Brother MFC-8220 Laser Multifunction Center

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 21.5 x 17.5 inches ; 25.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 37 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001JSSKE
• Item model number: MFC8220
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #26 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Printers > All-In-One Printers > Laser All-In-One Printers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 15, 2004

Product Description

Style: Brother MFC-8220 Laser Multifunction Center

From the Manufacturer

The MFC-8220 is a five-in-one laser multifunction machine that truly outperforms any other laser sheet-fed all-in-one product in its class. The MFC-8220 is not only a laser printer and a feature-rich standalone fax, but also a full function copier and black-and-white scanner. Also included is PC Fax capability, allowing you to send and receive faxes via your desktop PC.

In addition to producing sharp, laser print quality of up to 2,400 x 600 dpi (HQ1200), the MFC-8220 prints and copies at an impressive speed of up to 21 ppm/cpm. The MFC-8220 comes equipped with a 250-sheet adjustable paper tray for letter or legal size paper and an optional second 250-sheet paper tray is also available. Both USB and parallel ports are standard, and the MFC-8220 is compatible with Windows, Mac, and DOS operating systems.

What's in the Box
MFC-8220, toner cartridge, drum unit, power cable, phone cord, handset, handset cord, document feeder, 250-sheet paper tray, user's guide, quick setup card; printer cable not included

Product Description

Multifunction Printers, Brother, MFC-8220 21PPM 600DPI Laser Multi-Function Printer, MFC-8220

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice machine, April 1, 2005

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Brad Bortner (Somerville, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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I just bought the mfc8220 after almost seven years with an older brother mfc 4350. It was still going strong, but the drum needed to be replaced, and prices have dropped so much it made sense to upgrade.

The printer is wicked fast. The industrial design is top notch. Print quality is good. Paper handling is good. It integrates with my favorite scanned doc management applciation, paperport.

If you want a laser, instead of inkjets that are slower and cost much more to run over time, and you don't need an integrated flatbed scanner, this is the one to get.

Brad

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Agreed - great machine, August 11, 2005

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G. Abernathy (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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UPDATE: Feb 2010: It's been almost 5 years now. I ended up buying two. After 4 years, we wore out the one at our preschool which served as our main printer. The second one has had much lighter duty at home. Still working great. Based on this experience, we've become diehard Brother fans and now own a 6490 and 8460.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: I've had mine for 10 months now and it's been very reliable; not one problem with it. It's quick to print out the first page, the display is a monochrome LCD with a backlight so you can see in dark spaces (say, if you keep it under a counter), no paper jams, no nonsense.

Also, if you're an Apple owner the drivers are already included with OS X; truly plug n print. What's a real treat is to combine it with an Apple Airport Express and use Apple's Bonjour software to easily convert it to a wireless network printer. Bonjour is available for both OS X and Windows computers, and is a breeze to install.

I highly recommend if you're in the market for a multifuntion monochrome laser printer machine that is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad, September 12, 2005

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Ilikestuff "Ilikestuff" - See all my reviews

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The print quality is decent, but not as good as my old HP 6p.
The print speed is very good, though paper handling is pretty poor. It's copier function is really pretty good for small jobs.
It reports paper jams when there are none, the ADF often drags more than one piece of paper through the scanner, and the envelope/special paper feeder only accepts one lousy piece of paper at a time.
There's also a persistent "register me" popup when Windows loads, which doesn't give up, even after you've pressed "already registered/don't register" several times.
Installation under Linux was very easy (much easier than installing in Windows, even with the provided driver cd). Print speed under Linux is a bit odd, each page takes quite some time to print, though I haven't tried switching to any of the several other drivers for the printer that are part of a normal SuSE 9.x installation.
With Vonage, I'm not able to send or receive faxes a lot of the time, and, with certain machines on the other end, couldn't ever transmit or receive. To be fair, it probably is Vonage's fault.
Finally, there's an idiotic feature to the main paper tray that doesn't allow you to re-insert the empty tray unless you load more paper (or press a tab). It's the sort of unexpected, poorly designed user interface quirk that shouldn't exist in products that cost more than a few dollars.

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