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(5 customer reviews) 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Love, Love this printer,
November 19, 2008 A Kid's Review
This review is from: Brother MFC-8640D Laser Flatbed All-in-One With Duplex Network Card MFC8640D (Electronics)
Great printer. Duplexing is great. Feeder is great, and really good quality. I got a great price for it and have been happily printing away for months. Drums are pricey, but the toner last a long Time (even more if you put black tape over the "eye" of the toner cartridge so the printer will keep printing until ink is really all gone (approximately 1,500 more pages--That was a REALLY deceptive trick Brother).
Only reason why I gave it 4 stars is because the network card which you buy to upgrade it to wireless is sometimes tricky. It will stop working for reasons unknown. I'll turn the printer off and most of the time within a few hours the network card will reset itself and we can wireless print again by changing the IP address. No idea why it does that.
Otherwise, highly recommend.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great machine for home office,
February 7, 2009 E. Scherer - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother MFC-8640D Laser Flatbed All-in-One With Duplex Network Card MFC8640D (Electronics)
I'm shocked by how much I agree with the contents of "kid's review" poster. I could have written myself. Right down to problems & solution with wireless/IP address and toner "eye." Great machine otherwise. I'll never buy a printer again without duplexing.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Great Laser Printer/Fax.,
December 7, 2009 William C. Gilbert "BrittanysPal" (Phoenix, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brother MFC-8640D Laser Flatbed All-in-One With Duplex Network Card MFC8640D (Electronics)
We have had our MFC-8640 for about four years and was prompted to write a review after the "wiz kid" helped me fix the toner sensor fault. Ours has worked more or less perfectly since we bought it and I recently put it on a print server, purchased separately, that facilitates use throughout the home network. It does "blink" the lights a bit when starting up, but I keep it in sleep mode most of the time so it's really not an annoyance. 33K Fax is faster than some of the newer models. The alternate paper feed is a mystery, and we don't print envelopes. Occasionally we print labels using the tray. Scanner does well, even copying color to B/W. And as mentioned the duplexer is great.
BTW - the toner sensor "eye" is on the wall of the toner/roller cavity on the right side; it is a little lens recessed in the black plastic 3 or 4 inches from the front. Fixyourprinter dot com & Black tape fixed mine. Saved me Hundred$$. Buy the toner from Amazon.
