Brother MFC-440CN Photo Color All-in-One Printer with Networking

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15 x 16 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 22 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J2IPY2
• Item model number: MFC-440cn
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The Brother MFC-440cn is a powerful color multi-function center with networking capabilities, making it a great addition to your home or small business office.

Color Printer
The MFC-440cn features a flip-up, two-inch color LCD so you can control all of its functions at a glance. Enjoy up to 25 ppm black and 20 ppm color print speed, as well as photo quality printing up to 6000 x 1200 dpi. With a droplet size as small as 1.5 picoliters you can be assured of fine details and color accuracy. The unit's front loading paper tray holds up to 100 sheets, while a photo by-pass tray holds up to 20 sheets of 4x6 glossy paper. Borderless photo printing is possible, and USB and ethernet interfaces are included. The printer works with Windows and Mac operating systems.

Color Copier
With a versatile flatbed design, the MFC-440cn offers easy copying. No PC is required for copying, and you'll enjoy up to 18 cpm black and 16 cpm color copy speeds. The copier also offers up to 1200 x 600 dpi resolution, as well as multi-copying for up to 99 copies. Reduce or enlarge your copies from 25 percent to 400 percent, in 1 percent increments.

Color Scanner
Use the MFC-440cn for flatbed color scanning at up to 19,200 dpi (interpolated) resolution, and up to 600 x 2400 dpi (optical) resolution. The unit includes award-winning ScanSoft PaperPort SE with OCR Software for Windows and Presto! PageManager for Mac.

Photo Capture Center
Use the color LCD display to preview, print images or even an index--all without a computer. The MFC-440cn features convenient digital camera media card slots for high quality photo printing (Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD-Picture Card Type M/Type H, CompactFlash, Secure Digital, and MultiMediaCard). The memory card system also works as a removable disk drive, and there's also a PictBridge interface to print photos directly from your PictBridge-enabled camera.

Color Fax
When it comes time to send a fax, you can choose black and white or color faxing using the ITU-T30E standard. A 10-page auto document feeder makes big faxing jobs a snap, while the 14.4 Kbps high-speed fax modem delivers your documents quickly. The fax machine supports caller ID and distinctive ring modes. No PC is required for faxing. You can also take advantage of 80-station auto dialing, and 32 MB of total memory means you can store up to 480 pages.

PC Fax
The MFC-440cn comes with the Brother PC Fax Driver for sending and receiving faxes from your computer. The software supports fax broadcasting from your PC, as well as network PC fax send and receive. PC fax functionality works with Windows and Mac operating systems.

Product Description

The Photo MFC all-in-one with networking for your home or home office, the MFC440cn includes a 2 color flip-up LCD display and a 4x6 photo bypass tray. Print rich, vibrant borderless photos with a droplet as small as 1.5 picoliters and True2Life technology. The MFC440cn can also do you other tasks with built-in functions to fax, scan, copy, PC fax, and the PhotoCapture Center to print high quality color pictures from digital camera media cards and a PictBridge interface. Print resolutions up to 6000 x 1200 dpi and color inkjet print speeds as fast as 25ppm in black and 20ppm in color.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Performance For The Price, January 31, 2007

By 

James M. Wiltshire "MilkWhite" (Shepherdstown, WV United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Brother MFC-440CN Photo Color All-in-One Printer with Networking (Office Product)

I have no complaints with this product. It amazes me a device with so many features for such a low cost can produce the quality of images of the Brother MFC-440cn. It replaced (and improved the quality and speed) of three devices, and freed lots of room at the workstation. There may be more expensive devices that can produce higher quality images, but I can't imagine the quality can improve much over what this can do. For 8x10 color images it is great. The scanning quality and speed is excellent for my needs. Throw in the fax and copy capability with a color LCD menu screen AND the ability to print directly from memory cards and you've got one fantastic and useful piece of equipment. I'll have to get used to the included software, but it has some nice features as well as some minor quirks. Once you scan an image, it is not intuitive what you are supposed to do next. A small problem overall. Changing cartridges is the most convenient and simple process I've experienced on an inkjet printer. I would buy this device again.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than HP, February 20, 2007

By 

Henry Ho (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Brother MFC-440CN Photo Color All-in-One Printer with Networking (Office Product)

I used to use a Brother MFC-3240C, which is an excellent all-in-one, but due to the fact that the 3240C used the Super G3 fax protocol, I couldn't use it to fax with my VoIP Internet Phone service. I needed one that uses the regular G3 fax protocol. I also wanted to upgrade to an all-in-one with a flatbed.

