I've only had this a week but can report it works like a champ. The photos, which I was expecting would look horrible, are much better than many people report. They're typically flat in saturation and tone...that's helped with good matte paper and vivid setting in printer properties.
After years and years of messing with inkjets, though they do better photos, I'm done with them. This LED-based (not true laser) but laser-style printer set up beautifully, found my wireless booster here upstairs immediately and connected with a button push (WPS function, not all routers have that), prints beautiful text and the photo images as I said look certainly very good with a little tweaking. And they print fast...like almost text-page fast! Try a high res print on a consumer-level inkjet and see how long it takes.
The key as always is follow the start up guide to the letter and make sure you check with brother if you're not sure which setup mode you want (mobile, wireless, usb, ethernet etc). Then just take it slow, step by step, and you won't have any problems.
If you do, call Brother: their support is supposed to be very good.
I will reset the start-up cartridges that come with the printer when it says they're out: apparently the printer is set up to count pages, not actual toner usage.
There's a five-star review fairly recently that tells you exactly how to reset the carts so you get the full amount of toner in them...it'll add 100s of pages to your capability.
Here's my summary of how to do the ink cartridge reset process to save you time reading a bunch of reviews:
toner reset tips for Brother HL-3170CDW (below are comments from a number of reviewers)
Great printer, but the toner life is based (as far as I can tell) solely on pages printed. So if you print x number of pages even with only a single dot of color on it, the printer will count that as a page printed in that color. My starter black toner quit after 250 pages.
Here is how to fix this -
1. open the top of the printer, just a little bit, not all the way. leave it propped open for this to work.
1. someone else disagrees: "Seems you have to open the lid all the way until it clicks."
2. another reviewer: "At first the printer didn't accept the "Secure" and "X Cancel" keypress, but did after I power cycled it."
3. turned printer off/back on and repeated the simultaneous pressing of "security" and "X-cancel,"
1. that seemed to do the trick
2. Hit the round button at the top left corner. (on/off button)
3. Simultaneously press the "Secure" and "X Cancel" buttons.
1. This puts printer into special service mode.
4. Use the + and - buttons to scroll to whichever toner you want to reset. Each color should have three options which let you tell the machine what type of 'new' toner cartridge is installed
5. "Y.TNR-STR" is yellow starter, "Y.TNR-HC" is high capacity and "Y.TNR.STD" is standard .
6. hit the "OK" button to get an "OK reset cancel" type screen.
7. Hit the up arrow to reset. Now you're back to printing in style!
another reviewer: purchase a replacement cartridge in the meantime
so that you will have one on hand when you do run out
considering the toner measurement level is practically useless.
KUDOS from another reviewer:
I have used this method twice and STILL have not replaced a cartridge!
GOOD LUCK!
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Awesome color printer for mobile printing
Pros: - easy to setup for mobile and desktop - nice printing qualityCons: - not for printing photos - big# Print QualityI didn't buy this printer for printing photos. Printing pages with some color images is fine. If you want to print a photo, skip this printer and buy an inkjet printer.# Setup - remove stickers, protections, etc.It is big and heavy. The box has a sticker 'Heavy'. (photo #19) Compared to my other brother monochrome MFC, it is bigger. (photo #20). There are many tapes that secure covers and plastic parts that protect toners. Removing them is easy.# Setup - WirelessOnce power is on, you can easily set up network information for your printer. (Photo #1 to #6) By pressing menu and arrow buttons, you can enable wireless lan, search SSID, select SSID, enter a password. Entering a password part was bothering me. For each password letter, you need to press up/down password to find a upper or lower case letter. Fortunately, pressing a button will change alphabets quickly.# Setup - Air PrintSome reviewers wrote that air print was not working after upgrade. My iPhone's iOS version is 11.2.6 and the printer's firmware version is 1.11 (01/27/2017). AirPrint is working great. (Photos #7 to #16). I've tested AirPrint on Photos and Dropbox app.From Photos app - select a photo (Photo #8) and click Print - click Select Printer (Photo #9) - select my brother printer (Photo #10) - click Print (Photo #11)At my first trial, my brother printer showed a message something like 'small print, open a back cover'. It printed a small image (Photo #12). But when I tried again after closing back cover, it printed a big image. (Photo #7)From Dropbox app - select a document - click Print (Photo #13) - click AirPrint (Photo #14) - click Print (Photo #15)Because I already set up a printer using Photos app, Dropbox shows my brother printer as a target printer. You can change settings like duplex, color/monochrome. (Photo #16)# Setup - MacFrom the Printers & Scanners panel, Click + and it already shows my new brother printer as a candidate. (Photo #17)# setup - Windows 10From the Printers & Scanners menu, my new printer is already added.# Setup - iPrint&ScanI didn't added photos for Brother's own app iPrint&Scan. With a few clicks, you can easily add your printer. From this app, you can add other cloud accounts such as iCloud, Dropbox, Google drive, Evernote, OneDrive. Printing was easy. But AirPrint is working great and requires fewer clicks.
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Superb because it's easy to install/setup, reliable hardware and software!
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Love this printer. Would recommend to anyone and everyone. I got it at a fantastic price; it could have been a steal if it had a scanner.
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