Brother DCP-L3560CDW vs Brother DCP-T780DW

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DCP-L3560CDW compared with DCP-T780DW

	BrotherDCP-L3560CDW	BrotherDCP-T780DW
Overview
Released
Released	September 2023	June 2025
Printing
Type
Type	Laser	Ink tank
Colour
Colour	Yes	Yes
Speed, black
Speed, black	26 pages a minute (better)	16 pages a minute
Speed, colour
Speed, colour	26 pages a minute (better)	9 pages a minute
Resolution
Resolution	600 × 2400 dpi	1200 × 6000 dpi
Prints both sides
Prints both sides	Yes	Yes
Printing detail
Printing detail	Electrophotographic LED, which uses toner and a drum like a laser; 2-sided printing at up to 10 sides a minute; 512MB memory; PCL5e, PCL5c, PCL6, BR-Script3 (PostScript 3 emulation) and PDF 1.7; secure print, Universal Print and quiet mode	Inkjet with refillable ink tanks; 2-sided printing at 7 ipm black and 5 ipm colour (ISO/IEC 24734); borderless printing up to A4; 128MB memory; quiet mode
First page out
First page out	Up to 13.5 seconds, black or colour	6.2 seconds black, 6.5 seconds colour (ISO/IEC 17629)
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	Four TN248 toners (1,000 pages black, 1,000 colour) or TN248XL (3,000 black, 2,300 colour); DR248CL drum (about 20,000 pages), BU229CL belt (about 50,000 pages), WT229CL waste toner box (about 50,000 pages)	BTD180BK black (7,500 pages) and BTD180 cyan, magenta and yellow (5,000 pages each) ink bottles; key-lock bottles fill only the matching tank
Page yield
Page yield	Toner in the box for 1,000 black and 1,000 colour pages; yields declared to ISO/IEC 19798	Two black bottles (2 × 7,500 pages) and one of each colour (5,000 pages) in the box; Brother's own method with ISO/IEC 24712 test pages, not ISO/IEC 24711; about 7,125 black and 4,450 colour pages remain after the first fill of the ink lines
Duty cycle
Duty cycle	Up to 3,000 pages a month recommended	Up to 1,000 pages a month recommended
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan and Copy	Print, Scan and Copy
Document feeder
Document feeder	Yes	Yes
Scanner
Scanner	Colour CIS scanner with A4 glass and 50-sheet document feeder; 1-sided scanning at 27 ipm mono and 21 ipm colour (ISO/IEC 17991); 1200 × 1200 dpi from the glass, 600 × 600 dpi from the feeder; scan to email, network folder, FTP, SharePoint, OCR and Microsoft Office formats	Colour CIS scanner with A4 glass and 20-sheet document feeder; 1-sided scanning at 17 ipm mono and 7 ipm colour (ISO/IEC 17991); 1200 × 2400 dpi from the glass, 600 × 600 dpi from the feeder; scan to email, image and file
Copying
Copying	Up to 26 copies a minute; first copy in up to 15.5 seconds; up to 600 × 600 dpi; 25–400% zoom; 2-in-1 ID copy	11 ipm black and 8 ipm colour from the feeder (ISO/IEC 24735); 2-sided copying; first copy in 13 seconds black, 25 seconds colour; up to 1200 × 2400 dpi; 25–400% zoom; 2-in-1 ID copy
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A4	A4
Paper tray
Paper tray	250 sheets (better)	150 sheets
Paper sizes
Paper sizes	Tray A4, Letter, Legal, Executive, A5, A5 (long edge), A6, B5, B6, A4 Short, Folio, 16K; manual feed slot (1 sheet) 76.2–216 mm wide by 116–355.6 mm long, envelopes COM-10, DL, C5 and Monarch; document feeder 105–215.9 mm wide by 147.3–355.6 mm long; 2-sided A4 only	Tray A4, Letter, Legal, Folio, Executive, A5, A6, 10 × 15 cm photo, 13 × 20 cm index card, 13 × 18 cm, envelopes C5, DL, COM-10 and Monarch; manual feed slot (1 sheet) A4, A5, Letter, Legal, Folio and 10 × 15 cm; document feeder 139.7–215.9 mm wide by 210–355.6 mm long; 2-sided A4 only
Paper types
Paper types	Tray plain, thin, thick and recycled paper, 60–163 gsm; manual feed slot also bond, labels, envelopes and glossy paper, 60–163 gsm; 2-sided 60–105 gsm	Tray plain, inkjet, glossy and recycled paper, 64–220 gsm; manual feed slot 64–300 gsm; document feeder 64–90 gsm; 2-sided 64–105 gsm
Output tray
Output tray	150 sheets face down	50 sheets
Connections
Connects by
Connects by	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB	Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
Connection detail
Connection detail	Hi-Speed USB 2.0; Gigabit Ethernet; Wi-Fi 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n and 5GHz 802.11a/n; Wi-Fi Direct; WPS	Hi-Speed USB 2.0; Wi-Fi 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n and 5GHz 802.11a/n; Wi-Fi Direct; WPS
Printing from phones
Printing from phones	Apple AirPrint (print and scan), Mopria, Brother Print Service Plugin; Brother Web Connect for Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Evernote and OneNote	Apple AirPrint (print and scan), Mopria, Brother Print Service Plugin; Brother Web Connect for Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Evernote and SharePoint Online
App
App	Brother Mobile Connect (Android, iPhone and iPad)	Brother Mobile Connect (Android, iPhone and iPad)
Control panel
Control panel	8.8cm colour touchscreen	4.5cm (1.8″) colour display with buttons
Design
Weight
Weight	20 kg	7.9 kg
Power use
Power use	560 W printing or copying, 310 W in quiet mode, 70 W ready, 10 W sleep, 0.6 W deep sleep, 0.04 W off; TEC 0.41 kWh a week	16 W copying, 2.5 W ready, 0.6 W sleep, 0.15 W off
Noise
Noise	47 dB(A) printing, 43 dB(A) in quiet mode, inaudible when ready (sound pressure)	55 dB(A) printing (sound pressure)
Size
Size	410 × 444 × 401 mm (W × D × H)	390 × 343 × 183 mm (W × D × H)
In the box
In the box	Printer, four toners, drum unit, belt unit, waste toner box, power cord, quick setup guide, warranty card	Printer, ink bottles, power cord, quick setup guide, warranty card