Brother HL-3070CW Compact Digital Color Printer with Wireless Networking

Product Description

The HL-3070CW is a digital color printer with wireless networking that is ideal for small offices or small workgroups. It produces brilliant, high-quality output at up to 600 x 2400 dpi resolution with a fast print speed of up to 17ppm in color or black. It offers flexible paper handling with a 250-sheet capacity paper tray and a manual feed slot for envelopes. Conveniently place your printer and share it with others on your network via its built-in wireless 802.11b/g or Ethernet interfaces. The HL-3070CW also features a USB Direct Interface allowing you to print from your USB flash memory drive or PictBridge-enabled camera.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 16.1 x 9.8 inches ; 48.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 49 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002ONCDH4
• Item model number: HL-3070CW
  

Price : $270.27
You Save : $29.72 (10%)

Technical Details

• Prints up to 17ppm in color and black
• Built-in wireless 802.11b/g and Ethernet network interfaces
• High-quality output at up to 600 x 2400 dpi resolution using Brother's Digital LED technology
• Adjustable 250-sheet capacity paper tray for letter or legal size paper
• USB Direct Interface

Costumer Reviews

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My problem is that I printed a few hundred pages and then the printer reported IT WAS OUT OF TONER. WTF? The "starter" toner was supposed to be at least a few thousand pages.

I made the mistake of buying a new black toner cartridge. Then after it printed a few pages, it said the magenta cartridge was out of toner! I was trying to print black! This printer has a serious problem of not knowing when or if the toner cartidges is either out of, or completely full of toner.

After I found this trick, I got another 1,000 pages out of that "empty" toner cartridge.

Here's how to fix the problem (quoted from someone else but it really works... you can Google this problem and it will say to put electical tape on the sensor, but that does NOT NOT NOT work with this printer. Only this will work):

1)' Turn the printer off and then on again.

2) Open cover.

3) Press Cancel and Secure Print buttons at the same time.

4) Press the + button and scroll through the colors that need to be reset. (reset both STR and STD when prompted. I just reset them all.

5) Press OK (twice, once for STR and STD)

6) You're done. You don't even need to take the cartridges out and the printer thinks you just installed four new toner cartridges.

Reset menu for the durable parts counters:

1. Open cover where you access toners

2. Press GO and + button at once, you'll see menu come up displaying reset counters for drum, fuser, etc.

This unit has stopped printing four times, telling me that I've burned through three magenta toner cartridges. Each time I used this "secret" reset method and fixed it. I'm still on the original magenta cartridge. This "secret" reset method has saved me $200.

Oh, Brother... fix this problem and quit robbing people by making your printers tell them they are out of toner when they really are not. What you are doing is just plain weak. WEAK!

Very easy to configure, at least with my Mac, and using the plug-in Ethernet connection. Great color, and very crisp printouts, nearly laser quality output (it's actually an LED printer, which uses a less-costly print technology than laser, but has the same basic laser-type toner cartridges). Even from an inch away the fonts look very crisp.

Toner cartridges are about $60 each. The starter cartridges are supposed to last 1000 pages but I've only had it a month so we'll see how that goes. You get (essentially) laser quality output but for $350, color, USB, Ethernet and wireless interfaces built in - so it's hard to beat. No problems at all to date, but as I say it's still new.

Colors are very good, but if you're looking to print photos it's not going to look as good as a photo printer. Great for color images and charts/graphs in documents, though, and better color quality than my $99 Epson ink jet (non photo printer).

Setup on the USB and plug-in Ethernet network connection is quite easy, there's a built in web interface in the printer that you login to. Had to download a driver from the Brother website but that was easy to do. Setting up the wireless interface looks like it would take 30 minutes or so, but the plug-in Ethernet setup only took ten minutes plus another ten to download the driver for my computer. Hardware setup (unpacking really, and inserting the four toner cartridges) was about 15 minutes.