Brother MFC-9840cdw Color Laser Multi-Function Center with Wireless Interface and Duplex | 
| Brand: Brother
List Price: $849.99
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Rating:  42 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 83.2
Dimensions (in): 20.9 x 21 x 20.5
nv:Print Method: Laser
Resolution: 600 x 2400 DPI
Maximum Duty Cycle: 35,000 Pages Per Month
Print Speed: Up to 21 PPM
Special Features: Duplex Printing
Dimensions: 20.9"W x 21"D x 20.5"H
Connectivity: USB
Connectivity: PictBridge
Standard Paper Input: 250 Sheets
Standard Paper Output: 150 Sheets
Optional Paper Input: 500 Sheets
Duplex Printing: Yes
Paper Sizes Supported: Letter
Paper Sizes Supported: Legal
Paper Sizes Supported: A4
Paper Sizes Supported: A5
Paper Sizes Supported: B5
MPN: MFC-9840cdw
Model: MFC-9840cdw
UPC: 012502618744
EAN: 0012502618744
ASIN: B000VLDQQ8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Multi-function device offers laser printing, copying, faxing, and scanning | | • | Built-in wireless 802.11b/g and wired Ethernet connections for easy networking | | • | Prints at maximum 21 ppm in black and white and color | | • | Scans at optical resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi at 48-bit color depth | | • | Measures 20.9 x 20.5 x 21 inches (WxHxD) |
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Product Description
The MFC-9840CDW is the ultimate color laser Multi-Function Center that offers superior quality color laser printing, faxing, copying and scanning with built-in network connectivity. The MFC-9840CDW adds automatic duplex (2-sided input/output) for printing, copying, faxing and scanning, a legal-size document glass, up to 50-sheet auto document feeder, as well as an integrated 802.11b/g wireless interface. Fast laser printing delivers an impressive color and monochrome print speed of up to 21 pages per minute, and copy speeds of up to 17 copies per minute. Produce brilliant, colorful presentations, brochures and documents that will give you a competitive edge. Network connectivity lets you print, scan or send faxes wirelessly as well as the ability to install the MFC on a wired network or to connect locally to a single computer via USB. Copy or scan both sides of an original document to either print or store the scan as two single-sided pages or as a single two-sided page. You can also copy or scan two single-sided documents and produce a copy or store a scan as a single two-sided page. Conveniently print PDF or JPEG files from or scan PDF or JPEG files to a USB flash memory drive. You can also print directly from a PictBridge compatible digital camera. Minimum Paper Width/Length (Paper Tray) - 5.8/5.8 Maximum Paper Width/Length (Paper Tray) - 8.5/14 Sheet Weight - Paper Tray (max/min) - 16-28 pounds Minimum Input for ADF (Width/Height) - 5.8/5.8 Max Input of ADF (Width/Height) - 8.5/14 Sheet Weight - ADF (max/min) - 17-24 pounds 150-Sheets Output Paper Capacity Document Memory Backup Unit Dimensions - Width 20.9 x Depth 21 x Height 20.5 Unit Weight - 83.2 pounds
Amazon.com Product Description
The Brother MFC-9840CDW Color Laser Multi-Function Center with Wireless Networking is the ultimate color laser all-in-one device with superior quality color laser printing, faxing, copying, and scanning. The MFC has built-in wired and wireless networking options that let you print, scan, or send faxes wirelessly via 802.11b/g or Ethernet. The printer can also be connected locally to a single computer via USB. The laser printing technology offers a resolution up to 2400 x 600 dpi and can print at a maximum speed of 21 ppm in both monochrome and black and white. The printer can handle a variety of paper sizes including letterhead, letter, and legal, as well as envelopes. The standard paper tray holds 250 sheets and an optional tray can hold 500 sheets. With the built-in duplexer, the printer can do two-sided printing, saving paper, and the printer supports the PCL-6 and BR-Script 3 printer languages. The copier works without a PC and has a maximum copy speed of 17 cpm black and color. An automatic document feeder tray has a capacity of 50 pages for fast copying of multiple pages. The copier can scale documents from 25 to 400 percent of the original. The scanner has an optical scan resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi at a 48-bit color depth. Included is Scansoft PaperPort SE with OCR for Windows and Presto! PageManager for Mac, making it easy to organize your scanned pages and convert them into editable documents. The fax machine supports both black and white and color faxing. With a 33.6 KBps modem speed, best transmission speed is approximately two seconds per page. The Brother MFC-9840CDW Color Laser Multi-Function Center with Wireless Networking is backed by a 1-year warranty. What's in the Box
MFC-9840CDW Color Laser Multi-Function Center, black toner cartridge, three (C/M/Y) color toner cartridges, CD-ROM (software, user's guide), and user's guide.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 The PERFECT color laser all in one! November 2, 2007
Dan's Review (Chicago, IL)
