If all you need is a laser printer capable of printing pages in black and white, as well as color scanning and copying, look no further than Brother DCP-L2540DW. It is a perfect all-in-one printer with a decent print speed to handle your printing need.

A lot of users have decided to buy the multifunction printer because they need one and they are interested in its capability. Not only it has more than one input tray, it also supports wireless and automatic two sided printing.

Features and Highlights

The total capacity of the two input trays of Brother DCP-L2540DW is 251 sheets of paper. The main input tray holds a substantial 250 sheets of plain paper at maximum and the other tray is a manual feeder that receives only a single sheet at a time. The printed documents will be stacked facing down so it is unnecessary to print pages in reverse order.

Even though the main tray supports up to 250 sheets, the output tray can only handle up to 100 sheets, so if you print more than 100 sheets of plain paper, you may have empty the output tray when the machine is still printing.

Brother DCP-L2540DW is quite fast in printing documents. Thanks to the decent print speed, printing 100 pages only take a few minutes to finish. The print speed, of course, still depends on how complex the content of the documents that are being printed by the machine.

To copy and scan pages, the printed material can be placed on the scanner glass which has a scanning width of 210 mm, but it is recommended to use the automatic document feeder instead if you’re going to copy or scan multiple pages. This way you can copy or scan all of the pages in one go, as long as the amount of pages doesn’t exceed the maximum capacity of the automatic feeder.

Regarding the resolution, the automatic feeder supports up to 600 dpi x 600 dpi. As for the scanner, its highest resolution, which is the result of software interpolation, is 19200 dpi x 19200 dpi.

A USB cable of no more than 2 meters long can be used to connect the printer to a computer. A direct peer to peer connection is also possible, thanks to the Wi-Fi Direct support. The wireless connection makes printing much more convenient since it frees you from the hassle. It helps you to get the job done more quickly.

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It is also important to find out how much power Brother DCP-L2540DW consumes. A printer with a lower power consumption is obviously preferable to save money as much as possible on the electricity cost.

Brother DCP-L2540DW needs to consume around 510 W to print documents, which drops to 6.6 W when it sleeps, and drops even further to approximately 0.08 W when you turn it off. During the night when no one uses the printer, unplugging its power cable will save your money on the electricity cost a bit more. You can click the link below to download Brother DCP-L2540DW Driver for Windows: