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 - Everything works well.I bought the Brother MFC-8860DN about three months ago, so I don't know how well it will hold up. However, this printer is near perfect in it's operation. Given what it does, it is a great price. This is the finest printer I have owned. My wife and I love it. It prints crisp copies, both one and two sided. I found it quiet and fast and was particularly pleased with the quality of the copies. The single user USB installation was easy. I had no problem with the high power draw mentioned by some purchasers. The paper tray holds a half ream of paper which is nice. The scanner is of adequate quality and has excellent flexibility in retained user settings. Rating: - A Small Business Must Have!I previously owned ink jet MFC machines - they got the job done but very slowly. After reviewing about every Laser MFC on the market - I was most impressed by this one - price and features. It has not disappointed me one bit. Scans multiple pages in seconds, prints and copies with excellent quality and speed. This is my 6th Brother printer I have purchased (I also own or have purchased Ricoh, HP, Epson, Panasonic and Canon). I will never buy another make - they are fantastic in price and quality - not to mention longevity! Cheap toner and supplies to boot! Rating: - Outstanding Multifunction Device with Full Support for LinuxWow. This is a great printer/scanner/fax with full Linux support from the manufacturer! I was able to get this printer configured (including scanning with SANE and network fax send/receive) in a Linux environment following Brother's Linux setup instructions without any problems at all. I especially appreciate the "Scan to FTP" feature which will deliver PDFs to up to 10 programmable user accounts and directories at the touch of a button (does not require the user to type in user name and password each time like our Xerox machine). This printer has many more network friendly features than described in the printed documentation so be sure to peruse the Network User's Guide if that kind of thing is important to you. My only complaint (which has been stated in other reviews) is that envelopes get wrinkled by the printer in its default configuration. The included manual does not address this problem, but the updated manual on the Brother support site does. Lifting the two blue levers behind the back cover does solve the problem and I've just left them in that position without any apparent ill consequences (the updated manual states that you should return the blue levers to their normal position for non-envelope printing which would be a major inconvenience if you print many envelopes). As far as I can tell, this is an outstanding MFD at an unbelievably good price (especially if you buy the refurbished version). And did I mention that the manufacturer directly supports Linux for all features of the printer? :-) Kudos to Brother for a great printer and quality Linux support. Rating:  - BUYER BEWARE - additional cost of useAfter using this machine for 5 months, REPLACE FUSER comes up on screen. Check the manual, no word on what this means. Go to "Brother store" on web, not for sale. Call Brother support, learn that fuser is to be replaced after 100,000 copies. Guess what. You need to have a technician do it. They can recommend someone. Cost of fuser? $225.57. Cost of technician? Your guess is as good as mine. Assuming $150.00, now we are paying $375.00/100,000 pages that nobody warned us about. I had estimated 0.5 cents/page based upon the toner and drum costs. Now we're at .875 cents/page. I am writing to Brother's CEO/President, PC Magazine, PC World to get this out. I'm furious. And I'm going to see if Staples wants it back based upon bad info at time os sale. And no, the fuser is not under warranty. Rating: - Poor Quality, even worse supportPurchased this product for it functionality (ADF, automatic document feeder, duplex scanning, etc) but it fails on some 'normal' functions. Although advertises that it will scan up to * 1/2 x 11 it does NOT! It will NOT scan an 1/8" on each edge. This may not sound like to big of a problem but if you are routinely scanning documents that are printed to the edges (some checks for example) it is. There is no work around for this issue and tech support REFUSES to even admit that it is an issue. The ADF also does not pull the pages in correctly, 9 times out of 10 the pages are at an angle. Printing envelopes always crinkles them. This product also failed within the first year of ownership (the fuser failed.) Although the functionality of this printer is good the overall design, quality and workmanship of this printer is poor.
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