--- product_id: 5078877 title: "Brother MFCL2700DW All-in One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready" brand: "brother" price: "Β£867.92" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Brother" url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/5078877-brother-mfcl2700dw-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-wireless-networking store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # 27 ppm print speed 250-sheet input capacity Auto duplex printing Brother MFCL2700DW All-in One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready **Brand:** brother **Price:** Β£867.92 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸš€ Power your home office with speed, efficiency, and smart connectivity! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Brother MFCL2700DW All-in One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready by brother - **How much does it cost?** Β£867.92 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/5078877-brother-mfcl2700dw-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-wireless-networking) ## Best For - brother enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted brother brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Professional-grade clarity:** High-resolution scanning and printing up to 2400 dpi for crisp, sharp documents. - β€’ **Speed that keeps up with you:** Print and copy up to 27 pages per minuteβ€”no more waiting around. - β€’ **Seamless wireless connectivity:** Print from any compatible device over Wi-Fi or USB for ultimate flexibility. - β€’ **Paper capacity for marathon tasks:** 250-sheet adjustable tray means fewer reloads and more productivity. - β€’ **Double-sided printing, zero hassle:** Automatic duplex printing saves paper and time effortlessly. ## Overview The Brother MFCL2700DW is a monochrome laser all-in-one printer designed for small or home offices. It offers fast print and copy speeds up to 27 ppm, a 250-sheet adjustable paper tray, automatic duplex printing, and wireless networking. With high-resolution scanning up to 2400 dpi and compatibility with Windows and Mac OS, it supports seamless mobile and desktop printing. This reliable, compact device also features a 35-page auto document feeder and voice control compatibility, making it a versatile productivity hub. ## Description Monochrome laser all in one for small or home office use. Connect via wireless or wired networking or USB. Print and copy speeds up to 27 ppm. Color scanning, plus high speed faxing. Auto duplex printing. Adjustable letter/legal 250 sheet paper tray, 35 page auto document feeder. Print from compatible mobile devices over your wireless network. Review: Excellent machine with a couple of quirks/limitations - I just bought this printer to replace a piece of garbage HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 in my office (as in my actual place of business). Our paralegal has a similar Brother MFC (6 years old), and we have a smaller Brother MFC in our home office (8 or 9 years old). Both of them have been great work horses, and although they have some limitations (the biggest being that they're not wireless), we've been generally happy with them. Given that I went through 2 HP printers in 3 years in my office, I figured I'd go back to Brother, and the price was right. I even chose the L2700DW over a newer model that was twice the price (MFC-L2740DW) because even though it was faster, it didn't seem to offer anything additional that I felt justified doubling the price. (Parenthetical update on December 2, 2015: the MFC-L2700DW has come down $20 on desertcart since I bought it, and the MFC-L2740DW has come down about $60. If, when I bought this machine, the prices were as they are now, I might have sprung for the newer model.) On the whole, I'm happy I went back to Brother. The speed of printing, scanning, and copying are hugely improved over the HP. I don't need to print in color, and I was getting increasingly annoyed by the fact that, in the HP, somehow your color ink gets depleted even if you never print in color, meaning that it would refuse to print, even in black, unless I had color ink available to it. You know that ink's not cheap, either. With this Brother, I obviously don't have that problem because it only has black toner. Now the toner is expensive (because when is it not?) but with our other Brother MFCs, I've shopped everywhere, including Costco, and found that nearly 100% of the time, if not 100% of the time, desertcart has the best price on Brother toner. I do have a couple of issues with this MFC, and I've got an e-mail in with Brother in hopes that they can help me fix them (Edit: please see update from 12/9/15 at the bottom): 1. Deep Sleep Mode - This model does NOT have an option to disable Deep Sleep, only set it to a chosen time interval, the longest of which can be 50 minutes. According to the interwebs, older models do have the option to disable it. The problem lies in that this MFC is supposed to "wake up" from Sleep or Deep Sleep mode when you send it a print job. Pressing buttons on the printer is also supposed to "wake it up." However, neither works for Deep Sleep mode. My only option is to turn the printer off and back on again. (To its credit, my HP was screwing up and making me do that multiple times a day, and it took a lot longer to reboot.) However, even though I set the Deep Sleep mode to max out at 50 minutes, it keeps resetting itself to 01 minute, meaning earlier today my multiple print jobs that were 2 or 3 minutes apart required full restarts of the MFC in between. This is incredibly inefficient, and if Brother can't help me fix it, I'll be returning this machine. (PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATE ON 12/9/15 AT THE BOTTOM REGARDING THIS ISSUE.) 