Brother HL-L2350DW

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The Brother HL-L2350DW is a strong contender in the monochrome laser printer category not because of any particularly impressive features, but because of a wide range of features that come together in harmony.

In the modestly priced monochrome laser printer category, the Brother HL-L2350DW matches performance and value: With a design small enough to fit in a micro or home office, an affordable purchase price and cost significantly low performance. On this line, you have competitors like the HP Laserjet Pro M281fdw, which promise even lower running costs but the initial price is almost double what you pay for the HL-L2350DW.

If your printing needs don’t exceed a few hundred pages per month, the Brother HL-L2350DW is the best candidate for your low-volume home or small office sharing. Plus, it also makes an impressive monochrome laser printer for an average workgroup.

Design And Features

For a micro-office where saving space is a priority – more than anything else, having a compact printer with the right features couldn’t be better. Measuring 14.2 x 14 x 7.2 inches and weighing 15.9 pounds, the HL-L2350DW checks all those boxes. It is part of Brother’s list of cheaper monochrome cameras and as such comes with a small feature set. For example, its paper handling includes a single 250-page input tray with an overwrite slot that adds 1 sheet.

Neither competitor’s HL-L2350DW is larger or has a better feature set; some have sizes and weights, save for small variations of an inch or pound (give or take). Paper handling is similar to the Canon LBP162dw with the same 250-sheet tray, while the Dell S2830dn holds up to 350 sheets between the 250-sheet tray and the 100-sheet multi-purpose tray.

For monthly duty cycles, the Brother HL-L2350DW gets 15,000 pages, with a recommended print volume of up to 2,000 pages. It also features built-in duplex printing that facilitates duplex printing. It suffices to be the ideal printer for most personal or small office use. If your printing needs are something basic, you’ll have to look elsewhere, as Brother doesn’t have any paper handling upgrades for laser printers.

Set up and connect

Setting up the HL-L2350DW is pretty straightforward. You can do it in under 5 minutes, all you need is a supported Windows PC, perhaps a Windows 10 system, and everything else that is usually standard for any mono laser that is used in a USB connection. All controls and features are managed from the printer’s minimalist control panel including a few buttons – power, Wi-Fi, Back, OK (Enter) and Minus (reduce the number of copies), and button GO / Start. It can also be managed on its built-in HTTPS encrypted website.

It has all the basic connectivity options you’d expect in a monochrome laser printer including Standard Wi-Fi Protocol, Wi-Fi Direct, and USB for connecting to a single PC (but lacks an Ethernet), along with a few third-party provisions, such as Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, and Brother iPrint & Scan, facilitate printing of emails and attachments.

Print speed and output quality

The HL-L2340DW’s printer motor is rated by Brother to 32 pages per minute (ppm), which is pretty fast for a printer under $150. That’s the ideal speed you’d expect from analog mono, especially when printing text documents or any type of file that requires little or no processing. For example, the Canon LBP151dw is underrated by just 4ppm, while Dell charges the S2830db 3ppm higher.

Tested on a Windows 10 PC running Intel Core i5, the printer clocked in at 34ppm for a 13-page Microsoft Word document, nearly 1ppm higher than the manufacturer’s assessment. For a color 4 x 6 inch snapshot that printers in this category convert to grayscale, it will deliver in 12 seconds, which is just the norm for a monochrome laser printer.

Keep in mind that the HL-L2340DW isn’t cut to print sleek, glossy documents and photos, so we appreciate its effort in what it’s meant to be – creating monochrome documents and Grayscale is highly detailed and reasonably appealing. Text documents look pretty good, with impressive black and white text output that’s ideal for most small office applications. Photo output isn’t the best, but it’s respectable for this class of printer compared to competing models.

Operating costs

While input lever laser printers can be cheap, the cost of running per page is never good. Keeping that in mind, the HL-L2360DW’s 3.6 cents is about average compared to the rest of the laser printers in this category. That’s what it’s for, and if you plan to push it to the recommended print volume of 2,000 pages per month, you’ll make around $720 per month. Here it makes a lot of sense to buy a larger volume printer like the Brother MFC-L8900CDW (1 cent per page) for a few hundred dollars upfronts.

But if you only print a few hundred pages (maybe, 200 or 300) per month, then 3.6 cents shouldn’t be too much for your budget. What I mean is, first assess your needs and don’t be swayed by the price.

Conclusion

The Brother HL-L2350DW is a strong contender in the monochrome laser printer category not because of any particularly impressive features, but because of a wide range of features that come together in harmony. It’s the right size for a small office, offering a very appealing balance of speed, output quality, paper handling, and more. True, it’s nothing particularly appealing to those looking for an All-in-One color printer, but as a functional printer, it’s the best choice.

If your monthly printing needs exceed 2,000 pages, a more powerful machine like the Brother MFC-L8900CDW will offer lower monthly running costs, despite its higher initial cost. But if all you need is a small office shared printer or a personal printer that makes mobile printing easy, with an overall balance of speed and output quality, then the Brother HL The -L2350DW is an easy pick like our Editors’ Choice.

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