| | |  | Office Supplies | Home » » Brother DCP-8080dn Digital Copier and Laser Printer w/Duplex Printing and Networking | | | | | | | 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 | | | Features: | |
• 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 24.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 22.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 22.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 39.9 pounds | | Package Length:
| 24.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 22.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 22.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 48.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 29 reviews |
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94 of 94 found the following review helpful:
 Leaps ahead of other AIO laser printer-copiersJan 08, 2010
By Susan
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.
47 of 47 found the following review helpful:
Industrial strength, extremely low cost...Feb 16, 2010
By T Boyer
"seattleparent"
Brother is just dominant in this segment of the market. For the price of a personal laser, this printer can handle all the printing/scanning needs for a small business of up to 20 people. We have it in our home office (just two of us, but one does a lot of printing) and I LOVE not having to buy toner every few weeks. We bought from someone other than Amazon, but now Amazon's price is very good.
Pros:
-- Most economical work group/small business printer in the universe -- toner cartridge that handles 8000 copies is about $80 -- that's one cent per page!
-- Very good build quality, feels and sounds like industrial strength materials.
-- Great performance -- 30 ppm. Relatively fast first page time. Good solid (though not fast) duplexing. Reliable paper handling.
-- Network drivers are very good, very stable. We have installed on XP, Vista and Win 7 and everything -- printing and scanning -- just works.
-- Sheet fed scanner works well -- you can feed it 50 page stacks of paper and it will scan or copy very rapidly. Software supports scanning direct to multipage PDF. (After 3 months -- printer and drivers have continued to perform extremely well -- no hassles at all)
-- Energy features are great. Printer goes to sleep and consumes just a few watts, but it also wakes up fast. So you don't have to switch it on and off.
Cons:
-- (Not really a problem, but just a limitation) -- the 8080 does NOT scan double sided documents (full duplex). You need to spend an extra $75 for the model 8085 for duplex scanning. However you can scan single sided documents and print them double sided (i.e. duplex printing).
-- Rather bulky for a desktop. Much bigger than consumer lasers.
-- This duplexer is not fast enough for really high volumes -- you need to spend some real money to get that. But the machine is sure-handed so you can hand it a big duplexing/collating job and let it chunk away at it for a few minutes and come back without worrying about misfeeds. We've have one misfeed in three months.
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Excellent replacement for an old workhorseSep 19, 2009
By Paul H. Smith
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.
24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 You get what you pay for . . .Jun 09, 2010
By David J. Oconnell
I run a solo law office and have used a Brother MFC-8500 multi-function laser printer for years. When looking for a replacement, I sought out another Brother product, because of my experience with the Brother products reliability and, with a high performance toner cartridge, extremely cheap operation. I sought reviews for multi-function laser from CNET and other sources and ultimately found a good deal on a DCP-8080DN on Amazon.com. It is a laser unit that also copies and scans. It does not fax, which the MFC-8500 could, but I scan everything to Adobe PDF files and then fax by email, so this loss was of little consequence to me.
But, the unit did a number of things well. Printing seems to be consistently good, although, if the unit rests over a weekend, the lines of my stationary template print with some fuzziness. Scanning is easy, but the quality of the saved PDF or OCR files is less good than the MFC-8500.
Some difficulties are obvious in the printer's design. The printer is shipped with a single paper tray and an open adjustable front door through which manual printing can be fed; but, one must be careful to drop down the back door of the printer, and lock down two tabs to have envelopes and postage feed through to the rear of the printer without crinkling. This is especially maddening when dealing with [...] postage sheets and stationary envelopes, which, if the tabs are not adjusted properly and the back door not open, the media follows the drum around to feed the printed matter to the bay in front, crinkling both to an unusable state.
Further, although crinkled envelopes and postage might survive a single pass through to the rear window if properly set, neither will survive the drum. And, worse, if you use windowed envelopes, the plastic will melt and the envelope will wrinkle no matter what you do.
As a concession to trying to do too many things, the way the printer is designed forced me to place it in a nook in my credenza sideways, because getting to the rear pass through outlet (for envelopes or postage after dropping the window and pushing the tabs down) is simply too inconvenient not to be right there for for you to do. I mail 25-50 parcels a day and, even with trying to do this once a day, it is a trial that I am working to adjust my habits to address.
A second difficulty is the half-assed promise that this is a "duplex" machine. Well, it does print duplex if you adjust the driver. But, if you wish to copy a two sided document, it does not rotate the paper and read both sides to print 2 sides to 2 sides. It does reduce two single sided pages to 2 sides of a single page fine, though. And, it does not scan to duplex at all. I may be simply not getting the instructions, not for the first time, but there does not seem to be an option for this on either the LCD screen on the printer or in the driver.
A last couple of grievances, and minor ones are, first, the initial print product after the printer is dormant for a day or two. My stationary template has lined border created in Microsoft publisher. Usually this prints clearly, but after a weekend, I have to run three or four pages to clear up the laser fuzzies, tnen it runs fine. Second, this is a noisy unit. After the relatively quiet performance of the MFC-8500, the clash of plastic parts was a bit of a shock. I quickly got used to it; and, as it did not affect the performance, I got over it.
I print between 200-400 pages a day and both units I purchased for home and work, produce as or better than expected, with the exception of the nuisance troubles I mention above. Unlike other scanners, it easily can be commanded to scan over a network. It is an ideal machine for someone like me, that needs moderate production at extremely low cost, both in initial investment and in operating costs.
If you are willing to accept the compromises that were necessarily built into the design of this product, and realize that you cannot get a thousand dollar product for $299.00, you, like me, will be satisfied with your purchase.
The good: fast printing, scanning, and consistent operation.
The bad: manhandling of envelopes, postage sheets, and any pass-through printing; limited duplex utility; fuzzy printing after long periods of disuse; noisy operation
Conclusion: Good, not great unit, worth the price, utilitarian device for a moderately busy office or home.
D.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Does duplex copying & printingJun 17, 2010
By L. Smith
This review is to respond to the review that says you can't do duplex copying with this machine. That is incorrect. It does do duplex copying and printing, you just have to figure out how to use the menu screens. To duplex copy: Hit the duplex button, hit the down arrow button to select which type of duplex copying you want (left to right or top to bottom) and then hit ok. This is a great machine. Flawless performance so far.
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