68 out of 69 found this review helpful
I have waited many many years for the perfect all in one COLOR LASER....and this is it + more! I bought mine from a local store and have had it about a week. It comes in a huge box, but don't worry, this MFC is large but not too large compared to the other Brother mono laser all-in-ones (of which I have owned three over the years). The print quality is EXCELLENT and very fast for full color (21 pages per minute). My only initial concern was that it creased envelopes when printing on envelopes......but after consulting the manual there are fuser tension adjustment switches that solves that for perfect envelope printing (Settings, A, B and Envelope). I had compared many all-in-one color laser machines for many years (including recent ones from Xerox and HP). I was surprised that HP hadn't come out with a great, feature rich one yet. Brother beat HP to the punch and it is a knockout for sure. I am replacing a higher end Minolta color laser with flatbed scanner, a Brother MFC mono, and an HP mono workhorse with this ONE MFC-9840CDW!!! I am very very picky with print quality but this one is great! Bonus features are built-in duplex scanning, duplex printing, and wireless network capability! The replacement supply costs are also very reasonable and lower than most of the other color laser brands. Brother truly has a winner on its hand with the MFC-9840CDW!!! Thank you Brother....I LOVE IT!
Nothing comes close for the price...espeially with Mac support January 2, 2008
K. Franklin
40 out of 40 found this review helpful
My wife is an em elementary school teacher, and she gets limited numbers of copies for each term. She also has a great deal of worksheets and other papers that take up a lot of room and make finding a particular worksheet very hard. We came up with a plan: All of her documents would be scanned into a PDF with management software, and she would be able to make copies for her classroom when she ran out at work. We wanted a color laser printer with network scanning and duplexing and had looked at all the different solutions but were bummed to find that many of the scanners only supported printing from Apple computers and not scanning to them. Some had the options to scan to e-mail, but the documentation on these features were very limited.
After looking around at an HP model and a Canon model we decided to look at what Brother had to offer. We were pleased when we saw the specs and features on this model. The best feature was its Mac support which was very extensive. In fact, this was the only model in our search that had equal support for both Mac computers and Windows computers.
I found that the software on the Mac and its Windows counterparts were written fairly well. On the Macs that run 10.5 we had to get an updated TWAIN driver for scanner control, but that was the only small issue we had. You can walk up to the scanner, scan to the computer in the other room over WiFi or even save a scan to your Flash drive by plugging it directly into the front. It is very handy. The scan quality was on par with what I expected. I wouldn't use it for high-end photo scanning, but an occasional family picture scan here or there, especially for web distribution will be just fine with it.
The print quality was also very nice. Even on cheaper paper the colors were vibrant and not splotchy at all. Text was crisp and print times were more than acceptable. I was getting about 20ppm both in color and black and white once the unit was warmed up. Slightly slower than the 21ppm claim, but the pages were also more than 5% covered which is likely where they get that number.
Faxing is somewhat convoluted compared to other all-in-one devices. After a few blank test faxes though, the steps were easy enough to remember and it does a superb job for those occasional fax jobs that we require.
Pros:
*Great Mac and Windows Support
*Software is easy to use and works well
*Scanning quality is very high
*Many scanning options including direct to flash drive
*Great color printing
*Great B&W printing
*Wireless networking is very nice and works reasonably well
*Toner reasonably priced
*Real duplexing for scanning and printing
Cons:
*Faxing function is slightly convoluted
*Scan to email doesn't seem to work with Gmail or Google Apps domains and the required authentication schemes
*Software and drivers don't appear to be downloadable from Brother's website, so hold onto those CDs that come with it
*All networking functions are off by default
*Some features lack thorough documentation and require a certain level of trial and error mixed with technical skill to complete successfully
*Color scanning can be slightly time consuming, especially over the wireless network to a computer
Overall thoughts:
Overall this printer was worth every penny. Hundreds cheaper than similar models, and it provides great Mac support. For simple printing from a Mac, no software or drivers needed to be installed. The software was only for scanning and other advanced features. My wife has scanned in hundreds of pages already. I must say, I truly love this printer.
