I love this printer. I bought it for the 11x17 feature I use at work but find myself working at home at these days. This thing basically set itself up. All I had to do was put in the Wi-Fi password. I’ve printed off of my desktop over Wi-Fi as well as my iPhone without additional drivers or apps on the phone. I’m going to put that 1 year of ink to the test I think though. The value is unbeatable.
Not quite two years of light use and print heads are not working right. I have tried multiple head cleaning cycle without success.
Response from brother-usa.comBy Brother Customer Service., Brother Customer Service., December 22, 2021
We are sorry that you are experiencing printing issues with your Brother MFCJ5845DW machine and we understand your disappointment. Our Brother Customer Support Team is on stand-by to provide quality products and service to our customers via online, email or live chat: www.brother-usa.com/brother-support
Tried to make this work for three years now, mostly to justify to my wife spending this much money on an inkjet. It won't do anything that I need it to do, although it's supposed to be able to. Tried to print ledger double-sided, sucks the paper in one way and pops the back panel out ejecting the paper and giving me a paper jam. Card stock will simply not feed from the paper tray, and from the manual feed tray just tells me to clean the rollers, and no support online for how to do that. Does at most five pages before spitting the rest out blank, making me try to figure out which ones I didn't get and feed them again. Can never seem to get the print heads entirely clean, going through six or seven cleaning cycles. I got better service out of printers that cost a third what this did. My second disappointment with Brother, I thought if I'd just spent for the high-end I'd be okay, but remain disappointed. Maybe for some basic print services it would be okay, but for anything special, e.g. anything for which you'd want to spend this much, it always frustrate me. Scanner was excellent.
Response from brother-usa.comBy Brother Customer Service, Brother Customer Service, August 31, 2021
We are sorry that you are experiencing issues with your Brother MFCJ5845DW and we understand your disappointment. Feel to contact Brother customer service in order for us to assist you with your printing needs, We'd like to help. Contact us at: https://www.brother-usa.com/support
Excellent overall printer, copier, scanner and fax!! Colors are vibrant, and it is loaded with options. Capable of multi-size printing which is great. Doesn't take up allot of space which is great for small offices or a small business
This printer is mammoth. Don't expect it to slip into a cubby hole. But its "beefy-ness" is a testament to its feature set and its build quality. B&W prints are fast and the start-up of a print job is much faster than our previous Canon photo printer, which would "think" about it and do a little "jig" for awhile before it finally started to print. The full duplex printing is really nice and loader for multi-sheet scans is nice (wish it would full duplex scans, however, but that is seldom needed in my family). Haven't tried printing A3/11"x17" yet, but I do plan to do so as occasionally we have a drawing/schematic that is not very legible at letter size. Have only had printer for a couple of months, but have made a lot of B&W prints, and I'm not sure the expected count of remaining sheets at B&W has dropped much, if at all. Hopefully this will indeed be much less an ink thief than the old Canon printer!