Brother DCP-8080dn Digital Copier and Laser Printer w/Duplex Printing and Networking

Product Description

Laser Multi-Function Copier with Duplex Printing and Networking. Up to 32ppm print and copy speeds. Automatic duplex (2-sided) printing. Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi laser printing. Stand alone copying - no PC required. 50-page capacity auto document feeder for multi-page documents. 250-sheet capacity letter/legal paper tray plus a 50-sheet capacity multi-purpose tray for envelopes, letterhead, labels or card stock. USB Direct Interface. Ethernet, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and Parallel interfaces

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 24 x 22 x 22 inches ; 39.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 49 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• 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: B0026JL9RG
• Item model number: DCP-8080DN
  

Price : $299.99
You Save : $50.00 (14%)

List Price : $349.99

Technical Details

• Up to 32PPM monochrome print and copy speed
• Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi print resolution
• Automatic duplex printing for two-sided
• Legal-size document glass
• 300-Sheet paper capacity

Costumer Reviews

After my HP laser printer died, our small office needed a laser combination printer-copier that was inexpensive to maintain and highly reliable. Totally unknown to me prior to study: AIO or MFC searches will frequently bring up only printer combos that include all 4 functions: print, copy, scan, and fax.

After an extended search produced poor options, I discovered the DCP line which includes 3 of the 4 functions, dropping only the fax. This one difference from the MFC line meant far faster copy speeds, better quality printing and copying, and generally better quality all around on the 3 functions it performs.

The DCP-8080DN can be connected to a computer by USB and other means; can be networked in a LAN; will copy as a stand-alone (using ADF or manual feed); comes with a full-sized toner cartridge (for est. 15,000 pages) rather than the skimpy initial toner with others. Toner is available in high-yield size that makes cost between 1-2 cents per page, so reasonable consumables. When added to initial purchase price of $330, the initial and long term costs are manageable.

Yes, it is somewhat large but it's proving its value already. No more need for separate copier. It's completely silent when not in use and starts up pretty quickly. When printing, after warm up of maybe 12 seconds, pages pump out at the fastest rate I have ever seen for a small office laser printer. Seems the specs say 30 ppm, and it seems to be printing this rate. Copy speed is only slightly less fast. It will copy and print in duplex (2 sided) but speeds are considerably slower than printing/copying 2 separate pages.

Scanning is excellent, with capacity to scan to email, and also includes an OCR software Presto Page Manager 7.18, which works well. We already have a Scansnap for scanning, so we won't use scanning often.

Faxing is on the way out, with sheet feed scanning to pdf and emailing sufficing quite nicely.

We paid $330 on Amazon, used Prime for free, fast shipping, and it was here in 2 days. Set-up was fast and easy. Its Quick Set-Up documentation could serve as a model for other companies. (What a relief, too!) Works great with both Apple-Mac and PCs.

Brother should do a better job in distinguishing and marketing this DCP line. I only accidentally bumped into it, yet it offers several models for a range of prices. Finally, a multi-function printer that does not degrade printing because the unit adds copying and scanning.

We just (yesterday) received this printer from Amazon. It replaces a printer/copier/scanner that we loved but which finally gave up the ghost, a DCP-1200, an earlier generation of this new machine. The 1200 cost us $650 in 2000, and we used and abused it for nine years -- an astonishing life-span in this era of 2-3 year replacement cycles. Between my wife and me we wrote three full-length books in that time period, printing out countless new drafts of each -- not to mention literally thousands and thousands of pages of research materials, plus many documents, support forms, and academic papers as we continued both our part-time business and my academic program. Our new 8080dn has that and more in store for it over the coming years. Surprisingly, the 8080 cost us half what our old 1200 did, yet has many improvements and new features. It does everything the 1200 did, yet copies and prints much faster, offers double the print resolution (if we ever need it!), and has the duplex feature which I absolutely love - I've already cut in half much of our paper consumption. Installation was simple and straightforward(I had my 16-year-old and his friends do it -- under my supervision! -- as a learning experience), and it functions very smoothly and simply. The user interface is even simpler and more intuitive than that of the old 1200. I can't testify to its longevity, but it seems equally well built -- so who knows, maybe we'll still be using it in 2018.