Brother MFC-8890DW High-Performance All-in-One Laser Printer With Wireless Networking and Duplex
Dec 18, 2009 in
Computers & Software
- Print and copy at up to 32 ppm
- 802.11 b/g Wireless and Ethernet interfaces
- Automatic duplex print/copy/fax/scan
- Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi print resolution
- 300-sheet paper capacity, expandable
Product Description
The MFC-8890DW is a high-performance laser all-in-one with wireless networking and duplex print, copy, scan and fax features for your business or small workgorup…. More >>
Brother MFC-8890DW High-Performance All-in-One Laser Printer With Wireless Networking and Duplex
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5 comments
Michele Belanger-mcnair on December 18, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I have never owned a Brother printer. I do photos on Epson’s and always had HP lasers and 2 4 in one Office Lasers. This may be more about how crappy my last HP was and how it never was usable with Vista though I bought it AFTER Vista came out. Then I got a contact HP support for upgrade message which was unfixable…I could have called Obama at the White House easier than HP.
Anyway, being so frustrated I went for this puppy on Amazon.
I am so, so impressed. I set up wireless printing from my laptop in no time just following the instructions and software. My Vista’s are working great, seamless as are my XP’s. I just need a wire to it and my hard line network and the entire place will be printing faxing and scanning.
Scanning was great though easier through Photoshop CS4 I felt. But it was going there anyway as it was an immage. A document scanned easily and went to PDF with no hitches anymore….
HP…I am done with you folks….this machine kicked yours out the door and into the recyclers….
music7lover on December 18, 2009 at 3:20 pm
We LOVE the fact that this speedy printer prints…faxes, and doesn’t have to be fed with paper after paper when faxing..
It is super efficient and awesome. And we should know after suffering with the lamest HP printers for years. I am never
going back there again..It is officially BROTHER time now…
S. Mayden on December 18, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I have been using this multi-function printer for about a week and am thoroughly impressed. As previous reviewers have noted, this is a great choice for a Mac environment. I was able to easily set up the wireless function for the computers in our small office and it is very convenient as we have one main iMac and several Macbook users as well. It worked fine with both our older and new computers.
The printer has all the features I could want. We are considering using it for a lot of scanning and I love that it can scan things that are double sided. My test scans were of good quality and worked fine in the ADF. Print quality has been very good–so good in fact that I will likely now do many of our simple b/w brochures in house (they looked better on the Brother than what I get back from the our local copy shop).
The other thing I love is how much more streamlined the machine is than our previous multi-function (Canon). The footprint is fairly small and the sides are streamlined so that I can fit other office equipment right next to it. Almost all the functions go through the front or the top, so it doesn’t take up much space on the sides.
I did have trouble with crumpled envelopes but I just tested out the trick mentioned in a previous review and that took care of it! So my only small complaint is that I didn’t find that info anywhere obvious in the manual.
R. Kemp on December 18, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I am SO impressed with the MFC-8890DW. I did read the manual first, as is my usual practice. Setup and usage of all functions has proven to be easy. Quality is excellent. This machine does everything it’s supposed to do, and it does all functions well.
Jayne B. on December 18, 2009 at 9:27 pm
This is my 3rd or 4th All-in-One from Brother. I’ve always had good luck with the brand and so far this one is no different. Worked great out of the box, although setting up the wireless LAN wasn’t exactly simple. But even I, a non-techy, got it to work after an hour or so of tinkering. Plus I got the incoming FAX setup to work well with my 2-line remote-handset phone with built-in answering machine (always a nail-biter).
Regarding the envelope wrinkling problem, just follow the instructions of another reviewer that posted here (thank you!); open the back door, and push down on the two levers marked with the envelope symbol. I now run my machine with those levers down 100% of the time with no issues whatsoever. Prints well on plain paper, labels and envelopes. The scanner works well for business documents and the duplexing option is really very cool. I don’t use the Fax very much, but incoming faxes are working just fine.