The Brother 3070W is a digital color printer. This LED printer rivals laser printers in terms of quality and might even beat lasers in terms of price. This machine offers color printing at a very affordable price, which is also a good option for small offices and home use.

Printer configuration and design

Setting up the 3070CW printer is simple: put the printer in place, load the cartridges and papers, then connect the cables. There is a guide on how to test the printer for one print to confirm that the unit is working fine. There is also an installation CD for software configuration support.

The 3070W printer has a 250-page paper tray that can hold legal-size paper but cannot be upgraded. Manual feeding of thicker pages is a big problem on this machine because the user has to feed the sheets one by one into the slot. There is a back panel that folds down creating a paper path. The control panel has a small LCD screen that is very difficult to read from any angle. The navigation buttons are so confusing because the enter and cancel buttons are located where the left and right arrows used to be on other printers. But despite its small dimensions, in general, the machine is very easy to operate.

There is an additional feature in this sister unit that has not been seen in some color laser printers and LED printers. This feature is Wi-Fi connectivity. This makes the machine very easy to set up. The printer can print files directly from USB.

Print speed and quality

The Brother 3070CW’s print speeds were rated very well. In fact, they are its strongest points. In a four-page test print, the first page came out in less than 11 seconds, and the next three pages came out in just 21 seconds. Average print speed is 17 pages per minute for both monochrome and color prints.

Print results are of high quality for photos, graphics and text, something sometimes not found in other color laser printers. Text prints are legible even at 6 point. Photographic and graphic prints also came out well. This means that the 3070CW printer can be good for printing important business documents.

toner cartridge

The unit comes with a standard cartridge that can print up to 1,000 pages for each color and there is a separate drum for each color. The cost of 3070CW printer toner is a big trade-off for this low-priced printer. A replacement color cartridge costs $70 for each color that can print up to 1,400 pages or an average of 5 colors per page, while a black cartridge that can print up to 2,500 pages costs $75 or an average of 3.4 cents per color. page. A new set of drums costs $150 or an average of 1 cent per page. This replacement is necessary when 15,000 pages have already been printed.

conclusion

The Brother 3070CW is not as good as expected. The characteristics of the LED do not affect the cost of running the unit. It also does not affect the quality of color prints. The printer has a very good print speed despite its low price, but it does have a very high running cost, especially if the workload requires a lot of color printing.