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Tom's Guide Verdict

The MFC L2700DW's loftier-yield cartridge promises low cost per folio, but the trade-off is tiresome overall performance and lackluster black-and-white copies.

Pros

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Low press costs
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Faster-than-average blackness-and-white photo printing
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Faster-than-boilerplate startup time
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Big-capacity paper tray

Cons

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Slower-than-boilerplate text and graphics printing
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Slow scanning speed
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Subpar re-create quality

A deal-priced multi-function printer, the Blood brother MFC L2700DW ($130) offers the press, scanning and copying features you'd await, along with some nice features like an auto document feeder and generous, 250-folio paper tray. But the compromise for the depression price tag is an MFP that doesn't measure upward to the competition in either speed or quality.

Pattern

The 35-page auto certificate feeder sits at the top of the MFC-L2700DW chassis, and lifts up to reveal the scanning glass. This entire associates hinges up to offer access to the output tray, which is a cavity carved out of the middle of the chassis. A minor flap hinges upward to keep paper from falling out of the front of the output tray.

A control panel features defended buttons for each role as well as navigation buttons for changing settings. Y'all can store upwardly to 10 email addresses in the device for utilise with the scan-to-email function, and you can access your unabridged address volume via the included software. When you scan to a PC, your native email application launches on your computer, with the scan included in a new email.

Y'all tin can shop 8 fax numbers to the 1-touch buttons at the left side of the command console, likewise every bit an additional 200 fax numbers that you access via the number pad. You enter these with the number pad and small-scale screen, which can get wearisome since each key represents three or 4 letters.

The power cord is permanently fastened to the MFC-L2700DW, significant y'all may confront bigger repair jobs than with a removable version. I'd recommend extra circumspection with the MFC-L2700DW power cord, ensuring it isn't pressed up confronting a wall or back of a desk.

Impress Speed

The MFC-L2700DW may non exist the best candidate for an function thoroughbred. It was slower than the 21.ix second average for all-in-one laser printers at printing text and graphics, producing a five-page text document in 26 seconds (or eleven.5 ppm).

For our vi-page graphics document, Blood brother's MFP took l.1 seconds (or 7.2 ppm) to print — nearly x seconds slower than the average of 40.7 seconds (or 8.9 ppm).

Press full-page photos on patently newspaper was more than impressive: The MFC-L2700DW printed our mural shot on letter-size paper in 15.8 seconds, slightly faster than the average of xvi.5 seconds.

All of these tests were performed with a PC continued via USB. Printing wirelessly tin significantly affect performance depending on your network. For example, when operating correctly, the MFC-L2700DW printed a five-folio text document over my Wi-Fi network in i:fifteen, or 4 ppm, compared to 11.5 ppm with a USB connection. To become consistent wireless performance, and prepare dropped Wi-Fi connections, I had to get a firmware update to the printer and enable IPv6 on my Mac.

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Using an Android smartphone, printing a unmarried text page from the MFC-L2700DW took 23.9 seconds, significantly faster than on some other models, such every bit the HP M277dw, which took roughly a infinitesimal to consummate the same task. However, as first installed, the printer could not be selected from a document'south native awarding. I had to navigate to the document via the iPrint&Scan app, which I plant confusing, non always knowing what folder my document lived in. Downloading the costless Mopria app solved this issue, putting the MFC-L2700DW in my list of printers. The iPrint&Scan app was unable to impress our six-folio PDF, saying the file was besides big; I had to open the document with a PDF viewer app and print from there.

Re-create and Scan Speed

Equally with its text and graphics printing, the MFC-L2700DW'due south copying and scanning are slower than the average for the laser multi-function printers we tested. Information technology made a blackness-and-white re-create in 12.5 seconds (or iv.8 ppm), a piffling slower than the average of 10.7 seconds. Simply using the ADF for copying multipage documents will deliver faster speeds. Our v-page text certificate copied in 22.7 seconds, or thirteen.2 ppm.

Similarly, this Brother light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation printer scans color documents at slower-than-average speeds, clocking in at 42.2 seconds, or 4.six seconds slower than the average. The story was the same when scanning black-and-white documents: At 17.five seconds, the MFC-L2700DW was the slowest model we tested; the category average was 11.3 seconds, while the fastest model (the Samsung M2070FW) made the same scan in 7.ii seconds.

Impress Quality

Text documents from the MFC-L2700DW looked equally sharp every bit those from any other model we tested, with heavy letterforms and well-baked edges. Black-and-white mixed graphics did non fare as well on Blood brother's device, with prints showing mild banding in flat areas and lighter text forms than what the Catechism MF229dw and HP M277dw produced. Similarly, blackness-and-white photos printed with some small-scale banding on the MFC-L2700DW, only looked good overall.

Copies were disappointing, however, coming out much also dark on the MFC-L2700DW and losing many details in dark areas. To make an acceptable facsimile, I had to crash-land up the effulgence by two steps on the command console; the re-create still came out too dark to re-create the details in dark areas. What should have been the solution turned out to be the opposite: Irresolute from default settings to Quality Photo setting actually added banding to the copy and a grainy, milky appearance that softened all details in the photocopy.

The color scans I made looked skilful on my computer monitor, with vibrant colors. Details were sharp, though non quite as sharp every bit the copy fabricated by the Canon MF229dw. Shadow areas lacked some of the details in the original color photo.

Ink Cost and Yield

The MFC-L2700DW model offers a good deal with its standard-yield cartridge, rated to output 1,200 pages at 3.vii cents per page (almost a penny lower than the average of 4.6 cents). Use the ii,600-page loftier-yield cartridge, and the cost per page falls to ii.half-dozen cents.

Setup

Installing the toner cartridge and setting up the MFC-L2700DW on my wireless network was straightforward. I used the WPS button on my router without having to enter my countersign on the control panel. In add-on, y'all can utilize Brother'southward iPrint&Scan app to perform these functions from an Android telephone (every bit I did) or an iPhone.

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Boosted supported platforms include Kindle Fire, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. The device can too connect to many cloud-storage services for uploading your scanned files for sharing.

Once gear up up, a powered-off MFC-L2700DW started upwardly in 19.3 seconds, slightly faster than the nearly 21-second average.

Software

Blood brother's ControlCenter software performs scanning and faxing. And, every bit previously mentioned, scanning to email at the device will launch your existing email application on a PC or Mac. In addition, Brother's online CreativeCenter offers many templates for business documents, such as presentations, business cards and letterhead. They're adequately generic templates, but they could be helpful to someone who'due south starting a home-based business only hasn't set upwards stationery, letter formats or the similar.

Lesser Line

The MFC-L2700DW offers a very low cost per page and loftier text-printing quality. Just performance is slower than boilerplate across the lath, prints with graphics could exist more attractive and re-create quality is subpar. Still, if text printing is your main task and yous don't need a speed demon, this price-effective model could be a skilful fit.

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