Name: Brother DCP-L2520DW Monochrome Multifunction Wireless Duplex Laser Printer, 27ppm Black, 2400x600dpi, 250 Sheet Input Tray - Print, Scan, Copy
Brand: Brother
SKU: BRDCPL2520DW
Price: 299.99 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4 (114 reviews)

Brother DCP-L2520DW Monochrome Multifunction Wireless Duplex Laser Printer, 27ppm Black, 2400x600dpi, 250 Sheet Input Tray - Print, Scan, Copy

Brother DCP-L2520DW

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Buy: Brother DCP-L2520DW Monochrome Multifunction Wireless Duplex Laser Printer, 27ppm Black, 2400x600dpi, 250 Sheet Input Tray - Print, Scan, Copy Cartridge Configuration: Single, Duplex: No, Interface: AirPrint, Ethernet, Google Cloud Print, USB, Wi-Fi

I have had this printer for several years and I love it. Great clarity. Affordable. However, recently I have had an issue that it needs to be unplugged every time I try to print and it will no longer print from my ihone. I was unable to get help from technical support to resolve these issues. When I replace this printer, I will likely do so with another Brother printer because for a number of years it was the best printer I have ever used.

Great printer for the most part

The machine itself is fine. I'd had great luck with Brother before & wanted the same manufacturer. However, wireless products are supposed to be easier. While I appreciate the absence of wires, it took me well over an hour to set it up. I got it working after I stopped listening to Brother & set it up myself.

Great machine, hard setup

Bon prix ! Produit de qualité pour l'impression et la numérisation

DCP-L2520DW

Unit worked well until recently when wireless printing failed showing deep sleep and a printing que. Connecting with a USB cable works. 
It will however print wirelessly from my phone . . . ??
Set up the printer on a separate wireless LAN and experienced the same.
Have the latest drives both on the machine and our windows PC
Very frustrated.

Lose of wireless printing from PC

Reliable- easy to set up, ability to print off any device is error free.

Would buy again

The machine is no problem. Sometimes trouble connecting to internet. Customer service is Sometimes below par. You cannot talk to anyone on the phone
You can only text. What if you cannot text. Poor quality of service. Hours of service of operation is only good for east coast people. As i am on the west coast. I literally had somebody on their for 10 minutes and tell me that it is their time to go home and cut off the internet connection. I had to call back the next day.

Two Star Rating. For our home use, this actually a very good printer, copier and scanner. The significant problem and reason to grade it as a two star is because of the Deep Sleep function. From my investigations through the internet community as well as Brother Customer Service, there is no easy solution to clearing a deep sleep. Sometimes it just clears itself and prints files that have been sitting in the queue after a few days. So when you want to printed a document instantly, most often the printer is not available. I wouldn't recommend buying that make and model simply for that reason.

Deep Sleep - Problematic

Simple and easy to use black and white printer. Overall good purchase

Simple and easy to use

I bought it last year about a year ago or so. I have issues with the paper trays? I still don't know really how it function that specific ? also when it shuts off automatically it also shuts out the outlet and circuit breaker ? I may need to call in order to get the printer working again. I do like the printer but it's a bit complicated to my taste

Paper tray issues

I am completely satisfied with my purchase of the DCP-L2520DW.

Excellent product

Perfectly suitable for intended use, design and reasonable cost.

User friendly

I have owned this printer for about 6 weeks. The first weeks went by uneventfully, and wireless setup was pretty easy. But then, all of a sudden, the printer decided to stop printing in the middle of a print job. The message I got was that there was no internet connection (which of course was impossible, since our 3 computers, 2 iphones and 2 ipads were all connected at that particular time. After about 2 hours of effort, I was finally able to get the printer to recognize our network and all seemed fine (in terms of my desktop - but then I was unable to print from my laptop, which was located in another room. That problem too was eventually resolved - but in both cases, I had to reinstall the drivers, etc. from the DVD and answer a large number of questions. At first, the printer found a network that was not ours, but it insisted that this was the network for which I was to provide a network key. Of course, that did not work at all. After struggling, I finally succeeded, but I am now not sure I can print from my ipad or iphone. I am not happy with all the effort I had to put in to print a simple job.

