, etc. It is big and heavy. The box has a sticker 'Heavy'. (photo #19) Compared to my other brother monochrome MFC, it is bigger. (photo #20). There are many tapes that secure covers and plastic parts that protect toners. Removing them is easy. # Setup - Wireless Once power is on, you can easily set up network information for your printer. (Photo #1 to #6) By pressing menu and arrow buttons, you can enable wireless lan, search SSID, select SSID, enter a password. Entering a password part was bothering me. For each password letter, you need to press up/down password to find a upper or lower case letter. Fortunately, pressing a button will change alphabets quickly. # Setup - Air Print Some reviewers wrote that air print was not working after upgrade. My iPhone's iOS version is 11.2.6 and the printer's firmware version is 1.11 (01/27/2017). AirPrint is working great. (Photos #7 to #16). I've tested AirPrint on Photos and Dropbox app. From Photos app - select a photo (Photo #8) and click Print - click Select Printer (Photo #9) - select my brother printer (Photo #10) - click Print (Photo #11) At my first trial, my brother printer showed a message something like 'small print, open a back cover'. It printed a small image (Photo #12). But when I tried again after closing back cover, it printed a big image. (Photo #7) From Dropbox app - select a document - click Print (Photo #13) - click AirPrint (Photo #14) - click Print (Photo #15) Because I already set up a printer using Photos app, Dropbox shows my brother printer as a target printer. You can change settings like duplex, color/monochrome. (Photo #16) # Setup - Mac From the Printers & Scanners panel, Click + and it already shows my new brother printer as a candidate. (Photo #17) # setup - Windows 10 From the Printers & Scanners menu, my new printer is already added. # Setup - iPrint&Scan I didn't added photos for Brother's own app iPrint&Scan. With a few clicks, you can easily add your printer. From this app, you can add other cloud accounts such as iCloud, Dropbox, Google drive, Evernote, OneDrive. Printing was easy. But AirPrint is working great and requires fewer clicks.

No more printer nightmares.

The last year has been a printer nightmare. I got a well-reviewed HP Envy 5663 because I found cartridges for $15 each on amazon but they suddenly disappeared and the only option was $35. And it wouldn’t take refilled cartridges so now I have a bunch of ink I can’t use. I finally decided to bite the bullet on a Laser printer and because I’ve only had excellent experiences with Brother brand products, I waited a few months to find an amazing deal. I rarely print in color but I did want the option. Copier function would have been nice but I don’t need it as I can just use a scanner app on my phone and this laser printer. I bought this printer Certified Refurbished on Amazon Warehouse Deals for around $125. The only decent mono laser printer was already $80, so it was an easy decision. The next cheapest color laser was twice the price, and the cartridges were insanely expensive. I checked to be sure I could refill the toner myself and found Brother is one where that is possible. Some machines require a new chip but that’s still cheaper than new cartridges. The nightmare we had on our last printer was affording cartridges. Spending $35 a month just for black refills was insane. This printer pays for itself within four months and the toner lasts forever in the printer world. Inkjet is the biggest scam ever. I had the printer unboxed, plugged in, connected to WiFi, and printing in under FIVE minutes. And it is fast. Definitely glad this does a few pages more per minute than the next model below. This printer was a steal and a huge problem solver. *Update* This printer works flawlessly. Even if we lose internet due to an outage or restarting our router, there have been zero connection issues. The print quality is consistently good! I highly recommend this printer.

I love you, neglected printer that still works when suddenly demanded.

I've been using this printer for more than 2 years now, changed ink out for cheap replacement. And it's still working fine. Now, I have a terrible history with printers, so this really is a record for me, even with very low overall print volume. As a student, I find I may print a couple hundred pages in a couple weeks and then print nothing at home for months. I had various inkjets of different brands fail and fail on me. Nothing would ever print properly when suddenly I needed to print. Always an expensive, ink draining, stress inducing, still not working ordeal every time I needed to print. But, I still need occasional color! This machine has come through, and I didn't spend any more on it than I did in those fancy inkjets. Ignore it for 3 months, but hit that print button and it still just wakes up and prints with no issues. I go from duplex printing on super thin cheap paper, to one side on heavy weight paper, and nothing jams. The auto duplex is super useful for printing out class notes and the primary selling feature of this model for me. I think it out broke tomorrow, I'd still buy it again just because I've never had a printer still printing 2 years just like it did when I got it. I mean, they *should*, but I've had super bad luck on this front maybe. The set up was easy. (I see a need for some USB cable needed. But I don't remember needing any such thing, since I definitely didn't order one, and I doubt I simply had one lying around. So I think it must be pretty straightforward to set up without it.) Every time I bring a new computer in, I need to go to the brother website to download the drivers to enable duplex printing though. The drivers Windows automatically installs don't have the double sided option. It's heavy and bulky. But in my world, this just means the cats are unable to dislodge it from the low table on which it lives, and it survives people dumping all their random bags and objects on it. Just have to remember to quickly go clear it off after I've hit that print button. Because it is going to print without any drama, marvel of all marvels.

