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

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Brand: Brother
Category: CE

List Price: ~~$999.00~~
Buy New: $599.99
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

63 reviews

Color: BEIGE
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 83.2
Dimensions (in): 20.9 x 21 x 20.5

MPN: MFC-9840cdw
Model: MFC-9840cdw
UPC: 012502618744
EAN: 0012502618744
ASIN: B000VLDQQ8

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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)

Accessories:

•	Brother TN110M Magenta Toner Cartridge Compatible with HL-4040cn,HL-4070cdw Series
•	Brother TN110Y Yellow Toner Cartridge Compatible with HL-4040cn,HL-4070cdw Series
•	Brother TN-115BK High Yield Black Toner Cartridge for Brother HL4040CN,HL4070CDW Series
•	Brother LT100CL 500-Sheet Optional Lower Paper Tray
•	Brother TN-115M High Yield Magenta Toner Cartridge Compatible with Brother HL4040CN,HL4070CDW Series

Similar Items:

•	Brother TN-115BK High Yield Black Toner Cartridge for Brother HL4040CN,HL4070CDW Series
•	Brother TN-115M High Yield Magenta Toner Cartridge Compatible with Brother HL4040CN,HL4070CDW Series
•	Brother TN-115C High Yield Cyan Toner Cartridge Compatible with Brother HL4040CN,HL4070CDW Series
•	Brother TN-115Y High Yield Yellow Toner Cartridge Compatible with Brother HL4040CN,HL4070CDW Series

Editorial Reviews:

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.

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 Manufacturer's One year limited warranty

Customer Reviews: Read 58 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

The PERFECT color laser all in one! November 2, 2007
Dan's Review (Chicago, IL)
90 out of 90 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!

5 out of 5 stars

Great machine January 4, 2008
Julien Pierre (Santa Clara, California)
50 out of 50 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.

5 out of 5 stars

Perfect for the home office February 11, 2008
Stefan Brunner (Austin, Texas)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful

So many good things were already said. I just want to add a few things I learned while using the product over the last few months:

- Only one job can happen at the same time. While you print you cannot scan or fax no matter how much memory you have.

- Reviews often state that the printer has only medium color printing quality. The printer is great but the PCL driver is not. Use the Postscript driver instead, which is a little bit slower, and you get results, which I would say are similar to HP. The difference is amazing.

- Scanning works perfectly. I use it to do editing on print-outs and then scan it in, and send it back to the publisher. I also use it to archive hardcopy documents. It is very fast with 400 DPI b/w scanning. The feeder pulls the paper sometimes not totally straight.

- You can use standard notebook memory to increase memory. It eats old 100 Mhz SO-DIMM in up to 512MB size.

- It takes a while to warm-up. Both when printing and scanning. It makes the light flicker when it warms up. It works well on a shared 15A circuit so.

- I love the iFAX feature. I can send a fax, have the printer convert it to a TIFF, and send it directly out via a SMTP server without needing a extra computer. I use for sending stuff to an Oracle ERP archiving system. (It can also convert to PDF.)

- It also can scan and send a document to FTP or via the Control Center to a PC or save to local USB flash. You can remote control the functions of the printer via pre-sets on the Control Center app.

- It faxes and copies in b/w and color. Quality of copies is good and very fast when you use the document feeder. It appears to be faster then the small copy machines at my local copy shop.

- I love that the printer both has a duplex document feeder and can also prints duplex (or scans, faxs, copies duplex).

- Consumables are more expensive than for instance in a HP laser printer. However, the purchasing price of the Brother is unbeatable.

Bottom line is that this product is as good as it gets in a multi-functional printer. After using it for a couple of months I am asking myself how I ever could have lived with out it. No more trips to the copy shop and savings for express mail.

5 out of 5 stars

Great color laser all in one November 22, 2007
J. Ewing (United States)
24 out of 24 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.

5 out of 5 stars

THIS PRINTER ROCKS! February 25, 2008
Sandra B. Siegel (Brooklyn, NY USA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful

We are very happy with this printer.

The downsides:

1. It is slow, especially printing double-sided documents ... painful. And quality scanning is also very slow.
2. It is heavy, so make sure you install it and never have to move it.
3. Limited capacity of the MP tray
4. If you need to print envelopes or on heavy media (110 lb card stock) you need to specify this in the print driver when you are sending the print job to the printer, otherwise it will jam.

Pros:

1. We have been able to print all sorts of documents: single sided, double-sided, envelopes, labels, thick promotional cards and materials (110 lb card stock) and they all look really, really good. The colors are more than acceptable for all business functions. We are thrilled.
2. All the other functions: copy, fax, scan -- work like a charm (but slowly)

So here's the bottom line: with this printer, even though we work a little slower, we can get rid of several machines and save money, and space -- which, by the way, costs lots of money here in New York City.