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Which cartridges are you using?
How much are generic cartridges?
Can you give me a guide as to how many pages you get out of a black cartridge?
$167 for a full set. 2300-2500 pages per cartridge.
@Mr Frodo: ? Works fine. Got a similar drum set too.
If you're going generic, any popular toner will do.
$47.75 here with MGPINK8OFF
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/303289853627
And in the future you can buy bottle refills for cheaper.
how many cartridges does it take?
Cheers.
Wanted to ask how long do the toners/cartridges last if you were printing couple of pages a day? like 3 month or 6 ? My Laser Brother B&W lasted 6 moths of heavy printing and 1 year with the replacement high yield toners. So what is the Laser color like ?
Also is it LED laser or Laser
Any recommendations for one with a scanner?
Would anyone have experience with buying third party ink refill please share your findings?
$167 from inkstation for a full set, works out to just above 0.06c per page.
I think you mean $0.06, or 6 cents
@Nachotroncoso: The person they were replying to said "0.06c", which could read like 6 hundredths of a cent, rather than 6 cents.
But I'm sure almost everyone probably understood 0.06c to mean $0.06 anyway.
What ink? No ink here
my bad, i meant MAGIC, or powder
I buy them from inkstation. Never had a issue but I also don't update its firmware although I'm sure inkstation updates the chips… Extremely happy with my brother which is thr model or two up from this with the mfc duplex
Would this work ok for creating flyers for advertising or the quality wouldn't be the best?
What's a good value for money A3 colour laser printer ??
Use your office printer.
Officeworks?
If only it had a scanner?
Plenty of scanner apps on the phones these days.. but I guess bulk scanning will be a pain with the apps
If you actually need a scanner, then you're probably going to be better off getting a dedicated proper scanner like a Fujitsu ScanSnap. Great machines.
I separated scanning and printing. I have a top-rated Canon scanner .
I can't speak for this model but I can speak for the black and white and say the 2xxx series black and white are tanks.
They're the new late 90s HPs, reliable, simple.
Never buy inkjets.
This one is laser.
That's my point
Never buy inkjets, amen
Lol so many bad memories of school and uni with inkjets drying up or smudging when you needed them the most.
Eff inkjets!
Just the worst, i print one project a month when I was a kid, but I needed ink every time, and I thought it was just the printer ink all being used up for that one 3 page report.
Lol so many bad memories of school and uni with inkjets drying up or smudging when you needed them the most.
Obligatory oatmeal reference: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
Brother are best printers as they have the cheapest generic cartridges or ink many models don't have chips in or very basic ones that allow aftermarket.
I'd be cautious. We have this printer and while it's served us well, a recent Brother firmware upgrade now meant that the printer didn't recognise third party cartridges after power loss. Recently the switch for the printer room was tripped, and after that our printer gave us a "No toner" message. This seems to have affected a lot of users: https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/mprkms/no_toner_m…
It turns out the black cartridge will run down its coin cell battery and the printer thus thinks there is no toner. Some users found buying a new black cartridge or original Brother fixed the issue. Another fix was to replace the battery - this did not work for me. I emailed Inkstation who said the firmware upgrade was the culprit, but kindly sent me a new cartridge which worked.
I raised the issue here, if you'd like to read more: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/718308#comment-12533499 and another user (McFly) said that some users turned off auto-update to get around this.
I had a similar issue with my Brother MFC following an update.
I found on youtube how to reset the toner life record on the printer so the printer thinks the old half toner cartridge is new again (generic cartridge)
Hopefully there is something similar for this printer.
I tried to find that, but the 3230 didn't respond to the back/cancel press that bring sup that menu.
I'm sure there's a way to do it, finding how is another matter.
We have an older model brother, and you need to push and hold * when the cartridge lid is open to get to the reset menu and reset the cartridges. May be of use…
So should I buy this printer or avoid?
Thanks for the warning. Do you know which firmware is safe and can we disable the auto update? I feel like buying an iPhone and try to keep the jailbreakable version.
I wish I could tell you which firmware it was! To be fair, the printer works fine now. I'm actually now considering a UPS or spare printer - it was not good having a nonfunctional printer for the two weeks of hair pulling while I tried to sort it. If you have a backup printer, that would make this worth the risk ?
Great…. They were the last ones to keep us free from rubbish like this
Just to remind everyone, never update printer firmware!
Same issue, MFC3745 stopped accepting generic toners after an accidental firmware upgrade. Im waiting to try on a new set of toners from Inkstation.
I have the L3270CDW which is the same but has duplexing, it's not a bad unit. For a home printer or small office printer for low yield, it gets the job done well.
I never thought I'd need duplexing for a home printer, but I now wouldn't buy a laser printer without it. It saves so much paper.
Well, exactly half, really.
But…what about printing out an odd number of pages…
A bit less than that, as many documents still get printed single sided.
It totally depends what I'm doing
Half the time it wastes more paper on me.
I thought this one had duplexing?
Listing and Brother website say it does
It does
L3230CDW supports 2-sided printing as well. L3270CDW comes with a 6.8 cm Colour LCD Touchscreen and Built-in NFC Reader.
Is there something similar to this but with scanner built in?
