yes, it shreds great or can be used as a weed barrier layer if enough sheets & then add compost on top. I wish you a great garden season. Concentrate on one area for production & the others for soil building/compost making. Next year will be even better. It can be overwhelming to do it all at once. Lasagna gardening (layering up) really does work. Lots of info here on GW about it. My best tip for you with conditioning hard clay soil is to build all the compost you can using a wide variety of materials. Many things are free (stable manures, coffee grounds, hay sweepings from feed store, scrap paper, cardboard, your own plant waste, grass clippings, leaves, etc.) Household paper composts well. Make it easy for family to deposit the papers you want to save. After various methods of collecting household compost ingredients I figured out how to encourage the family to sort the trash & we no longer have a yucky compost bucket on the counter, under the sink, by the back door, etc. that no one wants to dump out. We use a contained compost bin (2 Earth Machines) outside for our household waste that includes food scraps. I remove compost as needed from the bottom & twice a year dump it all out into another compost pile because it never fully composts in there as we layer it up from the top. It's too hard to stir contents. Now that I don't expect the Earth Machine to compost it fully it's more of a storage container, but it works well to keep us composting year round. In each bathroom: a separate trash can for papers only (facial tissue, empty rolls, etc., but no cleaning products on them) In kitchen in front of our trash can between stove & frig: -paper shredder: junk mail, copy paper, newspaper, cereal boxes, etc. -step on trash used for compostables (plant waste, soiled paper napkins, coffee filters & coffee grounds, etc.) For easier dumping I line with a plastic bag, paper waste 1st, then wet waste. I empty contents & let the bag dry again before putting back inside. First in is the paper waste from the bathrooms, then it's ready for kitchen waste again. That way it's not a sloppy mess at the bottom & dumps out easily each week to reuse the liner bag. -recyclables go in a plastic bag slung on the pantry door. If a family member is pressed for time -- papers/broken down boxes are slipped next to the trash can for later shredding. This has worked well for us & doubled our kitchen compost volume. Since we raise chickens most edibles go out to them, but kitchen counter crumbs, onion skins & coffee grounds go into the compost bin. I used to be the compost "police" & admit it annoyed the family as I trained everyone to compost more, but no longer since we set up our system of the paper trash. It's easy now.

I did some Googling and found the following suggestion at TechSupport Forum. Scroll down the page to see all entries and feedback. Hope this helps. Brother Laser Printers - Error Message "Toner Life End" Brother Laser Printers Error Message "Toner Life End" MFC-7440N MFC-8460N. Brother suggest taking the unit to a service center. Message doesn't go even after replacing BOTH Toner & Drum. Try this Open door press Clear/Back key press *00 press OK Do not choose anything for drum replacement. When drum replacement menu comes up, press the * and then 00, then press OK. This might well work for other Brother Laser Printers too Here is a link that might be useful: TechSupport Forum

Gee, I sorry if I was feeling "too good" about my purchase. But, I say if you haven't put your hands on one your experience with his machine is less than mine. At least you have spared me from someone buying one of these because "Jerry said" is worth $400. My reference to that number is what I recall reading in the add, recalling how much these machines costs just a couple of years ago. This machine came without any reference to Windows 8, has the good old fashioned glossy documentation makes me think it was "designed for" sale in a higher priced market.. If one has a home network and want to share a printer, they might be happier (at an additional cost of at least $50) if the printer is accessed off of Ethernet or WiFi. On the W8, I moved forward first on my W8 notebook to access that printer. With the great help from this site I used the information to set the printer as "shared" on the XP host computer. I then followed the directions to use the W8 Control Panel to open the network (hey, this was all looking familiar) and bingo there I found my XP machine and thus the Printer. I doubled clicked the Canon printer and W8 started to look for a driver.... I'll estimate 3 or 4 minutes later I got a failure to find a driver. The next step upon this type failure indicated to try to install the printer in W8 (W7 really specified) and that failed too. I went to the Canon web site and downloaded a driver for W8. Now ready I went back to the W8 Control Panel and opened the network and this time I couldn't find even the XP machine, never mind the printer. It was after 11 PM by that time so I decided to try again in the morning -yet to be accomplished. But, before bed I decided to look at the DVD that came with the printer. it has no indication of what OS systems it supported, but I put it in the W8 and loaded both the driver and the software to operate the scanner (which by the way is a low resolution color scanner.. low resolution for B&W too, not a picture quality scanner which is the case for all home machines I have owned). I'm yet to try again to gain access from the W8 and W7 computers. Now on my second cup of coffee, and will try to access the XP machine when I get energetic enough to go to the other room and turn it on.

My hubby is not the geek, I am. He set it up, and it's never worked. After 8 months of not having the full functionality of the 4 in 1, I thought I'd try. The software is installed for the printer. On the Network page in Win8, it shows my laptop, the cpu, but not the printer. If I right clik on the printer( on the Printer page) it shows it's offline and not connected. The printer says it is not connected to the web. It seems to be stuck on "FAX". Due to bad lighting and the cpu and printer being in a cabinet, I can't see where to unplug the printer from cpu. The directions for the printer installation are not straightforward, they change pages. After the page change, I do not get the display that the instructions show I should have on the printer. I was under the impression that the usb cable was not needed with a wi-fi connection. I do not get a wi-fi connection with the usb or without it. When it's light out, and I can see the black cable in a black cabinet bottom, I'll unplug the usb and uninstall the whole thing and start over. Which is what I should have done to start with. Thanks for your help. So nice of you to take time to try to help. Will post back when I'm successful. And I will be, I'm determined.