2. Stack/Sort (a/k/a Collate) - This MFC is set to "Stack" copies, meaning if you are making two copies of a 2-page document, it will print in this order: page 1, page 1, page 2, page 2. Multiply this out for longer documents/more copies, and you can see how inefficient and frustrating this could be. (Seriously, I hope you have a big table/counter and some time to organize all your copies.) I looked it up and discovered that you can change your copy options to set it to "Sort," meaning it will collate your copies (page 1, page 2, page 1, page 2, for two copies of a 2-page document). Great, right? Well, it would be if I could set that as a permanent setting, but I can't. I can only set it to Sort with each individual copy job. I can tell you that when I'm copying certain documents, that is going to get really old, really fast. My old HP required it for each copy job, too, and it annoyed me then. My guess is that collating requires that the printer use memory, then print it in order (which is why collating doesn't work fully on very large copy jobs). Stacked copies mean it doesn't store the documents in its memory, just prints them as it scans. I'm checking with Brother to see if I can set the MFC to Sort permanently, though based on my experience with the lack of permanence of the Deep Sleep mode setting, I'm not holding my breath. It's not a deal killer, but in my opinion, if they give you the option to collate at all, there should be an option to keep it that way long-term. If this is of utmost importance to you, you may need to buy a higher-level machine or an actual copier. Overall, I expect this printer to be as reliable as our older Brother MFCs, but many of the limitations that exist in the older models still appear to exist. If they'd fix the two issues I mentioned, they'd have a perfect 5-star machine. It's hard to complain for the price, but, like I said, if they can't fix the Deep Sleep problem, I'll have no choice to send it back. I just don't have time to reboot my printer for every single print job that comes more than 1 minute past the last one. TL;DR Pros: solid printer, decent speed in print/copy/scan, will likely last a while, price is good Cons: Deep Sleep mode keeps resetting to 01 minute, no option to disable Deep Sleep, issues waking up from Deep Sleep (PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW FROM 12/9/15), no option to collate copies as a rule instead of with each copy job UPDATE (December 2, 2015): I have gone back and forth with Brother customer service over the aforementioned issues. They have not addressed the collate issue with copying, but I suspect that is just something I'll have to live with (and can live with). As for the Deep Sleep Mode issues, I have updated firmware, I've reset factory options and reconnected it to my network, then reset the options, I've set it up to access printer settings remotely from my computer, etc. Basically I've done everything that Brother has told me to do that they expected would fix the problem. About 50% of the time the machine will "wake up" from Deep Sleep mode if I send a print job to it, but even if I have the machine set not to go into Deep Sleep Mode for 50 minutes (the max allowable), every print job resets it to 01 minutes. So even if I just send it one page to print, I have to remember either to go to the printer itself and reset Deep Sleep Mode or to do it from my browser. It's getting very old, very quickly. Brother is allegedly going to call me to help me with this. If they cannot help me, I will be returning this machine, and I may try the MFC-L2740DW in hopes that a better machine will mean better performance and no Deep Sleep issues. I will update further. UPDATE (December 9, 2015): I have upgraded my review to 5 stars from 4. I got a call from Brother yesterday after a bit of phone tag, and they were super. The tech was incredibly nice and friendly and didn't talk to me like I was an idiot. He didn't make me repeat the steps I'd already been instructed to do and immediately jumped to the weird fix that - get this - actually fixed the not waking up from Deep Sleep problem! The phone call was all of 10 minutes, and that included time waiting to make sure the fix worked. So far, so good. Deep Sleep Mode still resets to 1 minute after each print job, even if I set it to 50 minutes, but I don't care now that it wakes up properly when I send a print job. The tech still didn't know why that happened, but I told him that it wasn't worth trying to fix if it was waking up as it should. Also, he said that there is a way to disable Deep Sleep Mode that they had to figure out because the engineers in Japan didn't tell them about it, but I didn't care to ask further about it now that everything is working properly. All in all, I'm very pleased with the way the issue was handled and resolved, and I am keeping my machine :) Review: Very small, very well priced, with Brother's