Great machine January 4, 2008
Julien Pierre (Santa Clara, California)
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
I just got this machine to replace two others a month ago in my home office - an HP inkjet all-in-one 6310xi, and a Brother laser printer HL-1870n.
This new unit is superior in just about every way.
The print quality is much higher than on the HP. In B&W it is similar to the old brother laser.
The print speed is out of this world, especially for color. The inkjet could take minutes per page for letter-size photo prints. This one doesn't seem to take any longer than for other prints, amazingly ! This is no doubt thanks to its 128 MB of memory. I was thinking about upgrading the RAM, but there just isn't any need to do that at all !
Copies are also spectacular, just as fast as any photocopier. The HP all-in-one could take several minutes per page in the highest quality in color, and typically at least a minute even for high-quality black & white. And of course the quality is much better.
Scanning speed is also great. It is really measured in pages per minute, not minutes per page.
The ADF duplex scanning is invaluable.
The bundled software (Paperport) is also very reliable and far superior to the bloated crap that came with the HP.
Despite its size, this unit actually saves office space compared to having two separate inkjet color and black & white laser units.
Photo prints are very good. I have noticed some yellowing compared to the inkjet prints. But I am confident it's possible to adjust this in software and make the photo prints just as good as the inkjet. I just haven't had time to fiddle with it yet.
The unit is not perfect, but nearly so. There are a couple things that I wish were improved :
- The ADF is limited to A4/letter size. For legal size documents, you must use the glass scanner. This is my biggest regret about the machine. If I could I would give 4.99 stars because of it instead of 5.
- It weighs 85 lbs, actually 115 lbs with all the packaging. With the packaging, it was too large to fit through my stairs. I had to remove it all first. And if I didn't have a roommate, I would not have been able to bring it to the 2nd floor. I wish there was a printer with all these features at less than 50 lbs packaged. Or perhaps Brother could deliver it in 2 separate parts to assembler (let's say, printer unit and scanner unit) in 2 smaller boxes, so one person alone could move it and set it up.
- It doesn't work with glossy inkjet photo paper. That paper just melts and half the sheets come out pink. I had to sell all my Costco photo paper with the HP inkjet, and buy new special laser photo paper (HP branded) that worked great. I wish I had known about this requirement before the purchase.
Great color laser all in one November 22, 2007
J. Ewing (United States)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Wow;
This is just what I wanted. I had held off for a long time and almost went for the mfc-9440 non-duplex version. But then I heard about the 9840.
The printer set up on Vista the 64 bit version over my local network with no problems whatever. The rest of the family set it up on their XP machines also silk smooth. Scanning from the PC is no problem. It works over the network just as if it were attached to my PC.
Faxes, duplexing and fast 20 page per minute color are as advertised.
The quality of the scans and color copies and the color output exceeded my expectations of a color laser printer. I am estimating a toner cost of about 12 cents per color copy and about 2 cents per copy black and white.
I like the color laser printer paper.
This printer and its all in one functions exceeded my high expectations. Artistic and photographic works are better on a good inkjet, especially one like the canon i9900. However, this printer does way better color than I expected.
 Great Features - Too bad print quality is so low. March 5, 2008
Bruce Bacon (CO USA)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
These seem to be great machines - when they work. Unfortunately, ours doesn't. The machine generates random vertical streaks of yellow and cyan across printed pages. Solid colors are often printed as blotchy and uneven. Brother tech support has acknowledged that they are having these type of problems with this particular model. We've tried changing print cartridges (twice) and the problem still exists.
It's now been 6 weeks since we first reported the problem and still no resolution from Brother. Escalations have been met with promises of call backs followed by silence. Emails to support go unanswered. It appears that Brother products and support are hits and misses. In this particular case, all misses.
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