Brother MFC-L2750DW XL Review

Our Verdict

The Blood brother MFC-L2750DW is a quick small-scale-role all-in-one that delivers a low cost per page, plenty of features and lots of speed.

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Very fast printing and copying
Very fast blackness-and-white scanning to PDF
Fast document feeder
Low cost per page

Confronting

Boilerplate color-scanning speed

Tom's Guide Verdict

The Brother MFC-L2750DW is a quick small-office all-in-one that delivers a low cost per page, plenty of features and lots of speed.

Pros

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Very fast printing and copying
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Very fast black-and-white scanning to PDF
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Fast document feeder
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Low cost per page

Cons

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Average color-scanning speed

The Blood brother MFC-L2750DW offers a lot for the money. We tested the XL model, which costs $400. Although this price is at the high end for the home/small-office monochrome light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation printers nosotros have tested, the Twoscore model includes two toner cartridges that are rated to print a total of seven,500 pages.

The MFC-L2750DW XL offers a full set of features, including a fast automated certificate feeder, duplex printing and copying, color scanning, faxing, and integration with cloud apps such equally OneNote.

Built to print a maximum of 15,000 pages a month (also called its "duty cycle"), the MFC-L2750DW XL is built for heavier use than our Editors' Choice, the Canon ImageClass MF217w, which is rated for upwards to 8,000 pages per month. Altogether, our Brother MFC-L2750DW Twoscore review makes it like shooting fish in a barrel to meet that it'due south i of the all-time all-in-one printers we've tested, and it's likewise the all-time laser printer.

Brother MFC-L2750DW XL review: Pattern

The ii.7-inch, color touch screen is non elegant, simply information technology's effective. Yous tin't swipe like you can on a smartphone screen, but tapping the virtual upwardly/down on-screen menu buttons will get you where you want to become fairly rapidly.

You lift up the 50-sheet ADF on top of the printer to reveal the scanner plate. The hat is held in place at most 45 degrees, so you don't have to support it while loading a certificate to scan. At that place is a foldout catch where pages land beneath the ADF, to continue them from sliding off the unit.

With a monthly duty wheel of fifteen,000 pages, the MFC-L2750DW XL is built for heavy apply.

The output tray beneath the scanner glass is a recessed cavity in the body, with a hinged catch at the front. To brand faxing easy, there's a ten-key pad for entering fax numbers.

The paper drawer on the lesser of the unit tin can concur up to 250 sheets of newspaper. There's a 2nd input slot in a higher place that drawer, backside a fold-down cover, for specialty media; it can handle up to 10 envelopes, for example. The first time you open the paper drawer, a message appears on the screen asking if you are changing the paper size. If y'all reply, "No," the printer asks if y'all'd similar it to enquire that question again. Entering "No" turns off this notification; that's skillful, because the message can get tiresome if you never plan to change the paper size.

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The torso measures xvi.1 x 15.7 x 12.5 inches and weighs 26.v pounds. It has a similar footprint to a typical multifunction printer for home use, simply it's roughly twice as tall. Brand sure you have the vertical clearance to lift the scanner hat.

Brother MFC-L2750DW XL review: Print speed

The MFC-L2750DW is quick to print, with the fastest speed to engagement among pocket-size office all-in-one laser printers we've tested. It printed our five-page text document in 16.two seconds, for a rate of 18.5 ppm. This is significantly faster than the category average of fourteen.4 ppm. Our Editors' Choice, the Catechism ImageClass MF217w, was near as fast, printing the document in 18.ix seconds

The laser all-in-one also turned in the fastest speed to appointment in the pocket-size office category on our mixed text and graphics document. The Brother printer achieved almost double the average speed. Spitting out vi pages in 20.iii seconds, or 17.8 ppm, the Brother far exceeded the average of 36.7 seconds, or 9.8 ppm. In comparing, the Canon ImageClass MF217w printed the document at 12.two ppm.

The MFC-L2750DW is quick to print, with the fastest speed to engagement.

The MFC-L2750DW was slower than the average at printing a gray-scale letter-size photo on plain paper. The printer did and so in 17.two seconds, versus the average of 16.4 seconds. The Catechism MF217w was much faster, turning in the fastest time to appointment, at eleven.1 seconds.

The MFC-L2750DW delivers fast duplex printing. Information technology printed two-sided text documents at 13.2 ppm and two-sided mixed graphics and text documents at 11 ppm.

