| |  | Electronics Brother HL-2170w 23ppm Laser Printer with Wireless & Wired Network Interfaces |  | | | | | | | | | | Rating:  - Be aware of cost for drum/toner replacements!
I had little problems setting up wifi on this printer. Works well, prints fine and quick. Annoying to find out though that both the drum and toner need to be replaced on this unit.Drum is quite costly at approx $70-$80 at best... plus toner around $40-$50.Drum life expectancy is approx 12000pgs.For the wifi convenience I guess I have to stick with this printer.But, I do prefer to use my HP laser printer for times where wifi printing are not needed.My HP laser doesn't have a costly drum I need to replace and has worked flawlessly for over 3 years.
Rating:  - A Solid Printer that does the job...wirelessly
This printer has everything I needed:
1. It's fast
2. The black and white print quality is perfect
3. It's output is very high before you need to replace toner (Unlike all those crap $50 inkjets I bought before)
4. It's WIRELESS.
It's an amazing feeling to be able to sit in my living room on the first floor and send as many print jobs as I want to this printer on the second floor and have them all print out perfectly.A few of my friends have even said its like "magic" when watching this thing work with my computers wirelessly.An awesome printer, solid price, and Brother Tech support is good too!
Rating: - No problems here.
The printer was easy to set up, and works great. I've been using it for a few weeks now and haven't had any problems.
Rating:  - Beware the Setup Issues for this printer !!!
Most people will have a terrible time setting up this printer. This is because the printer ships with its network card turned off. Neither the printed setup manual nor the manual you download from brother's website mentions this.
So most people will follow the setup instructions and hit a brick wall whenit comes to connecting the printer to the router for the wireless setup.
Bottom line is, when you turn on the network card (by a series of complicated maneouvers check the FAQ on the Brother website) it works fine. The printer is very flimsilybuilt.
But so far it works fine.
Rating:  - WIRELESS SETUP INSRUCTIONS ARE BROKEN!!!!
Once again I pay a lot for a wireless product only to find that the installation instructions are broken.I'm sure the printer is fine but good luck installing wireless using the steps in the manual. I'm not sure what went wrong.(My guess is they left out a major step involving plugging a cable back in that they asked you to unplug one step before) I'm writing this while I am also downloading all the software from brother's website.I amazingly resisted the urge to destroy the manual and cd that came in the box.At this point I would rather have spent 100 dollars more if there was a laser printer that actually worked wireless out of the box.I'm pretty sure no such thing exists, but I wish vendors would solve this damn problem and release instructions that work.They need to get it through their thick heads that the install process is their first time to impress or piss off the customer, and lately I find that they delight in pissing me off.(Exception was the PS3. I plugged it in and it worked like magic)
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