Brother HL-L2350DW Review (2026): Best Budget Monochrome Laser Printer?

The Brother HL-L2350DW is one of the best-value laser printers money can buy in 2026. At around $119, it delivers 32ppm monochrome laser speed, automatic duplex printing, and wireless connectivity — and once you replace the starter toner with a TN760 high-yield cartridge, the cost per page drops to roughly $0.02. That's 3–5× cheaper than most inkjet printers. If you need to print documents fast and cheap without caring about color, photos, scanning, or copying, the HL-L2350DW is the easy recommendation.

Who Is the Brother HL-L2350DW For?

The HL-L2350DW is a print-only monochrome laser. There's no scanner, no copier, no color — just fast, cheap black-and-white printing. This is perfect for students printing lecture notes and papers, home office workers printing reports and contracts, small businesses with basic document needs, and anyone who's ever been frustrated by an inkjet cartridge drying out between uses. Laser toner doesn't dry out. You can leave the HL-L2350DW unused for six months and it will print perfectly the moment you need it.

Speed and Performance

32 pages per minute is genuinely fast. A 10-page document finishes in under 30 seconds. A 50-page report takes less than 2 minutes. Even the first page out of sleep mode is ready in about 8.5 seconds — faster than most inkjets take to complete a warm-up cycle. Brother's laser engine is built on decades of reliable engineering, and the HL-L2350DW benefits from that heritage with consistent, jam-resistant paper handling and a 250-sheet paper capacity that means fewer trips to reload paper.

Automatic duplex printing works smoothly. Select two-sided in your print driver and the printer handles the rest, feeding pages back through for the second pass. At 32ppm, even duplex printing feels fast compared to inkjet alternatives.

Toner Costs — The Key Advantage

The starter toner that ships with the HL-L2350DW yields only about 700 pages — don't judge toner costs by the starter cartridge. Replace it with the TN760 High-Yield toner ($45–55 at Amazon), and you get 3,000 pages of yield. That works out to roughly $0.015–0.018 per page. Compare that to an HP inkjet at $0.05–0.12 per page, and the math becomes obvious for anyone printing more than 200 pages per month.

Third-party compatible TN760 cartridges are widely available from brands like LD Products, Greencycle, and Valuetoner at $20–30 for the same 3,000-page yield — pushing cost per page below $0.01. Unlike HP+ locked printers, the HL-L2350DW accepts compatible toner without issue, though results vary by brand quality.

Wireless Setup and Connectivity

Setup is straightforward via WPS (press the button on your router and printer) or manually through the control panel's LCD menu. Brother's iPrint&Scan app is available for iOS and Android. The printer supports AirPrint and Google Cloud Print for mobile printing, and USB connection is available if you prefer wired. There's no ethernet port on the HL-L2350DW (the HL-L2395DW adds ethernet and a flatbed scanner for about $40 more).

HL-L2350DW vs HL-L2395DW — Which to Buy?

The HL-L2395DW (our separately reviewed sibling model) adds a flatbed scanner, copy function, 2.7-inch touchscreen, and ethernet port for about $35–45 more. If you need scanning at all, get the L2395DW. If you only need printing and want to save money, the L2350DW is perfectly fine. The print engine and toner are identical — the difference is purely the scanner/copier hardware and interface.

Should You Buy the Brother HL-L2350DW?

Buy it if: You print a lot of documents, don't need color, and don't need scanning or copying. The ultra-low cost per page with TN760 toner makes it the cheapest printer to operate per page in its price bracket. For students printing papers or home workers printing reports, this is the best value proposition in the sub-$150 printer market.

Skip it if: You ever need color printing, scan capability, or photo output. Also skip it if you print fewer than 100 pages per month — the cost savings won't outweigh the upfront price vs a $60–80 inkjet.