Rating: 
Summary: Excellent output and Extremely well built... but SQUEALS
Review: I've owned several laser printers for my SOHO business. I had an HP 6P for several years and replaced it with this unit. Paper handling is terriffic- the manual tray allows you to easily enter envelopes and does not jam. Large input tray requires less attention. Unit feels tough... doors and trays snap closed firmly and open evenly. No wrestling. First page prints quickly after it goes into sleep mode. Driver is easy to navigate and has a multitude of useful options. All at a signifantly lower cost than a comparable HP. I have to add to this... Now after owning it for a little less than a year, I've had squealing problems. I called Brother-- got them the first time and was told it was a drum problem. I've only used 2 toner cartridges, but they insisted that would resolve it. I went out and spent the $150+ for a new drum. Squeal (fingers on chalkboard?) persists. Now when I call customer service all I get is "Due to high call volume we can't handle your call right now"... Trying to resolve through Amazon at this time. As good as this machine could be, customer service has been less than adequate.. Maybe HP is worth the $$ after all
Rating:
Summary: Excellent output and Extremely well built... but SQUEALS
Review: I've owned several laser printers for my SOHO business. I had an HP 6P for several years and replaced it with this unit. Paper handling is terriffic- the manual tray allows you to easily enter envelopes and does not jam. Large input tray requires less attention. Unit feels tough... doors and trays snap closed firmly and open evenly. No wrestling. First page prints quickly after it goes into sleep mode. Driver is easy to navigate and has a multitude of useful options. All at a signifantly lower cost than a comparable HP. I have to add to this... Now after owning it for a little less than a year, I've had squealing problems. I called Brother-- got them the first time and was told it was a drum problem. I've only used 2 toner cartridges, but they insisted that would resolve it. I went out and spent the $150+ for a new drum. Squeal (fingers on chalkboard?) persists. Now when I call customer service all I get is "Due to high call volume we can't handle your call right now"... Trying to resolve through Amazon at this time. As good as this machine could be, customer service has been less than adequate.. Maybe HP is worth the $$ after all
Rating: 
Summary: Stay away
Review: Mac OS X, 10.2.etc.Will not print from Safari, am not getting any help from Brother in resolving this (currently, e-mails to Brother are returned "due to congestion.") Memory upgrade also non-functional (printer does not recognize the memory.) Will not print anything but the most simple postscript -- get "syntax errors" and "stack overflows" continually. I think I have a success rate of about 40%. Ridiculous waste of money. Stay away from this printer.
Rating: 
Summary: Brother HL-1850
Review: Previously had a Brother 630 machine. This new model is far superior. 2-sided printing is a snap to do. I immediately upgraded memory to it's max at a very reasonable cost. It was fast before, now it screams. Big bang for the buck!
Rating: 
Summary: fine laser printer
Review: The machine is well built producing fine text and graphics and I really like the duplex feature. My Ibook's operating system is MacOS 10.3.6. I originally had problems printing pdf files with this printer. It turned out not all pdf's as I originally thought just some (also some web pages). The printer would process the data and then just abort the print with an ignore data message and sometimes not even that. Brother was nice enough to replace the printer with another 1850 with a later ROM version. It sounded as if it was a known problem. The original ROM version was 1.18, I now have version 1.25 and it seems to work fine on pdf files that were previously a problem.
Rating:
Summary: Outstanding value
Review: This printer does exactly what I wanted it to do. It prints excellently in black and white for both text and graphics. It has automatic duplex (no more turning over the paper yourself!)that saves me money on paper and weight and space when carrying or filing. It is easy to use, and if you get the high-yield TN-560 toner cartridge instead of the standard TN-530 the cost per copy is very reasonable. You can share it with other people on your network through your own computer or you can hog it all for yourself. Changing the toner cartridge is a 5 minute job.
Its only drawback is that it is a bit big and heavy, but not enough to keep me recommending it. I used not to like Brother, but this printer and my MFC-8500 fax/printer/copier/black and white scanner have completely changed my mind.
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Summary: Oh Brother, where art thou, oh there you are... hi.
Review: This printer is outstanding, and coming in at the exact same cost as the HL-1650 I had priced and planned to buy, it was an easy decision on my part. It prints fast, crisp, and has loads of features to tweak your ink usage. Not to mention it's direct feeder for items you don't want bent up like photopaper, and the multipurpose tray works great for letterheads, though I THOUGHT the MP tray was going to be an internal tray it's still nice. The reprint and cancel job buttons at the top of the printer also help to save time and end user head-aches, as the office personnel this printer was assigned to often got frustrated if they needed to open up the print que to cancel a print job. If you're currently using an inkjet in any capacity make the switch NOW, this thing pays for it's self in a matter of months. I've yet to need another toner, but I'm sure the factory supplied one won't last as long as the others. I'll try and post an update to toner life when the time comes.
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