reliable history - Update May 2016: printer still works great. Aftermarket toner cartridge I mentioned before working great. I print about 30 pages a week. I'll never buy another printer that isn't duplex capable as it saves so much paper. Update February 2016: Just now ran out of the starter toner. I took a chance (it had good reviews) and bought E-Z Ink (TM) Compatible Toner Cartridge Replacement for Brother TN630 TN660 High Yield (1 Black Toner) toner to replace it ($13 for the high yield cartridge vs. $50 for the genuine Brother product, so far, so good). Printer still works great. Only have had a couple jams, but they weren't really jams, probably just mis-feeds, which register as a jam. Duplex printing is awesome, so fast and a real paper saver! QUIET compared to other lasers I've had and the price at the time was unreal. Price is about $40 higher now on desertcart. UPDATE November 2015: I've had this printer about 6 months now. So far, it is still working great. Brother also didn't drag their feet creating a driver for Windows 10. It works great in Windows 10. I don't do a ton of printing, average about 5-10 pages a week. The "Brother Status Monitor" says I have about 40% left of the starter toner cartridge. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Pros: Small footprint and height, excellent price for the features, duplex printing Cons: Only starter cartridge, no duplex copying I have owned mostly HP and Brother printers in the past 20 years. I have continually been frustrated and angered by HP printers due to their poor reliability. I have owned 3 Brother printers now...a dot matrix in the 90's and now two different all-in-one laser units. The previous Brother laser all-in-one worked great for over 5 years before the document feeder started "jamming" (no jam was found, but the printer said there was). After a pro tech cleaned the unit, it worked great for another year before it started "jamming" again. Other than that, the device worked like a charm. I paid I believe about $300 for a refurb model in 2005. For the $130 I paid for this 2700DW model, I am floored. I've only had it about 6 months, but no problems so far. If it lasts at least 5 years it will have been worth it. I hope it lasts much longer than that so it just doesn't end up in a landfill. But the price is amazing. I also love that it is about 1/2 the size of my previous Brother 8440. The size of all-in-one lasers is what kept me away from them as my daily office printer. They have now come down to a manageable size and price for me to warrant to ditch inkjets forever. I will be updating the review every year or two as to how long it lasts. Brother has a pretty good history of durable office machines and my experience with the previous two concurs. My main use of this device are regular document printing and copying. Occasionally I scan documents. I use the ADF (document feeder) almost exclusively, so this is a very important feature to me. I connect only via USB as my experience with wired and wireless network connections with printers in the past is they work great until they don't. USB is fool-proof. I have no need for color printing nor do I need high quality scans. Tip for scanning to PDF: Get the free program (for Windows, not sure about other platforms) called "iCopy". Best little program I have found so far for this purpose. After minor one-time setup in iCopy, place your page(s) in the ADF or glass and press the big blue "COPY" button in iCopy. I will scan all your pages and spit it out into a PDF file. My only gripe I have had at all with Brother had not to do with this model but the previous MFC-8440 all-in-one laser. Brother never created Windows 7 drivers, which resulted in me having to use the generic Microsoft drivers. The Brother software wouldn't work on Windows 7, though I was able to create several workarounds to get the functioning out of the device that I wanted. It was frustrating, though, as at the time, the device was not that old and I had expected that Brother would update their software for it. I wrote and called to them about this but they were unable to help. HP seems to tend to better on this issue than Brother has been, but it's pointless if the hardware craps out all too easily. That being said, Brother has already updated the driver and software package for the 2700DW for Windows 10. ## Features - B/W & Color Scanning - Optical Scan Resolution (dpi): 600 x 2400 dpi - Standard Input Paper Capacity: 250 Sheet Input Capacity - Print Technology: B/W Laser Technology - Printer Driver Compatibility: Windows & Mac OS - Class 1 Laser Product, power output is enclosed ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00MFG58N6 | | Additional Printer Functions | All In One | | B&W Pages per Minute | 27 ppm | | Best Sellers Rank | #361,376 in Office Products ( See Top 100 in Office Products ) #515 in Laser Computer Printers | | Brand | Brother | | Built-In Media | Toner Cartridges | | Color | Black/Grey | | Color Pages per Minute | 25 | | Compatible Cartridge | Arthur Imaging | | Compatible Devices | Laptops, PC | | Connectivity Technology | Ethernet, Wi-Fi | | Control Method | Voice | | Controller Type | Amazon Alexa, Vera | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 3,237 Reviews | | Display Type | LCD | | Dual-sided printing | Yes | | Duplex | Automatic | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00012502638872, 04977766739405, 04977766739481 | | Hardware Interface | USB 2.0 | | Ink Color | black | | Item Dimensions D x W x H | 15.7"D x 16.1"W x 12.5"H | | Item Type Name | Brother MFC-L2700DW Mono Laser MFP | | Item Weight | 24.9 Pounds | | Manufacturer | Brother Printer | | Maximum Copy Resolution Black and White | 600 dpi | | Maximum Copy Resolution Color | 2400 dpi | | Maximum Copy Speed Black and White | 27 ppm | | Maximum Media Size | 8.5 x 14 inch | | Maximum Print Resolution Black and White | 600 x 2400 dpi | | Maximum Sheet Capacity | 250 | | Maximum print Resolution Color | 600 x 2400 dpi | | Model Name | Brother MFCL2700DW | | Model Number | MFCL2700DW | | Model Series | MFCL2700 | | Number of Trays | 1 | | Other Special Features of the Product | Auto Document Feeder | | Output sheet capacity | 250 | | Paper Size | 210 x 297 millimeters | | Power Consumption | 480 Watts | | Print media | Envelopes, Paper (plain) | | Printer Connectivity Type | Ethernet, Wi-Fi | | Printer Output Type | Monochrome | | Printer Type | Laser | | Printing Technology | Laser | | Processor Count | 1 | | Resolution | 600 x 2400 dpi | | Scanner Type | Sheetfed | | Series Number | 1352712223 | | Special Feature | Auto Document Feeder | | Specific Uses For Product | Office | | Total USB 2.0 Ports | 1 | | Total Usb Ports | 1 | | UPC | 804993360024 809394586783 638084552186 012502638872 804904101326 | | Unit Count | 1.0 Count | | Warranty Type | Limited Warranty | | Wattage | 480 watts | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Brother - **Connectivity Technology:** Ethernet, Wi-Fi - **Printing Technology:** Laser - **Special Feature:** Auto Document Feeder - **Color:** Black/Grey - **Model Name:** Brother MFCL2700DW - **Printer Output:** Monochrome - **Maximum Print Speed (Color):** 25 - **Max Printspeed Monochrome:** 27 ppm - **Item Weight:** 24.9 Pounds ## Images ![Brother MFCL2700DW All-in One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71blixD70zL.jpg) ![Brother MFCL2700DW All-in One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61uSXmCPhTL.jpg) ![Brother MFCL2700DW All-in One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/712MJhlNxvL.jpg) ![Brother MFCL2700DW All-in One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71oPhCnTK-L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Is it twain compliant** A: Mark Twain did not like complying with anything. **Q: does this come with toner or do you need to buy it separately (or purchase the combo?)** A: Buy the combo, you'll need it after printing a few copies. The toner that comes with the printer is just to get you started, plus brother can make money. **Q: I know this is NOT a color printer, but does it SCAN in color?** A: Actually it's confusing because it says "monochrome" which some people may not know that means black only, and in the description it has a bullet point saying "max print speed color: 32" implying that it can print in color. Should remove "color" from that bullet point. **Q: does this printer scan to a .pdf?** A: Yes, it does scan to .pdf. You need to enter the correct settings. Correctly set, it will scan black and white to pdf at 300 dpi with good results. The software will also easily scan to multiple page files, which is really handy if you are archiving lots of documents. You should be able to scan about two pages a minute on multiple page files sent to a cloud--no more file cabinets! ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent machine with a couple of quirks/limitations *by R***A on November 24, 2015* I just bought this printer to replace a piece of garbage HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 in my office (as in my actual place of business). Our paralegal has a similar Brother MFC (6 years old), and we have a smaller Brother MFC in our home office (8 or 9 years old). Both of them have been great work horses, and although they have some limitations (the biggest being that they're not wireless), we've been generally happy with them. Given that I went through 2 HP printers in 3 years in my office, I figured I'd go back to Brother, and the price was right. I even chose the L2700DW over a newer model that was twice the price (MFC-L2740DW) because even though it was faster, it didn't seem to offer anything additional that I felt justified doubling the price. (Parenthetical update on December 2, 2015: the MFC-L2700DW has come down $20 on Amazon since I bought it, and the MFC-L2740DW has come down about $60. If, when I bought this machine, the prices were as they are now, I might have sprung for the newer model.) On the whole, I'm happy I went back to Brother. The speed of printing, scanning, and copying are hugely improved over the HP. I don't need to print in color, and I was getting increasingly annoyed by the fact that, in the HP, somehow your color ink gets depleted even if you never print in color, meaning that it would refuse to print, even in black, unless I had color ink available to it. You know that ink's not cheap, either. With this Brother, I obviously don't have that problem because it only has black toner. Now the toner is expensive (because when is it not?) but with our other Brother MFCs, I've shopped everywhere, including Costco, and found that nearly 100% of the time, if not 100% of the time, Amazon has the best price