Brother DCP-L3560CDW

Brother · DCP

DCP-L3560CDW

Released September 2023

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

Printing

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
TypeColourDoesPages a minuteBoth sidesReleased
LaserYesPrint, Scan, Copy, Fax33YesMar 2023
LaserYesPrint, Scan, Copy, Fax26YesSept 2023
LaserYesPrint, Scan, Copy, Fax25YesMay 2024

Sources

  1. store.brother.co.uk/devices/laser/dcp/dcpl3560cdw
  2. brother.eu/-/media/product-downloads/devices/printers/dcp/dcpl3560cdw/dcp-l3560…
  3. brother.ee/about-brother/news/2023/pr-fcl-launch

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