QUICK TIP FOR THOSE WANTING TO PRINT on heavy paper thicker than card-stock!!

I love this printer! QUICK TIP - If you want to print paper thicker than cardstock, open the back panel to the printer, and voila! The thicker paper will come out of the open back panel, bypassing the rollers that the thicker paper gets stuck on. IMPORTANT - Put the thicker paper on top of the regular paper in the paper tray and NOT on the bypass tray. It DOES NOT WORK on the bypass tray. I have printed on watercolour art paper, bristol board, heavy weight card stock, and a variety of other lovely thick paper without a hitch. This is also a handy tip if you want the paper particularly clean and crisp with little to no printing curves from bending through the rollers. Just remember to close the back cover after printing.

Poorly thought out UX, good hardware, good policy on thrid-party supplies.

Cons (worth removing a star): - confusing menu interface, where up arrow can mean 'select option' even though there's an 'OK' hardware button. - 'factory reset' in the menu does not reset the password. To do factory reset, don't use 'factory reset'. There's a secret handshake procedure not described on the support site called '01 reset', OK - GO - OK then 'MAINTENANCE 01' (or MAINTENANCE 91 if you don't have 01 option). I cannot fathom why not have 'factory reset' menu option perform factory reset instead. - Registration with Google Cloud Print (the primary reason I chose this model) lasts only as long as the power and the network are up. Turn it off for a minute, and you have to register it again. Now you have TWO printers in your cloud printers list - don't forget to delete the 'old' one. Don't forget to share it again, since only one owner is supported. - OS support declared for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome and Android. Go to 'Update Firmware', and you have two options: 'Windows' and 'Mac'. Hey, uploading a binary file via web interface and issuing an update command should not require a special binary. - Drivers seem oblivious to 'double side' feature. You can set it for all your prints, but it's not present when you are setting up a particular print. That's weird. The 'pros' I',m giving the fifth star back: - the printer is not designed to rip you off on 'genuine' supplies and reject 'non-genuine' cartridges. - you can convince the printer to continue printing after it says the cartridge is empty. Just google 'brother hl reset' for the exact steps.

A great printer at a great price - duplex, networked, wireless color laser printing for under $300!

I replaced my older inkjet printer with the Brother HL-3170CDW. Both the print quality and color accuracy are very good. It handles digital pictures and documents very well, even on plain paper. However, if you use glossy laser printer paper, it is fantastic. You get a lot of functionality with this printer, and for a very reasonable price. Some of the high points are duplex printing, network printing and direct printing over wireless. The printer has plenty of inputs from 10/100 Ethernet to wireless and USB. There plenty of other features I haven't touched on but I will say this, if you have a SOHO or even a small business and print more than a couple of hundred pages a month, this is a great printer. It has a very reasonable cost of ownership (especially with good quality 3rd party color toner cartridges, which I have used exclusively for nearly 2-years without a single problem). It is efficient, fairly quiet, prints duplex, has a high capacity paper tray, works with your network or wireless, doesn't take up a lot of office/desk space and most importantly, it delivers high-quality prints. I have put a lot of paper through this printer, all without problems. It has been very reliable and I haven't had to replace any parts (aside from toner cartridges). I've used 3rd-party toner cartridges since the printer was new, without problems. However, I recommend using quality toner cartridges from suppliers that use NEW cartridge bodies and quality consumables. I avoid using 'refilled' cartridges whenever possible since they do not seem to perform as well.

