Brother MFC-9420CN

You won’t find many color laser all-in-one printers (AIOs) that are intended specifically for smaller offices and cost $500 or less. We can recommend fewer still, wholeheartedly. The Brother MFC-9420CN ($475.75) is one of the few. It has the right combination of speed, output quality, and features to earn a place on your short list.

The MFC-9420CN offers the convenience of having both color and black and white laser printing, copying, faxing and scanning in just one product. It is the perfect solution for your small to medium or large business for everyone in the office to use. With its built in networking, multiple users can share it for printing. PC Fax sending and scanning over the network.

Brother MFC-8840DN

If you need a laser-based AIO with a wealth of features, the Brother MFC-8840DN is a good candidate. The 8840DN lacks a few extras, such as duplex scanning, but offers other functions you may find useful. You can use it as a standalone copier or fax machine, scan to any system on your network, fax from your computer, run multipage documents through the 50-page ADF, and print on both sides of a page. Most important, the 21-page-per-minute (ppm) engine offers both reasonably fast performance and output that ranges from a little better than fair for graphics to just short of excellent for text.