on Brother toner. I do have a couple of issues with this MFC, and I've got an e-mail in with Brother in hopes that they can help me fix them (Edit: please see update from 12/9/15 at the bottom): 1. Deep Sleep Mode - This model does NOT have an option to disable Deep Sleep, only set it to a chosen time interval, the longest of which can be 50 minutes. According to the interwebs, older models do have the option to disable it. The problem lies in that this MFC is supposed to "wake up" from Sleep or Deep Sleep mode when you send it a print job. Pressing buttons on the printer is also supposed to "wake it up." However, neither works for Deep Sleep mode. My only option is to turn the printer off and back on again. (To its credit, my HP was screwing up and making me do that multiple times a day, and it took a lot longer to reboot.) However, even though I set the Deep Sleep mode to max out at 50 minutes, it keeps resetting itself to 01 minute, meaning earlier today my multiple print jobs that were 2 or 3 minutes apart required full restarts of the MFC in between. This is incredibly inefficient, and if Brother can't help me fix it, I'll be returning this machine. (PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATE ON 12/9/15 AT THE BOTTOM REGARDING THIS ISSUE.) 2. Stack/Sort (a/k/a Collate) - This MFC is set to "Stack" copies, meaning if you are making two copies of a 2-page document, it will print in this order: page 1, page 1, page 2, page 2. Multiply this out for longer documents/more copies, and you can see how inefficient and frustrating this could be. (Seriously, I hope you have a big table/counter and some time to organize all your copies.) I looked it up and discovered that you can change your copy options to set it to "Sort," meaning it will collate your copies (page 1, page 2, page 1, page 2, for two copies of a 2-page document). Great, right? Well, it would be if I could set that as a permanent setting, but I can't. I can only set it to Sort with each individual copy job. I can tell you that when I'm copying certain documents, that is going to get really old, really fast. My old HP required it for each copy job, too, and it annoyed me then. My guess is that collating requires that the printer use memory, then print it in order (which is why collating doesn't work fully on very large copy jobs). Stacked copies mean it doesn't store the documents in its memory, just prints them as it scans. I'm checking with Brother to see if I can set the MFC to Sort permanently, though based on my experience with the lack of permanence of the Deep Sleep mode setting, I'm not holding my breath. It's not a deal killer, but in my opinion, if they give you the option to collate at all, there should be an option to keep it that way long-term. If this is of utmost importance to you, you may need to buy a higher-level machine or an actual copier. Overall, I expect this printer to be as reliable as our older Brother MFCs, but many of the limitations that exist in the older models still appear to exist. If they'd fix the two issues I mentioned, they'd have a perfect 5-star machine. It's hard to complain for the price, but, like I said, if they can't fix the Deep Sleep problem, I'll have no choice to send it back. I just don't have time to reboot my printer for every single print job that comes more than 1 minute past the last one. TL;DR Pros: solid printer, decent speed in print/copy/scan, will likely last a while, price is good Cons: Deep Sleep mode keeps resetting to 01 minute, no option to disable Deep Sleep, issues waking up from Deep Sleep (PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW FROM 12/9/15), no option to collate copies as a rule instead of with each copy job UPDATE (December 2, 2015): I have gone back and forth with Brother customer service over the aforementioned issues. They have not addressed the collate issue with copying, but I suspect that is just something I'll have to live with (and can live with). As for the Deep Sleep Mode issues, I have updated firmware, I've reset factory options and reconnected it to my network, then reset the options, I've set it up to access printer settings remotely from my computer, etc. Basically I've done everything that Brother has told me to do that they expected would fix the problem. About 50% of the time the machine will "wake up" from Deep Sleep mode if I send a print job to it, but even if I have the machine set not to go into Deep Sleep Mode for 50 minutes (the max allowable), every print job resets it to 01 minutes. So even if I just send it one page to print, I have to remember either to go to the printer itself and reset Deep Sleep Mode or to do it from my browser. It's getting very old, very quickly. Brother is allegedly going to call me to help me with this. If they cannot help me, I will be returning this machine, and I may try the MFC-L2740DW in hopes that a better machine will mean better performance and no Deep Sleep issues. I will update further. UPDATE (December 9, 2015): I have upgraded my review to 5 stars from 4. I got a call from Brother yesterday after a bit of phone tag, and they were super. The tech was incredibly nice and friendly and didn't talk to me like I was an idiot. He didn't make me repeat the steps I'd already been instructed to do and immediately jumped to the weird fix that - get this - actually fixed the not