Customer Reviews for Brother - HL-3180CDW Wireless Color All-In-One Laser Printer - White/Gray
Customer Rating
5
Great printer with great price!!
on February 11, 2018
Posted by: Mrgroundplane
from Fla
Works real fine easy setup & wi fi has a good receive range. Cloud printing would be nice for quick memo’s such as color e mail’s on photos u my want print at a later date.
Quality of printing is average - on par with other laser printers. Wifi connected and worked easily to my router. Just had to take the retainers off of all 4 toner cartridges. All print functions can be accessed through touch screen. You can scan to a file on a registered computer, send the scan to an email address, any online file storage or even Facebook. That is a pretty nice set of functions and easy to use. Double sided printing works fine. The Control Center works well on the PC and allows OCR. Printing time is fast and warm-up is only 30 sec. Warm up from power off takes more than a minute.
The HL-3180CDW is well built, very nice appearance, functions as it should, easy and quick to set up and quiet enough for a home office. After one month use I am very pleased with it's performance. I have a very old Brother inkjet printer that has way outlasted all other printers I have tried over the years. so my confidence in Brother printers made this an easy choice. I especially wanted a color laser because of it's dry ink tanks. I like the way the printed pages lay on the shelf without flying out on the floor and an extended shelf is not needed to contain the printed pages. One does have to reach in however to retrieve the pages but I am fine with it. 100% success after one month with no malfunctions. I am happy with this purchase.
Love the printer except for one item. The printer will not print though windows any pictures. Picture only, no text. Windows 7. Using different programs, the printer works with excellent results.
So far seems to be exactly what I need. Color printing and copying are good. Speed is excellent. Price was outstanding. It should be noted that this printer is relatively larger than any printer I have had. I have room for it, and all is good, but it is rather large.
Good print quality but constantly looses wifi connection. "No AirPrint printers found" plagues use from iPad. Constantly have to reset devices to print from iPad and reinstall printer to print from Win 10 PC. Once connected it works great but try to print again a few days later and the connection fails. Really prefer laser jet, toner, over ink for maintenance reasons and this printer would probably work great if directly connected to a LAN but we needed, and prefer, wireless.
This was my second Brother printer, having used a monochrome laser printer for many years. Setup/networking got a bit hairy, but worked out okay. Printer has been rock steady, now, for several months. Quiet, fast, smooth...nothing more I could ask for.
This machine is an excellent choice for a small office. It performs as advertised. Color is excellent, although I have not tried printing any photographs - just colors on reports. The only thing I don't care for is that the paper curls, sometimes substantially, after printing. I have only used multi-purpose copy and multi-purpose digital papers. I have not tried laser only paper. It may do better than the multi-purpose paper. The printer options do have an option to reduce curl, which I have been using. Not sure how this option works, but I did not see any difference with it on or off.