Brother Printer RHLL2320D Compact Laser Printer with Duplex Printing (Renewed Premium)

This is the third one I've bought. Inexpensive and reliable. Eventually after thousand and thousands of pages it will be begin to have some problems with print quality that changing the drum out won't solve. But at these prices they are essentially disposable. They take aftermarket toner cartridges that work very well and allow you to refill the cartridge with toner in large jugs. I use the LINKYO 3rd party replacement cartridges with good results and toner that says it is made for brother printers. This saves an enormous amount of money. By having the same model printer at home and the office it makes things much simpler.

I bought this printer to replace a 14-year old Brother HL-5250DN Duplex printer. That printer has an Ethernet connector that I used as well as USB and LPT connectors that I did not use. I needed a replacement printer that I could access on my network from various computers around the house. This Brother HL-L2300D had everything the Brother HL-5250DN Duplex printer provided, but with only a USB connection.I can report that I have installed this new Brother HL-L2300D on my wireless router USB port and have it printing flawlessly from my desktop and laptop. I used no additional software other than what is built into the router and Windows 10. The new printer's print quality is excellent, both the duplex printing and all other printing is quieter than the old printer, and it has a straight-through paper path for manual feed which improved envelope and label printing. I have Continue Mode set ON and Auto Shutoff set OFF. I have the new printer in a switched AC outlet, and only turn it on when I need it. Using the switched outlet, the printer powers up and is ready to receive print jobs without having to press the Power button. When I leave the switched outlet on and the printer falls asleep, the printer wakes up when the router sends it a print job. This is exactly what I wanted.I hope this review will provide anyone else who has similar requirements with a way to test their system to make sure that using a USB-only printer connected to a router will work for them too. I read about using the USB port on my ASUS N900 RT-N66U Wireless router to set up a network print server and wanted to be sure that would work, so I used the old printer to test that.I decided to use my desktop for this test and make no changes on the laptop until ready to install the new printer.Still using the old printer, I disconnected the ethernet cable and connected the printer to the router with a USB cable. Using the web interface to the ASUS router (192.168.1.1 by defaults), within 60 seconds I saw Brother HL5250DN appear as a USB 2,0 connected device on the router.Because I already had the Windows 10 driver installed for using this printer on an Ethernet port, all I had to do was add a new TCP/IP port to the router for the USB connection following these breadcrumbs:Settings > Devices > Printers & Scanners > Brother HL-5250DN > Manage > Printer Properties > Ports > Add Port... > Standard TCP/IP Port - New Port... >The Add Standard TCP/IP Port Wizard will appear.Click NextEnter your router IP address, usually 192.168.1.1 in both the "Printer Name and IP Address" and the "Port Name" text boxes. If you already have a port named 192.168.1.1, Windows will change the name to 192.168.1.1_1 automatically.Windows will then try to detect that port for about a minute, then show a screen "Additional port information required". Select Custom > Settings to see the Port Settings dialog.Change protocol from Raw to LPRUnder LPR Settings enter a "Queue Name" such as LPRServer1Click Ok > Next > Finish and the new port will be shown in the ports list and selected for use by the existing Printer driver.When I got the new Brother HL-L2300D, I used these breadcrumbs to install it on the desktop and laptop:Settings > Devices > Printers & Scanners > My printer isn't listed > Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings.I followed all the screens in the wizards to install the new printer.On the desktop, when I reached the point to define the port, I just selected the 192.168.1.1 that I had set up above.On the laptop, when I reached the point to define the port, I followed the same steps as above to add the new port 192.168.1.1On both the desktop and the laptop, when the Wizard asks you to select the driver you want, the Brother HL-L2300D will probably not be on the list. Click the Windows Update button on that list page and Windows will download all the printer names for all printers for which Windows 10 provides drivers.Hope this is helpful.

This is a lazer printer using older and similar technology designed by people who use the KISS principle. Older CAN BE better. I used it for a Win7 machine... yes, it needs a chord, but given how many printers are a nightmare to setup to wireless print... I will take a chord and a dvd setup disk any day over that nightmare. GREAT printer.Review for Brother HL-L2300D (NOT the wireless model L2305W)2023 Tried several other Laser printers before this one. All failed, didn't work with Win7 (even though they said they did), and the mega challenges of setup made them not worth keeping them. With the 'old school' HL-2300D, setup was breeze. Connect the USB/Printer cable, Pop in the CD, remember those? :) run the setup, a few minutes later I was printing. While the L2300D is technically not a wireless printer, you CAN set it up to print wirelessly from other machines. I attached the L2300D on my Win7 laptop, and connected to my home wireless. Set up a home group with the printer SHARED…. and voila! All other machines in my home, can print to the Printer attached to the Win7 laptop… WIRELESSLY. I have the other (Win10, Win11) computers connected to the SAME wireless connection, they download the needed drivers… and it works with zero problems. Some Pros: +Works with Win7 +EASY setup. +Can print wirelessly, although you do have to have the "home" computer that the printer is attached to on, and setup to share that printer on the home group network. +IT WORKS! and produces a quality output. +You will not have brain melt as you would if you attempt to setup other Laser printers Cons: -As with most printers sold by the corporations, the scam is to buy the printer, then overpay for TONER that limits how many copies you get for each toner. (A scam, but as long as monopolies are allowed, it's the game.) -Rumor has it, that how many copies you ACTUALLY get, is different than what is advertized. (given the number of reports on this issue, it is likely true, but I can't say for sure, as I am not going through the hassle to tracking that going forward.) -The chord you need, doesn't come with it, fortunately, you can often pick these up at garage sales / thrift stores, etc for about a buck… or even free. - Had to press the Off/On switch and HOLD it for ~5 sec before printer will turn off / which is odd. -Built in power chord is a negative. -Reports of questionable functionality with Linux… though I guess that if the printer is connected directly to Linux machines they might work fine. (Didn't bother testing this, as I am only needing it for Win machines.)Neutral: As with all printers, things wear out, and there is need for two basic things: more toner (solvable) and a new drum (they often last, but they do need to be replaced sometimes ~5+ years -Most products produced by the Corporate Elite, are designed to malfunction after a time, so you will forced to buy a new replacement. (A common practice) -- I will mention that some printers have a way of resetting the toner counter, AND a way to reset the need to replace the drum… I am not sure that applies to this printer, though I will mention it, just in case one of you gets into that scenario. :) Had a Lexmark in the past, that this worked for, and knowing how to do that, saved needless toner/drum replacements. (Likely the corporations have disabled this feature on new models.)Rating: Fantastic. It works, setup is EASY, and you can print wirelessly if you set your WIN computers up to do that. Compared to the options on the market, cost, and the other Wireless printers that being sold now, this machine is smoking hot, pun not intended. :)

I have this exact printer at work and love it, so ordered one for home. I bought refurbished, but it came packaged just like new and looks new as well. The ink seems to last a long time, as I print a lot of multi-page documents. The print quality is great. The printer itself is a little big, which is why i give 4 stars. but i can look past that due to the quality and quantity of the printed pages.