Brother use to be good quality 20+ years ago with their typewriters etc, but when it comes to modern printers for business/volume printing, I go for HP Business Class Printers. Brother makes inexpensive Laser/LED Printers and they are not meant for high volume, but instead home users that dont print reams at a time. Even Panasonic use to be a quality name, and these days their Printers are junk for high volume use. Printers that I have had good luck with for volume printing are Xerox, HP, Canon, and Kyocera. These printers of these brands and business class printers will crank out 50,000+ pages before requiring maintenance kit etc if regular copy/print paper is run in them. But they come at a price compared to say Brother which can be $100 to $250 depending on model, whereas the business class printers are usually $400+ depending on model and features. Even when maintenance indicator trips on these, if you want to if the print quality is still good, you can reset the counter and continue to print until there is a quality issue. I have seen 130,000 printed pages before before a fuser unit acted up, and it could have gone further if a piece of scotch tape didnt make its way to its surface which must have been attached to a sheet to be printed.. Also the business class printers can also be leased sometimes in which the provider covers repairs and upkeep as part of the agreement. We leased from HP and Xerox before and the local service provider was great.
