Automatic duplexing and wireless make the Brother HL-2270DW a more-than-basic laser printer, but its toner costs are high.

The Brother HL-2270DW laser monochrome printer provides a viable alternative to the classic bottomless money pit that has become today's inkjet printer. Modern photo, tricolor, and high-capacity ink cartridges can cost anywhere from $20 to $100 per refill, so multiply that by your volume of prints and try not to balk at the true cost of operation. As an alternative, supplementing a printer setup with an inexpensive black-and-white laser printer can cut costs in home offices that cycle through black ink cartridges with text-only documents. Although it's not without its shortcomings such as poor graphic document output, the Brother HL-2270DW balances out with speedy text printing and simple 802.11 b/g wireless for $149.99.

With improvements to its output speed, the Brother HL-2270DW improves on its legacy model and provides small businesses an efficient output device for high-volume black-and-white prints.

The Brother HL-2270DW lives up to Brother's reputation for reliable; easy-to-use; wireless monochrome laser printers.

The printer struggles to provide visually acceptable graphic documents.

Recently, I just bought the Brother HL-2270DW printer for usage in my university hostel. I must say the experience so far has been wonderful. I will start from the setup. The setup instructions were easy to follow and I got my printer up and ready within 10 minutes from unboxing it.

Cheap; Easy to setup; Fast printing speed

Picture quality will be compromised

Printed 45 copies of a 6 page newsletter and toner ran out. Total of 270 pages. This newsletter has photos on 4 of the 6 pages, so let's say this would be the equivalent of printing say 360 pages, plus 90 normal pages, total of 450 pages.

I own five of these and just love them. I also like the fact that I can use the same toner in the MFC-7860DW (I own two of these). It does all that I need and I am able to run my business and a busy home.

You will get quality printed documents, but only one user will be able to network to this computer.

This device prints an impressive 27 pages per minute

This printer only has 32MB; enough to support only one user

The Bottom Line The Brother HL-2270 laser printer offers a lot of the conveniences of heavier-duty Brother laser printers such as the Brother HL-5370DW , such as wireless networking and built-in duplexing--and it's about a hundred dollars cheaper.

Very fast; Built-in duplexer; Wired / Wireless networking built in and easy to set up; Small footprint; Inexpensive

Single-sheet manual feed slot; No mobile-printing or memory-card printing

Fast, crisp, smooth-printing text. Breakneck speed for the price (27 text pages per minute) and impeccably clear text make the Brother HL-2270DW the small laser printer to beat. Graphics look mediocre (as usual for a laser printer), but they're perfectly fine for internal business use, and maybe...

Very crisp; clear text; Furiously fast; for its price; Ethernet; Wi-Fi and wireless phone/tablet printing; Cheap to run; Rock-solid reliability

So-so graphics (like most laser printers

At first glance, the Brother HL-2270DW printer looks like an ideal solution for a small business or home office. Available for a very reasonable ￡168, the HL-2270DW is a simple, small mono laser printer that Brother says will offer you wireless capability, duplex printing and an output speed of...

Automatic duplexing and wireless make the Brother HL-2270DW a more-than-basic laser printer, but its toner costs are high.