Customer Reviews for Brother - MFC-9840CDW Wireless Color All-in-One Laser Printer
Customer Rating
4
Well worth the money
on April 2, 2011
Posted by: Smbusowner
from Dickinson, ND
We bought this printer to replace a black and white laser and a colored ink jet. Best investment we ever made. My ONLY complaint is that the toner is rather expensive and "compatible" cartridges do not work well in this printer (buy ONLY genuine Brother toners).
This printer does everything well. I wish it were not so big and heavy, but if that is what it takes to get all the features, so be it. It prints quickly and with good quality, both in color and mono. Envelopes take a beating, but they can still be used.
I bought this because A Noted Competitor's products just wouldn't scan to Macs - which is all my office runs on, and because the color functionality would be nice. Setup was dead simple.
Once it's warmed up, it does a good job of spitting out B&W prints, both single sided and duplex. Color, not so much. And the time to first copy is a bit, shall we say, stately.
Our unit has a dead ethernet connector, which we didn't find out about until we had an issue with our wireless network - well after the warranty period. But the wireless works well.
The thing that drives me the most crazy, however, is using page counts and page counts only as the method of determining when expendables are needed - and it will flat shut down on you if you ignore it.
I have used this for business purposes mainly for three years and has worked great for most of the time. In the last three months the color toner has started "leaking" to where is shows up on all prints I make on the sides of the paper. I have replaced, cleaned, replaced, and cleaned everything to no avail it just continues to be there. I am sure it something to do with a part or parts in the unit but just cannot determine what that part is to replace or adjust. I does a great job and give great prints and copies otherwise.
VERY SATISFIED WITH USE.dOES EVERYTHING THEY SAID IT WILL DO. NO PROBLEMS WITH FUNCTION. ALL THE FUNCTIONS I NEEDED IN ONE MACHINE.NICE! BEST OF ALL I LOVE THAT IT IS WI-FI
when I first got the printer, I was fairly satisfied with it. We do not do much printing and didn't require the machine to do a lot. After a while the colors started going and the sides started cutting off, nothing to do with the toner since we changed all of them just in case.
Quality has been very good thus far. It seems to be a solid buy.
Features that could be improved:
1. Noise. 2. Excessive time from sending the print command to receiving the copy. 3. If machine is turned off, the personalized seetings, including date and time, dissapear. (this is stupid).
Very easy to print from my wireless. Was a little hard to setup but with tech support, no problem. Love the Control Panel that shows up on all my computers.