![]() You have to sign on to the web interface. Scanning to Google Drive is not so great.Enabling Cloud Print isn’t a simple matter. Here’s where Brother could make some improvements. To date, not one has jammed.Cloud services work, but with some difficulties. The machine is appropriately fast and quiet. Print and scan quality are great, but that’s expected by now. Pull it out of the box, remove a few strips of tape, plug it in and start printing. The build quality is typical of other Brother products. It was also available on Amazon, so I knew I wouldn’t be stuck with it if I was disappointed.The machine is solid and attractive. The consumables are individually replaceable, and it supported web scanning and printing. It’s a color laser printer with a duplex ADF scanner. Preview: It does, but is not perfect.The Brother MFC-L8900CDW had just been released. It had to support cloud printing like Google Cloud Print. Most importantly, it had to support web services like scanning to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box. The consumables had to be reasonably priced. I was doing the USB drive shuffle to move files.A new machine would have to be laser. The world had moved forward, and the Epson couldn’t scan directly to Google Drive. The ink cartridges were a pain, with nozzles drying up. My inkjet-based Epson was no longer cutting it. He informed me Brother would do nothing to replace the 90% remaining life in the $178 toner cartridge, as it was more than 90 days old.Original review:This machine makes a lot of promises and lives up to most of them. The telephone support technician determined the toner cartridge was defective and must be replaced. A call to Brother had me enter the printer's service menu and read statuses of the printer. If one fails outside that period, Brother provides no recourse other than to replace the toner cartridge, regardless of toner left in cartridge.The printer has begun spilling blue toner across pages. ![]() January 2019 Update:Genuine Brother toner cartridges are only warranted for 90 days. Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2017 (4) Approximate cartridge yield in accordance with ISO/IEC 19798 (letter/A4). (3) Requires an Internet connection and an account with desired service. (2) Requires connection to a wireless network. Advanced security features for network user authentication Plus device access restriction. 5.0" color touchscreen display with customizable shortcuts. Print from/scan to mobile devices over a wireless network (3). ![]() 70-Page capacity auto document feeder with two-sided scanning at up to 58ipm legal-size scan glass. ![]() Print/copy up to 33 pages per minute in black and color (1). Brother genuine super High-Yield 6,500-page replacement toner cartridges (approximate yield based on ISO/IEC 19798) deliver low cost output. The Brother mfc-l8900cdw color laser all-in-one is ideal for offices and small workgroups with higher print volumes. ![]()
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