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Brother Monochrome Laser Printer, Compact Multifunction Printer and Copier, DCPL2550DW, Wireless Printing, Duplex Printing, Mobile Printing, 50-Sheet Document Feeder, Amazon Dash Replenishment Enabled

Style:New Model: DCPL2550DW The Brother DCP-L2550DW is the ideal choice for the busy home or small office looking for a fast, reliable multi-function copier. A replacement for the dependable DCP-L2540DW, this new and improved multiple-use copier in...

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Price

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Product

(78 reviews)
Value

(41 reviews)
Quality

(133 reviews)
Work

(51 reviews)
Feature

(49 reviews)
Laser

(50 reviews)
Scanner

(91 reviews)
Setup

(76 reviews)
Scan

(47 reviews)
Machine

(67 reviews)
Print

(208 reviews)
Label

(19 reviews)
Sleep problem

(15 reviews)
Bite

(29 reviews)
Cartridge

(31 reviews)
Review

(28 reviews)
Experience

(23 reviews)
Ink

(29 reviews)
Paper jam

(38 reviews)
Wifi connection

(9 reviews)
Ip

(12 reviews)
Sleep issue

(12 reviews)
Google cloud

(22 reviews)
Noise

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Reviews around price (4.81 of 5)

  • my net gear router no problem, easy to print from many devices, and a good price for a laser printer
  • This printer was a great price and is a nice size for my desk space.
  • works great cheap price fast delivery
  • A great price for a reliable printer, scanner, and copier
  • For the price its hard to find a printer what will print remotely and from mobile devices
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Reviews around product (4.72 of 5)

  • This product isn't working for me.
  • This product is friggin amazing
  • Other than that, I really recommend this product for quality and reasonable price.
  • This is absolutely a great product that will save you money and hassles.
  • This product gets into the deep sleep mode and once it's in the deep sleep mode you are completely SCREWED.
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Reviews around value (4.55 of 5)

  • Overall, I like this Brother laser printer and I think it is a good value for a home printer copier
  • Oh well, still a great value at what I paid for for it.
  • Hit or miss as to whether my paper will print when I need it to and the wifi is the big reason we bought this one.
  • If it measures up to my Brother HL-5370DWT laser printer, it'll be a great value
  • The toner coverage was inconsistant (prints had subtle stripes), but the printer was a good value, so we kept it.
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Reviews around quality (4.50 of 5)

  • Great quality printing, cheap for it's class of printers, easy to set up
  • It's fast, easy to set up, and the quality of prints is pretty good
  • Easy set up, good tone life and great scanning quality.
  • Cons:- Quality of printing is adequate for word documents, not great at labels, etc.- For PCs you have to install their software, it doesn't seem to take much resources
  • Terrible experience, kept having poor quality copies and printing.
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Reviews around work (4.41 of 5)

  • Unfortunately the scanner started jamming and it no longer works at all.
  • I like that the scanner is quiet, and so far the automatic document feeder works great, which is a real blessing
  • a few issues others have noted:1 - Wi-Fi - no issue getting this working, just used the menu to setup the network and password.2 - paper output is fiddly
  • The top angled feeding tray works great for scanning documents, even color documents
  • The scanning works well w a glass screen scanner and a feeder scanner.
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Reviews around feature (4.30 of 5)

  • It works great, however the scanning feature is easily confused if you have more than one PC on the network you need to access.
  • If you're willing to spend a lot of time fiddling with settings to get a stupid two feature machine to perform said two features, go ahead and get this, you might love it
  • The duplex feature is great and saves paper printing on both sides
  • The online chat support does not support a "hold" feature, so if you request a chat and noone is available it just boots you out, you can't even email your message because its flat gone, they don't put you in a queue, they just say, sorry, can't help.
  • The duplex features are great and the scanner works better than my inkjet photo printer did.
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Reviews around laser (4.30 of 5)