My partner has a MFC L3745CDW for his business with a scanner/photocopy function and it works excellently
Thanks I'll check it out
Would it work with airprint?
It does, although in my case it sometimes doesn't show up on the list of printers if you try print a doc from an iPad/iPhone using the "Share" arrow.
If you share the doc to the Brother app, it works fine and the printer wakes up and prints ok.
My MacBook also loses track of it. The windows laptops in our house have no troubles.
So there's some config I've missed somewhere on the printer or router… Only had a MacBook for a while, so still getting up to speed. Haven't really hit the internets to diagnose / fix it - probably a sleep setting or power saving thing somewhere…
Otherwise, happy with this. Much better for the occasional doc printing for kids homework etc than the canon inkjet it replaced. obviously for docs, not for photos.
anyone know where to get this repaired. My roller got sticker stuck on it and hard to remove. The roller comes off but it leaves blank patches of ink where the sticker was stuck. Is there replacement? Anyone had experience with this issue?
Hi, this will be one of the issues. I can't find anything on their site other than
Brother International (Aust) Pty Ltd (ABN 17 001 393 835) ("Brother")
2/51 Eastern Creek Drive, Eastern Creek NSW 2766
PO Box 7258 Wetherill Park NSW 2164
Telephone: (02) 8875-6000
Click here to contact us
Do what BewareOfTheDog said. The repair techs at Brother are excellent and will sort it for you.
Should be able to price match at officeworks for 5% cheaper. Should bring it to $251.11
I have their MFC model (MFC-L3770CDW) and have bought ink from Inkstation before. As someone has mentioned don't update the firmware. These can lock out the older generic cartridges and I have yet to notice a 'bug' that these firmware updates fix. I have two school aged kids and for my printing needs I usually go through a set in about 12 months. I find the scanner function of the MFC used the most (especially when connected to Google and other cloud storage services).
For those who run a business and don't already have a scanner would suggest an MFC with a scanner. For those with the scanner already this laser only printer will be fine.
Which is very bad news as eventually this will be the base firmware it ships with
Yes, may be already. And you won't know until your first power outage or cartridge change, which may be beyond any returns period from your retailer.
It may be worth confirming the problematic firmware version so it can be checked on arrival and returned if needed via prime
This is apparently not the case, because a certain level of firmware (apparently, according to various forum threads I've seen) doesn't permanently stop you from using genetic toner. It just takes a while for generic toner manufacturers to catch up with the firmware on third party cartridges to work on new versions of printer firmware.
If you're concerned about this, so if your printer shipped with a newer version of firmware, the safest thing to do is to buy from somewhere like inkstation, where, if the third party cartridges you buy don't work, they'll send you new cartridges/chips that work with the new printer firmware. Only downside is inkstation, while significantly cheaper than OEM, is more expensive than somewhere like eBay. Imo the safest bet is to buy from inkstation maybe the first time around, then switch to eBay toner if you have the risk tolerance for it.
Good point. I suppose I'll update firmware when my current carts run out and then order from Inkstation. At least this way can know that the current generic carts should be in-line with the current firmware.
This 'shutting out the generic carts' is something the ACCC should look at but I doubt they will (not politically popular enough to be an issue for them).
@amaslam: My recommendation is don't update the firmware. That's always a bad idea, unless the version fixes an issue that you've specifically been having trouble with. More than likely the only noticeable change that you will see is that generic cartridges stop working.
My advice was for if your printer ships with the latest firmware.
This whole firmware and generic ink issue, if you switch off the printer, and only turn it on when required, would the power outage still impact it?
Most Importantly, keep your box and packaging in case it needs to go for service. This goes the same for all these big printers from Epson, Canon, HP, Fuji-xerox etc.
21.6kg!
It is heavy ?
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
…sorry.
It's no heavy, it's a "Plus Size" printer!
I've had the printer for 2 years. It's not too bad, nothing terribly wrong with it but I've had some annoying issues come up from time-to-time.
E.g. Just erroring out for all print jobs, not giving a reason just a generic "error". Ended up reinstalling drivers, rebooting pc, troubleshooting and no idea what I did but something eventually worked. Was quite frustrating.
Other annoyances:
Sometimes it says there's no paper in the tray despite being perfectly lined up.
The black cartridge started leaving a lot of streaks on the printed paper.
Sometimes the first page printed is a touch faded.
The Black cartridge started fading despite not saying it was low. After replacing all was well.
I mean as far as printers go, it hasn't caused me too many issues, but I've certainly been frustrated by it many times. Never had good luck with printers tbh
sounds like generic toner & wear out over time (2 years)
Want to upgrade my current brother multifunction printer. Basically just need the functions of scanner and printer ( weho use faxing?)
I use the faxing. Not for business but for some reason medical referrals and law firms still seem to want faxes (and not email). They're modernising (but slowly).
Showing as $339.65 for me… Expired?
Displaying as OOS now, I was too slow.
just ordered one - amazon says 3 in stock (now 2 I guess)
still available by the look of it … for me anyway
Anyone thinking of getting it - I bought one last year. Good printer, accepts generic cartridges without any issue and printing from mobile etc is reliable.
Very solid workhorse for the smaller office or busy home office.