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Already out of yellow ink
I'm echoing the same sentiments that many of the other reviews who have a problem with this printer because of 4 individual ink cartridges that only works, even in black and white, if all 4 cartridges have ink. This is very frustrating since it costs to fill ONE individual color ink cart when I rarely even use the printer in color mode.

It is cheaper for me to just throw this printer away and purchase a different brand then to spend the money required to replace the cartridges.

No help from Brother and a waste of time.
I barely used my Brother 465. When I put in replacement ink for the first time the unit would not work.When I called Brother for help they took over 20 minutes asking me for all my personal info then refused to help me get my barely used unit working. They are set up to discourage the customers. They will not back up there equipment. I give them a Failure rating and i am so annoyed with there discouraging tactics that I have decided to boycot them!!! To all that read this, Please stop buying Brother products!! They will suck all the money out of you. This is the same reason I boycoted the chrysler car corperation over 10 years ago.They also are crooks and give bad service with plenty of bait and switch tatics. BOYCOT BROTHER !!! There products are inferior. Sincerly, Ross.

Awful- robs you blind
Here's what I'm dealing with right now. I need to print a black and white document, and I can't, because I'm out of BLUE ink. That's right. You need to keep all of your ink cartridges full (little left is not enough) or you cannot access the basic features of your printer that don't even rely on the color ink. Of course, this is to force you to buy ink you do not need. To make matters worse, this printer often cycles itself which wastes ink in the name of cleaning. So, even if you don't print, you'll be going through color ink like you can't believe- and when you run out, the printer shuts down and repeats the same error message over and over- refill Cyan, or Yellow, or Magenta.

Besides this awful problem, the printer is very slow, cannot handle duplex, and is larger than it needs to be. Also, printing envelopes is extremely annoying as you have to unpack the entire paper tray to load one in.

Consumer Reports was right- LOOK ELSEWHERE!

INKJETS!!!!
I had been on strike against inkjets for years. Ever since the days when the all the colors were in one cart and you'd have to throw away 1/2 full carts because one color was gone.

Here I thought Brother had resolved that. A cart for each color AND a cart for just black. Sweet...or so I thought. Brother, in their infinite lack of wisdom, has built in ways to make this machine drink ink like a thirsty camel in the desert. First, the printer "cleans" itself periodically. Every now and then it does a serious "cleaning" and these cleanings alone can empty all your colors. Second, even if you print in just grayscale the printer will use some color. Lastly, if you run out of any color the whole machine freaks out and won't print anything.

If that isn't bad enough one of units I bought is now a brick because the cyan jet does not work at all. After hours on the phone with tech support there is no resolution. On the other unit the scanner quit working months ago. Since they are big and heavy it is really prohibitively expensive to try to send them away for repair. I'm stuck with these pieces of junk and in the meantime I'm back to my 10 year old laserjet that still works flawlessly. Inkjets? Never again.

Brother
This is an awesome printer. I got a really good deal on it, and am very impressed with it's quality. It's wireless, so I can print from my laptop from anywhere in my house (which to me is super-cool). The scan quality is nice, as well as the fax feature. I love its compact size and pop-up screen. On a quick-print setting, it doesn't use a ton of ink. I don't think you can go wrong with this one!