  • You have to download and run a client application on your machine to scan items, which is annoying as I expected a streamlined scan-to-e-mail function
  • I am very happy with brother printers, and I would recommend this one to anyone needing a good black-and-white laser printer with a scanner and copier.
  • For an inexpensive laser printer and scanner, this just cannot be beat
  • Decided to see how unaffordable lasers were and instead found the opposite
  • Have had bubblejet and inkjets all my life thinking laser were too expensive
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Reviews around scanner (4.26 of 5)

  • Great Printer and scanner, little hard to set up especially with that little screen and two buttons to write the password for WIFI
  • A great price for a reliable printer, scanner, and copier
  • The scanner doesn't work and unfortunately by the time i realized
  • Hit or miss as to whether my paper will print when I need it to and the wifi is the big reason we bought this one.
  • However, after getting a commercial grade Ricoh color copier at work, it has many of the same scanning headaches as this <$200 device, so maybe these included scanners are just lousy in general.
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Reviews around setup (4.26 of 5)

  • If you get it at a good price I can highly recommend it, but expect to spend some of your precious time and frustration limit fighting with wifi disconnects and trying solutions like typing a static ip setup with the horrible little key entry interface.
  • Now, mind you, I'm technologically savvy, so the wireless setup was not intimidating, as I've read from other reviewers
  • Although I have had it for only a little while, the setup and configuration was extremely easy.
  • Setup was very easy to get it working wirelessly on my Mac and AirPrint for my iPad.
  • I ended up wiring the printer to the computer, since the wireless setup was a hassle
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Reviews around scan (3.93 of 5)

  • The wireless scan doesn't always work which bothers me a bit
  • This implies that the scanning will be automatic duplex as well.
  • This implies that the scanning will be automatic duplex as well
  • This Brother printer can print, copy as well as scan although the scan feature did not install from the cd disk provided
  • You have to download and run a client application on your machine to scan items, which is annoying as I expected a streamlined scan-to-e-mail function
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Reviews around machine (3.70 of 5)

  • You have to buy a more expensive Brother multifunction machine to get full scan to email capability
  • I did not need or want color and hate the machine that will not run when the color is empty
  • but i didnt mind because its such an inexpensive machine
  • Wonderful machine, just as reliable as others we have purchased
  • The wireless works well, printing is good, easy to use - a nice machine.
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Reviews around print (3.57 of 5)

  • It might be easy to blame Google Cloud Print, but HP has seemingly solved the problem of faster printing speeds with Google Cloud Print with some of their printers
  • issue!-Awkward envelope printing: To print envelopes, you have to open the back of the printer where the envelope will feed through to a back slot when finished
  • The wireless works well, printing is good, easy to use - a nice machine.
  • Excellent printer, simple, fast, great print quality and reliable.
  • Printing speed is terrible printing from Google devices using Google Cloud Print
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Reviews around label (3.11 of 5)

  • There are no guides and sometimes the labels come out crooked.
  • It prints any kind of label/sticker sheet skewed one direction or the other by several degrees, resulting in crooked text that is not aligned to the edge of the paper properly, and of course making the labels look horrible
  • If you want a good B&W laser print, this is a good choice.
  • You should probably steer clear of this model, or else you will be chucking a lot of label sheets, or ending up using a lot of substandard looking labels if you can't bear the idea of tossing them
  • Some folks might not notice or care that their labels are all crooked, but having a minor OCD streak it drives me mad
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Reviews around sleep problem (2.99 of 5)

  • Windows 10 computers)I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a simple, affordable B/W MFP.
  • The DCP-L2540DW is a great, inexpensive B&W laserjet, scanner, copier.
  • If you want a good B&W laser print, this is a good choice.
  • i am a wireless connection amateur & this setup connected wirelessly on the first try - no "deep sleep" problems, easy to setup and use
  • I am not an IT person and after trouble shooting the Deep sleep problem online I have decided to return this.
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Reviews around bite (2.54 of 5)

