Brother DCP-9040cn Color Laser Copier and Printer with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface

Selected this printer for a home network printer. Great price for this type of printer. Easy setup as a network printer / scanner. We leave the printer on 24-7, the printer sleeps when it is not in use for a period of time. Yes, it takes a minute to warm up if you print and the printer is in sleep mode. This I believe is standard for a network laser printer. Once we start using, it prints and scans very fast from any of the four pc's on our network. The scanner is quite good, I was surprised that a duel function [printer / scanner] scanner was of this quality. The printer comes with the ink toner kit. We are very happy with this printer, and would recommend to anyone looking for a small business or home network printer.

I got mine on sale for $300 so it was a great deal. It replaced an inkjet printer that was rated at the same speed. However, this printer is about 300% faster for me. I print a lot of business quality text with images that took forever to print on the inkjet. This printer spits out good quality color pictures and text in a fraction of the time of the inkjet. For the inkjet to keep up with this laser printer you would have to set the inkjet to poor draft quality mode. (Note that color laser printers will not give you photo quality pictures. They will give you good quality photos for business use but not something to put in your personal photo album.)

I gave this printer only 4 stars for 2 reasons. It is a little noisy while printing, and Brother appears to try to scam you with the end of toner warning. It said I was out of black toner when I reached 2080 pages printed with the original cartridges. I put a piece of black electrical tape over the sensor hole on the toner...Read more

This machine is amazing! It's very compact for a color laser all-in-one. Very easy to set up and use. I only wish it did auto-duplex.