Very good, but problematic printer

It has been “squirrelly”. Since purchasing.  Tech support basically said “don’t know what’s wrong, good luck with your new $150 brick....

Junk do not waste your $

I divide my year spending winters in the California desert and the balance at my permanent home in Toronto, Canada so I have two Brothers laser printers, one in each home and I am able to use both without any trouble.

Great Printer

I love two sided copy feature. I also like the coping also

Great black and white printer.

We bought this printer for my 86 year old mother to use.  Granted she is not super computer literate, but it really hasn't consistently worked for more than a few days since purchasing it.  We can't seem to make it work wirelessly and now it isn't even working with a printer cable.  We thought it would be user-friendly but turns out ....its not.

This printer has been nothing but trouble!

I love this printer,the only thing I would like to see it come with is a printers for dummies book as I am not a pc geek and had to spend a lot of time figuring out how to scan the easy way,etc. Also it is hard to see the screen on the printer I use a flash light.works great!!

love this printer

i think this is the best printer ever.  i needed to print a book and not a single issue was had.

best printer ever

This printer was very easily linked to our iPads (2 and MacBook Air (1) following the instructions obtained from the Brother website. All printing so far has been perfect. A nice product for Home printing/copying (1 or 2 sides) at a reasonable price.

Works as advertised

Very difficult to get it connected to a network, however, it does print well. We have had it drop out of the network and quite a pain in the you know what to get it connected again. One time I had to travel, and the printer got off line and my wife just gave up and bought a cheap printer just to resolve her immediate problem. I don't recommend it. Even the display is way too small for tired eyes.

Prints well, however...

Went shopping for the form and function I required and wound up were I had been before - Brother.

Got what I needed

I could not get the printer to stay on wifi in order t use it wireless. I had to call tech support to help me otherwise I am using it with USB connection.
If you can get this resolved, I will have 100% satisfaction.

Vincer

this printer is extremely quiet and fast and prints exceptionaly clear and crisp Great Value for the money

Perfect compact Laser Printer

Good value for the price.  Excellent product. Brand name history.

quality printer

Great printer once you wake it up!!!! Now I have to repurpose this one and buy another HP

Can’t wake it up

I love this printer.  It prints clearly and quickly.  Connecting it to our families three computers was very easy and I'm not so good at tech stuff.  My wife sometimes uses the DCP-L2520DW for printing worksheets for her children's Sunday School class and I seem to be using it a lot for new patient forms for my new doctors.

Great printer

I bought this for our home.  I actually threw away a nearly brand new "Ink Jet Copier/Scanner" because the ink cartridges kept drying out and they are expensive to replace.  The Brother CDEP-L2520DW is simple and copies every time.  It is not color but I don't care because it's dependable for what I need.

Dependable

Our new DCP-L2520DW scans, prints duplex, is wireless, and works great when we can get it to turn on. It goes into Derp Sleep mode and no matter what we do to start it, it won't come online and print until we either unplug and wait, or totally ininstall it then reinstall. Have read everything on Brother to find change the setting from Deep Sleep to Auto on. If we adjust Menu, it wastes paper every time but is still offline. Help!

Frustrated Over Deep Sleep Setting-Offline

This printer is really great for the price and works great...

Second one

The DCP-L2520DW is good in all facets with one serious inconvenience.  Print quality is fine and the ability to make copies is very convenient.  The fly in the ointment is the inability to disable "Deep Sleep."  This means that if the printer has been idle for a significant amount of time, it has to be power-cycled in order to start printing / copying.  It undermines the usefulness of having a wireless printer when someone has to walk to another room and power-cycle the printer in order for it to print or copy.  Our printer has been updated to the latest available firmware.  We contacted Brother support and were told that there was no fix for this issue.

Brother DCP-L2520DW Monochrome Multifunction Wireless Duplex Laser Printer, 27ppm Black, 2400x600dpi, 250 Sheet Input Tray - Print, Scan, Copy

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