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Brother MFC-9840cdw Color Laser Multi-Function Center with Wireless Interface and Duplex | List Price: $849.99
Discount Price: $675.20
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Brand: Brother
Binding: Electronics
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)
Wake up time is too long [Posted on 2008-04-02]
This printer works very well as described by other reviewers. But the wake-up time is way too long. If the printer goes to sleep, it then takes about 30 seconds to print the first page. In my office, customer and I just have to wait there to joke about this printer.
We ended up putting the old printer back as the default printer and use this one for special needs.
If the wake-up tiem can be improved, it will be perfect. If you have the same situation as me, think twice about buying this printer.
Response to "Dan's review" in the comments section:
I have no interest in getting into any argument. I was simply stating a fact. And that fact has been resonated by other reviewers already. Wake-up time and sleep time are two totally different things. Sleep time is the period of time without activities the printer will go to sleep after. On the other hand, wake-up time is the time it takes to wake up from sleep state. You can control the sleep time such that it will not go to sleep too soon. Hence, you don't have to wake it up. But once it sleeps, then it takes a fixed wake-up time to uh... wake up. So even you set sleep time to a large value, it will go to sleep eventually after that amount of time without acitivities. Then, you have to wake it up. Besides, it is not good to set a large sleep time value. You are wasting the energy and wearing out your printer.
The same comments have been stated on its sister printer, 9440cn. Check out the 4 star reviews on that printer.
Dan,
Hope I explain enough to let you know it is your comment not mine that is quite inaccurate. I am not going to respond to your any further.
Simply the best there is... [Posted on 2008-04-03]
I have waited for sometime to get that perfect printer for my home office. Saw the 9840cdw from Brother, priced shopped it out and am very happy with this purchase. For me, wireless connectivity was the major selling point. I was able to follow the quick start guide with no problems and get my printer up and running with in no time at all. Setup was relatively easy and connecting to my network was a breeze. This unit prints well, with great quality and of course is all in one. So you dont need anything else...print, scan, fax...does it all! I was an avid HP user for years but HP quality has really gone down hill. This is my first Brother printer and I have installed many Brother units for my clients with good results. I dont regret getting this one! This is a must have printer for your home office!
A true all-in-one [Posted on 2008-04-05]
Over the years I had acquired a printer for every task -- an inkjet for color, a multifunction for black and white printing and faxing, a laser printer that I had configured to print checks (yup - that's all I used it for!) and a high quality inkjet for photographic printing. Now I only have the high quality photo inkjet and this new Brother 9840CDW. And it's great -- quality color documents, check printing, black and white documents, laser speed and quality, faxing, copying and scanning. And in a multicomputer household, the unit's built-in networking makes it easily available to all users.
One thing I really like is it's ability to scan a document to a PDF file and have it automatically sent to any computer on the network. Scanning to PDF effectively makes faxing obsolete. It is far better to scan a file and email it to someone than to fax it and kill more trees.
The only thing you should be aware of is this is a big machine. And it's heavy. It shows up in a massive box that you'll have to spend twenty minutes breaking down into small enough pieces to recycle. And get help lifting it. Really. I exercise every day, alternating between lifting weights and running 5 miles. This thing was too much for me to lift.
Overall quality and build is very good. I recommend this printer to anyone that wants it all in one device without compromising speed or quality of output.
Amazing product [Posted on 2008-04-10]
Fantastic!!! That's all I can say....
1) Setup
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It was extremely easy. Packaging was very nice, and it worked flawlessly out of the box. Took about 10 mins to get up and print my first document.
Wireless setup was amazingly simple, especially if your router supports secure easy setup. I setup manually - but took no time, it scanned SSID automatically (my router broadcasts that) and it was matter of punching the TKIP key. That's it.
Scanner setup was quite easy. Though I have not fully configured Printer to PC scan, but PC to printer scan works flawlessly. I have to setup fax yet, but I have no doubts about
2) Quality
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Amazing, though I thought colors were bit off compared to 8 color ink jets. But for 4 color toners, these colors are exceptional.
3) Speed
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21 ppm, color and BW - what more can you ask
Overall I think brother has a winner with this printer. Even if you are planning for a home printer, I would recommend this over ink jets (nowadays you can get very good laser photo papers) as your next printer over those expensive to maintain ink jets.
Best all in one I have ever owned [Posted on 2008-05-14]
This is one nice piece of equipment! Over the past couple of years I have tried several HP all in ones including the 7780 and 7410 and both broke down in about 6 months time. I decided to try something something of higher quality thus 9840. I also own a brother 9700 which still works after about 5 years with no issues at all. Networking features work great and scanning works like a champ. I did have some difficulty in setting up the fax from email function but after several calls to tech support I worked it out with a firmware update on the machine and an update. Not to mention that I could not find any other machine any where close to this price range that will allow you to send an email attachment to the machine and have the machine fax out for you. SWEET!
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