Brother MFC Fax Printer Review
by Matt Gerchow
Brother MFC 7840W B/W Fax Printer Review
The MFC -7840W is another multifunction device for Brother, it is generously equipped with copier, fax machine, monochrome laser printer, scanner and wireless and wired networking. Any user that is budget conscious must definitely appreciate its low cost per page of $0.03. It is also a device that is capable of printing high quality texts and graphics faster and reasonably and it fit perfectly into an office environment where black and white reign supreme.
The setup of this fax printer can be carried out in minutes, after you have switch on the machine and the toner cartridge has been put in place, we have three ways in which the connections can be carried out. Either by 802.11 b/g wireless, USB 2.0 and Ethernet. However, the USB connection is a plug and play device, while connecting the printer through Ethernet will make the printer to automatically appear on your MAC as an installed printer, while the most technical connection is the wireless because it require user to setup an IP printing and with the aids of the installation manual it can be made to work perfectly.
The control panel for brother Fax printers are well designed and accurately labelled. It comes with three big buttons that allows choosing any of the available options like scan, copy and fax and the rubber buttons are clearly displayed with an LCD display or easy navigation of the menus you can pick from.
However, the downside on the part of the scanner that comes with brother fax printers is that, the software that operates it doesn’t approve of any simple scanning options. Although the procedures are very easy and straightforward, but it is impossible to get a detailed preview of what you are scanning, previews are only allowed by placing your document on a specific part of the scanner glass, so you will need to be precise on where to place the paper before you can come out with an acceptable output.
But in the overall performance, MFC-7840W Fax printers are generally good when it comes to turning out quality outputs; this is an impressive observation from our team of experts. The output that comes out when the printers are used to print in Microsoft word looks very clean and professional and it earns very good rating. Another test was carried out by using it to print graphics; fine curves and it earn another very good rating from experts. But the scanner was notice to be too thick on the blue when compared to control images and it also earns good rating. Also, another test was carried out on MFC-9840CDW's copier, good rating was given what it was used to make a back cover copy of Macworld magazine, it doesn’t perfume as expected because not all details were capture and no details on the shadows.
Moreover, the Fax printer was also tested for speed and it was discovered to have performed as expected, ten pages of documents were printed under 38 seconds using Microsoft word and it takes only seventeen seconds to turn out a single page of word document. But, the color scanning was a bit slow, it takes about 117 seconds to do the scanning of 8”X10” photo at 600 dpi.
MFC-9840CDW are known to be a neutral device with a multifunction capacity, so you will need to be changing the toner cartridge which is currently being sold at $45, but the standard version can be ordered, according to Brother, a standard toner cartridge is capable of generating about 1500 pages output at $0.03 a print. You also need to aware that the drum units will need to be replaced with a capacity to produce 12000 pages, but the figures are just an estimates of what is expected of the drum and toner cartridge units, since the types of document you are printing plays a larger role on the life span of your toner and cartridge.
MFC-9840CDW fax printer can be bought at Check Latest Price and if you don’t care about the essential scanner driver. But if your job requires printing of texts, charts and high resolution business graphics, it is device that will be best suitable because it will not eat deeper into your budget.
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The MFC -7840W is another multifunction device for Brother, it is generously equipped with copier, fax machine, monochrome laser printer, scanner and wireless and wired networking. Any user that is budget conscious must definitely appreciate its low cost per page of $0.03. It is also a device that is capable of printing high quality texts and graphics faster and reasonably and it fit perfectly into an office environment where black and white reign supreme.
The setup of this fax printer can be carried out in minutes, after you have switch on the machine and the toner cartridge has been put in place, we have three ways in which the connections can be carried out. Either by 802.11 b/g wireless, USB 2.0 and Ethernet. However, the USB connection is a plug and play device, while connecting the printer through Ethernet will make the printer to automatically appear on your MAC as an installed printer, while the most technical connection is the wireless because it require user to setup an IP printing and with the aids of the installation manual it can be made to work perfectly.
The control panel for brother Fax printers are well designed and accurately labelled. It comes with three big buttons that allows choosing any of the available options like scan, copy and fax and the rubber buttons are clearly displayed with an LCD display or easy navigation of the menus you can pick from.
However, the downside on the part of the scanner that comes with brother fax printers is that, the software that operates it doesn’t approve of any simple scanning options. Although the procedures are very easy and straightforward, but it is impossible to get a detailed preview of what you are scanning, previews are only allowed by placing your document on a specific part of the scanner glass, so you will need to be precise on where to place the paper before you can come out with an acceptable output.
But in the overall performance, MFC-7840W Fax printers are generally good when it comes to turning out quality outputs; this is an impressive observation from our team of experts. The output that comes out when the printers are used to print in Microsoft word looks very clean and professional and it earns very good rating. Another test was carried out by using it to print graphics; fine curves and it earn another very good rating from experts. But the scanner was notice to be too thick on the blue when compared to control images and it also earns good rating. Also, another test was carried out on MFC-9840CDW's copier, good rating was given what it was used to make a back cover copy of Macworld magazine, it doesn’t perfume as expected because not all details were capture and no details on the shadows.
Moreover, the Fax printer was also tested for speed and it was discovered to have performed as expected, ten pages of documents were printed under 38 seconds using Microsoft word and it takes only seventeen seconds to turn out a single page of word document. But, the color scanning was a bit slow, it takes about 117 seconds to do the scanning of 8”X10” photo at 600 dpi.
MFC-9840CDW are known to be a neutral device with a multifunction capacity, so you will need to be changing the toner cartridge which is currently being sold at $45, but the standard version can be ordered, according to Brother, a standard toner cartridge is capable of generating about 1500 pages output at $0.03 a print. You also need to aware that the drum units will need to be replaced with a capacity to produce 12000 pages, but the figures are just an estimates of what is expected of the drum and toner cartridge units, since the types of document you are printing plays a larger role on the life span of your toner and cartridge.
MFC-9840CDW fax printer can be bought at Check Latest Price and if you don’t care about the essential scanner driver. But if your job requires printing of texts, charts and high resolution business graphics, it is device that will be best suitable because it will not eat deeper into your budget.
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