waking up from Deep Sleep problem! The phone call was all of 10 minutes, and that included time waiting to make sure the fix worked. So far, so good. Deep Sleep Mode still resets to 1 minute after each print job, even if I set it to 50 minutes, but I don't care now that it wakes up properly when I send a print job. The tech still didn't know why that happened, but I told him that it wasn't worth trying to fix if it was waking up as it should. Also, he said that there is a way to disable Deep Sleep Mode that they had to figure out because the engineers in Japan didn't tell them about it, but I didn't care to ask further about it now that everything is working properly. All in all, I'm very pleased with the way the issue was handled and resolved, and I am keeping my machine :) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very small, very well priced, with Brother's reliable history *by P***T on October 10, 2015* Update May 2016: printer still works great. Aftermarket toner cartridge I mentioned before working great. I print about 30 pages a week. I'll never buy another printer that isn't duplex capable as it saves so much paper. Update February 2016: Just now ran out of the starter toner. I took a chance (it had good reviews) and bought E-Z Ink (TM) Compatible Toner Cartridge Replacement for Brother TN630 TN660 High Yield (1 Black Toner) toner to replace it ($13 for the high yield cartridge vs. $50 for the genuine Brother product, so far, so good). Printer still works great. Only have had a couple jams, but they weren't really jams, probably just mis-feeds, which register as a jam. Duplex printing is awesome, so fast and a real paper saver! QUIET compared to other lasers I've had and the price at the time was unreal. Price is about $40 higher now on Amazon. UPDATE November 2015: I've had this printer about 6 months now. So far, it is still working great. Brother also didn't drag their feet creating a driver for Windows 10. It works great in Windows 10. I don't do a ton of printing, average about 5-10 pages a week. The "Brother Status Monitor" says I have about 40% left of the starter toner cartridge. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Pros: Small footprint and height, excellent price for the features, duplex printing Cons: Only starter cartridge, no duplex copying I have owned mostly HP and Brother printers in the past 20 years. I have continually been frustrated and angered by HP printers due to their poor reliability. I have owned 3 Brother printers now...a dot matrix in the 90's and now two different all-in-one laser units. The previous Brother laser all-in-one worked great for over 5 years before the document feeder started "jamming" (no jam was found, but the printer said there was). After a pro tech cleaned the unit, it worked great for another year before it started "jamming" again. Other than that, the device worked like a charm. I paid I believe about $300 for a refurb model in 2005. For the $130 I paid for this 2700DW model, I am floored. I've only had it about 6 months, but no problems so far. If it lasts at least 5 years it will have been worth it. I hope it lasts much longer than that so it just doesn't end up in a landfill. But the price is amazing. I also love that it is about 1/2 the size of my previous Brother 8440. The size of all-in-one lasers is what kept me away from them as my daily office printer. They have now come down to a manageable size and price for me to warrant to ditch inkjets forever. I will be updating the review every year or two as to how long it lasts. Brother has a pretty good history of durable office machines and my experience with the previous two concurs. My main use of this device are regular document printing and copying. Occasionally I scan documents. I use the ADF (document feeder) almost exclusively, so this is a very important feature to me. I connect only via USB as my experience with wired and wireless network connections with printers in the past is they work great until they don't. USB is fool-proof. I have no need for color printing nor do I need high quality scans. Tip for scanning to PDF: Get the free program (for Windows, not sure about other platforms) called "iCopy". Best little program I have found so far for this purpose. After minor one-time setup in iCopy, place your page(s) in the ADF or glass and press the big blue "COPY" button in iCopy. I will scan all your pages and spit it out into a PDF file. My only gripe I have had at all with Brother had not to do with this model but the previous MFC-8440 all-in-one laser. Brother never created Windows 7 drivers, which resulted in me having to use the generic Microsoft drivers. The Brother software wouldn't work on Windows 7, though I was able to create several workarounds to get the functioning out of the device that I wanted. It was frustrating, though, as at the time, the device was not that old and I had expected that Brother would update their software for it. I wrote and called to them about this but they were unable to help. HP seems to tend to better on this issue than Brother has been, but it's pointless if the hardware craps out all too easily. That being said, Brother has already updated the driver and software package for the 2700DW for Windows 10. