BROTHER MFC-L3750CDW Color Printer White (Open Box)

I've had quite a few printers over the years. Some have been very good, others very bad. The absolute best printed I ever had was an Okidata monochrome laser printer that was absolutely bulletproof. I wanted something as durable and pain-free to use as that Okidata but with color and a scanner. I wasn't worried about print quality. Well, I was a LITTLE worried about print quality, but I wasn't concerned about getting photo quality results (I don't print photos). And, after dealing with a Canon Pixma and ink cartridges that dried out and/or leaked before I could use them up, I wanted a LASER printer. I investigated and found that this machine had reasonable specs-- relatively inexpensive toner, wired and wireless connectivity, scanner/copier capability, decent print quality. My next concern became cost of ownership, because I've owned printers that nickel-and-dime me half to death. One of the things that can make a laser printer uneconomical to maintain is the price of the image drum, which can often cost a significant fraction of what you paid for the printer in the first place. This is what ultimately made me get rid of that Okidata that I liked so much-- at the time, the drum cost almost as much as the printer. This was years ago and things are different now, but I wanted to be sure before I bought something that was uneconomical to repair. For this printer each color has its own drum, and the complete set of drums costs about $130. Not exactly peanuts but I don't expect to have to replace them any time soon because they're rated at roughly 18,000 pages each. Ditto the waste toner box, which is good for 50,000 pages and costs about $30. The belt unit is also good for 50,000 pages and costs $140 or so to replace. So, unless something gets damaged or I REALLY start to print a lot, these consumables will probably last the life of the machine in my usage case. So how does it work? Pretty well, actually. The printer is quiet and runs smoothly. It feeds paper with zero jams, and that's saying something because I've fed it an unusual diet of whatever I had laying around-- printer and typing paper of several bonds, thin card stock, whatever. Print quality is good enough for things like diagrams and textbook-quality pictures which is all I need. Colors are fine and toner life has been very good. I have a spare set of cartridges but have not had to replace one yet. My only gripe is with the software. It's not particularly feature rich and feels antiquated-- kinda like you're using an old Windows XP application. For printing this doesn't matter but for scanning you're at the mercy of the Brother software and its quirks. I've never had a problem getting things done, but the software feels cumbersome and doesn't integrate with 3rd-party apps particularly well. Aside from the software, everything works well. Scanning, whether you're using the glass bed or the automatic sheet feeder, produces good quality images. Printing is seamless because it bypasses the Brother software entirely. Same thing for copying, which you can do right from the control panel of the printer. Network connectivity is fine using both LAN cable and Wi-Fi, and I've been able to print from Windows 7, 8, and 10 machines as well as from a handful of Android devices. All work fine once they're set up. I can't comment on faxing or printing directly from USB since I haven't used those features. This printer won't set the world on fire with printing or scanning speed, but it's as fast as I need. It comes out of sleep mode quickly and spits out finished documents in reasonably short times. Scanning takes longer but the automatic sheet feeder works very well for any document of reasonable size. The only thing that wouldn't feed through it was a series of 4x6 photos that I tried to scan. I think 5x7 worked fine but I can't 100% recall. I'm glad I got this printer. For $400 delivered (slightly more now, but not much more) it packs a lot of functionality for the price. I bought it as a general-purpose printer and, when my schedule became hybrid, it became my home-office printer as well. It has yet to miss a beat and works very reliably.