
Brother · DCP
DCP-L3560CDW
The DCP-L3560CDW is Brother's A4 colour LED all-in-one that prints, scans and copies, suited to a home or small office that wants colour printing with toner rather than ink.
- Type
- Laser
- Colour
- Yes
- Does
- Print, Scan, Copy
- Pages a minute
- 26
- Both sides
- Yes
Specifications
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- Type
- Laser
- Colour
- Yes
- Speed, black
- 26 pages a minute
- Speed, colour
- 26 pages a minute
- Resolution
- 600 × 2400 dpi
- Prints both sides
- Yes
- 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
- First page out
- Up to 13.5 seconds, black or colour
- 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)
- Page yield
- Toner in the box for 1,000 black and 1,000 colour pages; yields declared to ISO/IEC 19798
- Duty cycle
- Up to 3,000 pages a month recommended
Scanning and copying
- Does
- Print, Scan and Copy
- Document feeder
- Yes
- 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
- 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
Paper
- Largest paper
- A4
- Paper tray
- 250 sheets
- 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
- 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
- Output tray
- 150 sheets face down
Connections
- Connects by
- Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
- 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
- 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
- App
- Brother Mobile Connect (Android, iPhone and iPad)
- Control panel
- 8.8cm colour touchscreen
Design
- Weight
- 20 kg
- 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
- Noise
- 47 dB(A) printing, 43 dB(A) in quiet mode, inaudible when ready (sound pressure)
- Size
- 410 × 444 × 401 mm (W × D × H)
- In the box
- Printer, four toners, drum unit, belt unit, waste toner box, power cord, quick setup guide, warranty card
Pros and cons
Pros
- 26 pages a minute in black and colour
- 50-sheet document feeder and an 8.8cm colour touchscreen
- Gigabit Ethernet, 5GHz Wi-Fi and USB
Cons
- No fax, and the document feeder scans one side at a time
- 2-sided printing drops to 10 sides a minute
- Toners in the box last about 1,000 pages each
Closest rivals
Model | Type | Colour | Does | Pages a minute | Both sides | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laser | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy, Fax | 33 | Yes | Mar 2023 | |
| Laser | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy, Fax | 26 | Yes | Sept 2023 | |
| Laser | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy, Fax | 25 | Yes | May 2024 |
Sources
- store.brother.co.uk/devices/laser/dcp/dcpl3560cdw
- brother.eu/-/media/product-downloads/devices/printers/dcp/dcpl3560cdw/dcp-l3560…
- brother.ee/about-brother/news/2023/pr-fcl-launch


