Product Description

The MFC-9440CN is an affordable, network-ready color laser flatbed Multi-Function Center® that is ideal for any business. It combines vibrant color laser printing, faxing, copying and scanning in one device with an impressive print speed of up to 21 pages per minute color/black. Additional features include a 33.6K bps high speed fax modem, a 35-page automatic document feeder and a flexible 300-sheet paper input capacity that consists of a 250-sheet adjustable letter/legal size paper tray and 50-sheet multi-purpose tray ideal for letterhead or other media. High capacity replacement toner cartridges are available to help keep your cost per page low, too.

Product Details

• Color: BEIGE
• Brand: Brother
• Model: MFC-9440cn
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 28.20" h x 22.30" w x 24.20" l, 85.00 pounds

Features

• Up to 21/21 ppm color/black print speed
• Up to 2400 x 600 dpi rich color output
• Built-in Ethernet Network interface
• 300-sheet paper capacity, expandable
• Up to 35-page auto document feeder

Amazon.com Product Description
The Brother MFC-9440CN Color Laser Multi-Function Center with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface is a network ready all-in-one device that offers a range of features ideal for any office or business. The printer has 64 MB memory, and churns out prints at a speedy 21 pages per minute in both color and monochrome, so your office won't be backed up with print jobs and you can keep the workflow moving steadily. The laser printing technology offers a resolution of up to 2400 x 600 dpi for outstanding quality. The printer can handle a variety of paper sizes including letterhead, letter, and legal, as well as envelopes. The standard paper tray holds 250 sheets and an optional tray holds 500 sheets. The printer is network ready, with an Ethernet jack, so setting up the printer for the whole office to share is a breeze.

The copier works without a PC and has a maximum copy speed of 17 cpm black and color. An automatic document feeder tray has a capacity of 35 pages for fast copying of multiple pages. The copier can scale documents from 25 to 400 percent of the original. The scanner has an optical scan resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi at a 48-bit color depth. Included is Scansoft PaperPort SE with OCR for Windows and Presto! PageManager for Mac, making it easy to organize your scanned pages and convert them into editable documents. The fax machine supports both black and white and color faxing. With a 33.6 KBps modem speed, best transmission speed is approximately two seconds per page. The Brother MFC-9440CN Color Laser Multi-Function Center with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface is backed by a 1-year warranty.

What's in the Box
MFC-9440CN Color Laser Multi-Function Center, black toner cartridge, three (C/M/Y) color toner cartridges, CD-ROM (software, user's guide), and user's guide.

Customer Reviews

Very nice color laser printer - solid, fast, heavy duty
I am very pleased with my Brother MFC-9440CN. Here are some positive and negative points:

-- Positive --

It is very easy to set up. I have it configured for access through Ethernet, and it was far easer to get set up than other network printers I've installed. Other setup options are easy to understand and set. It also supports USB and parallel connections. No printer cables are provided. Software installed quickly and without problems under Windows XP.

Black and white print quality is outstanding -- as good as any printer I've ever used.

The print speed is very good.

Is a very solid machine (it takes two people to lift it). It feels like it is built to last. (see negative comment below)

Copying is easy, and there is an option to collate copies of multipage documents (they call this "stacking").

Toner cartridges are reasonably priced on a cost/page basis.

It has a front auxiliary paper feeder that can be used for envelopes or other media. I find this extremely valuable.

I haven't had any paper jams.

I have successfully printed color CD labels using Neato label material. It handled the thick material fine, and the image was good.

Faxes are easy to send.

-- Negative --

It takes 30 seconds for the first copy to be completed when you do the first print while it's cold. I have an HP 2420d that gets the first copy out in 7 seconds flat.

The machine is heavy and large. Don't try to move it by yourself. (see positive note above).

The color saturation is not as deep as I would like. Don't misunderstand, the color is good, but when printing something like a bar chart with deep, solid colors, the colors aren't as deep as I would like. There may be some setting to adjust this, but I haven't found it.

