Don't ever buy a brother printer

[frash.exe]

gah what a piece of fuging poo.

My father bought a Brother MFC 210 printer/copier/fax/toaster oven/whatever the hell else a few years ago. I guess the "MFC" stands for "motherfuging c*nt" because you'll exclaim that plenty when trying to use this machine.

what's wrong with it? where do i start? as soon as we got the damn thing the phantom paper jams were plentiful, 8 year long "cleaning" sessions are frequent, oh and by the way, when it cleans, it uses ink. is that fuging ridiculous or what? So even if you don't use it much, that son of a bitch will still swallow ink like there's no tomorrow. I was so pissed off one day i wrote a review about it on epinions.

I swear everytime I go up to the damn thing one of the 18 ink cartridges that are in there is out of ink, well, actually, the thing might be half-full, but the goddamn printer refuses to work if it doesn't have a new cartridge.

If I was the one that actually bought the thing I would've stuck it in the driveway and back my Impala right the fug over it. And with my crappy job, there's no budget for a new printer.

[Zaximus]

You basically just highlighted most all printers you buy now. They are make cheap, very cheap. These places make their money off the ink now, not the hardware unfortunately. If you print quite often, getting 2 years out of a printer like this is good. They don't make them like they used too, I had a ink-ribbon printer a long time ago, and that thing was a beast.

[Jase]

I love my brother monochrome laser printer. Works like a dream.

[natty]

The only good printer I've ever gotten was the most simple HP available in '97(no faxing/copying/etc, just prints) - it's still working fine.

[frash.exe]

The only good printer I've ever gotten was the most simple HP available in '97(no faxing/copying/etc, just prints) - it's still working fine.

well before we got this piece of crap we'd been using an HP inkjet we bought in 1994. The only reason we replaced it was because the resolution of images was really out of date by that time, it never had a hardware problem and would make do when it ran out of a certain color, but the technology was pretty much outstanding at the time we bought it. Also their cartridges were just a black ink one and a color ink one. That one color ink cartridge would last 3 or 4 times as long as the brother cartridges for the piece of garbage i use, or at least try to use.

[frash.exe]

I love my brother monochrome laser printer. Works like a dream.

their laser printers are better than their economy-oriented inkjet products.

[phidelt649]

I love my brother monochrome laser printer. Works like a dream.

QFT. I have one that I've owned for three years and I still haven't replaced the cartridge. Good warmup time and fast printing! Plus it was >$100.

[Darth Biscuit]

We have a couple of Dell printers that came with some systems we bought at the office and have been having trouble with the toner running out quickly. The inital batch of toner that came with them lasted forever, but now any new toner we buy is gone in a hurry...

I pretty much stick with HP printers and plotters and don't have too many issues.

[cdcurrin]

ive had a brother monochrome laser printer/fax/scanner combo for many years, paid less then 150 for it and cartridges last forever. its part of the MFC series

[Happy Panther]

I swear everytime I go up to the damn thing one of the 18 ink cartridges that are in there is out of ink, well, actually, the thing might be half-full, but the goddamn printer refuses to work if it doesn't have a new cartridge.

This is why i wll never buy a brother again. When it thinks you are out of ink it stops working. From what I have read it does this when the toner is still half full. There are some tricks online like covering up certain holes with duct tape that will fool it for a while. But the toner life is really short...even when its not out of toner.

So i gotta go buy a toner carttridge. Big deal. The principal is Brother forces you to buy toner every so often whether you need it or not.

Oh yeah i am trying to print a report during busy season.

F U brother

[GRWatcher]

We use only HP at work and I only get HP at home. Ink cartridges are cheaper. At home, it's an inkjet-do-everything (wanted the copy feature) but all that HP wants running in the background was annoying. I uninstalled everything but the print driver. I can still scan through Scanners/Cameras in the control panel and it is so much easier.

One of our properties bought a brother some years ago that was supposed to do everything. Turns out it wouldn't scan to a pdf file which is death in our business. Part of my job is getting software/hardware working for 170 properties no matter what so I found a 3rd party program that allowed that brother to scan to pdf. When it stopped printing a year later, I had them throw it out.

Too bad you aren't in the Charlotte area. I have an old HP plain inkjet you could have. Check out your local Goodwill. They have older printers for $10 or less and you can find the drivers online. Just be sure to talk to them about returning it if it doesn't work.

And for God's sake, stay away from Lexmark. Worse than Brother. You'll need a 2nd/3rd job just to afford the toner.

[Jase]

I love my brother monochrome laser printer. Works like a dream.

meanwhile, I'm still really happy with my printer. Had to buy a new toner cartridge for it for the first time a few months back.

[Scrumtrilescent]

Sucks for you guys. I bought a little Thai orphan on the black market and use her as my scribe. Just have to water it every week or so, kinda like a bonsai tree.

[PanthaSan]

If ink cartridges are gallons of gasoline, this printer would be the ford excursion

I have an HP. No preference really, it's just that at work we have only HP printers, MFC's and plotters so I save a ton of money by just stealing the cartridges when I need them...