Brother HL-L2445DW Mono Laser Printer | Single function | Automatic 2-sided print | A4|UK Plug

I've owned a HP Laserjet printer for years and as it had started to malfunction I decided to buy a new one. I'd never used Brother printers before but was aware that they had a good reputation, so I chose this one and it's absolutely brilliant.Inside the box you'll find the printer, a power cable, a toner and drum cartridge, some booklets (quick setup guide, safety and warranty information - no full user guide as is the case these days) and a lot of polystyrene. The printer is quite a large, square, boxy thing, not as tall as it is wide, and feels plasticky but solid, and isn't too heavy.Setup took a matter of minutes, and the guide was absolutely fine - take everything out of the box, remove the toner and drum cartridge from its bag, take the protective orange clip off it and insert it into the printer, put some paper into the tray, power it on, and connect to wifi with no drivers, software, or apps required (I was using Windows 11 and an Android phone, the latter able to print things like downloaded PDFs straight away without having to install anything).Connecting to wifi was easy. The printer has a single line LCD display, and I quickly found the network settings, selected wifi, chose my network, entered the password (lots of up & down and OK key presses here to select the relevant characters) and that was that, everything could connect straight away. If you don't want to use wifi the rear of the printer has a USB port (a printer USB port, so a square-ish D-shaped port, not a standard USB or USB C port) but no cable is included, and also an ethernet port if you wish to connect it to your router, but again no cable is supplied.In use, the printer is noisier than my old HP one, but the sound you can hear is like a fan, presumably the one that cools the inside of the printer while it is working. I'm delighted to find that the printer does double sided printing without having to manually reinsert the paper as my old one did, and is extremely fast, printing around 32 pages per minute. The included toner cartridge is apparently good for over 1000 pages - so far I've done maybe 60, so I've got some way to go before I can see how accurate this is. When not in use, if you leave the printer on it will enter a sleep mode so power consumption is minimised, and as soon as you send a print job it wakes up and starts straight away. Print quality is great, whether printing text or images, but as this is a mono printer it's obviously just black and white, which is exactly what I wanted as I mainly print documents.I'm absolutely delighted with this, and so far it seems that Brother's great reputation for laser printers is warranted.

Great printer, small footprint easy setup and quality print output. Holds 250 sheets of paper and prints on both sides.

My first laser printer to use for self-published zines, and I'm impressed by the ease of use and quality of the print.I thought a laser printer would be prohibitively expensive but now realise that's an out of date opinion, and there are quite a few options that compete with decent inkjet printers, albeit not able to print in colour. I settled on this Brother printer although I was apprehensive considering some of the reviews expressed difficulties setting up and using the printer. In my case, I have found it easy to set up and use. The small LCD display is like a calculator screen, but I found it intuitive to operate using the up/down arrow and ok buttons. I opted to wirelessly connect the printer to my WiFi router and didn't need to download Brothers proprietary software to print from my Mac.The printable area reaches very close to the edges of an A4 sheet of paper, and produces a very intense and crisp black with good gradations of grey tones. I've set it to a toner saving option and the quality is still very good for black and white artwork and text. The print speed is still a novelty to me, but I think the estimated number of printed pages from the included cartridge is way more than I found. I have replaced it with a nonproprietary toner cartridge without issue.Overall, I am happy with the printer, the long term savings in printing costs over inkjet, and the greater autonomy I now have producing my own zines.UPDATE: I tried printing on 180gsm paper/card and it was a no-go using either paper feed tray and adjusting the settings to ‘heavy paper’. No problem with the 100gsm paper I otherwise use for double sided printing.

This is a great printer that does one thing well: print. Free from the vapourware; constant overpriced ink subscriptions; planned obsolescence through destructive software updates; and persistent marketing: this is what got me to recycle my HP printer and buy a Brother printer instead (although it looks like they are starting to head towards that trend.) The toner cartridge looks set to last a very long time, meaning that whilst it is a bit pricey at the offset it is be worth the cost.Printing quality is good: I use it for letters, printing forms, printing inserts for my planner, and mail slips for posting. I don't print images but I don't think that's the use-case, however the diagrams and illustrations I have printed came out sharp.I typically print over Wifi from my Mac, Windows computer, and from mobile (iOS and Android), no problems there, although setup was interesting on Android and help was in short supply, but we got there.Where this printer lacks is in support (absolutely dismal), and intuitiveness when trying to do something slightly different. If you spend most of your time printing A4 or A5, and perhaps wish to print wirelessly from your computer or phone then you should be fine. Anything else might be a challenge. Then there is the support from Brother which is lacking entirely, you really must figure things out yourself or scroll through help forums like Reddit. The online help is incredibly poor, mainly outdated and also sparse. Therefore, know your needs beforehand.I have decided to dock a star (4 instead of 5) due to the poor support and customer service from Brother (which seems to be adopting a 'modern' trend to customer service.) I initially set up an Amazon return after wasting many frustrating hours trying to resolve some set-up and non-standard printing options, however I found solutions to both. If it wasn't for the exceptional build of the product I'd dock 2 stars.