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Summary: Thank you Brother!
Review: Finally a low cost laser copying solution. I purchased this machine when it first arived a few months ago and have been very pleased. Not only does it copy, but it is a 10ppm laser printer and color scanner. Not bad for the price. This little guy sits right on my file cabinet and saves me countless trips to the larger copy machine. Has made life so much easier.
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Summary: drum-med out?
Review: I agree with with comments that this machine is handy and able (especially the sheetfeeder). I have been using this machine since June, '02, but be aware that consumables are not covered by the warranty. After eight months of mostly glitch-free use, and about 4,000 sheets printed, the output suddenly became very light, readable but light, and no amount of adjusting the controls would change the output. I did use a third-party toner refill at that time, but even after re-installing a manufacturer toner cartridge the output remains light. The manufacturer told me the drum ... needs to be replaced, but the machine is supposed to warn about a worn drum with both an LED indicator and a message on the LCD screen, and neither warning indicators have ever come on. The owner's manual says the drum is supposed to last around 8,800 to 20,000 sheets (which is one of the main reasons I got this machine). The company that sold the toner refill sells for many makes and models, and listed this Brother among the machines that it can supply. I'm a little bummed (or drummed) out about this
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Summary: drum-med out?
Review: I agree with with comments that this machine is handy and able (especially the sheetfeeder). I have been using this machine since June, '02, but be aware that consumables are not covered by the warranty. After eight months of mostly glitch-free use, and about 4,000 sheets printed, the output suddenly became very light, readable but light, and no amount of adjusting the controls would change the output. I did use a third-party toner refill at that time, but even after re-installing a manufacturer toner cartridge the output remains light. The manufacturer told me the drum ... needs to be replaced, but the machine is supposed to warn about a worn drum with both an LED indicator and a message on the LCD screen, and neither warning indicators have ever come on. The owner's manual says the drum is supposed to last around 8,800 to 20,000 sheets (which is one of the main reasons I got this machine). The company that sold the toner refill sells for many makes and models, and listed this Brother among the machines that it can supply. I'm a little bummed (or drummed) out about this
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Summary: Short Drum Life
Review: I have a DCP-1000 at home. One of the reason I bought this machine was because the toner is separate from the drum, making replacement cheaper and more friendly to the environment.But when the drum goes bad just beyond the one year warranty you are stuck with a $170 dollar replace cost. Called Brother and they were not willing to fix or replace drum.
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Summary: Poor warranty
Review: I have a DCP-1000 at home. One of the reason I bought this machine was because the toner is separate from the drum, making replacement cheaper and more friendly to the environment. But when the drum goes bad just beyond the one year warranty you are stuck with a $170 dollar replace cost. Called Brother and they were not willing to fix or replace drum.
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Summary: Choose Another Printer!
Review: I thought I would be quite happy with this printer when I found it at a reasonable price. But with its splotchy printing, low drum capacity, and expensive drums, I found it cheaper to buy a HP 1012 than to keep this one running. Even the starter drum on the HP 1012 last longer than the DCP 1000 drums.
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Summary: Choose Another Printer!
Review: I thought I would be quite happy with this printer when I found it at a reasonable price. But with its splotchy printing, low drum capacity, and expensive drums, I found it cheaper to buy a HP 1012 than to keep this one running. Even the starter drum on the HP 1012 last longer than the DCP 1000 drums.
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Summary: Good inexpensive printer/copier
Review: I work for a sole practitioner attorney. When the HP LaserJet III finally died at the office, we tried running the office on an Epson ink jet printer for several days. As that was completely inadequate, we looked around for an inexpensive laserprinter which would handle a duty cycle of about 3,000 pages per month. We decided on the DCP-1000 because it had a built in copier with sheet feeder, was reasonably fast, and was inexpensive. We have had it for about half a year, and the only thing I really dislike about the unit is the way it spits paper out the front without an adequate recepticle.
