| | |  | Office Supplies | Home » » Brother MFC-8220 Laser Multifunction Center | | | | | | | Description: | | Its compact design and easy-to-use control panel make this model the ideal solution for your home office small-to-medium size business or large corporation. The three-color LCD and three function key mode buttons allow for easy operation and clear visibility. Its superior laser technology delivers professional results with every job. Use the 30-page auto feeder for quick and easy operation. Provides the flexibility of connecting to your computer via USB or Parallel or even to two computers. Print Technology: Laser Maximum Print Speed (Black): 21.0 ppm Maximum Print Speed (Color): N/A Network Ready: No.Unit of Measure : Each | | | Features: | |
• Prints, scans, copies, standalone and PC faxes
• Up to 2,400 x 600 dpi print resolution
• Up to 21 pages per minute printing and copying
• 300 x 600 dpi monochrome scan resolution, 9,600 dpi enhanced
• Parallel and USB interfaces, optional networking; PC and Mac
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 17.8 inches | | Product Width:
| 17.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 13.2 inches | | Product Weight:
| 25.57 pounds | | Package Length:
| 22.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 21.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 18.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 35.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Nice machineApr 01, 2005
By Brad Bortner
I just bought the mfc8220 after almost seven years with an older brother mfc 4350. It was still going strong, but the drum needed to be replaced, and prices have dropped so much it made sense to upgrade.
The printer is wicked fast. The industrial design is top notch. Print quality is good. Paper handling is good. It integrates with my favorite scanned doc management applciation, paperport.
If you want a laser, instead of inkjets that are slower and cost much more to run over time, and you don't need an integrated flatbed scanner, this is the one to get.
Brad
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Agreed - great machineAug 12, 2005
By G. Abernathy
UPDATE: Feb 2010: It's been almost 5 years now. I ended up buying two. After 4 years, we wore out the one at our preschool which served as our main printer. The second one has had much lighter duty at home. Still working great. Based on this experience, we've become diehard Brother fans and now own a 6490 and 8460.
ORIGINAL REVIEW: I've had mine for 10 months now and it's been very reliable; not one problem with it. It's quick to print out the first page, the display is a monochrome LCD with a backlight so you can see in dark spaces (say, if you keep it under a counter), no paper jams, no nonsense.
Also, if you're an Apple owner the drivers are already included with OS X; truly plug n print. What's a real treat is to combine it with an Apple Airport Express and use Apple's Bonjour software to easily convert it to a wireless network printer. Bonjour is available for both OS X and Windows computers, and is a breeze to install.
I highly recommend if you're in the market for a multifuntion monochrome laser printer machine that is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Not too badSep 13, 2005
By Ilikestuff
"Ilikestuff"
The print quality is decent, but not as good as my old HP 6p.
The print speed is very good, though paper handling is pretty poor. It's copier function is really pretty good for small jobs.
It reports paper jams when there are none, the ADF often drags more than one piece of paper through the scanner, and the envelope/special paper feeder only accepts one lousy piece of paper at a time.
There's also a persistent "register me" popup when Windows loads, which doesn't give up, even after you've pressed "already registered/don't register" several times.
Installation under Linux was very easy (much easier than installing in Windows, even with the provided driver cd). Print speed under Linux is a bit odd, each page takes quite some time to print, though I haven't tried switching to any of the several other drivers for the printer that are part of a normal SuSE 9.x installation.
With Vonage, I'm not able to send or receive faxes a lot of the time, and, with certain machines on the other end, couldn't ever transmit or receive. To be fair, it probably is Vonage's fault.
Finally, there's an idiotic feature to the main paper tray that doesn't allow you to re-insert the empty tray unless you load more paper (or press a tab). It's the sort of unexpected, poorly designed user interface quirk that shouldn't exist in products that cost more than a few dollars.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Great Truck Stop Fax Machine!Aug 18, 2006
By Jerry A. Turner
"Hawkeye"
Our HP 4-in-one unit kept jamming and we were losing business. We asked out local computer repairman to replace the HP with a unit that provide better service and he brought us this Brother MFC-8220. What difference! This is a workhorse. The straight paper path is the main benefit as we have had no jams. These truckers bring all kinds of paperwork in to be faxed and this is important to us.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 2 years and outNov 15, 2008
By Leonard Sacco
We have had 2 brothers MFC machines the latest was MFC-8220 the one before was the same, I am not sure it had the same number but both worked well as a fax and laser printer for 2 years before a plastic gear broke. Both machines had the same problem in about the same length of time.
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