Brother DCP-9040cn Color Laser Copier and Printer with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 17 x 19 inches ; 72.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 86 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000ZHEVYO
• Item model number: DCP-9040cn
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 29, 2009

Product Description

Brother DCP-9040cn Color Laser Copier and Printer with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Printer and an Excellent Scanner, May 17, 2009

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Kenneth M. Flock "KMFlock" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother DCP-9040cn Color Laser Copier and Printer with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface (Office Product)

Selected this printer for a home network printer. Great price for this type of printer. Easy setup as a network printer / scanner. We leave the printer on 24-7, the printer sleeps when it is not in use for a period of time. Yes, it takes a minute to warm up if you print and the printer is in sleep mode. This I believe is standard for a network laser printer. Once we start using, it prints and scans very fast from any of the four pc's on our network. The scanner is quite good, I was surprised that a duel function [printer / scanner] scanner was of this quality. The printer comes with the ink toner kit. We are very happy with this printer, and would recommend to anyone looking for a small business or home network printer.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent unit for the price, May 8, 2010

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T. Smith "T. Smith" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother DCP-9040cn Color Laser Copier and Printer with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface (Office Product)

I got mine on sale for $300 so it was a great deal. It replaced an inkjet printer that was rated at the same speed. However, this printer is about 300% faster for me. I print a lot of business quality text with images that took forever to print on the inkjet. This printer spits out good quality color pictures and text in a fraction of the time of the inkjet. For the inkjet to keep up with this laser printer you would have to set the inkjet to poor draft quality mode. (Note that color laser printers will not give you photo quality pictures. They will give you good quality photos for business use but not something to put in your personal photo album.)

I gave this printer only 4 stars for 2 reasons. It is a little noisy while printing, and Brother appears to try to scam you with the end of toner warning. It said I was out of black toner when I reached 2080 pages printed with the original cartridges. I put a piece of black electrical tape over the sensor hole on the toner tray, reset the toner counter, and printed an additional 1,660 pages before the print quality started to drop. So the out of toner warning is way too early on these printers.

To reset the toner counter is easy. First open the cover to access the toner tray. Press the Clear/Back button. Scroll up and down to pick which toner cartridge you want to reset. Hit OK. Congratulations, in 5 seconds you just almost doubled the life of your toner cartridge! For each cartridge there are two options. For example, for black you will see B.TNR-S and B.TNR-H. Pick -S for standard capacity cartridge and -H for the high capacity cartridge. Note that you will need to also cover the low toner sensor hole after you reset the cartridge or it will still not work.

To cover the low toner optical sensor hole you slide out the toner tray that holds the 4 cartridges. You will see a hole along the left side of the tray next to each cartridge. The holes are about 1/2" in diameter near the upper edge of the tray. Get a small piece of black electrical tape and tape over the holes. That will make the printer think the cartridge is still full all the time.

Keep an eye on the print quality. Eventually when the cartridges really start to run low the print quality will get poor and you will know you need to replace the cartridge(s) or refill them. (Refilling works but it is very messy and not recommended but for people that are very mechanically inclined.)

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect machine!, May 8, 2009

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Lindsay (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother DCP-9040cn Color Laser Copier and Printer with Built-in Ethernet Network Interface (Office Product)

This machine is amazing! It's very compact for a color laser all-in-one. Very easy to set up and use. I only wish it did auto-duplex.