Good quality machine for Home or small office use
Very impressed. Very well packaged and ease of setup. User should install phone app first before anything else (scan the QR code at front of printer) this guides you through the setup, installing the drivers and wifi setup.Id recommend using the inbuilt webpage to update the firmware though instead of the app, as you’ll be prompted to change the password on any attempt to update the firmware… — remember to store this in a safe place for future reference.

A good monster, but annoyingly firmware update needed an OSS workaround!
It’s noticeably wider, deeper and higher that their monochrome models, because of the four colour cartridges, each with a shiny-cylinder at the bottom. The delivery man seemed to struggle because of it’s weight and the bulk of the box.On the back of the printer is the default admin password (you MUST change this), the serial number, the wired network mac address (yay!) and the Wi-Fi mac address (boo!). If you want to find/confirm it’s IP address from Linux, run avahi-browse -a -t -r and look for a section with its model name, and the hostname if you know it. Some of this can be seen on the top display too, after a bit of menu exploring.Colour print looks great via added Linux CUPS driverless, and the printing seemed fast. Hopefully this will be fine being little used, unlike damned ink drying-out inkjets.The installed firmware was v1.14 and an update was available to v1.18, as seen via web admin page, however when I tried to get the update via the web admin page and via the windows firmware update app, both failed with BS no network messages, on wired GB Ethernet, a fibre connection, and proven DNS, WTF!Beware: allowing firmware updates for Brother printers may be unwise currently, because they can allegedly cause spurious/fake issues with 3rd-party ink and toner, and that older firmware versions can no longer be found, so I may have made a mistake! Some Brother staff have denied such sabotage, but it may take time to confirm this.After lots of retrying, I eventually thought to have a look via the fwupd route, familiar to me because I mainly use Linux, and found sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd on github, so on Linux Mint 22.2, I ran:sudo apt install pipxpipx run brother-printer-fwupd –ip MY_PRINTERS_IP_ADDRESS.. and yay, it worked! So, I now have v1.18 firmware installed.This is probably runnable on Windows too, because it is a python program.Strictly speaking the update infrastructure should support self-updates by older firmware, but stuff happens, however they can be no tolerance for the latest Windows firmware update program, off the support site failing, and not providing Linux software to do the same; less persistent people will just return or avoid their products. The situation for their scanners, and even some of their AIO’s is even worse for Linux, so they recently lost a possible sale to me of a new document scanner, the idiots!I haven’t used it much yet, so there maybe other issues I haven’t spotted yet.

Good quality home office printer
Arrived ahead of schedule, no difficulty setting up, also easy to link with app on phone… fast printing… good quality printing…good value printer…got on offer…sits neatly on work bench…noise level low…

Mediocre Print quality lets an otherwise good printer down
I did a lot of research before buying this printer and its left me unimpressed. My 10 year old HP Laser printer produces far higher quality prints (yes it is an Enterprise M651 printer, but I’d expect this to easily beat it if Im honest). Print quality isn’t bad, generally crisp and clean, reasonably fast first page out time, and standard page per minute. Connection is relatively easy and straight forward, and it works well for duplexing. Its just the fact a 10+ year old printer far excels on quality is what I find disappointing, and given its the main function of the printer, it has to be 2 stars reduced. As an every day general printer for printing notes, drafts etc it does the job, for anything premium looking, Id avoid and as such, regret the purchase unfortunately. Ill be going back to HP next time