Great machine for the money, very user friendly and great quality print. If your wanting a color machine that has good quality and not $2k this is it, scanner is great and fast for those who use this also.
Historically I have worked in "corporate world" using commercial grade multi-functional (usually leased) high-end type machines for an office environment. Being a small business, we do NOT lease therefore we need to buy what we need. Had a different manufacturer product and got almost four years out of it. Was disappointed from the beginning that machine was complicated to operate. Our new Brother MFC-L8610CDW acts and functions more like the commercial machines I am use to using. Smooth scans, no matter what the original thickness is (4 year machine hung 50% of the time scanning 3-part documents, it did not like the thickness.)
The day I received the printer, I took it out of the box, plugged it into the wall, hooked it up to the network, and it worked perfectly
But this would not remain the case
The very next day, the printer could not find the network and no laptops could find the pinter. Nothing changed, it just simply went offline. I spent days troubleshooting, rebooting, looking online, making sure it was not my network, etc.
Than one day, it reappears. From here, we had this battle every few days. I was constantly rebooting it, reentering the network and so forth.
This printer is also very very very slow. It takes forever to receive data, and when it finally does, it prints at a snails pace.
The color when it comes out is also terrible, often times leaving streaks everywhere.
A solid multi-function product, frugal on ink, with outstanding vivid color copies. The scan function took a little time to figure out, especially when the target for the scan is a remote computer; but once understood, the scanner works flawlessly. The copy function is good, but I do wish it had greater flexibility in enlargements or reductions sizing.
Overall very happy with this product, setup was simple on all of my machines (Win 10, Win 7, and even Ubuntu Linux). We commonly need to print using limited paper supply and this printer will have no issues printing to the last piece of paper in the tray. Prints full color pages quite well, with no streaking or other common issues.