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I also have a predicament with the printer creasing envelopes. It appears to shift the flap of the envelope slightly while feeding it through the fuser and the heat and pressure causes another crease about 1/8" offset from the novel one.
I returned the first unit that I ordered because of a loud squeaking noise that developed while printing. The second unit also squeaks somewhat (Certainly more than my obsolete mfc-8820D), but it doesn't sound like it's dragging a cat through the manual feed slot.
There's a tall incompatibility between this unit and my MFC-8820D in the scanning place. On my mature printer, I could input an email address on the hide and it would forward the document to that address. This guy requires you to win a network computer and then sends the document there. A memory resident program needs to be running on the computer to process the received document...which is a worthless end of memory position about 99.99% of the time when the computer is doing it's normal job. The memory resident process also conflicts with some HP network printer software and crashes on a couple of our systems, thus rendering them unusable with this scanner. Needless to say, the feeble diagram of doing it was remarkable better.
In retrospect, and despite the 145,000 pages printed, I probably should have spent the $300 to replace the fuser on my 8820D instead of getting this unit. This one is mighty faster, but the other trade-offs - the lack of duplexing (known at the time of ordering, but the 8860DN wasn't yet shipping) and the dumbing down of the scanner firmware (unknown until received) are serious handicaps.
Oct 30, 2006 update - After about five month of consume and about 20K pages printed, my printer is in the shop being repaired. The printer started making loud snapping sounds, like plastic gears stripping, whenever a page was printed...except that the paper jammed every time. The guy in the service center said that he has another identical printer in for repair and that it's the fuser unit that's shot. That would be easy to fix, except that they're on back-order and won't be available for a while. Stammer. I reflect my next printer will be an HP.
November 14, 2006 - I have to give Brother Service credit. 1000 pages post-repair and my machine broke again. They're shipping me a current printer. This will be my second replacement unit...hopefully this unit will be more solid as my warranty runs out in April.
November 25, 2006 - update - The replacement unit not only shifts the flap on envelopes, it puts creases all over them, rendering them completely unusable for any purpose. If there was a plot to totally unwind this catch, I would in a second. On the other hand, since create of this unit appears to have all the reliability of an alcoholic after a weekend on the town, I purchased the one year extended warranty.
February 10,2007 - update - Well, the machine is now starting to perform loud snapping sounds whenever the paper tray is filled up to the fleshy line. It also jams and refuses to feed paper whenever that happens. The solution (so far) is to only contain the paper tray half-full.
I really despise this fraction of junk...so considerable so that I bought HP for my novel offices.
May 13, 2008 - final update - After limping along in the aged office for the last year, the Brother finally died (again) . The ample request is whether to remove it to recycling yard, where they would gently select it apart and fetch the parts, or assume it to the local car crusher and recognize it receive what it deserves. Alas, my ecological side is coming through and I'll recycle it. Oh well, it would have made a big YouTube video...
I have been unable to acquire this machine to conclude creasing envelopes. It looks quite sloppy and affects the print in places. At times it is better than others but usually I procure a expansive crease across the bottom left corner and a smaller crease across the return address.
I have spent a lot of time on the phone working with Brother technicians to upright the plight. They had me flip up the #1 toggles in the abet of the machine, try using many different kinds of envelopes, try changing the paper thickness settings, etc. One even suggested I pick up 20 pound envelopes but those are quite outlandish. The typical #10 business envelope is 24 pounds. I could not collect any 20 pound envelopes in local stores or print shops.
I have had a scrape hooking it up through my network with the ethernet connection. It worked for quite a while but stopped working and I could not glean it started again, even by reloading the driver or with the recent machine. This plight could be my network, not the machine. However, the rest of my network seems to be working aesthetic. I have no jam hooking it up directly using the USB port.
Brother technicians were very nice and sent a second 8460N but it also creases envelopes, plus the automatic feeder does not work at times on this unusual machine.
Other than these problems, the MFC 8460N machine works well. The copies are determined, the fax works well and the scanner seems to do well.
Brother has told there is nothing more they can do unless they hear of more people having problems with their envelopes on this machine. By that time it will be too slack because I am exchanging it for a different trace.
We have been using this printer for a cramped over a month now at work where we print an average of about 100 pages a day and this miniature guy chugs through it like it was nothing. The best share of it all is the hurry. It is quickly to warm up and prints 30ppm, which is a billion times faster than our previous Brother printer (or so it seems) . The print quality is estimable but so are most laser printers so that's not really a stand-out. As mentioned by everyone else here, the envelopes do win a exiguous crinkled when they are printed through the printer but that beats our last brother printer that seemed to quandary more often than not when printing envelopes. I have yet to have an envelope pickle. A trade off (crinkled envelope to jammed envelope) we are willing to bewitch any day. To print an enveiope you have to initiate a microscopic door in the front of the printer to access the feed for it. Not a ample deal but I concept I would mention it. So, why four stars? Well, the crinkled envelope mumble mainly and also the plastic quality old to produce the machine seems a cramped cheap (at least compared to our last Brother printer) . Definitely not a colossal deal but warrants the four stars.
