Customer Rating: 
Summary: Worked for a while...
Comment: This printer worked ok for a while then started the toner issue that others have described. I bought a new drum but it didn't fix the problem. I now wish I never did!!! We are going to have to buy a new printer and toss this one in the trash. I also wrote to Brother about the issue... still waiting for a response (4 months later)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Serious flaw
Comment: As long as you want to print in portrait orientation this printer does a fair job. However, if you want to print in landscape mode (and who doesn't from time to time) this printer has a serious flaw. The Brother HL-1440 will not accept landscape orientation if you have any other print drivers installed on your machine. And to make matters worse the only solution offered by Brother is to remove all other print drivers (I guess Brother finds this to be an easier solution than actually fixing the software).
I advise anyone who is considering this printer to carefully investigate this problem. First, check this problem out for yourself on the brother website... they at least acknowledge the problem. Second, make sure you will never need another print driver installed on your machine. If I had known about this before I purchased the Brother HL-1440 I would not have bought it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This printer is a piece of crap
Comment: I used this printer for a few months and it started to put smears of toner all over the copies. Plus, there doesn't seem to be any way to reset it. I accidentally printed a web page that printed one line per page (190 pages!). I tried turning the printer off, holding the button, unplugging it, pulling the USB cable, removing the paper, pounding on it and cursing. Nothing helped. It was like one of those horror movies where the monster keeps coming back to life. It just resumed printing where it left off. It's still in there. I can't use the thing anymore, unless I want to run through a half a package of paper to let it finish, so I'm using my Epson inkjet. The printout will still be in there when I throw the printer out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Threw Mine Out After 6 Months
Comment: Buy something else.
Problems:
1. There is always a line on the paper you print - it doesn't matter how many times you clean it - it will go away for a few days and reappear. I could literally not get 10 pages to print without at least 3 of them having lines - this after cleaning the printer completely many MANY times.
2. Alarm buttons blink for no reason.
3. Manual feeder doesn't always pick up labels/paper. When you are printing postage this is one huge nightmare.
I'll never buy a Brother anything again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Throw-Away Printer
Comment: What's Hot - 1.5 years effortless operation. During that time excellent printing!
What's Not - Changed the drum when toner ran low - ever after - the fatal symptom of streaking and poor print quality. No support for EPS files.
You wanna like it for what is does well but can't help being pissed off that it's designed to fail.
Summary: Worked for a while...
Comment: This printer worked ok for a while then started the toner issue that others have described. I bought a new drum but it didn't fix the problem. I now wish I never did!!! We are going to have to buy a new printer and toss this one in the trash. I also wrote to Brother about the issue... still waiting for a response (4 months later)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Serious flaw
Comment: As long as you want to print in portrait orientation this printer does a fair job. However, if you want to print in landscape mode (and who doesn't from time to time) this printer has a serious flaw. The Brother HL-1440 will not accept landscape orientation if you have any other print drivers installed on your machine. And to make matters worse the only solution offered by Brother is to remove all other print drivers (I guess Brother finds this to be an easier solution than actually fixing the software).
I advise anyone who is considering this printer to carefully investigate this problem. First, check this problem out for yourself on the brother website... they at least acknowledge the problem. Second, make sure you will never need another print driver installed on your machine. If I had known about this before I purchased the Brother HL-1440 I would not have bought it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This printer is a piece of crap
Comment: I used this printer for a few months and it started to put smears of toner all over the copies. Plus, there doesn't seem to be any way to reset it. I accidentally printed a web page that printed one line per page (190 pages!). I tried turning the printer off, holding the button, unplugging it, pulling the USB cable, removing the paper, pounding on it and cursing. Nothing helped. It was like one of those horror movies where the monster keeps coming back to life. It just resumed printing where it left off. It's still in there. I can't use the thing anymore, unless I want to run through a half a package of paper to let it finish, so I'm using my Epson inkjet. The printout will still be in there when I throw the printer out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Threw Mine Out After 6 Months
Comment: Buy something else.
Problems:
1. There is always a line on the paper you print - it doesn't matter how many times you clean it - it will go away for a few days and reappear. I could literally not get 10 pages to print without at least 3 of them having lines - this after cleaning the printer completely many MANY times.
2. Alarm buttons blink for no reason.
3. Manual feeder doesn't always pick up labels/paper. When you are printing postage this is one huge nightmare.
I'll never buy a Brother anything again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Throw-Away Printer
Comment: What's Hot - 1.5 years effortless operation. During that time excellent printing!
What's Not - Changed the drum when toner ran low - ever after - the fatal symptom of streaking and poor print quality. No support for EPS files.
You wanna like it for what is does well but can't help being pissed off that it's designed to fail.