DCP-L2640DW Wireless Compact Monochrome Multi-Function Laser Printer with Copy and Scan, Duplex, Mobile, Black & White | Includes Refresh Subscription Trial(1), Works with Alexa

I have used Brother laser printers for years. I decided on this particular model, mostly because it offered just exactly what my small business and home office needs were. I have no use for a fax machine any more, so this printer and scanner was really all I wanted, and it seemed like a pretty reasonable value. I have tested it several times with various paper media. I print normal text documents, some with graphics, envelopes, and voucher checks regularly. This printer has handled everything really well so far. There was a bit of a learning curve with some odd sized envelopes, but I'm pretty sure my struggle was with the software I was using, not the printer. I did experience a couple of situations where the machine said there was a paper jam when using the front tray to print an envelope, but it was easily resolved. The quality and clarity of the print seems great to me. You can adjust the print density, toner ecology, etc. pretty easily. The machine itself has a heavy duty and durable feel to it, and I'm happy with how it has been working so far for me. WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY: I was reading other people's comments about having issues with this. I am going to share what I found worked best for me, and maybe that will be helpful for others. Since I have owned and used several Brother printers in the past, I've learned that getting the machine on my wireless network is easiest by simply using the machine's console push buttons. I know in the literature it says it should be discoverable by going through the steps outlined in the instructions after downloading their software. However, I've never had consistent luck with that process. I still download the software to make sure I have the right drivers and features loaded, but when it comes to getting the printer on my network, I just use the machine's console to find my router and then type in the password. It's a tiny bit tedious typing the password using the console buttons, but I've never had it not work for me. Honestly, seconds after doing that, the wireless printer was discoverable and available to all of my devices. I was able to print from my CPU, laptop, phone, tablet, etc. without any issues. I know that's not the only way of setting up the wireless functionality on these printers, but it's what I've learned causes the least amount of stress and frustration. I hope that's helpful. They provide details on how to accomplish this method in the accompanying literature that comes with the printer. At this point, I have no reason not to give this five stars. If something shoud change down the road, I'll be sure to update this review.

After suffering with overpriced ink and inkjet printers for years I finally decided to jump ship to a laser printer. This is leaps and bounds beyond a typical b&w inkjet printer in every way. The ink cost is lower, it prints faster, more consistently, no paper jams, why oh why didn't I switch to laser earlier? I had heard that Brother brand was highly recommended and I'm a total convert now. This printer just works out of the box. I hooked it up to my network and was printing in minutes. It also has an app but everything is totally usable without ever touching the app which I appreciate. Installing the ink cartridge was also very easy, it's designed so it's pretty difficult to not do it correctly. The scanner copier functions also work perfectly, no issues at all. Can't recommend Brother laser printers enough.

I recently purchased this laser printer and I’m honestly very impressed. The setup was quick and straightforward, and I was able to connect it to Wi-Fi within minutes. The printing speed is excellent — pages come out very fast, and the text quality is extremely sharp and clear. It’s perfect for printing documents, forms, and school papers. I also love that it’s much quieter than I expected for a laser printer. Another big plus is that the ink (toner) lasts longer compared to inkjet printers, which saves money in the long run. The paper tray capacity is good, and it doesn’t jam easily. So far, I haven’t experienced any issues. If you’re looking for a reliable, fast, and professional-quality printer for home or a small office, I definitely recommend this one.

Good printer. Setup wasn't too difficult. Installing the toner cartridge and drum assembly into the printer was easy. Wi-Fi setup was ok. I choose to set up my connection up without using a cable. I used the control panel on the printer itself. On the quick set up guide, step 8 gives good instruction on how to set the Wi-Fi up using the LCD screen, but one key step they left out is that after you enter you password (Network ID), you have to press AND hold the "OK" button to get it to accept. THEN, you'll see the accept message pop up. This maybe be a "duh" moment for some, but it took a few minutes for me to figure that out. After I did, the Wi-Fi connected instantly. Another issue I ran into was entering the password to download software on my computer. The password is located on the back of the printer. So, I would recommend maybe writing the password down or snapping a picture of it w/ your smart phone prior placing your printer to where it's going to go. Otherwise, once you get the printer situated, you may have to do some moving around and adjusting the printer (like I did) to get the password from behind the printer. After writing the password down, I entered it and the dialog box stated the password was incorrect. I found that the letter "O" I entered was actually the number "0". So, if you run into an issue where the password is incorrect, you may have input the wrong character. Also noteworthy, when entering the password, there is no feature to you reveal what you're inputting. When entering the password, it just shows black dots for privacy. This may be cumbersome for some I can imagine. Other than that, the printer works great. It is kind of loud, but I can deal with that. It prints fast. The scan feature works well. The instruction manual does not come with the printer, it can be found online. The manual is massive (like 600+ pages). But on the Brother website they have it in sections to where you can locate whatever it is you're trying to do. This is my first day using it, but as of now I am satisfied and I anticipate getting many years of use out of this printer. From reviewing the manual, it appears to do more than I thought. I think it's worth the purchase.

