Brother HL-L3280CDW Wireless Compact Digital Color Printer with Laser Quality Output, Duplex, Mobile Printing & Ethernet | Includes 4 Month Refresh Subscription Trial¹, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready
€345
Price: $344.99
(as of Jul 26, 2025 16:13:34 UTC – Details)
The Brother HL-L3280CDW wireless digital color printer is engineered to optimize efficiencies while working from home or in shared workspaces. Compact, capable, and reliable, this high-volume printer combines steady connectivity options with consistent performance, and premium laser-quality printing for smudge-free documents that position you for success. Always ready to get to work whenever you are, its print-forward features include speeds up to 27 pages per minute (ppm)(2), an intuitive 2.7” touchscreen, dual-band wireless(5) connectivity, and mobile device compatibility(6) for ease of use and ready accessibility. ENERGY STAR® compliant and EPEAT® Silver rated, the HL-L3280CDW is designed with eco-friendly printer features including Eco Mode, Toner Save Mode, and automatic duplex printing. For peace of mind printing, advanced security features safeguard sensitive information and create secure connections to devices and networks. Engineered and supported by Brother with a 1-year limited warranty and free online, call, or live chat support for the life of you printer, the HL-L3280CDW fits seamlessly into any small, busy workspace. 4. Disclaimers 1. Requires enrollment in a monthly billed Brother Refresh EZ Print Subscription service plan based on monthly printed page allotments. Unused pages roll over, limitations apply. Additional page set charges and taxes apply during trial. Plan, options offer, and pricing subject to change. Open to new subscribers located in the contiguous United States only. After the free trial period your credit card will be charged on a monthly basis for the Plan Fee, Overages, and Taxes in accordance with the Terms of Service. Overage fees will apply during free trial. Your service will continue on a month-to-month basis until you cancel it. May be canceled at any time. Upon cancellation, cartridge will be deactivated and must be replaced at users’ expense in order to continue printing. 2. Based on one-sided printing. Change from default setting required. 3. Maximum capacity based on using 20 lb. paper. 4. Requires an Internet connection and an account with desired service. 5. Requires connection to a wireless network. 6. Free app download and wireless connection required. Compatibility may vary based on device and operating system. 7. Based on monthly subscription cost in U.S. for Color Laser High Plan vs. average cost per page of eligible like standard capacity cartridges. Savings will vary based on Refresh EZ Print Subscription plan selected. Wi-Fi Direct is a registered trademark of Wi-Fi Alliance®. EPEAT is a trademark of the Green Electronics Council in the United States and other countries. ENERGY STAR and the ENERGY STAR mark are registered trademarks owned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Images are for illustrative purposes only. Specifications subject to change.
Best for Small Offices and Home Offices, the Brother HL-L3280CDW wireless compact digital color printer consistently produces impressive, laser-quality output on every page.
UPGRADE YOUR PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. With the consistent dependability of laser-quality digital color printing.
MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY WITH LASER FOCUSED FUNCTIONALITY. A compact, capable timesaver achieving print speeds up to 27 ppm.(1) With Automatic Duplex printing – the most efficient way to print double-sided pages.
PRINT FROM CLOUD-BASED APPS. An integrated 2.7″ touchscreen allows users to print from Cloud-based apps including Google Drive, Dropbox, EverNote, and others(6) commonly used by both businesses and entrepreneurs.
Customers say
Customers find the printer prints crisply and quickly, with bright colors, and appreciate its ease of setup and functionality. The quality and value for money receive mixed reviews, with some finding it reliable and worth the price while others consider it terrible and overpriced. Connectivity experiences are mixed, with some reporting no issues while others struggle to maintain network connection. The ink capacity is a concern, with multiple customers reporting that the black toner runs out quickly.
9 reviews for Brother HL-L3280CDW Wireless Compact Digital Color Printer with Laser Quality Output, Duplex, Mobile Printing & Ethernet | Includes 4 Month Refresh Subscription Trial¹, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready
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Joe in Los Angeles –
Excellent product as I’ve come to expect from Brother printers
We just received the printer yesterday and our first impression is very positive. It was set up in about 10 minutes and work seamlessly with my Mac and our iPhones and iPads. The quality of the photo prints are absolutely amazing. I expected less than photo quality and what we got are almost as good as professionally done prints. I will have to buy an 8 x 10 of one of the pictures we printed just for an accurate comparison.One thing I learned is that the latest Mac release Sonoma has a built-in firewall on the local network and we have to allow Safari to use that in order to use the web browser based set up. The browser based set up page is much more complete than the control panel. The Brother app on the phone is not something that we will probably use. I’m not sure exactly what its purpose is, but it’s not to set up the printer.The only problem I’ve seen so far is when I try to print four full resolution iPhone camera pictures on one sheet of paper, the printer seem to reject the request. I think it had to do with how big those images are, but I’m still investigating. By reducing the resolution and saving them as JPEG. They printed just fine.My previous experience with Brother printers is the black-and-white laser that lasted 15 years until it finally had its first minor maintenance issue. I used that as an excuse to go to color and I’m glad we did. This is an excellent product.I’ll report again in six months or a year.
Paul Taylor –
Reliable cost effective compact color full duplex printer.
Reliable compact color laser printer. Has good ink life with factory-provided toner. I will try larger capacity toners on the first replacement. Easy to set up for network, WiFi, or direct USB connection. Makes decent color photos on plain paper. I have had no issues jamming with plain paper, heavier paper, or even light card stock. It also prints full duplex (both sides) without manually flipping pages. I purchased in early November to replace a 15-year-old printer. We usit frequently and I am still on factory original toners despite having a daughter who prints pictures weekly and two boys who print papers and work for University projects.
Rkkjr –
Excellent product performs flawlessly
Brother products are known for the reliability and qualityThis one is no exceptionEasy to set upGreat colorFast printingWhat else could one want in a printer?BuyI personally am over inkjet printers that can produce brilliant colored pictures, but then for no reason the next prints color is totally offI can print out a 50 page document in less than two minutes, including the color pages
Val V. Baur –
The WORST printer I’ve ever owned
We got this printer back in January. Having and using a Brother HL3040CN for years which was great until they didn’t make cartridges anymore that we could get. We bought this one with high hopes. We use the printer for some color pages & some black & white invoices, but we also print a lot of envelopes. The cartridges that come with the printer were virtually empty. We printed about 60 business envelopes before the Black cartridge ran out and had to replace it. Then without ever printing a color page (except for the first test page to setup the printer) the color cartridges started to run out. Even though we were only printing Black & White the printer locks up until the color cartridge is replaced. Within 2 weeks all 3 color cartridges were empty without being used. Costly to say the least. Also, the printer mangles envelopes. Every envelope comes out with creases down the back of the envelope. There is no way to straighten this out. No adjustments you can make. It also takes forever to get it to start & load an envelope. Then forever to start to print the next envelope. They should go back and look at the design for the HL3040CN so they can design a better printer. All in all, the worst printer we’ve ever bought & we’ve had at least 9 different printers in the last 31 years.UPDATE!! We now have had this printer for 10 months. I print about 20 to 30 envelopes a week. My wife printed 1 recipe in color about 2 months ago but now the printer says the Yellow Toner is EMPTY!! The printer shuts down and is unusable. Now I can’t use it until I buy another set of color toner cartridges because as what happened the last time the others will show up to be empty also.
Timothy Doty –
Good printer marred by annoying vender software and âfeaturesâ
The printer itself is fine it prints quickly, and for a laser style printer. The output is fair. When printing pictures, the color is not saturated like the original. Itâs all doll and flat even blacks show up that way, but thatâs just part and parcel of the kind of printer it is.Setting up the printer was needlessly involved. Vendor software is just a shell to download more software, and all of it is designed to just install unneeded components. Got tired of jumping through hoops to just have the printer installed and deleted the vendor software which still hadnât managed to actually setup the printer.Adding the printer to the wireless network wasnât smooth either yet at first wouldnât detect any wireless networks, and trying to enter a manually was a bust. Fortunately, attempting to set up the wireless network a second time it found the wireless network it was able to connect to the network. From there setting up the printer trivial just added printer. It was found automatically and configured automatically by the operating system.Through the entire unboxing and set up process the vendor constantly tries to get you to subscribe to a wasteful print supply agreement where you will always and unavoidably throw toner out. This appears to be brothers way of bringing the farce of inkjet printer supplies to laser, printers, and artificially increase the cost of printing, while simultaneously increasing waste, which is bad for the environment.This extends to the printer itself, which is designed to prevent you from actually using all of the toner and toner cartridge. I knew this going in and had verified that when the printer refuses to use more of the toner the block can be overridden. Itâs annoying and has to be done every time for every toner cartridge. Not the end of world but an unnecessary annoyance.
alonso rodriguez –
es rápida, silenciosa. Dentro del grupo de las laser es una buena relación precio/ calidad.Gracias
Jose Colli –
Fácil de instalar, buena calidad de impresión, excelente para la escuela u oficina pequeña
No me gusto la calidad muy chafas –
Muy mala impresión mancha las hojas con el mismo diseñoNo es lo que yo esperaba
Henrri Ramirez –
Me decepcionó la calidad de impresión. Sobre todo en colores lisos. Como pueden ver salen rayas. En el gris sale una raya rosa y en la segunda se perciben otras de color gris más fuerte. Es nueva, no se supone que debe hacer eso.