If you want a colour all-in-one laser with all the extras, Brother are able to offer you its MFC-9840CDW. This device is targeted at small workgroups, therefore the technical specs are robust and, as well as offering colour print, it can print it upon each side of the paper in a pass, manage as many as 300 fax speed dials as well as copy multipage documents of up to 50 pages, all wirelessly.
Don't attempt to pick up the MFC-9840CDW by yourself. It weighs about 38kg and it is a certain two-person machine. It's bulky, as well, using a colour laser engine giving little truck to the more recent, compressed models. The full-size flatbed scanner is a sizeable device and its Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) is intended with regard to office use, also.
The control panel runs the total width of the flatbed and contains 40 speed dials in the left-hand end, and a number pad at the right; all for dealing with fax services. In between both of these is a backlit multi-line, mono LCD display, together with three large mode buttons right in front for fax, scan as well as copy. Right of the display are menu navigation controls while at the right-hand end are buttons with regard to mono as well as colour start buttons as well as one to halt a printing job. Specialist copy controls include enlargement and also reduction, tray select, sorting as well as multiple pages per sheet.
Beneath the control panel is a 250-sheet paper tray, a bit small we would say with respect to the sort of tasks the machine is targeted at, although another 500-sheet tray can be obtained as an option. There is a 50-sheet multipurpose tray that folds down from the front panel, too. At the rear are USB and Ethernet sockets but probably the handiest connection is 802.11g wireless.
Brother supplies its wireless setup wizard, and that is controlled from the MFC-9840CDW's control panel and checks for every one of the wireless networks within range.
Behind the fold-down front panel, a tray glides out in order to accept the four Brother MFV-9840CDW toner cartridges. These slip in to position simply enough, although the design of the machine demands a discrete drum, transfer belt plus waste toner box.
The MFC-9840CDW is ranked at as much as 20ppm regarding both mono as well as colour print. A five-page text print required 25 seconds, and that is the same as 12ppm, therefore not too great, but when we printed the 20-page document, the speed went up to 17.14ppm, which is actually a great deal nearer to the claim. The five-page colour document merely delivered 8.82ppm, on the other hand, therefore in general, the claims really are a bit optimistic.
In terms of duplex printing a 20-side test document required 2mins 54secs to finish, which happens to be comparable to 6.90ppm.
Printing the 15 x 10cm picture from a PC took 29 seconds. Printing from the USB socket in the front panel of the unit required 1min 26secs, there is however no control over the dimensions of the whole picture, which means this ended up being a full A4 print.
The scanner features a resolution of 2,400 x 1,200ppi. Scans were produced with very good colour rendition which was shown within the caliber of colour copies, as well.
Prints were typically is fine, thanks to sharp, black text as well as even block colours in business graphics. Colours can be a bit light and do not jump out at you compared to a few of the machine's competitors.
The MFC-9840CDW is a multifunction printer designed for work, which fulfils nearly all of its claims. We do not see it conserving significantly when it comes to paper expenses, and the sluggish duplex print speed might keep you waiting on a regular basis by the water cooler for your print jobs to finish.
