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.

I recommend this as a printer and a scanner. I found it easy to set up and easy to use. It's fast for printing and very quiet in use.I'm an occasional printer user. I might do a batch today and not do any printing for several weeks. Inkjet printing had become very costly and frustrating because of dried out cartridges due to the occasional use nature of my printing.So I've moved to LaserJet to try to reduce my overall costs. While the upfront printer cost was a little bit higher than an inkjet, at the moment it looks like my overall cost per page over time ishould be much lower.So I'm very happy with this as a printing solution for me. The printer is a little heavier and larger than the inkja that it replaced but it's still quite tidy and manageable.Paper management also seems really good. It's got a nice large paper tray.It's very fast for printing and also very quiet - a huge improvement over inkjet.Scanning capabilities also very good.I connected this and I'm using it wirelessly I found it easy to set up and I've had no connectivity issues since.

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.