Customer Rating: 
Summary: great price
Comment: great price and a good way to order this item. Not only did I save money, but time going to look for best price at a store. Found it on line with Amazon.
Ray
Fernley Nv.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ink runs out fast
Comment: This printer uses all ink colors even if you don't print! Every so often it primes the ink through all the cartridges. So yes, your friend can be using everything even if she never prints black.
Worse yet, as previously mentioned, as soon as ANY ink color goes low it will stop printing all together. Forget trying to get out those last few copies - it shuts down and refuses to even try even if ink is sloshing around in the low cartridge. If magenta is low, it won't even print out a standard black text.
The separate colors were a good idea, but it uses all the ink so fast that you are constantly buying all the new cartridges anyway.
Customer Rating:
Summary: is color ink used when printing black?!?!?
Comment: Is it true that using a Brother MFC-5440CN printer to ONLY print black text emails and word processing documents will also consume the three color ink tanks?
It seems to be true because that is the case with a friend's printer: she never printed color and all three color tanks have run dry and, unless the 3 color tanks were replaced, the printer refused to continue printing in simple black.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ink Cartridge
Comment: Good brand. The only problem I have is when the inks run low and not out, the printer starts giving print error messages.
Summary: great price
Comment: great price and a good way to order this item. Not only did I save money, but time going to look for best price at a store. Found it on line with Amazon.
Ray
Fernley Nv.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ink runs out fast
Comment: This printer uses all ink colors even if you don't print! Every so often it primes the ink through all the cartridges. So yes, your friend can be using everything even if she never prints black.
Worse yet, as previously mentioned, as soon as ANY ink color goes low it will stop printing all together. Forget trying to get out those last few copies - it shuts down and refuses to even try even if ink is sloshing around in the low cartridge. If magenta is low, it won't even print out a standard black text.
The separate colors were a good idea, but it uses all the ink so fast that you are constantly buying all the new cartridges anyway.
Customer Rating:
Summary: is color ink used when printing black?!?!?
Comment: Is it true that using a Brother MFC-5440CN printer to ONLY print black text emails and word processing documents will also consume the three color ink tanks?
It seems to be true because that is the case with a friend's printer: she never printed color and all three color tanks have run dry and, unless the 3 color tanks were replaced, the printer refused to continue printing in simple black.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ink Cartridge
Comment: Good brand. The only problem I have is when the inks run low and not out, the printer starts giving print error messages.