Blood brother MFC-L2750DW Xl review: Copy and scan speed

The MFC-L2750DW besides bested the Catechism model at making copies, completing that task nearly 2 seconds faster than the average of ten.iii seconds. This printer copied a text page in 8.four seconds, squeaking by the Canon's time of viii.7 seconds. When using the automatic document feeder, the Brother copied our five-page text certificate in nineteen.3 seconds, or 15.5 ppm; the Catechism did so in 22.3 seconds, or thirteen.4 ppm.

The MFC-L2750DW keeps a proficient pace while making two-sided copies, in part due to its fast ADF and considering both sides of two-sided sheets are scanned in one laissez passer. (The Canon MF217w does not accept a duplexer and so does non print ii-sided documents, nor does information technology automatically brand ii-sided copies of documents loaded in its certificate feeder.) The Brother copied a ten-page text document (five sheets) in 57.1 seconds, or 10.five ppm.

The Brother all-in-1 also scanned chop-chop in black and white, making a 300-dpi PDF in eight.4 seconds. This was much faster than the average of 10.four seconds. The Canon MF217w was even quicker, making the fastest scan in this category, at 6.seven seconds.

The MFC-L2750DW keeps a skillful footstep while making ii-sided copies, in office due to its fast ADF and considering both sides of two-sided sheets are scanned in one pass.

The simply task the MFC-L2750DW performed more than slowly than the average was color scanning to JPEG format. Information technology made a 600 dpi scan of an 8-by-10-inch photograph in 38.4 seconds, versus the average of 36.nine seconds. By comparing, the Canon MF217w was much faster, at 28 seconds.

Brother MFC-L2750DW 40 review: Impress quality

The MFC-L2750DW printed text documents with letterforms that looked dark and crisp around the edges. Graphics also looked attractive, although they printed a fiddling dark overall. They lost some details in shadow areas every bit a result, simply midtones retained subtle transitions. This was most apparent in reproductions of faces in photographs: These looked bonny because the transitions gave them a 3D advent. By contrast, the Canon MF217w printed the same documents lighter overall, with more shadow detail, but faces looked flat because midtone transitions were washed out.

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Scans of documents looked sharp, with crisp reproductions of text forms in PDF format. When scanning to JPEG format at 600 dpi, photographs looked attractive, with accurate colors and fine details reproduced, even in shadow areas.

Brother MFC-L2750DW XL review: Toner cost and yield

The Brother MFC-L2750DW offers ameliorate-than-boilerplate printing costs. Compared to the average of four.1 cents per page for the laser multifunction printers we've tested, this Brother prints for iii.75 cents per page with the standard toner cartridge rated to final 1,200 pages. But you lot can reduce that cost to two.7 cents per page with the $80 loftier-chapters cartridge, rated at 3,000 pages, or the $120 super-high-capacity cartridge, rated at 4,500.

The toner pulsate is rated to last an estimated 12,000 pages and costs $105, adding roughly 0.9 cents to the per-page cost.

Brother MFC-L2750DW 40 review: Setup and software

Setting up the MFC-L2750DW was easy when I followed the quick-setup guide. After removing the packaging tape, I installed the drum/toner assembly, which slides in hands to the forepart of the unit of measurement.

The software-installation DVD-ROM guided me through the process. Alternatively, you can apply the quick-setup guide, which includes a URL for downloading the software. In improver to drivers, the all-in-one comes with press and scanning software, called iPrint&Scan. At the end of the installation, you tin can too install PaperPort, a scanning and document-management application.

For employ with wireless devices, the MFC-L2750DW supports AirPrint, Wi-Fi Straight and Google Cloud Impress."

Putting this Blood brother printer on my wireless network was easy using the WPS method. I simply followed the on-screen menu prompts on the printer'south impact screen, then pressed the WPS button on my wireless router. For use with wireless devices, the MFC-L2750DW supports AirPrint, Wi-Fi Direct and Google Cloud Impress. Android users are instructed to download the Mopria Print Service app and and then install Blood brother'due south own Android app, iPrint&Scan.

Blood brother MFC-L2750DW Xl review: Verdict

The Brother MFC-L2750DW XL multifunction printer delivers plenty of speed and offers handy features like a fast ADF, fast duplex press and copying, fax capability, and a second newspaper tray. (Our previous Editors' Choice, the Catechism ImageClass MF217w, lacked a duplexer altogether.) The MFC-L2750DW XL turned in the fastest speeds to appointment for text and and mixed text/graphics files, and it made two-sided prints faster than some models brand ane-sided prints. Information technology besides delivers high image quality across the board. Although the initial price is high for this category, consider that the price includes two toner cartridges rated to impress a full of 7,500 pages. Using its loftier-capacity toner cartridge, the MFC-L2750DW XL offers a cost per page of only ii.7 cents, the lowest we've seen in this category. That's a tough deal to trounce.

Credit: Brother

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