Printer is fabulous. Based upon what all it does for the price, it is marvelous. People who complain about photograph quality have absolutely no background to understand these things! It’s like buying a Toyota Avalon and complaining because it can’t haul enough gravel in it to effectively surface their driveway. Inkjet printers on glossy paper is what you need for near photographic look. I’ve had wonderful experience with that—absolutely superb prints on Canons of the day (but boy have they changed—I’ve gone from loving them to hating them!), but that was a few decades ago. I HATE inkjet printers now, because if you don’t use it for a week or two (much worse when you have a month or two gap), it keeps using up all your ink (to keep it flowing instead of stopping up the jets—and mfg’s think gold is a major ingredient of ink, I think)! You can spend over $100 on cartridges for which you are “supposed to get 1,700 pages” [this is for HP printer, which was supposed to be cheaper per copy because of large ink cartridges--HAH--better use them fast, because they waste your ink all day and all night while not in use!!!], then by using it very infrequently, be lucky if you get a few dozen prints (or so it seems—who keeps count on low volume usage!). A laser jet you can leave alone for ½ year, then come in, turn it on, and print out hundreds of fabulous quality pages, and in a real hurry! Pictures are quite good as well—IF you understand the kind of quality you can expect from a laser. Things are crisp and distinct, and color looks great on designed patterns, but certainly not photo-quality on faces, scenery, etc. That is NOT what it’s made for. If you understand that, you may be quite satisfied with printed color pictures. Compared to the frustrations of inkjets, I LOVE it!!!But I do have a list of complaints--things I wish Brother did differently on this printer, although if I had it to do over again with only the choices and prices that were available, I would HANDS DOWN buy it again--no question! That's why I give it 5 stars, despite my gripes:--I hate the way the scanner has a gap all the way around the platen! Scanning is NOT just to make copies, so do NOT limit the scanner by the printer’s edge limitation…which by the way, can’t they overcome that in 3+ decades?! --I scan checks into my bank account. I can get around this, but it's a hassle EVERY TIME I scan a check. --I've had to scan in documents that were printed into that gap area on both sides. It caused a hassle!: --I scanned it twice, once fully including the left side into the scanned area, then fully on the right. --Then I went to Microsoft Publisher, overlapped, cut, then matched images, combined, and saved as JPEG. That's a TON of work for what should have been a simple, one-pass scan! If this weren't rare for me, I'd DEFINITELY send the thing back and buy a different printer for the scanner!--I WISH it had a paper feeder for the scanner. This would: --At least solve the top-bottom gap problem. --Enable scanning longer documents. --And most obviously, allow scanning of a stack of documents, instead of one at a time. BUT I suppose this was one of those built-in limitations to force purchase of a more expensive model.Once again, while I REALLY WISH they’d make these improvements, all things considered FOR the price, I’d make the same choice all over again.

I bought this in 2019 because of how long the ink lasted I have only needed to replace the ink twice since we started homeschooling. I rarely get a paperjam and it is easy to use the wifi function. I do see that is about $300 more now than it was then. I would still say it is worth the cost.

We have used multiple inkjet printers over the years. Always, always replacing ink. Expensive ink. Even more expensive if you do not use the printer enough. The print heads dry up from lack of use. Once that happens, you spend lots of time "cleaning" the print heads which means using up LOTS of ink which is very expensive. Finally, you give up and have to buy another printer and all the expensive ink that you bought ahead of time does not fit in your new printer.Then you start the process over again. And then over again. And again. This is all planned out by the ink jet printer manufacturer. They KNOW that you will not use the printer enough to keep the print head from clogging up with dried ink and you will have to buy another printer.This is where you get smart and pay a lot for a laser printer that will NEVER dry up. You can even buy refills that are not OEM are very cheap and work just as good.Now, after wasting thousands of dollars on inkjet printers, you are finally smart enough to save money by buying a color laser printer that will probably last you many, many years. Why did it take so long to learn this lesson? For me, it is because I am cheap and try to save money but, I have wasted so much money on inkjet printers because they ALL DRY UP and become unusable. Take my advice and get a good laser printer. It costs more at first but, you will save money in the long run.We have had two of these printers, one for over a year, and not a single problem.

