Brother MFC-9440CN

Pros: Very easy setup, fast printing

Cons: Color photos decent, not great.

Summary: This is my first ever Cnet review.

Finally junked my HP d135 and glad I did.

What a breeze to setup this machine on my 3 user LAN at home via ethernet. No IP's to config, no hassles with the printer software finding the printer. I just put in the installation CD and it installed perfectly on all my pc's. I had the whole thing out of the box and running in less than 30 min. Fast printing, even for a one page color with no prior warm up. BW is very fast too. Printed a landscape picture of mountains and green forests and the print out was decent, not great. This is not important to me, if I want great photos I order them over the internet at .08 cents a print.

Software is excellant, very easy to use. Configurable scan button is nice. I set it up to scan directly to Outlook and a new message window pops up on my pc with the scan included as an attachment.

Machine build is solid, not flimsy. Packaging was excellant.

Purchased from Staples at $600 and then Brother has a $70 rebate you send to them directly. I found the coupon at Office Depot's website but it's a Brother coupon so it doesn't matter where you bought the machine.

This is day 2 and so far so good!