  • Printing envelopes seems a bit more complicated than I think it should be, but it works okay.
  • I do a good bit of printing at home (around 100 pages a week
  • A bit noisy but for $99 does everything but print in color and fax.
  • The printer sleeps, wakes up when requested to do something, does its thing spitting out good clean b&w print, and then goes back to sleep
  • It was a bit troublesome to set up but it was worth it.
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Reviews around cartridge (2.28 of 5)

  • New genuine Brother toner cartridge should get 2600 copies, only had 600 before replace toner error came up
  • I had an ink jet color printer, and I was sick of replacing all those stupid cartridges
  • I recommend Brother products as they are reliable and economical to use
  • Because it is a laser printer, I no longer have to worry about expensive ink cartridges drying up between uses!
  • I am about to give up on finding a reliable ink-cartridge-free printer for use at home.
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Reviews around review (2.15 of 5)

  • This has a lot of in depth reviews already so I will just way that it works great, has cheap 3rd party toner options with good reviews, but has unreliable wifi.
  • I've had the printer for about four months at this point, so I figured that was long enough to write a fairly honest review (though I'll certainly update in the future as I have more experience with the printer).I'll start by saying that I love this printer so far.
  • Obviously the reviewers at the time never really used their Brother laser printer because the number of negative reviews has skyrocketed.
  • n’t do them justice when negative reviews are for their previous model
  • I just have to say, after buying this computer based on so many positive reviews, I am really disappointed by how complicated and difficult the setup process is with our Macs
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Reviews around experience (2.15 of 5)

  • I have never had any good experience with Brother printers and I own two of them... come to think of it, if I buy another Brother printer in my life time, I should shoot my self in the foot
  • I bought this because of the positive experiences I've had with Brother printers, and the fact they will offer you technical support for the life of the product
  • In 2018, this should be so easy to setup and use - just a terrible experience.
  • We already had a very good experience with Brother QL-500 label printer which has served us well for years
  • but I think that initial experience would be hard to forget as well.
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Reviews around ink (1.99 of 5)

  • 4 months use & will never go back to EXPENSIVE ink jet.
  • I went from buying genuine ink cartridges to refilling ink cartridges to buying generic ink cartridges to a continuous ink supply system
  • Way better than using a ink jet printer that spews expensive ink into the case every time you turn it on
  • The ink lasts pretty long, and the generic cartridges are very affordable on amazon.
  • It's fast, the ink lasts forever, and I don't think it has ever jammed
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Reviews around paper jam (1.70 of 5)

  • Was able to print from computer with Win 10 as well as from a cell phone, Galaxy
  • In order to print you have to open up the printer and pretend you are clearing a paper jam
  • I have constant "paper jam" errors even though there is NO paper jam
  • So now the printer is ready when I need it working as it was intended.
  • Have not had any issues, no paper jams or pesky printer errors.
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Reviews around wifi connection (1.57 of 5)

  • WiFi connection is horrible -- I've literally set up my router 2 inches from the 50 lb printer and it still won't register the connection
  • It prints great B&W and 2 sided as well.
  • the wifi connection is very slick and reliable - bye bye cables!!!
  • WiFi connection is buggy and unreliable, as others have said
  • This printer has a known issue maintaining a wifi connection with OS X. Even though we've only had it six weeks, Brother wouldn't resolve the problem or replace with another model.
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Reviews around ip (1.44 of 5)

  • I even gave it a static IP (using 'LAN setup' on my netgear router) and it easily prints over the wireless
  • Will not stay connected, thru either WiFi or Ethernet, under Yosemite; even with a static IP address.
  • Even with setting a static IP address, and installing the drivers & software the second printer, it was up and running in about 1/2 of an hour.
  • The set up is complicated and not stable because of the dynamic IP issue
  • Set your router to a static ip address for the printer4
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Reviews around sleep issue (1.22 of 5)