Intro:I don't have to print things very often. Inkjet printers that sit tend to clog. With an inkjet I would spend 10-15 minutes unclogging the printer just to print one black and white page and in the process use a whole bunch of ink running the unclogging process and printing test pages.I bought this printer for printing black and white and color documents on occasion and for that purpose it works very well. It warms up quickly and prints out multiple sheets quickly.Document Print Quality:The documents it produces are crisp and clear whether in color or black and white. I've never had an issue with them.Photo Printing:Consumer laser printers have four colors, essentially they use CMYK, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black). This will never produce high quality photo output. There can be no expectation that this is a photo printer and so I'm not dinging it for the photo output. To be clear the photo output is not good, you do not want this for printing photos.Toner Life:The toner cartridges it comes with are basically starter cartridges that don't even have the life of the standard cartridges they sell. You'll want to buy a black cartridge right away. If you do a lot of color document printing you will find you need the other three pretty quickly as well. After that with the regular cartridges toner life seems reasonable if not exceptional.Scanning/Copying:It has a flat bed scanner that can produce 1200dpi output. From a layman's point of view this seems exceptional to me. The scans it produces are so detailed at this high resolution that you can use it like a microscope. It has no feed though and so it's only useful for scanning a few pages at a time, which is all I ever usually need to scan. It also works fine for copying.The other limitation is that the scanner will only accept up to A4/Letter size documents.Feed Types:The printer has one paper tray that accepts up to legal size paper. If you need to print on different types of paper or sizes all the time then this might not be the printer for you.There is one manual feed option on the front that accepts one sheet at a time. It can be a bit tedious to get it to grab onto the sheet at times. I'm probably just impatient though. Overall the manual feed is fine for printing one off items on occasion. I use it for printing one off labels.Printing On Heavy Stock:The proper way to print on heavier stock is using the manual feed, but even using that method I would not use this for printing on card stock. The heat produced by the printer causes the stock to curl quite a bit.Connectivity:I use a Windows PC and use the printer wirelessly on my home network. It hasn't given me any issues with connectivity and it was relatively painless to setup. I've also been able to print things directly from my iPhone to the printer.Summary:For what I need this thing to do it does it well. If you try to get it to more things than just print black and white and/or color documents it's not going to be that great.If you need to scan lots of things, it's not for you. If you need to print on lots of different mediums it's not for you. If you want to print photos, it's not for you.

the brother HLL3290CDW worked flawlessly out of the box. easy to set up and print quality is excellent.

Heavy but it works well. Takes a load of paper and does auto-duplex in quantities. Quiet

Shipping came in 1 day before the expected date for delivery interval. Great.Printing quality is awesome.When in sleeping mode I do not need to manually switch it on in order to start printing my job... It's always on stand by. That's exactly what I expect.Even though it's on a pricier side in my opinion it's totally worth it. Did my due diligence and for several weeks I searched for the best all in one colour printer that has Automatic Sheet Feeder, Ethernet option (not just Wi-fi), NFC (you can print straight from your phone without connecting to the Wi-fi network) and overall customer reviews. This printer beats all the competitors. On top of it it's cartridges are not that expensive compared to other brands. I use it for my small home office and my kids online homework assignments (tired of drawing them picuters daily).Definitely recommend this printer.

Brand new printer prints a base yellow tint on black and white pages, and strong yellow, cyan and magenta streaks. Brother support was long winded and frustrating, but after an hour of online help chat and following numerous cleaning and reset procedures the problem seemed to be solved. But a few days later it has reoccured worse than before. Brother online chat is not working and there is no number to call, or any other way to get support. So far, I have printed less than 100 pages out of this brand new printer, and less than 20 of them have been useable. I have now spent 3 hours trying to get help and fix the issue, and it is still not working. Terrible product, worse customer service. I have resorted to messaging Brother on Facebook to ask for a replacement. No reply. Money down the drain!

Bought this Brother Printer to replace an old Brother printer I had for over 12 years. This was so easy to setup. I now have all my devices including iPhones and our iPads connected and it was a breeze! You can never go wrong with Brother Printer. Highly recommend.