Now at an equal all time low according to the Camels. See previous post for details. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/748985
Don't forget to price beat at your local Officeworks if they have stock.
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It has wifi, but can you find one?
After using a cheap Fuji Xerox colour laser printer for many years it finally broke down. I thought 'I'll try inkjet again, maybe they're better now'. Nope, mistake.
While my Brother 1200 prints well, the cartridges cost $40. Each. That's basically the purchase price of the printer to buy new cartridges. The most annoying thing about it is the printer automatically cleans its print heads every two weeks, regardless of how much printing I do. That's literally setting money on fire.
Nope, I'm back to colour laser, and this deal looks like a bargain.
I don't think it literally incinerates the ink. Did you mean that is literally money down the drain?
I don't think it has pipes. Did you mean that it is literally a white elephant?
Get an Epson ecotank if print costs are an issue. I'm sure that HP and Canon make similar products. Mine was 230 a couple weeks back as a refurb.
Higher upfront costs, close to zero print costs.
The big advantage of lasers imo is that the inks don't run of the paper gets wet.
That's literally setting money on fire.
Riiiiiight
Easily was able to price beat at OW. Thanks OP
Just a note, it doesn't have 5GHz WiFi support, only 2.4GHz. For me personally, it's a deal breaker. I'm not turning on 2.4GHz just for one device. But so many printers don't have 5GHz WiFi and it's baffling.
God forbid the manufacturers spend 10c more for a proper WiFi adapter.
Maybe use the 2.4Ghz band for all your IoT devices, and leave 5Ghz bandwidth for devices like your phones and laptops that need the high speed and reliability?
2.4g goes further distance and supported by all devices (more compatible) 5ghz is faster but does not have the distance… Just enable 2.5g it won't cause any issues.. I have all my IoT devices on 2.4ghz and computers, phones and tablets on 5ghz for best bandwidth and also leave you more capacity for your devices you use that way… Good luck
This is the craziest wifi complaint I've heard for a long time.
Why on earth would a printer use 5GHz? They are crazy low bandwidth devices where range is more important than throughput.
If you're going to turn of 2.4GHz and refuse to use most smart home devices out of some misplaced point of principle, then fair enough. But don't blame manufacturers for being cheap- it's a deliberate and sensible design decision. If you want to be a purist, then hardwire it.
Next year are you going to be complaining that printers don't support the 6GHz spectrum?
There’s very few accessories/appliances that support 5GHz, I gave up on that hill years ago. You’re gonna have to maintain a 2.4GHz band if you want a connected household.
I've got 15 devices connected to my home network and all support 5GHz, including a HP LaserJet printer. I don't have one item that is 2.4GHz only.
For my uses, there's no need for me to have 2.4GHz turned on and opening up to possible roaming delays/issues.
Thanks OP, got price beat at OW - $236.55
Me too
Officeworks Price Match Taren Point still had at least one more $236.55
I had an older model of this, always used Inkstation generic toner, after many years the fuser drum ended up with about 20 layers of paper welded on, cleaned it up and it prints test pages and connects to wifi but won’t print so jumped on this, thanks OP but wondering what happened to my alert!
Have one at home and rarely use it. Always wondering if the cartridge will expire or it’s ever lasting?
Classifieds?
$50
Thanks OP, ordered 1 been looking to buy for sometime.
Very average colour print outs but decent for just documents.
color printing looks just ok to me, the resolution is low, color is light. it takes about 4 minutes to receive a 2.4MB picture from my mobile phone by wifi.
Reviews say colors are not good in photos is that the same with all laser printers.
Yes. Photos : get inkjet, or just print it at a photo place or OW
How do you guys manage Scan, I am thinking about replace my epson all in one but found the Scan function is quite useful probably equivalent to Print
This doesn't scan, I don't think. I have separate scanner. Fujitsu scansnap. It's amazing.
OW pricematched $236.55 North Ryde; 2 units left.
It doesn't come with a scanner, HL-L2395DW $160 sold in OW could be better
For scanning - yes. Printing in colour - no.