  • I haven't had any of the "deep sleep" issues other mac users have mentioned.
  • A number of people are having trouble with the DEEP SLEEP issue or with the printer going offline after awhile
  • The printer is very clear, doesn't seem to have the sleep issue many are complaining about, and more quiet than I had anticipated.
  • I have read that people had a deep sleep issue but this one works great
  • If you have the DEEP SLEEP issue, try this - it worked for me
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Reviews around google cloud (1.12 of 5)

  • On another note, I couldn't get it to connect to Google cloud print.
  • And with google cloud print I can do this from my PC or phone
  • Its ability to connect with Google Cloud Print is very limited
  • I can use Google Cloud printing to print to it from anywhere in the world
  • Finally, last night, I hooked it up with Google Cloud Print.
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Reviews around noise (1.00 of 5)

  • It printed each page one by one and the noise was annoying...starting up and shutting down after each page
  • As the unit is two feet away from me, I really do not need an annoying noise to let me know it isn't scanning
  • Sometimes it doesnt get the paper and it makes a super loud embarrassing continuous noise until you press cancel on the pc
  • not scanning every time as it should.... just making squeaking noise and not feeding a document, so annoying
  • The problem I encountered with the first printer was that it made squealing noises, constantly clicked off and back on, which resulted in surges that dimmed my lights and made my battery backup unit beep
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More about Brother Monochrome Laser Printer, Compact Multifunction Printer and Copier, DCPL2550DW, Wireless Printing, Duplex Printing, Mobile Printing, 50-Sheet Document Feeder, Amazon Dash Replenishment Enabled

  • Style:New Model: DCPL2550DW The Brother DCP-L2550DW is the ideal choice for the busy home or small office looking for a fast, reliable multi-function copier
  • A replacement for the dependable DCP-L2540DW, this new and improved multiple-use copier includes a 50-sheet automatic document feeder, which allows multi-page copying and scanning, and class-leading print speeds of up to 36 pages per minute for increased efficiency
  • This printer and copier has a reliable Wi-Fi connection, which allows printing from wireless devices including desktops, smartphones, laptops, and tablets
  • For those who prefer hardwire connections, there’s an Ethernet interface for sharing with multiple users on your network
  • You can also connect locally to a single computer via USB interface
  • Speed and efficiency are trademarks of the new Brother DCP-L2550DW multi-purpose digital copier
  • The 250-sheet paper tray handles letter- and legal-sized paper, reducing the need for refills
  • Automatic duplex (2-sided) printing also saves paper and creates professional-looking documents for presentations, newsletters, and other common office needs
  • Help to save money by using Brother Genuine high-yield replacement cartridges (TN-760), which are available through Amazon (also compatible with TN-730 replacement toner cartridge)
  • The Brother Digital Multi-Purpose Copier comes with a one-year limited warranty and free at-your-side support, online or via phone or live chat, for the life of your printer
  • At Brother, we want to ensure that your experience with us is exceptional
  • If your home or small office is looking for an efficient and user-friendly digital copier, add the Brother DCP-L2550DW to your Amazon shopping cart today
  • (1) Based on competing in-class monochrome laser multifunction printers under 300-dollars
  • Print speed specifications gathered from manufacturer websites as of 1/9/2017.(2) Requires connection to a wireless network.(3) TN-760 High Yield vs
  • TN-730 Standard Yield
  • Up to two times more prints and lower printing costs based on yields and MSRP
  • Standard Yield and High-yield cartridges sold separately.(4) Approx
  • toner cartridge yield in accordance with ISO/IEC 19752 (letter/A4).(5) Reprinted from PCMag with permission
  • Copyright 2017 Ziff Davis, LLC
  • All Rights Reserved.(6) Approx
  • 300 pages per month in accordance with ISO/IEC 19752 (Letter/A4) using the 2 toners provided in box.(7) The mobile device must have NFC capability and run Android OS 4.4 or later.