I have had a Brother B&W Laser printer for some years now and it has been a great work-horse and totally reliable. So, when it finally cam time to replace it, I looked at alternatives on Amazon. The Brother HL3070CW looked impressive in specification and from my previous good experience with a Brother printer I felt confident that I could rely on it to 'do what it said on the can'. I did notice some reviews on Amazon that said the Wireless option was hard to set up - but I felt confident that I could sort out any networking issues. The printer was shipped in very sturdy (very big!) packing and came with very comprehensive instructions. It was really easy to load the toner cartridges (be careful to follow the instructions and open them carefully), loaded some paper and printed a test sheet - no problems! Having seen some adverse comments about ease of setup of wireless, I took this next part steadily. I can see how easy it would be to make a mistake over this since although the spirit of the instructions is correct, some of the detail is wrong. I set it up totally according to the instructions - and nothing worked! However, I noticed that some of the messages etc on the printer didn't 100% tie up with what the documentation said . . so I performed a factory reset on the printer (if you have any issues, download the full manual and that will give you all the options, very clearly stated) and tried again. This time I followed the instructions carefully, but I found that the trick was that when I didn't get the expected result/response from the printer it was because it was necessary to press the 'enter' ('OK') key to move onto the next step. After that everything worked fine and setting up the networking was easy - and everything burst into life.
Good points:
- EXCELLENT print quality, even at 'default' quality (great result and uses less toner!)
- I love the auto power-down into 'sleep' mode after a period of inactivity - plus the fast start-up when a job is sent to the printer
Bad points:
-Haven't found any (the footprint is slightly larger than my previous Brother B&W printer but it does have 4 toner cartridges inside - and the results more than justify the extra few inches of space)
Overall:
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED