Brother Color Laser All-in-One Printer with Advanced Security, High-Speed 33ppm Printing, Wireless Network, 7 in Touchscreen, Duplex Print and Scan for Business (MFC-L8905CDW)

This is a wonderful, reliable printer-scanner-copier. I run an active political outreach organization and this printer fits all our needs.

Purchased this to replace a previous Brother printer that lasted about 10 years. I like how this printer powers down, but I can still print to it. It is networked, so all the computers on my network can print to it. Text and photo quality look good. If photos are fuzzy, try a better grade of laser paper.

This is an OK multifunction machine. Color printing is good but on the slow side. So if you need a high speed color printer for production purposes, you should buy something else. The thing that triggered my two stars is the difficulty of replacing the four cartridges. I am in a small law firm. We needed this printer to print certain color exhibits that we needed in court today. We purchased a new set of Brother four color cartridges from Amazon. The printer said the cartridges needed to be replaced. I replaced them this morning. The printer is displaying error symbols for two of the cartridges. I have tried to reseat them several times to no avail. The bottom line is I am heading to court this morning without the color exhibits that I need because this printer will not print them -- everything comes out yellow. At the moment, I am really regretting our purchase of this Brother multifunction color printer. I ordered a replacement set of cartridges, thinking that perhaps the cartridges were defective. However, when I installed the new cartridges I had the same problem. So apparently the printer is defective. Accordingly, I’m downgrading my review to one star. The last straw is that even though the printer says that the black cartridge is in and correctly installed it will no longer will print at all -- even in black. This means that I cannot use even the copier function. I DEFINITELY DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE!!

I'm print a good bit and have never had any paper jams except twice when I mistakenly fed paper in the top that has a crinkle in it. That was my fault not the printer. I love this printer and do recommend it! It prints fast and the ink cartridges last a long time. My thought is, it's worth the cost.

Printer arrived 2 days after order. It's huge. First I unpacked and then, carried it down the stairs, tossed out the old thing I had (also huge and heavy) - back up the stairs. Opened up the Brother, and removed all the more or less easy to find orange packaging plastic bits and tape. Plugged it in, and entered wifi password. And then the really weird thing happened, windows 11 _already_ set up the driver as it saw the printer somehow. Test page printed, looks great. this whole shuffle unpack and install took about 15 minutes. I was using a recent epson inkjet, and xerox colorqube before - and neither was successful in printing the QR correctly for fedex shipping. (inkjet the detail is too fuzzy, even with correct paper, - and colorcube decided to have some striping problem) One thing about this printer, is it takes about 1/2 ream of paper only which is annoying. You can however solve this by adding a $220 accessory oem tray, so that will happen on next round of optimizing things. Also there are a lot of reviews here on amazon about this or that printer being bad and never again, etc. I' m completely not convinced they are not 99.99% one of user error, or something other than the printer being the problem. As a side note, I worked at xerox on the the colorcube design, so I can say there is really a lot to paper handling design - especially with all the different paper quality out there, and ageing effects on rollers and plastics. Printers are not at all simple things. And if the question is why did I pick brother and not hp, or a canon or a xerox ? xerox - too pricey for me, and they keep changing the ink shapes. paper handling is good in the office versions, but so-so in the low cost versions. canon - 3 inkjets over as many years that stopped working. Additionally the one good canon I had that lasted a while, the driver disabled "sharing" of a usb connected printer by design. hp - any company that almost forces you into subscription model on ink/toner, or does not have a bypass method for the oem supplies. just say NO.

Do not let windows 11 find and install drivers! 2nd page will flip. Uninstall of wkndows drivers does not work. Use the postscript drivers from Brother for the printer. Slows stuff down but works. Print quality is OK but meh. Not as fast as I'd like. Do not buy value cartridges. My prior Canon was trashed by them. Only buy a new model if you buy. 8905 not 8900.

Does everything I wanted except very thick card stock. Printing envelopes with addresses was a little awkward as the duplex assemble has to be disabled. But for day to day it’s great. I purchased an extra tray and keep letter paper there as well as legal size in the built in tray. The external tray holds more and most of my printing in on letter size paper. Easy to change toner cartridges. Works well with Windows 11, Mac OS, and iPhone/iPad OS. Don’t use the copy or scan much but happy when I do. I think it does some medium thickness cardstock but I have used the heavy stuff for Christmas and birthday cards for years/decades. I still have my old card printer but it doesn’t do air print.

Man this thing is amazing. I got it for color text (e.g. looking at document markups) but holy heck is the color good, I was really not expecting it to be as beautiful as it is. Just be aware that this printer is SIGNIFICANTLY bigger (and heavier) than the comparable monochrome laser all-in-one Brother sells -- that one comfortably sat on a credenza this one needs a table all to itself. The other thing to mention is, there is another model which is basically the same thing with a smaller touchscreen (the 8900) for $50 less, and the question is - is the bigger screen worth it. Unequivocably yes, it's not just a bigger screen; they have completely revamped and refined the UI. The older screen/UI design is so much more cumbersome to use.