Brother HL-L2390DW

If all you need is decent monochrome prints with the occasional copy thrown in at a reasonable cost per page, the Brother HL-L2390DW should serve your entry-level print needs well, especially for text documents and simple graphics. The Brother HL-L2390DW is a reasonably fast, sensibly priced entry-level monochrome all-in-one laser printer with competitive running costs. Sign up for Lab Report to get the latest reviews and top product advice delivered right to your inbox

For 10 pages a month anything that looks similar to Brother HL-L2390DW (they make many, many, many different models) will be just fine Generally the ones that have D at the end of the name are duplex printing, and W have wireless networking. But wireless is just how you connect the printer to your network. If it is near your router it can be connected via ethernet (if it has the port) and long term might be a little more reliable and less hassle, such as not having to reconfigure when your ISP gives you a new router. For your requirement of any network user on Mac or iPhone to print easily without install make sure the model you select states it supports AirPrint.

If you tend to print out a lot of text documents and don't want to worry about the extra costs of replacing colored ink, the best printer for students that we've tested is the Brother HL-L2390DW. This laser printer prints only in black and white, and its black toner cartridge yields a superb number of pages before needing to be replaced. Thanks to the relatively inexpensive cost of the toner cartridge and its high page yield, the cost-per-print is outstanding

Affordable Home laser printers are fine for office type documents. Not art or photograph. You’re better off getting a used A4 laser printer from the past 5-6 years + and a new A3 ink tank printer for your son. For the laser Ive found the Brother HL is decent and the WiFi connection to print docs from Mac and IPhone via AirPrint has been problem free for me.

Overall, this printer is best suited for students or for those who need to print a large number of documents as quickly as possible.

I bought a Brother HL-L2390DW printer-scanner with no idea beyond generalities about how much it would love Linux or not. What I found is that, when I use Brother's printer installer, this printer is fabulous on openSUSE. It's hit or miss with Fedora. Works fine to lesser degree with Arch distros, Solus, and Debian distros (with exception of Ubuntu-based distros).