The printer is excellent for the size of our projects, which tend to be less than 30 pages, and has stood up to the paper output of our office, which includes four networked workstations. It is also nice to have a copier with a sheet feeder for small jobs so we don't have to run to the copier half way across the building we work in.
Several reviewers have commented about the price of the replacement drums and the speed with which they and the toner cartridges are used up. The fact is that the toner refills are only about $30, which is less than half the price of the cartridges used on almost any other laser printer. So, the fact that you have to spend $120 on a drum every 20K copies or so is the trade-off. This means it is no more expensive per copy than just about any other laser printer.
It would cost at least an extra $150 to purchase any other printer/copier and get the same functionality. For around $300, you get print quality which is good enough to hand to a judge, a copier with a multisheet feeder which makes good 600 dpi quality copies, and a color scanner which is adequate for occasional use and for OCR. This makes it a very cost effective unit for a home or small office.
As an update, after a little more than a year and close to 100,000 pages printed, the sheet feeder broke. (We replaced the drum 4 times.) It has more than paid for itself. Rather than have it repaired, we purchased a Brother MFC-8440 because, while we were happy with the product, we wanted a heavier duty, faster machine with a built in fax. I have the DCP-1000 at home, and anticipte getting it repaired.
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Summary: Good inexpensive printer/copier
Review: I work for a sole practitioner attorney. When the HP LaserJet III finally died at the office, we tried running the office on an Epson ink jet printer for several days. As that was completely inadequate, we looked around for an inexpensive laserprinter which would handle a duty cycle of about 3,000 pages per month. We decided on the DCP-1000 because it had a built in copier with sheet feeder, was reasonably fast, and was inexpensive. We have had it for about half a year, and the only thing I really dislike about the unit is the way it spits paper out the front without an adequate recepticle. The printer is excellent for the size of our projects, which tend to be less than 30 pages, and has stood up to the paper output of our office, which includes four networked workstations. It is also nice to have a copier with a sheet feeder for small jobs so we don't have to run to the copier half way across the building we work in. Several reviewers have commented about the price of the replacement drums and the speed with which they and the toner cartridges are used up. The fact is that the toner refills are only about $30, which is less than half the price of the cartridges used on almost any other laser printer. So, the fact that you have to spend $120 on a drum every 20K copies or so is the trade-off. This means it is no more expensive per copy than just about any other laser printer. It would cost at least an extra $150 to purchase any other printer/copier and get the same functionality. For around $300, you get print quality which is good enough to hand to a judge, a copier with a multisheet feeder which makes good 600 dpi quality copies, and a color scanner which is adequate for occasional use and for OCR. This makes it a very cost effective unit for a home or small office.
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Summary: What would I have done without it?
Review: I've had mine for two full years, and I used it on most days. As a teacher, the convenience of sticking a book on the flatbed, pressing 25, and then hitting the green button, and having it print out 25 copies very quickly while I shave is... invaluable. I, for one, have never experienced any problems with the unit. I've replaced the toner twice -- a very simple procedure, and it's some of the cheapest toner around, giving me some of the lowest per page costs of laser printers. (Compare Brother toner to, say, Samsung toner.)
I don't experience paper jams, as I have with every other printer I, or my family members, have owned. The scanner integrates seemlessly with WinXP. Just a few minutes ago, I stuck on a cookbook, clicked "My Computer" in WinXP, then double clicked on the Brother icon, and it started the scanner wizard. I chose "greyscale image," it scanned it in maybe fifteen seconds, and then I clicked on "send to email" and I sent off the recipe to a friend of mine. The entire process took me about two minutes. It's not a scanner I'd use for archiving my photo collection, but it is good enough for most uses, and can copy a photo to my photo printer for a decent job.
I've been extremely happy with it. Cheap to operate for copying and printing, inexpensive toner with easy replacement, no printer jams. Two years service, and no decrease in quality. The "toner low" light does come on too early, but I just keep printing, usually a couple of hundred more pages, until I see fading, before I actually replace the toner. While this at first annoyed me, now I use the light as the "go order some toner so you have it around" light.
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