Customer Ratings & Reviews

I just purchased this Brother MFC-L8900CDW to replace my 3-year old Canon imageCLASS MF8280CW which had started to short out, resetting itself over and over, making it impossible to get a small 15-page print job completed without jamming! Hindsight being 20/20, I really did my research this time around when looking for a replacement color laser multi function printer. Faster, more efficient, higher quality, significantly more/better features. FOUND IT!! I Just received this Brother MFC-L8900CDW 2 days ago and can honestly say that I’m actually giddy about this printer! Print quality is great. Scan quality and speed is spectacular. Having the ability to scan to PDF, editable PDF, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and HTML has to be one of my FAVORITE and unexpected features. Really totally cool —- and something I will use! The 2-sided single pass scanning is lightning fast. My old Canon couldn’t scan to email. Only scan option was scan to PC which had to be done through their antiquated app. I’m talking 1995 level of technology in their app. I am nostalgic about the 90’s and all but NOT when it comes to technology. Scan file format options w/ Canon was horrifically limited to image files. The scan process was slow and brutally painful. Scanning was such a miserable process that I kept my old HP inkjet for the sole purpose of quick user friendly scans to email. Now, I’m able to shed the old HP as the Brother far surpasses the speed, quality and ease of scanning to email! Auto duplex printing is great... something my Canon couldn’t do. The option to purchase true ultra high capacity toner cartridges (6,500 pages in black and all 3 colors) will save me $$$$. While the upfront cost of the high capacity cartridges is much more, I will be saving BIG in the longer term. Canon color cost 0.06 vs Brother color cost of 0.027 and Canon B&W cost of 0.033 vs Brother B&W cost of 0.013. The added benefit of purchasing the TN436 means I can go way longer before I need to replace and less instances of running out then freaking out to get a new cartridge to finish a project. Seriously, I felt like I was running out of toner in the Canon once a month when printing < 1000 pages of varying color and B&W. I question actual capacity of Cannon’s stated capacity. When the Canon said low, that was it. No shaking and replacing to get more life despite the fact that is exactly what the printer told you to do. That NEVER worked. The first error that toner was low, you were done! Canon did not offer high capacity cartridges for color, only offered for black and their “high capacity” meant 2,500 where Brother offers 6,500. Again, I am giddy with delight over this purchase and drastic upgrade to my print/scan/copy game!

Excellent office essential. After trying to make a work horse out of a smaller printer for a home office I finally gave in to the right size equipment for the amount of work I need to accomplish. I am now asking myself why did I struggle for so long with an ineffective cheaper model that could never produce the qualities quantity of printing, faxing, and scanning task I needed to accomplish. I now see why our technology company highly recommended this product to me. I wish I have listened and invested in it years earlier. No more frustrating paper jams and running out of ink all the time. Good bye to cheaper plastic printers. Well worth the investment and area it takes up!

This is an amazing printer for home office use. It prints fast, it has double sided scanning and you can leave any amount of pages in the feesing tray and it will pull them to scan them for you. It has multiple paper feeding casettes which helps so you can use each casette for one size of paper and do not have to constantly get up to switch it. Printing quality is amazing! Even though it can print photos it is not the best photo printer. I would recommend having a differen inkjet printer for photos if that’s something you love to do.

This printer is great. Color printing is amazing. Its not photo quality but its really close. We got this because of covid and having my daughter at home for school needed another printer. Always wanted a color laser printer and finally purchased one. I'm glad I didn't wait any longer. The only negative I would have to say is the first page print takes a few seconds longer then what I'm use to. If printing multiple pages that averages out and isn't an issue when doing the math of total pages. Scanner works great. Haven't really tested the fax part of this printer but its great to know i have that as an option if ever needed.

This printer hasn’t failed to meet my expectations. It’s reliable workhorse printer. Prints quickly—there is a pause before printing starts. Paper jams are infrequent, but the LCD screen walks me through how to clear it. Using menus, the printer will print a fax cover sheet and other standard business forms. I just discovered I can scan documents to be saved in Evernote or Dropbox—a great solution for dealing with documents. Plus, it offers two-sided printing and scanning.

I needed a decent home printer for my consulting business. I needed something that had decent capacity and service life with printing and scanning capability. It also had to support wifi connectivity. I've used HP and Canon printers for decades and I've never been happy. Hard to set up or poor customer support. After months of research I settled on this machine. I had to wait for it to come back in stock but I'm happy I waited. Set up was a breeze. I followed the instructions and it connected to my wifi with no issues. All of my devices can print to it. Quality is very good. Scanning directly to google drive works flawlessly as well. I would recommend this printer.

If you want it, this printer probably has it. Fax, Copy, wireless printing, auto duplex printing, scanner, and all of this is in b&w or color.

The printer was easy to setup. I use this printer everyday, all day, and it never jams. It is very fast. The quality of the printing is high. The scanner is also fast and quality is excellent.

So far, so good. It was very easy to set up. The scanning is quick and the print quality is really good!

This is a great machine. Fast clear prints and good scan rate.

I was tired of replacing ink cartridges on ink jet printers for home use so finally invested into a much better printer. Scanning, printing, copying, and email functionality is perfect. Quality of print jobs also is greatly improved over typical ink jet printers.

My office staff and myself are quite happy with this upgrade. The machine is super fast printing and scanning. I use my printers all day and this is saving us time because it is so fast. So far, I have not been disappointed in any part of this printer.

Replaced a MFC-8850cdw. The are both great printers. Older one was easier to connect to network, but once finally connected it is fast. Great color. Scan to USB is faster than previous. Overall great printer.

Great machine. Wish I purchased it years ago and saved myself the headache of going into my office on weekends/off hours to scan with speed and ease. If I had to find one thing to comment on if the machine is idle for too long I need to turn off/then on to warm up.

So far so good. The printing and scanning are good, we’re having problems with printing envelopes, it likes to pull the envelopes.