I originally went with an HP OfficeJet 6210 because it was on sale and I thought HP had a pretty good reputation. I was quickly disappointed by its performance. The scan speed on that thing was slow (about 45 seconds for 1 page at 200dpi), and the ADF made a huge noise ejecting each sheet of paper. After using my Brother MFC-3240 which scanned very fast, about 20 seconds per page, this was painful. I was not impressed with the scanning capabilities at all. The quality of the scanned images were also quite sub-par. I also ran into some technical problems with it running on Windows Vista, which HP proudly claims on their site that this the OfficeJet 6210 was "Certified for Windows Vista". Their technical support, however, said otherwise and that I should wait until their official software is available for Vista... ETA unknown.

I quickly returned the OfficeJet and decided to get the Brother MFC-440CN. It has all the features I'm looking for... an ADF with a flatbed scanner and a fax that was using the standard G3 protocol. First off, I love the color LCD screen. Besides the fact that it's pretty, it makes navigating through menus much easier. The scanner is much faster too... about 20 seconds per page just like the MFC-3240C. The ADF is also much quieter than the HP OfficeJet. Scan quality is great... good enough for document archiving. I wouldn't use it to scan high-res photos though.

Faxing over VoIP works perfectly, which I'm very happy about.

All in all, I'm extremely happy with the MFC-440CN! If you're debating whether to get this or an HP OfficeJet, I definitely recommend the MFC-440CN.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars High on Features, Questionable Quality, September 19, 2007

By 

Robert L. Stinnett (Boonville, MO) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Brother MFC-440CN Photo Color All-in-One Printer with Networking (Office Product)

I've always been a fan of Brother products. I currently own two of their laser printers and couldn't be more pleased with the quality and features of the products compared to the price I paid. With the MFC-400cn, the features continue to impress, though the quality is sadly missing.

It wasn't long ago when a typical home office would have a separate fax machine, printer, scanner and even a table-top copier. Thanks to technology, all of these functions are available nowadays in "all-in-one" units, such as the MFC-440CN. The benefits are obviously less overall space being taken up, not to mention less consumables to buy for each individual product.

Some of the things that impress me the most about the 440CN are the built-in networking (a necessity even for home users nowadays) and the automatic document feeder (ADF). In fact, the document feeder is what really got me interested in this product to begin with. I was impressed a product with such a low price for the home user would have an ADF. Overall, it works very well -- you can put up to 10 sheets of paper (according to the manual, and I've fed up to 15 without any problem) in the ADF for scanning or copying.

The copy and fax functions work well -- and the fax machine itself even supports color faxing, a relatively new feature that not many fax machines support. The copying is quick and the results are impressive for a home machine. Be warned though, that this machine does not have a duplexing feature so two-sided copies are a manual process.

Now, let's talk about some of the not so good features of this printer. First, the paper tray. Brother had a great idea to put both the paper cassette and photo paper tray together. However, as I soon found out, that unlike my HP photo printer, the photo tray must be manually locked into place when you want to print 4x6 photos and then manually unlocked when you are done. It's not a time consuming process, but it is something that you have to keep in mind and remember to do -- luckily, I did not buy this MFC for the photo capabilities.

Second, the paper cassette itself is very flimsy. I was afraid I was going to break it when I was using it for the first time. The plastic is very thin and of low quality. I don't expect it to stand up to the test of time and use.

One of the most confusing things about this printer is the menu system. You really have to be a master navigator to get around and setup all the options. I found myself giving up a few times trying to find basic settings (like where do I set the broadcast name for the FAX function). There is optional software you can install to do remote setup that works much easier than using the built-in menus.

Speaking of software, I will give Brother credit for supplying a Vista CD for those of us running Vista. However, the software itself is bloat-ware and doesn't work exactly as advertised -- I'm still trying to figure out how to allow Windows to receive automatic scans from the printer.

Overall, its a good BUDGET multi-function machine, but you should be aware of its drawbacks. I don't expect this machine to last nowhere near as long as my other Brother products, and I hope that this machine isn't representative of the quality that Brother is manufacturing nowadays.