Brother MFC-9840cdw

Buy cheap Brother MFC-9840CDW Color Laser Multifunction Center with Wireless Interface and Duplex

Nothing comes close for the price...espeially with Mac supportBy K. FranklinMy 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 printingCons:*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 ... »» Read more about Brother MFC-9840CDW Color Laser Multifunction Center with Wireless Interface and Duplex.

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