I'm not saying you're the biggest liar in the forum, I can't know that without reading all of the forum. But I can damn sure say your statement regarding the brother printers is rubbish. I don't know if they've indeed been rated top notch in pcworld, but I can tell you that I don't know a single company other than a car service garage in germany that utilizes brother printers.
We were stupid enough to replace our kyocera ones with brother printers at some point in the past.... the net result was approx 20 printers that were no use at all, and about two or three that might still be in use. Personally I know of only one, and it is actually broken, it just happends to not be taken down yet....
The brother printers in an affordable priceclass are so poorly made, that they'll tarnish the paper real bad after at most a year of usage, or the sensors will fuck up telling you to shut the front or whatever ..... and did I mention the incompatibility with anything remotely standard? PCL, Jetdirect boxes (u can make most work with one, just not see the status page or use advanced printing options), or pcounter or anything else that depends on some kind of reasonable printing language?
Anyhow, to answer your question in a previous post. Yes I've actualyl got a brother printer at home .... and it's rubbish. Never had such a bad thing before, and my first printer was a star something-or-another matrix printer many years ago. And at my place of work my record is having a brother HL-1030 break 10 days after unpacking - drum overheating.
One of our hardware suppliers told us that the highend brother printers were fine .... but we've got copiers for highend stuff ....
In short, I've got plenty of experience with brother to know you're not telling the truth regarding their excellence. I won't deny that there can be a model, or serveral, that are adequate or even good, but overall they're pretty much the worst investment you can make. Rather pay a bit extra and get a hp clj 2600n (expensive in toner though, but very reliable) or a nice cheap epson than that brother.
To sum it up, Brother isn't excellent, and I know that, it's not just to miscredit someone I don't even know.