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I believe the default means the printer will stop printing.

Continue Mode: This controls what happens when your printer hits Brother's 20% remaining (600 pages in this case) mark.

Seems to print fine with Toner Save on and we know Brother makes its money from toner sales. įrom that GUI note two key settings under Print: I don't know how to do a password reset, so be careful not to lose it. There's no default pw, you can set one if you like. That gave me the IP, paste into Chrome or Safari to get the Admin GUI. From the LCD panel, choose machine info, then print network settings.

So I had to find the printers IP address to get the web GUI. That worked well, but, unlike the 2270 DW, the print queue didn't provide a link to the printers web admin GUI. I like to keep my printer installations simple, so after downloading all the manuals but not the latest drivers I switched to my Admin account and added the printer through Mountain Lion's interface. Our laptops find it because, after all, it's on the network (no print server needed). I didn't try to enable the WiFi, it has an ethernet connection to my Airport Extreme so it's a networked ethernet printer. It's reasonably quiet and of course it prints quite adequately. The drum is good for about 30,000 pages (at which point it will cease working whether you like it or note), so we might get five years out of this one.Ĭompared to the compact 22DW is less than an inch wider, but its at least 4" taller. it comes with a 3,000 page cartridge (no fake starter cartridge) and you can buy a 12,000 page TN780 cartridge for about $106. I ended up buying the HL-6180DW ( today's dynamic Amazon price is $254, I paid $230 a week ago). The competition is no better, and at least Brother printer drivers seem relatively Mac friendly. I'd like to say I bought something that wasn't Brother, but making marks on paper is a dying industry. So I handed that printer off to some friends who really only need occasional printing, and I went looking for a respectable alternative. Seems Brother has brought the ink jet business model to the formerly respectable laser writer. We got about 600 print pages out of a $50 "2,600" page Brother toner cartridge. The Wirecutter-recommended Brother HL 2270DW didn't actually malfunction, it simply turned out to be extraordinarily expensive to operate. I'm not sure, but I think I might be seeing a bit of occult inflation.

When I could no longer buy a cartridge for it I got five years from a Brother MFC-7820N, then three years from a Brother 2140, and lately 3 months from a Brother HL 2270DW. I used an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 for about twenty years.