I like this printer a lot. It just works. It does what it is supposed to do. It is a lot cheaper then I expected. I am replacing and 15 year old brother b/w laser printer. It was local only so I had it rigged up with a raspberry pie as a print server allowing me to add it to my home network. While it work well it was a pain in the but to setup on a new computer or device. Once set up was done it worked very well. Well, it finally gave up it's ghost, some of the internal gears wore out pretty much killing it. So it was time for a new printer and here we are. I like everything about this one. It prints very nice and makes good scans. It was easy to set up. The toner is decently priced, and, after market toner is also available. They are also refillable. In general I like the software. It is simple and functional. I like the admin software. The scanning software is meh. Something called paperport and I just don't know what it is supposed to. It's like a ten step process to scan something. I doubt I'll use it and just use VueScan instead. I like that once given a static IP you can access the printer/settings like any network device, with any browser. No need to for an app. All the setting are available locally. On the local network/printer. You can use the app to set everything up but you don't have to. I've become paranoid about requiring apps to use things. I have had a few devices stop working once the company decided to stop supporting the app. Never again. Yeah, I 1st hard wired it to a pc and set it up to make sure everything worked. Then I hard wired it with some leftover cat 5. It want's to be wifi but I've always found wifi to be flaky and prefer to wire things when I can. Then I used the printer to get an IP and set to static. Which was strait forward and easy. Once that was done it was time to install the drivers on my PCs and laptop and other devices. Yeah, everything just works. There are several upgrades within this model line. They all seem to have the same printer and scanner parts, the differences seem to be options like faxing and a nicer screen and a few other things. I am not sure if a nice screen and faxing is worth the upgrade price. This one has an old school digital display and physical buttons. It's an excellent home printer.

No Stars...............I found this Brother Printer impossible to install on my computer. It was insanity trying to get the downloaded driver to link up to get the printer to print from my computer. I checked on the computer control panel and the driver, which was loaded from on line, did not show up where it was supposed to be. Did not load properly and would not load as I tried over and over...... I was able to see my old printer driver though. I WANTED TO THROW THIS PRINTER AT THE WALL; it was so frustrating and time consuming resulting in futility and a dead end getting nowhere over and over....... But, I remained calm and packed it up well and got a return label. I noticed many other people had similar issues with Brother Printers......I would not recommend this printer to anybody. Look elsewhere for one that works...UPDATE: I did a chat with Brother & explained the problem (if it was Brother) ??? I was referred to their tech service for help. (If it was their tech) ??? Read on......I got to speak to a guy who was speaking with a foreign accent who said that he would install my Brother printer. Then, he told me that the install of the driver had failed. He would investigate.....Next he asked me to authorize full control of my computer to him. He had an app that needed my permission to run...what the hell.....OK let's try this. He asked me not to touch my mouse and he was all over the computer checking things and installing things. He then told me Brother (if it was Brother) would get the driver for this printer installed, but my computer was full of viruses and MALWARE,,,which he showed me on my screen. The cost to remove the malware would be $ 250.00 + tax. I gave him the OK and he told me a tech in the company would have to work approx 1 hour clearing all of the malware which was preventing the install of the driver for this printer. The app was a Microsoft app going to work going through the whole computer. Loads of stuff being scanned. He called me back a few times to give me a progress report. I was then told that the computer was cleared of all Malware, attack viruses, blockers, spyware Trojan Viruses & so on. Then he installed the drivers for the printer and we tested it for printing from the computer and for scanning. Works...WOW !!!!! The printer now works beautiful. I could have never have done this by myself. Whomever these people were, they knew their stuff. I paid them by VENMO and he gave me his name and tel # in case I needed more help or problems arose....the payment went to a company which was NOT Brother......but, I have to say the services that he performed for me were very good. I took a chance doing this and the services I got were worth the money. BUT, Grrrrrrrrrrr,,,,SHAME ON BROTHER FOR SELLING A DEVICE THAT WAS HELL ON EARTH TO GET WORKING AND REQUIRED LOADS OF OUTSIDE HELP FROM WHOMEVER HELPED ME OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still stick to my one star for this printer. It was inexpensive to buy, but required high tech experts to get it working (whomever they were) ????. After I finished up with these people, I went on my recycle bin to discard a few things and I found 13,875 items that this company removed from my files. All sorts of crap...Now my computer is lightening fast, the new printer works very well, the old printer still works and I can choose either the new one or the old one. Long review, but if anybody is shocked reading all of this, I am just as shocked that I had to do all of this to install this new Brother Laser Printer on my computer. Thanks for reading this review....

