Brother HL-1212W Mono Laser Printer | PC Connected & Wireless | Print | A4 | UK Plug

Needed a printer for very occasional use, but remember the bad experience of my previous inkjet printers..Cartridges drying out inbetween uses, ink running out at vast expense after no time at all really put me off getting another.. until I heard of laser printers...Having a nose on Amazon, expecting to pay well for losing these inkjet hassles, I came across two Brother laser printers at under £70. This included the first toner laser cartridge (basically ink, but in dry powder form that doesnt dry out or clog) which work for up to 1000 full page prints with the starter cartridge, but offer 5000 with cartridge replacements!Supplied inkjet starter cartridges running out after a week or so, then being presented with a cost greater than the actual printer to replace them, also seems to make laser a no brainer for those wishing to print only black and white and on a budget.There were two models at the sub £70 mark, and I chose this cheapest HL-1212w one at £64. The downside was that it will not automatically print on both sides of the paper (at the £70 one does), plus for me (more critically) this one is smaller and fit perfectly my small office needs.You can manually reload on this model to print both sides if you wish, although I recycle paper anyway (plus finished documents look much nicer one sided anyway).Setup was easy.The Vine reviewer here (who was given the version with the 5 cartridges and 3 year guarantee for free in order to review it) surely must have been reviewing a different printer?Far from being flimsy & cheaply made (when compared to his more expensive and older Brother machine), I find it the opposite despite actually paying for mine. Yes, it may not be as sturdy as older and more expensive printers, and basing a review upon that might seem unfair.Just because a cheap Sekonda watch isnt a Rolex watch doesnt make it any less functional at telling the time..From a budgetary perspective, it does what it says it does, is ridiculously cheap in doing so, looks good and completes prints quickly.Replacement cartridges (originals) cost around 30 quid. Non originals cost as little as £7.The drum (which encapsulates the toner (ink) cartridge needs replacing around every 2 years.. Also £30 for an original and as little as £7 non original...I may risk non original, as most of the reviews state no problem in doing so and similar reviews to the originals.All being well, that's ongoing printing for no money whatsoever...Setting up on pc is easy with the included disc, and despite no included usb cable, none is needed down to the wifi feature.My pc recognised and connected with it immediately. I at first wondered where the Brother printing app interface on the pc was, but printing on the pc is easy and basically down to just clicking "print" in windows whilst actually viewing the document or item you require printing. A small Brother window then opens with simplistic options, with all needing doing then pressing "print".I rarely turn my pc on these days, but forget the faff of having to do that with this printer..Simply download the Brother printing app to your phone, and you can simply print documents that you receive via email even in another room in the house. Given that a smartphone is in fact these days what a PC is anyway, you can do everything from your phone anyway.Given the ridiculous low price, lack of problems setting up, reliability I have found already, robustness, simplicity, cheap and reliable toner (ink) and consumables on offer with this laser printer, I'm giving it five stars.I will come back to my review if there are any issues or downsides in the meantime, so you can view the date my review was published and feel confident that my printer is still going strong.I'm hoping it goes on for years, and actually suspect it will.Extremely pleased :)

Is only just arrived and tbh I didn't bother with the software. This printer is very easy to set up on windows 10.Simply install the toner cartridge, such the printer on and then hold the lower green button until it flashes. Then on your router press the WPS button and wait. After a minute or so the printer will print a sheet confirming WiFi is successful.Now on your computer, while on the same network, go into printers and add wireless printer. This will show up, select it and your done. It took me no more that 10 minutes once out of the box.Print quality is as you'd expect from a laser printer, it's fast enough for light work and toner is cheap.. also, unlike some other brands you're not tied to own brand toner, the can be had for a little as £8 each

It has a big flaw, but I'm managing to get around it, the power cable is fixed, that's terrible, the software is horrible, but ok, the important thing is to print. Highly recommended, absolutely perfect, worth every penny of my investment, I recommend it and would definitely buy it again. Very easy to use, very good quality, very durable, extremely functional. Thank you.

Although this printer was easy to set up, I could not get it to print. I had error messages saying that the print cover was open, and then that there was no toner cartridge, both of which were not true. Finally I contacted the support team at Brother who eventually determined that there is a mechanical error. I get that such things can happen and so it pains me somewhat to give a 1-star review but the whole experience has put me off replacing my printer with another Brother one. Full marks though to the support team.

As a light printer user, I was fed up of replacing the costly ink jets cartridges which dried up after very little use so after research bought this monochrome laser printer. So far it's excellent. Within 15 minutes of delivery I had set it up on my Samsung phone and tablet and was printing away. Had no issues at all, used the WPS on BT hub and it connected within a couple of minutes. Downloaded the app from Brother and it just sync'd the phone and tablet to the printer. The instructions included with the printer were very straightforward. I also connected it to an Iphone for another member of the family. So easy to set up, I wished I had bought this sooner.

No joy with the WiFi connection but luckily I am stubborn and don't give up.First of all, worked fine using USB - on windows 11 - hassle free.But the WPS approach didn't work, on inspection of my router, I found it was not enabled for the 2.4Ghz band.This didn't help.Then tried to use the app and connect to the device WiFi "SETUP".This didn't work.Finally, found a firmware update, applied it via USB.Restarted, then finally the WPS connection worked and can now use from any device on the network.Patience is a virtue I guess.

Setup requires a usb-b cable for wifi setup (unless you have wps enabled for your wifi network) and it isn't supplied, although for some inscrutable reason they still put a driver cd in the box. The first use offgasses quite a lot, but print quality is good for a basic document printer.

Good price, easy to set up, clear printing, ok with a4 and a5 paper