Brother MFC-5860cn Color Photo Inkjet All-in-One Flatbed with Networking with 2nd paper tray

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15 x 17 x 12 inches ; 23.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 30 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J2EQQI
• Item model number: MFC-5860cn
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 7, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
The Brother MFC-5480cn is a powerful color multi-function center with networking capabilities, making it a great addition to your home or small business office.

Color Printer
With the MFC-5480cn you'll enjoy up to 30 ppm black and 25 ppm color print speed, as well as photo quality printing up to 6000 x 1200 dpi. With a droplet size as small as 1.5 picoliters you can be assured of fine details and color accuracy. The unit's front loading paper tray holds up to 100 sheets and there's a second paper tray that holds up to 250 sheets. Borderless photo printing is possible, and USB and ethernet interfaces are included. The printer works with Windows and Mac operating systems.

Color Fax
When it comes time to send a fax, you can choose black and white or color faxing using the ITU-T30E standard. A 35-page auto document feeder makes big faxing jobs a snap, while the 33.6 Kbps Super G3 high-speed fax modem delivers your documents quickly. No PC is required for faxing, and you can take advantage of 100-station auto dialing, and 32 MB of total memory means you can store up to 480 pages.

Color Copier
The MFC-5480cn offers easy copying in color or black and white. No PC is required for copying, and you'll enjoy up to 22 cpm black and 20 cpm color copy speeds. The copier also offers up to 1200 x 600 dpi resolution, as well as multi-copying for up to 99 copies. Reduce or enlarge your copies from 25 percent to 400 percent, in 1 percent increments.

Color Scanner
Use the MFC-5480cn for 48-bit flatbed color scanning at up to 19,200 dpi (interpolated) resolution, and up to 600 x 2400 dpi (optical) resolution. The flatbed design also enables scanning from bound documents. The unit includes award-winning ScanSoft PaperPort SE with OCR Software for Windows and Presto! PageManager for Mac.

Photo Capture Center
Use the MFC-5480cn to print images or even an index--all without a computer. The MFC-5480cn features convenient digital camera media card slots for high quality photo printing (Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD-Picture Card Type M/Type H, CompactFlash, Secure Digital, and MultiMediaCard). The memory card system also works as a removable disk drive, and there's also a PictBridge interface to print photos directly from your PictBridge-enabled camera.

PC Fax
The MFC-5480cn comes with the Brother PC Fax Driver for sending and receiving faxes from your computer. The software supports fax broadcasting from your PC, as well as network PC fax send and receive. PC fax functionality works with Windows and Mac operating systems.


Product Description
Network ready, flatbed color Printer, Fax (33.6Kbps), Copier, Scanner, PhotoCapture Center and PC Fax. Inkjet printing speeds up to 30ppm mono and 25ppm color and photo-quality printing resolutions up to 6000 x 1200 dpi printing for exceptional color output, borderless printing for all standard photo sizes. Built-in Network supports multiple PCs on a network for printing, scanning and PC Fax. No PC required for faxing, copying and PhotoCapture Center. Dual access memory can scan faxes while sending or receiving. Dual trays for a total of 350-sheet paper capacity, 35-page ADF, USB and Ethernet interfaces. Windows/Mac compatible.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing printer, January 11, 2007

By	IT Atty (East Windsor, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

From the specs, this Brother multi-function printer has a lot going for it. In the home or workplace, it falls far short.

I use this printer in a busy home office. After two months of heavy use, here are my thoughts and obervations on it:

Printer: The specs say up to 30 ppm (pages per minute) b&w, 25ppm color. After it warms up, I'd say it never went above 10 ppm even in b&w. Even on its highest quality, it disappoints. Text is clearly legible, but not something I'd feel good about showing a client. Color is woefully slow, and lacks both richness and clarity.

Scanner: From a mechanical perspective, both the ADF and the flatbed actually work quite nicely. However, the old version of Paperport that it includes is slow, and creates HUGE files. OCR quality isn't worth using. I purchased ReadIRIS separately, and have been delighted with its speed and accuracy on this MFC.

Fax: Works well. Could use more menu detail.

Summary: If your most important need is a printer, look elsewhere. If you need a backup printer, but a decent scanner, this is pretty good, once you get better software.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brother MFC-5860cn Color Photo Inkjet All-in-One Flatbed with Networking with 2nd paper tray, March 25, 2007

By	V. Weidler "home biz" (Near Normal, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In my businesses I print invoices and shipping labels concurrently and needed an affordable network printer with 2 paper trays so I did not have to change paper all the time. While searching for a network printer with dual paper trays I saw that owners of the Brother MFC_5860cn gave the printer very high ratings on cost, reliability, ease of use and actual English speaking live support. The only rating that was lower than the competition was print quality compared to the HP that cost $300 dollars more. I bought the printer and use it heavily for a busy home based business. The Brother MFC-5860cn has handled the job superbly. It is affordable to buy ink and I can now print invoices, sales letters, and labels from any of the workstations in the network. The fax has performed flawlessly on our VOIP phone system, and the excellent scanner and Color/B&W copier with 35 sheet feeder is a bonus that would be hard to do without once you've used it. I only use the OCR for mailing list/labels and it has worked fine. I only print to my HP for photos and presentation quality materials since it cost twice as much for ink, and only has one tray, and the HP software is still very buggy after numerous calls to HP support always starting with "mohwor prease" and ending with no resolution to the 25 copies of HPBIOD running in task manager after I printing with this printer. I have found the Brother MFC 5860cn to be a great solution for my business.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fairly satisfied - not so much anymore, April 26, 2007

By	zolo (NY, NY United States) - See all my reviews

I've been looking for a new printer for a while, and finally settled on this one. Fairly satistfied with the result. The printer is solidly built, print quality is very good to excellent, networking was extremely easy, fax and copy work well, and the 250 sheet second paper tray is great. Also, the Mac support is superior -which after many years of dealing with sub-par and bloated HP OS X drivers is a welcome change. Criticisms: a little slow; there is no built-in color LCD for previewing pictures when printing directly from a memory card (you have to print an index sheet and then manually key-in the number of the pic you want to print); and photo quality is okay but not great. (visible banding and colors look dull). Overall though, great printer.

UPDATE 3/3/08: well, after close to a year of reasonable performance, my first serious paper jam damaged the print head alignment, and I discovered (much to my dismay) that this machine is essentially not user-serviceable. Print head problems, while covered by the 1 year warranty, necessitate taking the machine in person to a local service center. This is a BIG letdown and a real pain in the a** to boot. My other comment would be that I'm now pretty frustrated by the firmware/UI, it is poorly thought out and more often than I'd like ends up in a hung state where you can't turn the machine off or even reset it because you're stuck in some error message which is only shown on the machine itself. Also, as others commented, the second tray is great, but driver support for it is limited.

In summary, I think Brother makes better fax machines than printers. Next time (which may be soon) I'm going back to HP or Canon.