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a good printer as suggested by its popularity *by T***L on January 26, 2018* This is a good printer as suggested by its popularity. It is economical, prints fairly fast, and the text is very crisp and clean. It is economical to use and has a good third party toner following. It does what it is intended to do - print a relatively large number of text documents at an economical price. It does that very well. The scanner works fairly well, albeit pretty slow. At 1200 x 1200 a scan of an 8 x 10 will take almost 2 minutes. I know that isn't bad for a high resolution 8 x 10 scan but compared to high end scanners, it isn't all that great either. I know, I know, this isn't a high end machine, it is an economical machine! Take a break, I gave it 4 stars because it does what it is suppose to do. This review is really about taking the printing to its limits and comparing it to a higher end machine. Nothing wrong with that. Better to compare it to a better machine and know what you are getting than to have you dreaming about getting a Mercedez at a Ford Focus price. This is not a Mercedez and it was never presented as such, so don't get all bent out of shape. Let's look at its print quality for anything other than text. I am a teacher and a professional photographer. I have been teaching for 12 years and I have been a professional photographer for 25 years. So what you say? I present this only as information to show that I know something about printing - especially images. I know, I know this is not a photo printer - I get that. However, as a teacher, we often include photos and clipart on our student worksheets. I need to be able to print a decent photo that I can send to my copy lady, run it through the big copier, and print 500 copies with descent quality images. I am not talking photo quality. I can't afford a top quality photo laser printer for this purpose so I need a relatively economical printer that can print descent photos for a worksheet. So I purchased this printer and am comparing it to the much higher priced HP Enterprise M605 printer. The M605 prints nice smooth gray scale photos that copy just fine. I don't have one of these at home, where I do most of my work, so I was hoping the 2700 would fit the bill. It does not. The images below were printed and then scanned using the 2700 scanner at 1200 x 1200 DPI. The images were brought into Photoshop, cropped to the same resolutions and adjusted using a black point set and a white point set, nothing else. The image is a professional calibration image provided by a professional photo lab. It is clean and represents the entire range of hues and tones contained in most photographic images. Photo one below is the full image from the M605 printer. Notice the image has a full range of tones from white to black. Look particularly at the girls, the skin tones are relatively smooth. Look at the calibrated tonal range bar on the right - Nice smooth gradations from white to black. Now look at the 2700 image number 2. The first thing you will notice is that the girls hair and the black end of the tonal range bar are blocked up. The blacks and near blacks get run together. The tonal ranges are not smooth. They are streaky and again, the last two black and near black squares are run together. If this image were used in a worksheet, it would need to be adjusted before insertion while the M605 would not need any adjustments at all. Now lets crop in and enlarge the part of the print with the girls. The third image is the cropped image from the M605. Notice that you can clearly seen the limitations of the printer. The M605 is not a photo printer either. But the skin tones are smooth and the tonal range is good. The fourth image is the crop of the D2700 print. Again, the blocked out blacks can easily be seen. But look at the skin tones. They are not smooth. There is clearly more streaking in this image than in the M605 image. I keep saying, this is a fine printer and I am trying to get it to do something it isn't designed to do. I acknowledge that. Most people who buy this printer are not going to print photos on it, but I have a special need to include small images in my student worksheets. I will say that it does a good job with graphs, most clip-art, and of course text. The papers I give my students are leaps and bounds above the purple ink mimeograph worksheets I had as a kid. So I will keep this printer and either continue my search for an affordable laser that will meet my needs, or I will use this one for text and print on the school M605 when I have images in my documents. Buy this printer and use it knowing it does a great job for the price. Just know its limitations and if you need to insert photos in your documents, you many need a different or a second printer. ## Frequently Bought Together - Brother MFCL2700DW All-In One Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready - Brother Genuine High Yield Toner Cartridge, TN660, Replacement Black Toner, Page Yield Up to 2,600 Pages, Amazon Dash Replenishment Cartridge, Black, 1 pack --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/5078877-brother-mfcl2700dw-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-wireless-networking](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/5078877-brother-mfcl2700dw-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-wireless-networking) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-06-06*