So far so good. I wasn't home when it arrived. When I came in, my 17 year old had already set it up to work over the WiFi... and I am the one with the MSc in Tech lol. It prints from my PC, my phone, my Mac, no issues. Son is in his room 15 meters away, he prints with no issues. I scanned documents using generic Windows scan, worked like a charm. And it copies as it should. It has a photo ID copy feature which is kind of neat. Its great for home use and since its laser, the quality and speed is good, and the cartridge should last a while. Good buy.

It's a bit large, but not too much so. Good value for the money. Nice design. Good print speed for $209 + tax. It's black and white, so color isn't a thing. I don't do much printing. I mainly use a printer to scan to save me trips to places that let me upload important documents such as my tax accountant. Toner cartridges don't dry up like the ink cartridges do for non-laser printers, so that makes the printing cost-effective. Things I liked: (1) It looks sharp. Looks are not relevant to the functionality, but it's nice to have a good-looking printer (see attached picture). (2) It scans quickly for the price. 3 pages in just seconds is not bad. (3) You can scan single pages by placing them printed side down on the glass under the lid and then use a Scan app from your PC to kick off the scan and save the document. (4) You can scan multiple pages at a time via the document feed. DO THIS FROM THE MOBILE APP. Trust me on that one. It works flawlessly. It shows the pages scanned right on your phone screen, and from there, you can decide what you want to do with them (email them, save to a file on the phone, etc.). Be sure the print is facing up when you place them (I apologize if I got this wrong - it's a 50/50 shot. You'll get it right quickly enough). (5) Toner cartridges are cost effective compared to color inks. If you need color ink, then this is not really helpful, but if your needs are simple, and black and white printing is good enough for you, this is an effective solution. The toner cartridges are significantly cheaper than the color ink. I did a quick check. One offer was 4 cartridges for about $70 USD. Not bad at all. Roughly 17.50 dollars for a toner cartridge in this day and age of runaway inflation isn't bad considering how long a cartridge can last if you don't print a lot. Negatives. (1) The most frustrating part was trying to get hooked up to WIFI. I followed the instructions, but it kept failing. In this case, persistence paid off. You just keep trying to get it to connect, and eventually it will. I have a 1 gigabyte fiber connection with a WIFI signal booster right beside my computer, and it still struggled. Once connected, though, it was fine. (2) I tried using the scan button on the printer. It said no PC found. I'm sure this is user error on my part, because my PC connected quickly and easily. Still frustrating. (3) RESOLVED (SCROLL to bottom of review and look for "MISSING PASSWORD RESOLVED" tag: I use the mobile app from the Apple store. It's VERY nice. One thing I didn't like was that it tried to do a firmware update. It asked for a password. I tried the one I used to set up my account. Failed. I then read the directions (duh). It said the password would be by the letters "Pwd:" on a label on the back of the printer. It was blank. No password. So now, I have no clue how to get the firmware update done. I'll have to do some googling, but this is a pretty egregious oversight. (4) While the scanning is nice, it's sooooo simple from the mobile app and a royal pain in the tush from the menu of the printer itself. Probably a user error on my part, but definitely a turn off. (5) Unless I missed it in the instructions, it doesn't tell you how to scroll up and down in the menu options on the printer. There is an "OK" button. There is a button above it with "+" and one below it with "-". Those scroll up and down. Not overly obvious, but I figured it out pretty quickly. (6) The power cord is very short. Be aware of this when deciding to place it. I do not recommend using an extension for 3-prong power cords. It's best to plug the printer cord directly into a wall socket. Conclusion: While I have not had the printer long, I am pleased so far. If that changes, I'll post an update. MISSING PASSWORD RESOLVED: If you go into the menu on the printer, then scroll down to "5. Print Report", Press the OK button, then scroll down to "3. Network Config", you can print the report and it will show the password at the bottom.