Brother MFC-9450CDN

69 reviews

May, 2013

Positive
Usability (17)
Print quality (7)
Value for money (4)
Build quality (2)
Connectivity (2)

Negative
Performance (2)

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 69 reviews from magazines and websites. People really like the connectivity and value for money. The multifunction and print quality also get good opinions, whereas some have doubts about the performance and paper handling.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Printers the Brother MFC-9450CDN is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 80/100 = Very good quality.

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Consumer review by: Phil Perry (alaTest.com)

Terrible product

The color print quality is very bad. Browns are printed as pink, dark blue is printed as light blue, colors are generally washed out. Drum is for ever getting spots on it that show on printouts. Avoid this printer

Easy to use, Control panel, Connectivity

Usability, Value for money, Build quality, Size, Noise, Reliability, Print quality, Paper handling, Multifunction, Ink consumption, Performance, Unreliable

Jul, 2011

Expert review by: Susan Silvius (pcworld.com)

MFC-9450CDN

Brother's MFC-9450CDN color laser multifunction printer juggles speed, features, output quality, and design well enough to be a worthy choice for most small offices or small workgroups. The only people it is likely to disappoint are those who need...

Fast; low purchase price Autoduplexing included

Pale, yellowish color prints Lack of detail in color scans

Brother's MFC-9450CDN offers speed, features, and economy along with tolerable shortcomings. It's well worth considering for a small office that doesn't need high-quality color graphics

Apr, 2009

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Expert review by: John Breeden II (gcn.com)

Brother MFC-9450CDN

The 9450 prints flawless text, and can be trusted to print your best text documents, even those enhanced with spot color or graphics.

Jan, 2009

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Consumer review by: Perry1948 (cnet.com)

Terrible Color printing, good scanner, good B7W printer

Avoid this printer

Good scanner, good B&W printing

Color printing is terrible. Light brown comes out as pink, dark blue comes out as light blue, all colors are washed out. The drum gets scored easily giving spots on every page printed

Jul, 2011

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Consumer review by: platech1 (pcworld.com)

Brother MFC-9450CDN

Must be OK because Im buying another one to use for the next 2 1/2 years before it gets too ill and gets dumped again.

Full color, automatic duplexing. Duplex mode jammed only once in 2 years. Nice for a cheap machine. I could not and still cannot find similar units at around the $550 (street) price level. Actually ran into this review site while shopping for a second...

Super slow for first page out, seems like 3 minutes or more. Very slow when running automatic duplex. However, doing "set and forget" duplex is worth it. Beats printing one side then setting up to print and babysit the second side of the same page....

Jun, 2011

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Consumer review by: Bizkit (pcworld.com)

Brother MFC-9450CDN

Useless printer!

Scanning to email

It does not print, 1 out of 10 times it will become warm enough to start printing. Print unpossible is mostly displayed

Apr, 2011

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Consumer review by: DonBitz (pcworld.com)

Brother MFC-9450CDN

Why would Susan rate this well when she stated that the prints are sub-par? What good is ease of use when it prints like doo-doo? Take a pass.

Easy to set up with wizards. Wirelessly

Muddy prints. Slow to warm up. The PC World editor stated 'yellowish prints', how in the world would this get a better rating than the Canon when the prints look like you-know-what is beyond me. We buy a printer to print, a laser printer to print...

Jan, 2011

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Consumer review by: (amazon.com)

Amazon review summary for the Brother MFC-9450CDN

alaTest has collected and analyzed 34 user reviews of the Brother MFC-9450CDN from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.5/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.5/5 for other products on Amazon.com.

performance, usability, print quality

value for money

47% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

May, 2013

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Consumer review by: freddycat63 (amazon.com)

Do not buy this printer

I had an HP printer for 10 years and never had any problems with it. It eventually died on me, and it was suggested to me to purchase this 3 in 1 printer. What a disaster! The first one I bought was so bad that eventually the company had to admit it...

Sep, 2011

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Consumer review by: JS SCOTT (amazon.com)

Brother Lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

States clearly duplex printing, DOES NOT DUPLEX. Will duplex computer files not physical hand held copies. Brother does not care about you, do not buy their products.

Jun, 2011

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Consumer review by: Chip Dawes (amazon.com)

Tremendous value, outstanding features

I bought one of these all in one printers about 3 years ago. I have been VERY pleased with it. It is reliable, quite enough for my small office and produces high quality output on both sides of the paper. I don't have the problem of needing use MS...

Nov, 2010

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