Brother MFC-7820N 5-in-1 Network Monochrome Laser Multifunction Center | 
 enlarge | Brand: Brother
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
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Rating:  187 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
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Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 33
Dimensions (in): 17 x 16 x 12
MPN: mfc7820n
Model: mfc7820n
UPC: 012502612810
EAN: 0012502612810
ASIN: B0007PF7FQ
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| Features:
| | Multi-function unit prints, copies, scans, and faxes | | | Prints up to 2400 x 600 dpi (HQ1200) at up to 20 ppm | | | Multiple-copy up to 99 copies; up to 20 ppm copying speed | | | USB 2.0, parallel, and Ethernet interfaces | | | Dimensions: 17 x 11.6 x 15.6 in. (WxHxD) |
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Product Description
With USB - Parallel and Ethernet ports, the Brother MFC-7820N can be installed on the network right out of the box! It also has the flexibility of working with computers with Windows or Macintosh OS. The MFC-7820N is a smart choice for small-to-medium size businesses or even if you work out of your home office. In addition, everyone can use it for making quick copies, sending faxes or color scanning. Its flatbed design and convenient copying or scanning makes this the right choice. Crisp, sharp, monochrome laser print mechanism is aptly suited for a wide range of office needs. The built-in scanner scans documents in both monochrome and color. Print Technology B/W Laser Technology using ink toner cartridge and drum Standard Memory (MB) 32MB Memory (maximum) Standard Interface(s) Parallel, Full Speed USB 2.0 & Ethernet Interfaces Optional Interface(s) NC-2200W (external wireless print/scan server) Printer Driver Compatibility for Windows & Mac OS Emulation(s) PCL-6 & BR-Script 3 Maximum Monthly Duty Cycle 10,000 printed pages B/W Faxing ability with up to 33.6K bps Super G3 Fax Modem at about 2 seconds per page transmission plus up to 600 page Out-of-Paper Reception memory / External TAD interface / Caller ID abd Distinctive Ring Detection Ready where service available / Total Auto Dial Locations 208 locations Letter-size Copying Capability B/W Copying with uip to 35 page Automatic Document Feeder with up to 20 cpm output for Stand-alone Copying / Reduction/Enlargement 25% - 400% Scanning Capability B/W & Color Scanning with Interpolated Scan Resolution Up to 9600 dpi and Optical Scan Resolution up to 600x2400 dpi /Input Color Scan Bit Depth 24-bit / Scanner Driver Compatibility Windows / Mac OS / View and OCR software included by Brother on CD Paper tray holds letter and legal paper sizes 2-Line x 16 Character multifunction LCD screen Unit Dimensions (WxDxH) 17.0 x 15.6 x 11.6 / Unit
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 No regrets choosing Brother over HP for multifunction! June 1, 2005
Lorena (Bellingham, WA)
60 out of 61 found this review helpful
After months and months of market research and reading endless reviews of Brother multifunction machines, I am so glad I chose the Brother 7820N as my business machine. All my friends and associates said to stick to HP for laser, but I am telling you... HP should stick to 1 function laser printing and ultrasound machines as Brother is the KING of multi-functions!!!!!
I have had this machine since the beginning of March and even with fairly heavy daily use, I have not had one single complaint. The unit is small, but performs better than most of the Canon and HP monstrocities that I have worked with in offices. I guess this proves that bigger isn't better.
I run an outsource admin and bookkeeping company and this machine keeps up just fine. The set-up was easy and the functions are user-friendly. Faxes are clear, photocopies are fast and printing is crisp. The unit seems to take a lot of the heavier card stock and labels through the manual feed just dandy - it hasn't choked yet! I have not had to clear any paper jams so the only time I've been into the front panel was to load the start-up toner, which by the way I have yet to replace!!!!
I highly recommend this machine. I've worked with printers, scanners, copiers and faxes for 16 years and I can tell you... when it comes to multi-function - Brother knows what they're doing. Do yourself a favor and buy one.
