Brother® MFC-8640D Laser Flatbed All-in-One Duplex

• Prints: Up to 21 ppm Copies: Up to 21 cpm Scans: Up to 600 x 2400-dpi optical resolution Faxes: Up to 33.6Kbps
• Duplexing (2-sided printing)
• 250-sheet paper capacity
• Up to 50-sheet multipurpose tray standard
• 16MB base memory

I''m shocked by how much I agree with the contents of "kid''s review" poster. I could have written myself. Right down to problems & solution with wireless/IP address and toner "eye." Great machine otherwise. I''ll never buy a printer again without duplexing.

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We have had our MFC-8640 for about four years and was prompted to write a review after the "wiz kid" helped me fix the toner sensor fault. Ours has worked more or less perfectly since we bought it and I recently put it on a print server, purchased separately, that facilitates use throughout the home network. It does "blink" the lights a bit when starting up, but I keep it in sleep mode most of the time so it''s really not an annoyance. 33K Fax is faster than some of the newer models. The alternate paper feed is a mystery, and we don''t print envelopes. Occasionally we print labels using the tray. Scanner does well, even copying color to B/W. And as mentioned the duplexer is great.

BTW the toner sensor "eye" is on the wall of the toner/roller cavity on the right side; it is a little lens recessed in the black plastic 3 or 4 inches from the front. Fixyourprinter dot com & Black tape fixed mine. Saved me Hundred$$. Buy the toner from Amazon.

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I have owned this printer for well over 5+ years and use it on a regular basis in my home office. I purchased the separate network card but I never installed it because I was able to plug it in to my home network through my NAS. Now all the computers I have connected to my home network can use the printer (provided the print drivers have been installed). If you don''t have a NAS at home which most people don''t, you should be able to plug it right into your wireless router, provided it has a USB port.

I am one of those people who need to print out things to review on actual paper rather than on a screen. This means I go through a lot of paper. The document feeder is something I use often because I reuse paper by printing on both sides. The document feeder has also been helpful when I print shipping labels on sticky paper or directly on envelopes.

The scanner is another feature I use a lot. You can use either the flatbed or the handy feeder. It comes with Control Center software which I have used to control how the scanned docs should look, how it is saved amd where it should go. I have found that the same things can be accomplished with Adobe Acrobat or micrsoft scanning setup which is standard for most PCs running XP and later. The fax works great, but I don''t use it too often so I''m not familiar with all the bells and whistles I know it''s capable of.

Now here is perhaps the most important aspect and why I give it such a high rating:

TONER! TONER! TONER!

The toner is easy to find and each cartridge prints anywhere from 1500 5000 pages, depending on which cartridge is selected. My cartridges lasts even longer because I have my default print setting on draft mode which still comes out dark enough to fit 95% of my printing needs. The cost per page is super low when you compare it to others such as HP, cannon, Epson, etc.

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I''ve had this all in one printer/copier/scanner for 5 years now and it still works great. It has been very reliable and I experienced paper jams only twice. For use with my Mac, the scanner feature works via software controls and not the on-machine buttons.

My only complaint is the original original on board memory of 16MB was woefully inadequate. It would take forever to print, and then it was one page at a time instead of the 21ppm. I eventually upgraded the memory by adding a 128MB module. After that it printed fine. Newer models are essentially similar, with just a few upgrades like 32MB memory and 30ppm.