We got this printer a couple of months ago and it's been flawlessly excellent. Connects seamlessly with Android phones and Windows PCs. Printed hundreds of pages so far without any issues.
Just picked one up with price match at Officeworks for $$236.55. Is it recommend to install the Brother software and utilities for Windows 11 and just avoid firmware update?
I've ordered $49 replacement toners from Amazon prime which is coming tonight. Thanks a lot OP, i've been waiting for a while! Will keep my trust Epson Artisan 730 as a scanner.
Do you mind sharing replacement toners link?
Can you keep posted how the cheap cartridges go. I picked one up this morning at OW for 236.55 but i don't want to use genuine cartridges.
Hi Paul, cartridges were supposed to arrive 22/04 and as now marked as lost by Amazon, I just got a credit from Amazon. First thing I've had that has never arrived from Amazon. I don't recommend the vendor based on this. I'll try ink station as per previous comments.
I ordered the replacement toners you mentioned from Amazon. They arrived promptly but haven't tested them yet. So can't comment on quality only delivery.
I've installed iPrint Brother on my android and it's asking for a firmware update. I'll avoid but assume it will ask everytime? One of kids will end up pressing yes. Will this cause an issue with 3rd party toners?
no more asking for updated firmware after updated from brother PC software utilities.
All good with 3rd party toners?
should be ok
I think Brother Amazon store is sold out. Lowest price is now $329 so I can't do OW price match :(
Same!
Picked one up from OW. Been wanting to replace my trusty old Brother Hl-1110 with a colour laser for a while now, and this was too good to pass up. Should probably research replacement toners before I open the box though.
Approx prices for official Brother toners:
for approx 1300 page yield:
TN-253 coloured toners - $120
for approx 2500 page yield:
TN-253BK (Black) - $155
for approx 2600 page yield:
TN-257 coloured toners - $175
And you can probably get generic toner, but in my experience they tend to leak dried flakes on your pages. Best to suck it up and use genuine toner, or find a higher quality generic one.
What kind of printer should I go for if I’m doing high volume colour printing? My wife is a primary teacher and she often prints hundreds of pages of colour learning materials. Higher quality colour printing would be important for her I’d say
Look for the specified duty cycle of the printer, should tell you how many it can handle per month. Though if it's just "hundreds" of pages per month then any printer's duty cycle will be higher than that. I've seen one printer with a minimum duty cycle, they recommend you print at least a certain amount of pages per month to keep it healthy.
I'm holding out for the Xerox machine.
I have a Fuji Xerox and have had problems with generic toners so moving away from it.
Bought it. One of those things been thinking about for a while, and suspect a printer is the kind of thing you find uses for, especially with kids.
Back in stock. Thanks OP. Ordered one
left the sold out tab open from earlier and just refreshed it in annoyance and back in stock. impulse buy!
Orders one, back in stock.
Still showing as in stock
For those who missed out, it's the same price for the next few days at umart. Delivery may be extra. I price beat at Officeworks.
https://www.umart.com.au/product/brother-hl-l3230cdw-color-l…
Just got one and have unpackaged. It's running v1.37 firmware which from my reading is good as v1.55 and earlier seem to take generic toner cartridges. To make sure I don't stuff up, I want to disable firmware upgrades, but can't see the option to turn it off? Does anyone know where the setting is?
I couldn't find on the printer or in software settings on my desktop. I just disabled it via iPrint Brother software on my phone. It was aggressive to push it with iPrint Brother software.
What I did was, enable the printers proxy server
http://PRINTERIP/net/net/proxy.html
Set the proxy server to 127.0.0.1
You need to login to the admin interface. Open your printer driver and somewhere it should say "open printer web page", which will show you user settings. You need to login to the admin account, which is accessed using the password written on a label on the back of the printer.
In the admin pages, click on "Administration" tab (top of window near model name), then on the side menu select "Firmware Update". On that page just set Firmware Update to "disabled". You can also see your MAIN and SUB5 firmware versions. Apparently it's the SUB5 firmware that locks out cartridges.
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Anyone else not had this shipped yet??
Just cancel your order and go to your local officeworks and price match it.
It does support wifi