The MFC-440CN is part of Brother’s new all-in-one range and includes a fax, copier, scanner and photo capture tools within a compact and stylish enclosure.

Print quality is good but not perfect. For text you’ll benefit from using dedicated inkjet paper rather than standard stock, which lets characters bleed slightly over the page. Print speed here only gets near the quoted 25ppm (pages per minute) at the very lowest draft setting, expect more like 6ppm at default quality.

Printing full colour photos is easy thanks to the built-in 6×5in photo paper tray, but you’ll be waiting a while for your prints to appear. A full A4 high-resolution image at the highest quality settings took around 15 minutes. Results were clear with good colour reproduction, although slightly faded and you can see faint lines across the picture from the print head if you look up close.

Overall this Brother printer outputs text and photos at a decent enough quality, but it isn’t the fastest out of the blocks. However, an excellent interface and range of features combined with a very reasonable price tag more than make up for this and the MFC-440CN is a suitable addition to any home office.