Designed with the busy office in mind. Robust build quality combined with versatile paper handling options gives you outstanding results repeatedly. The new optional super-high-yield toner cartridges significantly reduces your print spend, making this machine the ideal print partner for your office

A monochrome laser all-in-one printer from Brother, with scan and copy functions, an automatic document feeder, Ethernet networking, and wireless printing with Apple AirPrint. Works with Windows, macOS and Linux.

Ratings Scorecard

Survey Results

PREDICTED RELIABILITY 

 / 5

OWNER SATISFACTION 

 / 5

Test Results

TEXT QUALITY 

 / 5

TEXT SPEED 

 / 5

GRAPHICS QUALITY 

 / 5

PHOTO QUALITY 

 / 5

MAINTENANCE INK USE 

 / 5

SCAN QUALITY 

 / 5

INK COST/YEAR 

 / 5

 Highs

• Excels at removing embedded dirt from carpets

 Lows

• You must bend to adjust the pile height

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About

The Brother DCP-L5500DN is part of the Printers test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Printers--All-in-one models like the DCP-L5500DN are rated on multiple criteria, such as those listed below.

Text quality This indicates how crisply and clearly a printer produced black text in a variety of faces, sizes, and styles. Models with higher scores produce more uniform type, with sharper edges and smoother curves.

Text speed This score reflects how quickly the model can print text on five pages of plain, letter-sized pages. Less than 14 seconds is Excellent; 14 to 19 seconds is Very Good; 19 to 28 seconds is Good; 28 to 39 seconds is Fair; and longer than 39 seconds is Poor.

Graphics quality Our assessment of the appearance of color graphics produced by the printer. Black and white lasers were judged on black and white graphics.

Features & Specs

Features

AUTO-DUPLEX PRINTING 

Yes

AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER 

Yes

AUTO-DUPLEX SCANNING 

No

BUILT-IN FAX 

No

INDIVIDUAL COLOR CARTRIDGES 

NA

REFILLABLE INK TANK SYSTEM 

No

FLATBED DESIGN FOR SCANNING AND COPYING 

Yes

CAN PRINT IF COLOR EMPTY 

NA

SWAP BLACK FOR PHOTO INK 

NA

BORDERLESS PHOTOS 

NA

Specs

PRODUCT TYPE 

Letter-size small-office black-and-white multi-function printer

PRINTING METHOD 

laser

STANDARD SHEET CAPACITY 

250

HEIGHT 

19.1

WIDTH 

16.9

DEPTH 

18.3

TEXT SPEED (PPM) 

23.1

TEXT COST 

1.6

GRAPHICS COST 

4.4

8X10 PHOTO COST 

0

MAXIMUM PAPER SIZE 

8.5x14

MAXIMUM PAPER BASIS-WEIGHT 

33

PLATFORM 

Windows, macOS, Linux

Connections

NETWORKING 

E, A

WIFI AUTO-CONNECT 

No

WIFI DIRECT 

No