brother MFC-7860DW MFC / All-In-One Up to 27 ppm Monochrome Wireless 802.11b/g Laser Printer

Pros: cheap price

Cons: Every 28 days I have change a new toner and every 3 months I have change new drum. If I'm not change it on time like 3 days the printer just die, no warning or override. Just die. It is very bad for business. I changed 4 Brother printers and a fax machine at once. Back to HP (American is better).

Other Thoughts: By selling OME toner and drum is not a good business with brother.

Pros: WiFi works and setup is fairly easy. Duplex printing is great in theory, not in practice in this case. In general I'd say it's a good printer but the Duplex printing issues make this a printer you should avoid.

Cons: Duplex printing jams every 2-3 pages if you are lucky. Lights dim in the room when the printer starts printing.

Other Thoughts: I'd stay away from this model.

Pros: Brother's Linux Drivers just install and work on Ubuntu 12.10. Black and White is good enough for most things. Printing works, Scanning works, fax is likely to work, but I haven't set it up yet. Manual is pretty complete but for Linux setup you'll probably want to read the section on Web Based Management.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Purchased from Newegg, $2.99 to deliver 32 lbs from California to RI, (You folks making a profit? ;-) Ordered Monday evening, arrived at my office Friday Morning.

I bought this for two reasons: 1. sheet fed scanner, 2. Tired of dried out ink jet cartridges at 8000 bucks per gallon.

So far this is working great. I expect a good customer experience. Thanks Brother!

Auto wireless setup did not work so I connected via ethernet and configured wireless manually. No problem. Installed the drivers from the web site. Made sure to pick the right ones for the model.

Plastic Parts are a bit thin so treat it gently to avoid problems

Pros: I bought this locally after a office superstore had it for $100 off from what Newegg had it at the time.

Setup was flawless configured as an IP port. Printing is fast, and the starter cartridge is still going well. I do enjoy that it has both counters for the scanner as well as the printer.

I was also pleased with the smaller footprint versus my old HP inkjet. I gained about 8" of desk space.

I first thought I'd miss my color but with the printing cost getting chopped from about 6 cents per page to just around 1 cent, I'll deal with it.

Cons: Network card doesn't have an indicator status light but no real big deal unless you're patching it into a switch elsewhere such as a wiring closet.

Other Thoughts: Do yourself a favor and grab the drivers directly from Brother. They are a bit newer and its just best practice from my network engineer point of view.

Pros: Very reliable. Works great. The starter toner lasted me a very long time even though it tells me that the toner is low. I just keep printing and it's fine. I heard this is common for it to show up early but you're suppose to have a back up handy and swap when it starts to print bad. The starter toner have lasted me much more than 500 pages (it's been exactly one year and still printing well with the same starter toner). I have it connected through the ethernet cable and all computers in the network (including wireless) can print with ease. I haven't scan photos yet but the quality of scanning a document paper is very impressive. Very sharp even at 150dpi in normal file size setting. No comment on fax. The copier is also great, no complaints. It's not super fast but for the price, worth it. Scans at 13 pages a minute. It looks great!

Cons: I don't have a problem with the noise but I can see where it can annoy people that are picky. It is pretty loud but sounds perfectly normal for a printer. It will sound loud if it's in a quite area.

My biggest problem is the autofeed scanner. It scans everything except about 0.5cm from the edges for the standard size (8.5x11) printing paper, but it is pretty consistent. Any smaller it seems to get all the surface area.

Other Thoughts: It doesn't leak, smoke up, or make funny smell.

I got it on the black friday sale last year and I am very happy with this MFC machine.

Pros: Good value. Solid print quality, easy installation - basically just plug it into the wall and into your router.

Cons: Sometimes the toner smell gets strong when printing, but only sometimes.

Pros: Purchased this over a month ago. Had very little trouble setting it up. The is a great, dependable, and fully featured MFC. I contacted support regarding an issue scanning to a folder and received a knowledgeable reply within a day or so. The price at time of purchase made this a great choice.

We are still using the toner that came with it after 500 pages. Not bad considering it is common practice to provide 'starter' toner now.

Cons: Doesn't come with bacon.

Other Thoughts: Haven't needed a color page yet, nor will I miss the added cost. This printer doesn't clean itself all the time like HP's do. Not sure if that is good or bad.

Pros: easy setup!! and wi-fi work great

Cons: none

Pros: Nice printer, especially if you find in on sale. Fairly easy setup and print quality is typical for a laser printer.

Cons: Scanning from your pc can be problematic. Have two of these in office setting and both exhibit the same problem. Have to reinstall drivers/software to get it to work right again. Starter print cartridge so buy replacement right away.

Other Thoughts: Love that this printer has network and wireless connectivity and automatic duplex printing. If you are scanning alot, look elsewhere.

Pros: The printer function and copier function both work very well! Very quick, very quiet. I bought this to replace a Kodak all-in-one and this is better in every way, especially since I didn't need a color printer and the Kodak would not let me print at all (or scan) if it was unhappy with the color ink level.

Cons: I found the wi-fi slightly difficult to setup. The printer setup was simple, and well documented, but there seems to be an issue with the computer drivers as the computer was never able to connect after initial setup (printer just shows as being offline). Since it wasn't an important feature for me I ended up just hooking it up to my desktop through USB.

Other Thoughts: The only other "issue" I've had with it was during scanning, and that was simply an error message that it ran out of memory when scanning over 1200 DPI. I hope this is just an issue with my PC, as the software settings allow the machine to scan up to 2400 DPI and I eventually would like to take advantage of that. I haven't had time to explore all the options yet so I can't really say it's an issue with the Brother hardware.