Buy the Brother DCP-L2640DW.
For actual day-to-day document printing, a laser that never clogs beats an inkjet that costs less to buy and more to keep alive.
What was compared
- Canon PIXMA TS6520 Wireless Color Inkjet Printer Duplex Printing | Print, Scan, Copy, 1.42... — $79.00
- Brother DCP-L2640DW Wireless Compact Monochrome Multi-Function Laser Printer with Copy and... — $209.99
Five reasons
1. One toner outlasts a shelf of ink cartridges
Laser toner sits dry and ready for thousands of pages, while inkjet cartridges in the Canon TS6520 physically dry out if you go weeks without printing, especially the color ones you barely touch. That means fewer replacement costs and no dead cartridges when you finally need to print.
2. 36 pages a minute versus a slow crawl
The Brother turns out 36 pages per minute; inkjets in this class typically manage a fraction of that, especially once duplexing kicks in. If you ever print more than a page or two at once, this is the difference between done and waiting.
3. Feeds itself instead of babysitting the glass
The DCP-L2640DW has a 50-page auto document feeder and a 250-sheet paper tray, so multi-page copying and scanning run themselves. The Canon TS6520 has no ADF listed, meaning every page of a stack gets fed to the flatbed by hand.
4. Owners report it running for over a decade
Reviewers describe Brother laser printers still working 16 years in, while Canon TS6520 feedback includes color printing wrong and units described as poorly made. Laser mechanisms simply have fewer failure points than inkjet nozzles.
5. Yes it costs more and skips color. Buy it anyway.
The Brother is $130 pricier and cannot print a single color page, which matters if you print photos or graphics often, go get the Canon TS6520 instead, but that is not most people's home printing. Most home printing is forms, homework and paperwork, where toner savings and reliability pay that gap back over the printer's life.
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