Brother HL-L3270CDW Color Wireless LED Printer

Specification

Printing Features
Print Speed	A4 standard colour print speed: 24 pages per minute A4 standard mono print speed: 24 pages per minute
First Printout Time	Less than 14 seconds
Resolution	600 x 600dpi, 2,400 (600 x 2,400dpi)
Print Technology	Laser
Duplex Printing	Automatic
Display	9.3 cm Colour LCD Touchscreen
Interface	Connectivity: Wired Network, Wireless Local interface: Hi-Speed USB 2.0 NFC: Supports NFC cards for mobile devices for printing and scanning Wired network interface: 10Base-T/100Base-TX Wireless network interface: IEEE 802.11b/g/n
Paper Handling
Sizes	Max paper size: A4
Types	Plain, recycled & bond paper
Weight	60 - 163 g/m2
Input Capacity	250 Sheet Standard Paper Tray, 1 Sheet Manual Feed Slot
Output capacity	150 Sheets face down / 1 Sheet face-up (straight paper path)
Number of Paper Tray(s)	1
Monthly Print Volume	300 - 1,500 pages
Physical Specification
Color	Black and White
Dimensions (W x D x H)	439 (W) x 461 (D) x 252 (H) mm
Weight	18.3 kg
Warranty Information
Warranty	01 Year Warranty
Supplies
Cartridge/ Toner Model No.	TN-273BK Toner(1400 pages) Black TN-273C Toner(1300 pages) Cyan TN-273M Toner(1300 pages) Magenta TN-273Y Toner(1300 pages) Yellow

Brother HL-L3270CDW Color Wireless LED Printer

The reliable Brother HL-L3270CDW color laser printer, is quiet and compact - ideal for the busy home or small office. Designed to be desktop friendly, this robust printer, is fast, yet quiet, enabling you to carry on working, while the document is being printed. This model also has a larger than average paper input, so that you don't need to worry about refilling the paper tray. Designed to print professional-quality documents, the Brother HL-L3270CDW desktop color laser printer is a compact, reliable, and great value. Printing up to 24 pages per minute and with a built-in 250 sheet paper capacity, this printer allows you to keep working longer without having to keep filling the paper tray. Brother printers are hassle-free, easy to set up, and built with reliability in mind. Plus with customers rating Brother printers on average 4.5 out of 5, it’s no surprise that they’re number 1 SOHO laser brand in the market. Gone are the days of needing endless wires to connect to your printer. With the HL-L3270CDW, anyone around the home or office can connect quickly and easily via the wireless connection, or alternatively print directly from a mobile or tablet device. You don’t even need to turn on a computer to produce crisp high-quality prints. Print quietly without compromising on speed or quality. Operating at the lowest decibel in class (under 55dB), this machine is designed to sit on your desk, printing quietly at full speed so you can work without interruption. By using the optional high yield supplies, you will spend less time changing your toners as well as achieving a competitive cost per page for both color and mono printing. By boosting productivity, and reducing any downtime, your office can run more smoothly.

Brother HL-L3270CDW Printer review

The Brother HL-L3270CDW's control panel consists of a 2.7-inch touch screen and three buttons: Back, Home, and Cancel. You can use it for changing settings, checking toner levels, printing to network drives, and some other functions. Where it comes in most handy, though, is for printing from various cloud and social media sites using Brother's Web Connect feature. This consists primarily of several preconfigured workflow profiles for connecting to and printing from both the business and consumer versions of Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, OneDrive and OneNote, and you can create additional profiles for connecting to your own favorite sites. Other connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and connecting to a single PC via USB, but keep in mind that you can't use Web Connect and other internet features from a USB connection. You also get the two popular peer-to-peer protocols, Wi-Fi Direct and Near-Field Communication (NFC) for connecting directly to the Brother printer with your smartphone or tablet, without the printer or the mobile device being connected to a network or router. The hotspot on the Brother printer for making NFC touch-to-print connections is on the top-left edge of the chassis, just in front of the control panel. Other mobile connection options include AirPrint, Brother iPrint&Scan for printing remotely, Google Cloud Print, and Mopria. Without question, you and your team shouldn't have a problem connecting all your computing devices to the Brother HL-L3270CDW. Unfortunately, the Brother M252dw and Brother LBP612Cdw were both tested under a previous benchmarking regimen; comparing those results here wouldn't be appropriate. However, from my experience with both machines, they both churn out documents very close to their 19ppm ratings. The Brother  HL-L3270CDW's higher-volume Brother HL-L8630CDW sibling, though, printed the same text pages at 33.2ppm. For the next part of my tests, I printed several color Acrobat, Excel, and PowerPoint documents containing charts, graphs, and other business graphics, as well as photos, and then I combined the results from these tests with those from printing the 12-page text document. Here, the Brother HL-L3270CDW managed 10.4ppm, which may seem like a big performance hit, but most Brother printers, due to the complexity of the documents in this part of our benchmarking regimen, usually take dives of up to 60 percent at this point. The Brother HL-L8630CDW, for example, plummeted from 33.2ppm to 11.4ppm. With that in mind, the Brother HL-L3270CDW's 10.4ppm score is respectable. Like its AIO sibling, the HL-L3270CDW churns out exceptional output across the board. Text is crisp and well-shaped. Common serif and sans-serif fonts are legible down to the smallest point size readable without magnification (in my case, about 6 points), thereby making its text rendering suitable for most types of business documents, including those that require tiny type. The Brother HL-L3270CDW's business graphics output looks good, too. The charts and graphs embedded in my Excel and PowerPoint documents came out with solid fills and evenly flowing gradients, as well as well-delineated hairlines and rules. Graphics output is more than good enough for distribution both in-house and for marketing material aimed at clients and would-be clients, or anybody else you're trying to impress. Even though laser-class Brother printers are not the machines of choice for printing photos, I printed PCMag's group of 4-by-6-inch snapshots and 8-by-10-inch test photos, anyway. The results were impressive, with brighter, more vibrant colors than some other laser printers. Detail is a bit above average, too. Granted, photos printed on laser Brother printers seldom, if ever, rival those printed on photo-centric inkjets, but the HL-L3270CDW's photos are more than good enough for business documents, and perhaps even applications where images are critical, such as, say, real estate marketing material.