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(42 customer reviews) 50 of 50 people found the following review helpful
What a great find!,
November 3, 2004 SW Utah Shopper (Saint George, UT) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother MFC-8440 Laser Multifunction (Office Product)
I run a home office and am a heavy user of printing, scanning, faxing and copying. This unit replaced an old copier and an older printer/fax.
Installation gave me error messages. My system does have a lot of software and drivers on a WinXP Pro SP2 operating system. I was able to manually get the drivers installed. No, I didn't have the patience to call Brother.
Function in all modalities is superb. Text print quality and speed are excellent. Graphics are good.
Copying and fax work like a charm, both sheetfed and flatbed.
I compared the color scanning against my Epson 2450 Photo scanner. For routine scanning, I prefer the Brother. If I need to tweak a scan, I'll use the Epson. That's a pretty good recommendation!
I can highly recommend this product (with the one installation caution). Others have not reported install problems and I suspect this was my fairly complex system.
If you need a laser based AIO, by all means...Read more
64 of 68 people found the following review helpful
Wow!,
May 19, 2004 D. Whalen "buveur d'espresso" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother MFC-8440 Laser Multifunction (Office Product)
This is the best MFC out there -- no question. It scans at lightening speeds with the automatic sheet feeder. The printer prints very fast too at 21 ppm. Terrific controls, with multi-line display. This machine is built to last. I spent several months comparing all of the MFCs out there. I really needed a good scanner with a sheet feeder, but wanted to have the flexibility of a flat bed (for things that won't feed through a scanner. This unit does it all. Brother is definitely leading the way with this one!
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Great functionality for the value; budget some time for the instructions,
February 2, 2006 Lisa Lisa "person of interest" (Houston, TX, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother MFC-8440 Laser Multifunction (Office Product)
I must say that I'm quite pleased with this multifunction machine, which I bought when my ancient, single-function inkjet finally threw in the towel recently. I read reviews of about 50 multifunction machines in the major PC mags and sites before settling on this one. I wanted all four features (copy, scan, print, fax) in a reliable machine for the lowest price, and this was the professionals' consensus. I have the factory-remanufactured version, also available from Amazon for over $100 less -- those are just fine, and after the rebate, the price is irresistible.
On major benefit of this model is the flatbed, which allows you to copy and scan anything, not just standard letter- or legal-sized pages (in other words, only things that will go through a document feeder). The laser printer is sharp and fast; I've had no jams. Remember to "fan" new reams of paper as a standard practice; static electricity is the most common, and avoidable, cause of paper jams. The copy/fax...Read more
