I've had a Brother MFC9120CN since 2011 (was around $300 at the time, far, far less now) and it is still working perfectly. Fast, reliable, just really nothing to complain about.


Oh yeah, had HP and Lexmark machines before (keep in mind that this is 2009-2010 ) and they were absolute garbage. Brother has been excellent.

Planned obsolescence through discontinued software support is just as effective. Surely you have heard of people who buys a new computer or device with the latest version of the operating system, but can't print to their printer because the maker did not release drivers for the new operating system.

You can avoid this pitfall by looking for standard printer language support in printers. PCL and Postscript are the two major printer languages. All operating system released in the last two decades should have generic PCL and Postscript drivers built-in. If your printer maker did not make a driver for your operating system you will still be able to use the generic drivers to print, although without the bells and whistles.

Most laser printers support PCL and Postscript. One exception I have found are the lower end Canon laser MFP that do not support PCL or Postscript.

Most inkjets are use your host to render the printout and do not support PCL or Postscript. The exception being the higher end HP OfficeJets which do.

That's once nice thing about newer MFCs -- you typically these days don't need drivers. Scanner driver obsolescence has been particularly annoying on Windows, and being able to just scan via a web interface or scan directly to email/google drive with no driver software on my PC is a huge improvement.

Ditto on photo printers; I got really annoyed when I realized my semi-new Canon photo printer wouldn't work with Windows 8.x/10 -- I'd BOUGHT the little 4x6 dye sub job because the prior one (from 2002) wouldn't work with Windows 7 64-bit.

Then I realized it could print directly from jpegs on a USB key on an SD card. Much easier!

Used to have a Brother MFC; have now migrated to an Epson WF-7520. Much better paper handling, much better print quality.

I need 11x17, so my choices were limited.

Yup, I've got one of those sitting here. A little noisy but no other objections.

I love my little Selphy 910; worked great with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and now Windows 10 Pro. The only annoyance is I have to disconnect the USB cable if I want to print wirelessly from my phone (using the Canon Selphy app).

I think what I've got is the CP900 (which replaced an even older CP200?); I should see if the 910 drivers work with the 900.

That said, I find just copying a JPG onto a card pretty easy. :D

Yup. I had the CP200, too. One day, it just quit working. :(

Mine worked fine for probably about 8 years, but once I got a new scanner it just got too inconvenient to have to run an XP VM just for the one printer.