summary The laser printer Brother MFC-8220 copies, sends and receives faxes, and scans in monochrome. Built with a top-of-the-line 600dpi, vendor-rated 21ppm engine, the unit includes a 30-page sheetfed document feeder and walk-up copy and fax capabilities.

Fast, extensive fax features; inexpensive consumables; Mac and PC compatible

Can't scan in color; mediocre print quality

For an inexpensive multifunction printer, Brother's MFC-8220 is fast and offers most of the features a small office needs.

Fast, extensive fax features; inexpensive consumables; Mac and PC compatible.

Can't scan in color; mediocre print quality.

Very good and cheap all-in-one printer. Only one drawback is no-color scanner. I scan a lot of color images, so this would be a big problem for me. But, for this price, I can't complain.

all in one; cheap

not color scanner

I've purchased probably 10 of these things over the years (for business purposes - only 1 of 10 has been retired). They take a beating and keep on ticking. We print probably 2000 pages a month on these things. The toner is easily refillable, and inexpensive when you do it yourself.

I've owned nothing but a Brother All-In-One since they were first introduced. I wore my first one out, got another that served me well with NO problems for 5 years and upgraded to the MCF-8220 (giving the old one to a friend - still in excellent working condition). Brother makes a good, SOLID MFC.

The machine is well-designed and suits my needs very well. I have two units, in two locations.

This machine is quick to warm up, prints quickly, enables both parallel and USB cabling, and is easy and intuitive to use as a printer, fax or copier; (I have not used it much as a scanner and so, have no opinion.

A minor irritant is that the machine uses gulps of power; If you are underwired, you will notice lights dim briefly as the machine powers up or re-powers up; The machine also keeps its fan running after use for several minutes, which makes the machine audible for that period.

I use this is office for the fax. saves a lot on toner, we seldom copy with this, but works perfectly

We use 10 fax machines here at our nursing home. This fax machine is very easy to use, doesn't get jammed much at all, and doesn't cost a lot in toner. I've tried a lot of other machines and this one blows them all away.

easy to set up and use; cheap to run; rock solid performer

have to buy the drum units from time to time

ive had many fax machines in the past and other brothers fax this is the best one easy to use fast reliable perfect print every time and all my faxes go threw i tell everyone about this fax

Excellent for faxing, printing & copying. The feeder is quick & programming is easy. Cannot get the scan feature to work (scans each individual page into a seperate file - even a 1.75 hour call to Brother Help wasn't able to get it to work.