Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Printer

Comments about Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Printer:

Bought and returned 2 HP units after over 8 hours on the phone with Tech Support.

I exchanged it for this one and I never looked back. Setup was easy. I had only one hiccup and a question about color correction.

After a 24 minute call to Brother support, all my computers were printing flawlessly, color output was fine-tuned. The Tech was a top professional.

Add to the fact that adding to the printer memory is easier since you don't need dedicated modules like HP. Most electronic stores have them in-stock and they're affordable.

Buy this printer! The color, speed, price, service and options are right on.

Comments about Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Printer:

I had a nice compact 600 dpi Okidata Laser for 10 years, then a Minolta Color Laser but it was absolutely huge for home placement and not wireless. I never liked inkjets, but I tried the HP K550dtwn because it was wireless and claimed to be cheaper per page than a laser. The first one broke out of the box, the second one only lasted a year, and it cost more per page when you consider that the liquid ink never worked right. This printer is L.E.D. instead of Laser so it's very compact for a Color 'laser' Printer, it's wireless so I can plug it in anywhere there is an outlet. It goes to sleep completely so you don't have to jump up and turn it on and off like the inkjet. It has reliable, crisp, run-proof prints. All for under $300 making it the cheapest printer yet as well. Wonderful job 'Brother'!

Comments about Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Printer:

This is my 5th Brother low cost laser printer (2nd wireless). Have no use for ink jets. Have never had a problem with any of the Brothers and have passed on older models to the kids & the library who continue to use them.

Purchase on sale (had to ask for on-line advertised price. Wireless setup was very easy, wi-fi range is great, and while colors are not brilliant, it prints fine color pictures as part of letters to grandchildren (the intended purpose)

Comments about Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Printer:

Wireless setup was a snap; I had the printer up and running in under 15 minutes. Although not up to the standard of a photo inkjet printer, color prints have vivid, saturated colors and are more than adequate for business graphics and for proofing documents that include photographs. We've fed various paper stocks through it without incident. (If you're going to use the manual feed slot, be sure to read the .pdf manual first for important instructions.) The printer starts up quickly, and uses very little power in stand-by mode. All in all, this was a very satisfying puchase.

Comments about Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Printer:

After giving this printer a good bashing for poor envelope printing, I downloaded the pdf user's guide and found that there are two gray levers on either side of the rear pass-thru door that need to be locked down before printing envelopes. What do you know! A perfectly smooth envelope on the first try. And it didn't even tell me there was a paper jam! I'm man enough to say I'm sorry, and I'll give you a recommendation this time, little printer. But I'm keeping my eye on you.

Comments about Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Printer:

I really want to like this printer. Compared to our old Okidata, it is much smaller and should prove to be much less expensive to operate. Wireless setup was very easy, with both XP and Vista machines "connected" to it. Print quality is good, and print response time is good as well. It was dirt cheap, [...]. However, after my first experience with the manual tray and envelopes, [...]. First, when you can get it to take an envelope it creases the final product badly, even when using the rear exit to make a more straight-thru path. That is when it will take the envelope. Too much of the time it tells me that there is a paper jam, and wants all 4 of the drums removed. I soon learned to ignore the drum removal instructions and just open the top of the machine and immediately close it. I would understand the message if there was an actual jam to clear, but there isn't. It just doesn't seem to be able to feed the envelope properly. I haven't had problems feeding sheets of paper manually, only with envelopes. Any small laser printer is going to have issues regarding envelope creasing, but this the worst I've encountered. I really want to like this printer, but I would recommend only if envelopes are unimportant to you.