Brother DCP-1000 Digital Copier, Laser Printer, and Color Scanner

by Brother

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 35.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 33 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005RWGV
• Item model number: DCP1000
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #89 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Copiers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 22, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The DCP-1000 digital copier makes up to 10 copies per minute and delivers high-quality output. The copier includes a 30-page automatic document feeder and a 200-sheet paper tray. Coupled with uncompromising laser printing at up to 10 pages per minute in 600 x 600 dpi resolution, the DCP-1000 is the right choice at the right price.

Also included is a built-in 9,600 x 9,600 dpi interpolated resolution flatbed color scanner with a dedicated scan key that allows you to automatically initiate scanning and quickly launches the appropriate PC application. Both USB and parallel ports are standard, allowing the DCP-1000 to work in Windows and iMac/iBook/G3/G4 computers.

Product Description

The Brother DCP-1000 fits three key products into a space that's normally occupied by only one - Laser Printer - Copier - Color Scanner - and can operate with any Windows PC and G3/G4 Macintosh or iMac computer Multi copy mode 600x2400 optical and up to 9600 x 9600 dpi (interpolated) color scanning (software bundle included) Includes both parallel and USB ports (cables are not included) Starter toner cartridge included (up to 1,000 pages at 5% coverage) Size - 18 x 18.1 x 12.5 Actual print speed will vary according to use

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What would I have done without it?, August 4, 2004

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N. Caine (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother DCP-1000 Digital Copier, Laser Printer, and Color Scanner (Office Product)

I've had mine for two full years, and I used it on most days. As a teacher, the convenience of sticking a book on the flatbed, pressing 25, and then hitting the green button, and having it print out 25 copies very quickly while I shave is... invaluable. I, for one, have never experienced any problems with the unit. I've replaced the toner twice -- a very simple procedure, and it's some of the cheapest toner around, giving me some of the lowest per page costs of laser printers. (Compare Brother toner to, say, Samsung toner.)

I don't experience paper jams, as I have with every other printer I, or my family members, have owned. The scanner integrates seemlessly with WinXP. Just a few minutes ago, I stuck on a cookbook, clicked "My Computer" in WinXP, then double clicked on the Brother icon, and it started the scanner wizard. I chose "greyscale image," it scanned it in maybe fifteen seconds, and then I clicked on "send to email" and I sent off the recipe to a friend of mine. The entire process took me about two minutes. It's not a scanner I'd use for archiving my photo collection, but it is good enough for most uses, and can copy a photo to my photo printer for a decent job.

I've been extremely happy with it. Cheap to operate for copying and printing, inexpensive toner with easy replacement, no printer jams. Two years service, and no decrease in quality. The "toner low" light does come on too early, but I just keep printing, usually a couple of hundred more pages, until I see fading, before I actually replace the toner. While this at first annoyed me, now I use the light as the "go order some toner so you have it around" light.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good inexpensive printer/copier, April 18, 2004

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Jason P. Gold (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother DCP-1000 Digital Copier, Laser Printer, and Color Scanner (Office Product)

I work for a sole practitioner attorney. When the HP LaserJet III finally died at the office, we tried running the office on an Epson ink jet printer for several days. As that was completely inadequate, we looked around for an inexpensive laserprinter which would handle a duty cycle of about 3,000 pages per month. We decided on the DCP-1000 because it had a built in copier with sheet feeder, was reasonably fast, and was inexpensive. We have had it for about half a year, and the only thing I really dislike about the unit is the way it spits paper out the front without an adequate recepticle.

The printer is excellent for the size of our projects, which tend to be less than 30 pages, and has stood up to the paper output of our office, which includes four networked workstations. It is also nice to have a copier with a sheet feeder for small jobs so we don't have to run to the copier half way across the building we work in. The one drawback with the copier is that the automatic sheet-feed occasionally misfeeds, crumpling up the sheet to be copied.

Several reviewers have commented about the price of the replacement drums and the speed with which they and the toner cartridges are used up. The fact is that the toner refills are only about $30, which is less than half the price of the cartridges used on almost any other laser printer. So, the fact that you have to spend $120 on a drum every 20K copies or so is the trade-off. This means it is no more expensive per copy than just about any other laser printer.

It would cost at least an extra $150 to purchase any other printer/copier and get the same functionality. For around $300, you get print quality which is good enough to hand to a judge, a copier with a multisheet feeder which makes good 600 dpi quality copies, and a color scanner which is adequate for occasional use and for OCR. This makes it a very cost effective unit for a home or small office. The unit easily pays for itself very quickly. The owner of the building where we lease our office has a central copier. He charges 5 cents per copy made on the central copier. (Kinko's charges about 9 cents per copy!) The marginal cost with the Brother is about 2 cents per copy. Just on the difference in cost of copies, this unit paid for itself in less than 10,000 copies.

As an update, after a little more than a year and close to 100,000 pages printed, the sheet feeder broke. (We replaced the drum 4 times.) Rather than have it repaired, we purchased a Brother MFC-8440 because, while we were happy with the product, we wanted a heavier duty, faster machine with a built in fax. I have the DCP-1000 at home, and anticipte getting it repaired.

Afterthought: Brother includes ScanSoft PaperPort and OmniPage Pro with the printer. Paperport is a scanning and document management application which will allow you to scan, print, organize, view and save copies of documents in PDF format. It interfaces with most common document handling and word processing software. You can drop and drag the thumbnail of a scanned document into an icon of the wordprocessor or other document handling program and it will automatically convert the document to text or other graphic format for editing, emailing or viewing. It is a bit slow to load, but it is a wonderful visual document and software interface. Unfortunately, the version supplied by Brother does not save directly to PDF format, but instead uses a proprietary format. It is also virtually impossible to uninstall. I recommend downloading the printer drivers from Brother and purchasing a newer version of Paperport.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Brother!, February 15, 2002

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"bradsalles" (Springfield, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother DCP-1000 Digital Copier, Laser Printer, and Color Scanner (Office Product)

Finally a low cost laser copying solution. I purchased this machine when it first arived a few months ago and have been very pleased. Not only does it copy, but it is a 10ppm laser printer and color scanner. Not bad for the price. This little guy sits right on my file cabinet and saves me countless trips to the larger copy machine. Has made life so much easier.