The machine makes more noise than my HP 2420d, but the noise is not objectionable.

The machine draws a lot of power. My room lights dim when it is warming up.

Overall summary: Very fine color laser printer that is easy to set up, easy to use, fast, and solidly built. I have no regrets with the purchase.

Excellent unit!
I was looking for a device to replace my aging HP OfficeJet D145, which started to have problems printing color. I was looking for a multi-function device that can print, fax and occasionally scan. I also wanted duplex capability, so I can save paper by printing double-sided.

I read great reviews of this unit, and I saw it in action in a local store. The only thing which I wasn't clear about was the duplex capability. Amazon lists it as having this capability, but Brother's own web site does not. Since I bought this device I can positively confirm it does NOT have duplex capabilities.

Nevertheless I was not willing to step up to its bigger brother, the 9840cdw, since it's just bigger, heavier and in my opinion not as nice looking as this unit.

I was looking for a silent machine, both when it's printing but also during its sleep time. For a home office printer I don't want more noise in it. This unit is rated at 30db noise. It's whisper quiet while sleeping, and not too loud when printing. It's certainly louder than the D145. There is a big fan on the right hand side of the printer that makes a lot of noise. When the printer boots up or prints the first page after it's been waken up from sleep, it tends to make a lot of noises for about 40 seconds. When not in sleep mode, the first page comes out in some 21 seconds, which is really fast and exactly as stated on Brother's web site.

The print quality is excellent! If you're using an inkjet for your day to day prints, you should look at outputs from laser printers. I'll still be using my Epson printer for photo prints, but for quick pictures for my kids to take at school, I'll be using this machine.

This device comes with 64MB of RAM inside it. You may want to buy some more memory if you're printing graphics intensive pages. This should help speed up the printing process quite a bit. Since I couldn't find specs on what memory works within the printer, here is it. You need PC-100 or PC-133, 144 pins, SDRAM memory chips of 128MB, 256MB or 512MB. If you have a computer older than 3 years that you're thinking of recycling, it's very likely the memory from it will work in your printer.

I setup the printer with a static IP address in my home network. I have mostly Macs, but also few WinXP and Linux systems. On Macs you need to install the PPD package only, to get the minimum printing functionality. On WinXP adding the printer manually and pointing it to the driver on CD will do its job. On Ubuntu Linux you can simply add the printer, and the system will recognize its type and indicate to you the manufacturer and its type. What an easy setup, it couldn't have been easier!

By comparison, I struggled few days to get my old HP working on MacOS X when I got the new Intel systems. Their drivers were PowerPC only and were working really badly on Intel. Even their PowerPC versions were years old and no longer maintained, making switching to a new major OS X release a major pain. A networked printer such as this Brother makes it so much easier to integrate in your network.

You can manage the printer in multiple ways. By far the most convenient way is via your Web browser. This way you can access the printer from any computer in your network, without having to install anything.

One bonus feature I found is the ability to scan a set of pages and have them uploaded via ftp to a machine in your network or on the Internet (I would advice against doing that). This way you can scan your documents and have them uploaded on your main machine without having to start an application on your computer. If you want to do this though, there is a bundled application that you can run on your computer, that connects over Ethernet to the machine and scans your documents. I tested it on MacOS X and it works great.

One weird thing is not with the printer but with Amazon. I decided to buy this printer when I saw it drop to $550. With Amazon Prime I got free 2-day shipping, so I decided to buy the unit. After I got the machine, I noticed the price went up to $680! So if you're not in a hurry, you may want to wait until the price drops some more.

I own one: CAUTION it uses up color toner during black printing, very expensive!
You read the title right. Tech support assures me it uses up color toner even during black printing. I have tons of black toner and rarely use color but I can't even print black right now until I pay brother $350 for new COLOR cartridges!

The advertised costs are completely false, your will spend $450 per toner replacement because you need to replace the color as well as black toner. I talked to two different tech support people because I really couldn't believe it.