My $0.02 I had a Brother MFC-9840CDW all-in-one for years and it did trojan service, printing numerous issues of double sided newsletters in batches of hundreds. I have to say it stood up very well to the abuse given it wasn't an industrial device. It also did envelopes very well, though they needed to be manually fed.
The newsletters are long since gone, though, and when some of the larger moving parts came up for replacement the cost became such that I seriously looked at newer printers and decided to go with a MFC-9340CDW - not as big and heavy, so the smaller footprint is good. It's not quite as fast, but that wasn't of concern. I had cause to address about seventy envelopes recently, so I set to and - horror - this beastie is something of a pig. It calls for manual feed, but where the other one reliably picked up each envelope, the new one is ... fickle ... there seems to be about a 30% chance that it will catch correctly, the rest of the time it feeds a tiny amount and pronounces a paper jam, which breaks the flow. It might be technique, but it's a very fine technique that I wasn't able to divine if it is... The envelope thing is not something I do often and everything else is fine, but I do wistfully miss the old one. <sigh> Maybe it would have been worth all the parts. That's all, folks Tim -- Tim Kirby [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
