Who is the Brother - MFC-L8905CDW for?
Solid mid-pack printer. The 68.8 score lands in B-tier (68-77) — competent across the board with one or two specs holding it back from a higher tier.
Right buy if pricing matters and the trade-offs the formula penalizes don't affect how you use the device. Worth comparing against the A-tier picks in our best printers list.
Mars Score is computed from 10 measured specs against the transparent formula for the printers category. No editorial picks, no paid placement.
Pros and cons at a glance
- ▲Color — supported.
- ▲Auto duplex — supported.
No spec lands in the bottom quartile of the category normalization window — this product holds up across the weighted axes.
Pros are specs scoring ≥75% of the category normalization range. Cons are ≤35%. Derived from the Mars Score formula — no hand-curated lists.
At a glance
- Type
- Laser AIO (color)
- Pages/min (mono)
- 33
- Pages/min (color)
- 33
- Color
- true
All specifications
Spec
- Type
- Laser AIO (color)
- Color
- true
- Pages/min (mono)
- 33
- Pages/min (color)
- 33
- Resolution
- 2400x600 dpi
- Max paper size
- Letter
Features
- Auto duplex
- true
- ADF
- true
- Wi-Fi
- true
- AirPrint
- true
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