Brother MFC 8860dn Laser Color Printer Specs and Technical Guide
Features
Laser Printer Speed: 20 ppm Resolution: Up to 2400 x 600 dpi
Scanner Optical Resolution: 600 x 2400 dpi Maximum Interpolated Resolution: 9600 x 9600 dpi
Copier Speed: 20 cpm Reduction and Enlargement: 25% to 400%
Fax Machine Speed: 36.6 Kbps Super G3 Fax Modem Page Memory: Up to 600 pages
Interface Connects Via Parallel, USB and Fast Ethernet
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Review 1
Head: Brother MFC-7829B Critical of noise, paper jambs, and crooked envelope printing.
Date Reviewed: Dec 01'07
Date Reviewed: bobr3
I purchased the Brother MFC-8860dn Laser Flatbed All in one because of the favorable reviews that I read on Epinions.com as well as other sites. It was kind of a toss up between the Brother and the Canon MF4150 but I chose the Brother because I thought that the cost per printed page would be a little less. I probably print about 7500 pages per year.
I am running Vista Home Premium.
The Brother drivers did not self install as advertised. Encountered some problem installing the drivers but will not make a big deal about that.
After the MFC-7820 was up and running, I was surprised about how noisy the unit was, even in the active standby mode. There was a constant annoying fan whine/hum which was very distracting in my home business office.
I had see some negative comments regarding the problems that other users had when printing envelopes. I soon realized that their complaints were valid. No matter how you feed the envelopes into the tiny manual feel slot, the printing on the envelopes, especially the return address, comes out crooked. This is not acceptable for a professional product.
I do quite a bit of copying so the auto document feeder is an important feature. Unfortunately, I found that there were regular paper jambs unless the paper was in perfect flat condition. A creased piece of opened mail correspondence that was unfolded and flattened prior to insertion into the auto document feeder would routinely jamb.
After a week trying to accept or ignore the flaws in this unit, I packed it up and returned it to Staples where I had purchased it.
I replaced it with the Canon MF4150. I am happy to say that the Canon works perfectly in the short time that I have used it.
This is only the 2nd epinion that I have ever submitted. Hopefully it will save someone the hassle.
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Review 2
Header: junyaoxu
Reviewed By: kd5det
Date Reviewed: May 29, 2005
Strengths: Good print and copy quality; Enlarge and redcue size function; Easy set up software; network ready; fax auto distinct fax and voice calls; quite in sleep mode; short warm-up time;
Weaknesses: No paper folder to handle and store print output; old style LCD design
Summary: I was shopping MFC for a while. We have a wireless network and network ready is a must-have. By connecting it to the wireless route, run setup CD on each PC and laptop, all can share the printing and fax without wire connection, and no need for a PC open-up all day. Printing and copy quality is pretty good, even compared to high-end products. 2 in 1 and 4 in 1 copy function is very useful, and the reduced size print out is very clear and precisely fit 2 or 4 pages into one.
Machine in sleep mode is very quite, no noise at all. Warm-up time is very short, and could not feel time delay.
Fax set up is easy, and it automatically distincts fax and voice call. If you do not have many faxes coming in, no need for second phone line.
Price is very competitive to similar modes by other manufactures. Buying from Office Depot at price $349. After $40 gift card from Office Deport and $50 from brother, actual price goes down to $250. Very good deal! Hope Brother can handle rebates as quick as machine’s warm-up time.
Shortcoming: 1. No file folder to handle and store printout papers. Big volume printing (more than 50 pages?) may jam the paper out slot. 2. LCD design is too old fashion. I have a 15 years old Brother fax machine(still working), its LCD was almost identical to this MFC. The cost of chips is not so much today, why not make LCD update?
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