Oh yeah... the best part - I already received my $50.00 rebate from Brother!!!!
Mac Users -- This is YOUR Printer! June 14, 2006
Paul Stuart
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
'Old Reliable' -- aka my Samsung ML 1210 -- was wheezing more than a climber at the top of Everest. My Panasonic fax was as feisty as ever, grabbing 4 pages at a time while sending/receiving faxes Jackson Pollack-style. It was time for an upgrade. Wow; what a step up.
Of all the companies to offer 'true' OS X, Mac-compatibility, surprising to see it from a traditionally fax machine/label maker one. Brother's MFC 7820N software functionality is flawless for my wife and I's iBook's, running 10.3 and 10.4, respectively. True 'touch controls' power this unit, the Control Center software allows seamless and intelligent faxing, copying and scanning to customizable folders, email locations, etc. I did a double-take when spotting PC Fax capability LIMITED TO MAC's(!). Control Center is so Mac-friendly, it even comes with software for folks running OS 9.
Moreover, setting up this unit to print wirelessly from a network was a snap. It quickly linked up with my Belkin Wireless Access Point, finally allowing affordable printing AND faxing (from local files) without being tethered to a desk. The Remote Setup function is likewise very clean; a nice break from endless scrolling across the sharp LCD. I still, however, face the occasional (once every month, on average) software glitch in print jobs not communicating wirelessly with the printer. Turning the system off/on again solves the problem pronto.
Hardware-wise, the MFC 7820N is standard quality for multifunction units...hardened plastic with decent give...although with a much smaller footprint than competitors (including several from Brother). To put size into perspective, the MFC 7820N is approximately 1/3rd wider than standalone, monochrome laser printers, same height. Dig the large slide out paper try + print output at the center of the unit. No paper mess spewing from this one. Related, the paper feed (at early review) is outstanding. Take that, Panasonic fax.
Cost-wise, the MFC 7820N is a steal, a couple hundred bucks less than similarly featured units. Toner can be had at 1/2 the price of most conventional laser units -- $40 or lower.
Nearly 8 months in, I am left wondering why I stomached the high pitched squeal of my ML 1210 for this long. This Mac user finds the MFC 7820N a winner.
Great printer August 15, 2005
C. Nandor (Arlington, WA USA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have a Canon inkjet that blows because it uses up a lot of color ink *even when I only print in B&W*. And it won't print at all without color ink carts that have ink in them.
So I started looking into lasers. I found little that looked very good under $200, but there were a few.
Then a friend of mine said he had the MFC-8840DN, and loved it. After reading reviews and looking around, I found the MFC-7820N was basically the same thing, but around a couple hundred less, for $300.
As the name implies, it's multifunction: print, fax, copy, and (color) scan. It's also networkable: it lives on its own on the network, and has a web server to configure it etc. Also, it does all of the functions over the network, including scanning. It has a paper feeder, so I can put in a whole bunch of papers into the feeder, then scan from my PowerBook wirelessly.
You can send faxes from the computer too, by selecting "fax" instead of "paper" in the print dialog. The one thing you can't do with the Mac software that you can do with the PC software is *receive* faxes. So I'd have to print them out and then scan them to the computer. Or, just receive them with my computer in the first place, like I've always done to now.
Impressive multi-function laser printer! April 20, 2006
Jory K. Prum (Fairfax, CA USA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I want to share my experiences using a new printer today.
I know, I know. it sounds dull. But I was so impressed with this unit that I thought you all would like to know about it.
The unit is a Brother MFC-7820N B&W multi-function laser printer/copier/fax/scanner and is $[...] at Staples & Office Depot, with a $[...] rebate until Saturday.
I picked up the unit for the following reasons:
* I needed a new printer and a new fax machine and have been in need of a copier for the studio.
* I hate inkjets and will only purchase a laser printer for B&W usage.
* I should not have to replace ink/toner for less than 1000 pages.
* It reportedly has decent Mac support (10.2.4 and up through Tiger).
* It has built-in network support.
* It's inexpensive.
I brought the printer back to my studio and set it up. It's all one piece, so physical setup is easy. Pull it from the box, put it on a table, remove the clear tape, plastic coverings, and paper spacers, install the toner cartridge, plug it in & blow it up!
Configuration on the Mac was a little less easy. I rarely use CDs that come with peripherals, since they tend to be 1.0 versions that have likely been updated since. I went to the Brother website and looked for the drivers. After about 10 minutes of searching and not understanding what I was missing, I realized that Safari wasn't displaying the "Download" button, but switching over to Firefox solved that issue. I D/Led the four DMGs from the support site and installed them on my laptop (under 10.3.9).
Once I rebooted, I wasted about 30 sheets trying to get the printer to print out my taxes. It kept having problems which looked like driver issues. It turns out that I had selected the BRScript driver, but the CUPS driver was better and more reliable.
Here's how I config'd the printer:
* I first went through the menus on the unit's front panel and set it up for DHCP on the network. I also named it and set a few other minor settings.
* I went to Print Center and added a new printer. I used the Internet Printing Protocol and chose the printer via Rendezvous (Bonjour)! It came up with some bizarrely-named print queue, but it has printed flawlessly from then on.
So, the printer prints. That's cool. And I tried the copier function and that works, too.
One of today's tasks was to print contracts and W-9s that had been sent to me by clients and fax them back. Now that I have a printer, I can do that! But I started playing a bit with the ControlCenter software that Brother provides and discovered that I could setup my machine to be named as a recipient for scanning! (Scanning over the network!? Who would have guessed?)
Unfortunately, I did run into a snag using the network scanning from my laptop. I have two other TWAIN drivers installed on the laptop (Epson & Canon) and the ControlCenter software kept trying to use the Epson TWAIN driver instead of its own. Instead, I installed the Brother software on an iMac G4 that resides in the studio, which is available for client use and configured the ControlCenter. When I went back to the MFC and selected Scan-to-file, the iMac came right up in the list and I successfully scanned the document (to a PDF, as I configured it)!
To make this even cooler, the MFC's scanner can make use of the 35-page Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) that is present for the fax machine and will auto-scan all those documents into a single PDF for you. Can this get _any_ cooler!?
Actually, it can. The fax machine can also collect faxes to memory rather than to paper and send them to your computer! I haven't tried this functionality, as I didn't use the fax at all, nor do I need that feature (since I have an eFax).
One more killer thing: the unit supports Rendezvous (Bonjour) and can even be addressed directly from a web browser. Nearly all the configuration can be done in that window, although I found that setting the time & date from the browser still didn't set the front panel's time & date (which defaulted to the year 2084!). The web browser config center _does_ show exactly what the front panel's display is showing, though, which is way cool for me, since the unit lives in my machine room, with 3 doors between the unit and any computers.
Overall, I'm extremely impressed with this unit. Years ago I probably wouldn't have considered a Brother printer, as they didn't support the Mac and were making pretty cheap crap. But my dad got a similar MFC from Brother and has loved it.
I figured it was worthwhile to pass along just how killer this unit is.
So Much Better Than HP June 7, 2005
James J. (Fort Worth, Texas United States)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Thank goodness my HP all in one finally stayed down for the count and gave me the opportunity to buy this machine! Like other reviewers, I have struggled with HP multifunction machines and have been constantly frustrated by poor design and unreliable performance. In contrast, the Brother machine does everything the HP does, and does it better and faster. I was especially impressed with the fax function. I write a lot of reports and have to wait for them to finish faxing before I can file them and start on something new. With the HP, you are a slave to however slow the receiver's fax is, with a tendency to draw multiple pages in at once. With the Brother, the machine scans and stores the material in memory before attempting to send it. What a great machine and what an improvement over the HP "industry standard". I highly recommend it.
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