Great printer, even for photos IF you change the proper driver settings

I just received this printer yesterday, so it will be a while before I can comment on longevity- if I have any issues I will come back and update this review. As far as setup and usage out of the box go, though, my experience thus far has been flawless. The wireless network was easy to set up- I did use a USB connection for setup, but have since done all printing over the wifi network with zero issues. I was not pleased with the color from the printer at first- the prints looked dull and muddy, even at the "Best" print setting in my Mac's print dialog. After a bit of time on Google, though, I found an article on Brother's site[...] (it's article number faq00002716_000 if Amazon removes my link) that outlined how to adjust the density settings for each toner individually as well as the brightness, contrast, and saturation. To access these settings, you have to be using either the Brother print driver for Windows or the Brother CUPS driver for MAC and NOT the PostScript driver. Mac will try to install the PS driver by default, so be sure to choose the CUPS driver in the "Print Using" section of the printer install screen (it's a drop-down box near the bottom of the dialog) when setting up your printer. Once the proper driver is installed, you can access the advanced color settings. Also, be sure to set the print quality to "Fine," otherwise you'll see some of the jagged edges and pixellation that other reviewers have posted about. I have saved all of my custom settings in a print profile so they're easily accessed for future photo prints. For photos, I found that the "Vivid" setting worked well. My printer leaned slightly toward the red side of the spectrum, so I set the red to -2, and I've also played with bumping up the saturation a bit overall- your settings may be different, and you'll have to play around a bit to find what works for you. You do still see some of the banding that you'd see with any laser printer, but overall for photos that are not for gallery display this printer suits my needs very well- it is definitely better than expected given some of the reviews that I read prior to purchasing. I did have the printer jam once while feeding in a sheet of labels through the manual feed. This turned out to be user error, though- for thicker materials, another reviewer recommended opening the back pass-through door and opening up the detents that allow thicker materials to pass (switch them to the envelope setting). This will allow thicker papers to pass straight through the machine and not have to wind up through the normal output tray, which is where they jam. After doing this, I ran many more sheets of labels (I was printing some stickers for my planner on full-sheet label paper in order to Print and Cut on my Silhouette) with absolutely no issue. The price I paid for this printer is only a little more than what I paid for a Brother monochrome laser printer about a year ago. That printer doesn't print in color or have duplexing (yes, I have used the duplexer, and it is fabulous!), so I consider this printer a bargain!

Great color printer for the home. Wireless affordability and amazing color.

Affordable color printing...easy setup...fairly reasonable footprint...lousy multi-purpose tray functioning... ...but who really cares about that? All-in-all, this printer does exactly what it is supposed to do - it prints beautifully in color. I print on letter-sized about 99.8% of the time on regular bond paper, so the MPT is rarely used. And when I do use it, it's finicky temperament is a minor bother at-best and it works with just a little bit of patience, so it's fine. It's wireless, so I can print to it from the workstation, the laptop, the tablets, the phone...anything really that I need. It's very convenient. And I have read some reviews that mentioned the starter toners claim to be empty before their time. That is correct, they do that. But someone explained how to get around that, and I followed those instructions. My starter toners lasted about 4 weeks longer than the printer said they should, so go and find that review and do what it says. And then bookmark the page for when you need to do it for the rest of your toners possibly. I'm on my second set of toners now, and it really does give you an extension on their usage. Brother, you need to have a better indicator chip or something for the toners (it's probably the toner's fault though, not the printer's fault). All-in-all, this has been one of the best printers I have purchased for the home.

My favorite in a very long line of printers

I've had a whole slew of printers over the years. Many years ago I gave up on inkjet printers as every one I ever owned seemed like a cheap piece of junk...they always blew through ink like crazy and I was always dealing with clogged nozzles and weird debris getting stuck to the heads. So then I switched to a black & white laser printer for a while and then to color laser printers. I had a couple of those but so far this has been my favorite. This thing just seems like a tank that is going to last a long time! As far as print quality goes, I can't say that this one is the absolute best...but the fact that it just always works with zero problems wins out for me. I like that each color cartridge is individually replaceable. The AirPrint system is great...we can print from our iPads and iPhones. It's fast and being able to automatically print double sided is great for saving paper.

Great printer, unless you have a warranty issue. Warranty issues move at a snail's pace.

**Updated Star rating from 1 to 5 for the printer. Customer service is still very, very unimpressive however.** First of all, stupid me for waiting. I bought this in November 2016, didn't install it until after the holidays. AKA, after the return period. Didn't work immediately. The printer fails to fuse the toner to the paper reliably. All 4 toner colors completely fade or disappear. Ok, sure. Defective unit. Fine. I have been battling with Brother since December to get this resolved. It's now April 20th, still no resolution. I have been bounced around from escalations to senior specialists. The latest dagger was being told that they would send a refurbished printer for me to exchange my model with, and that it would arrive in 2-3 business days. Gave them my credit card info, all that standard stuff. But finally! A resolution! ...That was 15 days ago. I'm at my wits end. I already own a Brother HL-2140 and love it. I've run reams and reams of paper through that little printer and it continues to serve me well. But after this? I can't recommend Brother brand anything to anyone. I called again for the umpteenth time to ask what the status was on the exchange printer that was being sent to me was? They had no record of that ever happening. Blood pressure rising. Anyway, after a total of 5 months, I was finally able to get Brother to swap my defective unit with one of theirs. From then on out, we've had zero problems. Prints are beautiful and have not had a single print issue since. I haven't had any jamming issues ever, so it really does seem to be a decent printer marred by a horrible experience in customer service. But upon reading reviews of just about any home/small business grade color laser printer, they're all riddled with 1 star reviews. So it seems it's just luck of the draw. There doesn't seem to be a clear choice. For us, there was a lot of strife, but in the end, we do love the printer. It works great from our computers, and even if we need to quickly print something from our smartphones using the appropriate plug-in. It's really a nice machine. After using it, it enters sleep and eventually a deep sleep state where it rests and doesn't make a noise until you call upon it again.

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