Brother MFC-845CW

Pros: small nifty

Cons: never works for long, tech support has bad hours

The Bottom Line: Do not buy the Brother wireless printer because it frequently has problems connecting.

Review: i have spent over a dozen hours with Brother tech support

once they get it working, it stops a week later

I have read the directions and have reinstalled and even from scratch, each time, it has trouble connecting.

I...

Pros: Price compared to some, good print quality.

Cons: Wireless install software has unfixable bugs; not print compatible with some products.

Review: Unless you want to waste hours (and days) trying to fix Brother's software problems with this product, look elsewhere. Some of the problems like wireless installation software that just stops functioning before the install is complete, they simply...

Pros: Excellent print quality, fast, works great!

Cons: Can be slow printing from network, occasionally

Review: Hmmm...Sorry the user above had so much trouble setting up this printer....I really had the reverse: a setup so trouble-free it seems frightening, almost. Usually printers and other peripherals have drivers written for Windows and ported to the Mac,...

Pros: Wireless capability; easy setup; cordless handset; compact

Cons: Paper feeder noisy, at first had some problems grabbing sheets. Seems OK now.

The Bottom Line: Qualified buy; so far, excellent, but too new to make a call for long-term reliability.

Review: This is a new product, so this review only covers setup and initial impressions.

I picked this one mainly for the wireless capability, to use a single printer for our wireless network. Expected setup to be difficult, but was trouble-free...

Pros: Worked nicely when connected; print quality is average for advertised resolution

Cons: Brother's service SUCKS; connection instructions are completely useless and unhelpful.

Review: The set-up instructions are obtuse at best and customer service is beyond horrendous. After 3 hours of re-entering security keys we finally got the printer to connect to our Linksys wireless router. We just replaced our old router with another...

Pros: None

Cons: Everything. Set-up. But mostly printing problems. Brother knows about it.

Review: Everyone told me buy Brother, you won't go through so much ink. Were they all wrong. First of this is my second MFC-845CW. The first one stopped printing black. Brother had to send me another one only after I complained for days about the first one...