Brother Compact Monochrome Laser Printer, HL-L2315DW, Wireless Printing, Duplex Two-Sided Printing

When I got this printer, I was thrilled at the thought of owning a brother Compact Laser Printer to use at home. My deceased Husband had used laser printers for his business and at one time owned 20 or more printers. So I am slightly familiar with laser printers, but to be honest, I have never set one up by myself. My husband was the person in charge of tech, so I was a little concerned that I could handle this myself. So I unpacked everything, but the first problem arose because my laptop doesn't have a CD-Rom player. Thankfully, my daughter installed the program on her laptop. Also, be aware that it doesn't come with a USB cord, but we found that we didn't need it at all. Now, if you happen to have this same problem of not being able to play the CD-ROM, you can download the full driver and software package from the Brother Solutions Center. You won't need the CD-ROM if you do this and there is a driver for Windows and a driver for Mac. I was concerned about maybe needing to know things like the local IP address or remembering a password that I had written down somewhere. But it configured the printer port just fine after telling it to change things as needed . This was the recommended option anyway. After that, the WLAN report printed a test paper that said "connection : ok" along with some other stuff. My daughter then installed the driver and it was really super easy! There are easy to understand prompts along the way and if you do have a problem, you can always get help from the Brother website. You can also go there to register your printer. If you follow the 'Quick Setup Guide', you shouldn't have any problems getting the printer up and running pretty fast. It took maybe 20 minutes before we were able to print the first test paper. After we got the printer working on my daughter's laptop, I decided to see how difficult it would be to add my laptop on the wireless network so that I could print something without bothering her. So I opened the 'windows settings' and clicked on 'Devices'. Over on the left, I clicked on 'Printers & Scanners' and the 'Add a printer or scanner' was at the top of the page. I click on that and the computer automatically found the printer on the network. It added it to the list of printers and was ready to go just like that! The first thing I printed was a recipe with no problem. I wanted to see how well this printer handled graphics, so I found a picture on my laptop of a dragon (it just happened to be in black and white) that was pretty detailed. I was amazed at how fast this little printer whipped through the job and printed the graphics in perfect black and white detail! Beautiful!! I just tried out the 'print on both sides of the paper' option. I have worried about this for a couple of days now because I used to have to either put the paper back into the paper drawer after the first side printed or use the manual print option. Either way I usually messed up the first few papers because I could never remember which way the paper went into the printer. But this little printer takes care of that for me! I watched it print the first side of the paper and before I could blink, the paper was being drawn back into the printer and POW! the second side was printed! Woohoo!!! lol So my next thought was what would happen if I needed more than one copy of something that had printing on both sides. I found the email from Brother thanking me for registering my printer. The email had 2 pages to it, so I set up the print option for 2 copies and for it to print the 2 pages onto 1 paper. Clicked print and ran over to eagerly watch my little printer do its job. Again, it worked quickly with no problems what so ever! The first paper popped out with the first page printed, then it went back into the printer to print the opposite side and finally popped out of the printer to rest on top. Then this beautiful Brother printer quickly went to work on the second page. First side printed, popped out, went back in, second side printed and BAM! ALL DONE! This Brother printer can also collate the papers for you. At first I didn't think it could, but that was user error. Meaning that I didn't actually TELL the printer to collate. Somehow I missed that in the advanced settings after telling the printer how many copies and so forth. So I found a recipe with 4 pages to it and told the printer that I wanted 3 copies, using both sides of the paper and I also wanted to collate the pages. The collation of these papers worked great! I can see how this machine would make quick work of either a home or small business project. This would also be a wonderful printer to buy for a teenager, as long as they don't need color prints. That's the only "drawback", it can only print in black and white. But for what I need it to do, it's a perfect printer and having the Brother name to back it up is just icing on the cake!! By the way, if you are like me and want to learn more about the printer, you can go to the Brother website to find the manual. There is a pop-up you can use to learn where your model number is located on your printer, if you need it. I found their website to be very user friendly.