HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP

vs. Brother MFC-8860DN
Boost productivity and reduce costs with the HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP
Fast, on-demand printing and copying Instant-on Fusing and Copy Technology lets your HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP print up to 7 pages or make up to 5 copies from powersave mode before the Brother MFC-8860DN can even finish warming up. Energy efficient The advanced, fast-heating ceramic element within your HP LaserJet M2727nf MFPs Instant-on fuser consumes significantly less energy than the conventional fuser Brother builds into the MFC-8860DN. Your HP LaserJet also meets the new, more strict ENERGY STAR rules that went into effect April 1, 2007. Virtually maintenance free Your HP LaserJet M2727nf MFPs innovative print cartridge incorporates the toner supply, imaging drum, primary charge roller, and developer into a single, integrated unit you can easily replace with no mess. The Brother MFC-8860DN uses a complex 2-piece system that forces users to stock and replace an extra consumable. And whenever Brother users replace toner, they must be careful not to damage the devices photosensitive imaging drum, which becomes exposed during the process, plus they must clean the corona wire to prevent damage that can lead to print-quality defects. With HP, you dont. Reliable print quality Be sure to evaluate print quality. HP internal testing reveals the Brother MFC-8860DN can develop print quality problems as early as 1,000 pages when printing on some recycled media. HP also found toner doesnt always fuse completely to the Brother units output, which means it can rub off. Try it yourself: Rub a clean corner of a page printed on the MFC-8860DN on an area with toner and see if it smudges.
Print and copy sooner with HP LaserJets
HP Instant-on Fusing and Copy technologies virtually eliminate warm-up time, letting you print many Brother MFC-8860DN pages or make several copies on your HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP 20 before the Brother MFC-8860DN can even Seconds to first printed page out after finish warming up. 30 minutes in powersave mode 1

10 seconds 24

8 seconds 19

Brother MFC-8860DN

Seconds to first copied page out after 30 minutes in powersave mode 1 Space requirements of device in cubic feet (width x depth x height) 3
Typical energy consumption (TEC) for 1 year in kilowatt hours (kWh) 1,2
Reduce hidden costs with HP LaserJets
Thanks to HP Instant-on Technology, your HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP also consumes far less power than the Brother MFC-8860DN. Plus the Brother unit uses valuable desk space less efficiently, requiring 22% more than your HP LaserJet.

$27.62/year

$13.44/year kWh

cubic feet

letter version 1.1 JANUARY 17, 2008
2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
1. Based on internal HP testing. 2. Testing was performed on a single unit of each product using the ENERGY STAR programs Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC) method. Test data was extended to 1 year. Actual power usage may vary. Individual product configurations can affect power usage. Annual energy costs are based on U.S. average costs of 10.5 per kilowatt hour. 3. Based on the manufacturers published product specifications.

FC-8460N

MFC-8860DN MFC-8870DW

PRINTER

COPIER

COLOR SCANNER

P C FA X
The high-speed laser all-in-ones for your business.
Print and copy at up to 30ppm 33.6K bps high-speed Super G3 fax modem Up to 50-page Auto Document Feeder Ethernet, High-Speed USB 2.0 and Parallel interfaces

MFC-8460N

Automatic duplex (two-sided) printing, copying, scanning and faxing (MFC-8860DN, MFC-8870DW) 802.11b/g wireless interface (MFC-8870DW)
TN-04BK: Black Toner Cartridge MFC-8860DN (approx. 10,000 pgs@5% coverage)s MFC-8870DW TN-04C: Cyan Toner Cartridge (approx. 6,600 pgs@5% coverage)s TN-04M: Magenta Toner Cartridge (approx. 6,600 pgs@5% coverage)s TN-04Y: Yellow Toner Cartridge (approx. 6,600 pgs@5% coverage)s LT-27CL: Optional 2nd paper tray OP-4CL: OPC Belt FP-4CL: Fuser Unit WT-4CL: Waste Toner Bottle
2006 BROTHER INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Enhance security and reduce errors through these high-performance features
Walk-up access to LDAP network address books*
Save time and reduce errors with instant direct access through your networkconnected MFC to a virtually infinite number of e-mail and fax addresses stored in your LDAP network address books. Simply use the large, clear 5-line LCD display on your MFCs control panel to view the contacts stored in your LDAP network address books and scroll to select the address you need. Then you can quickly send faxes and Internet faxes to your selection, and perform scan-to-e-mail-address functions all directly from the listings in your LDAP network address book.
Enhanced scan-to-FTP-server features
Scan documents, images, and faxes, and post these to FTP sites directly through your networkconnected MFC. Its ideal if you often post files to FTP sites for easy retrieval and download by permitted users inside your firm, perhaps in remote locations, or by corporate partners, such as clients, vendors, agents and others. Multiple FTP server profiles specific sites and folder locations, access codes, and scanning preferences, for example can be saved in presets for custom applications, cutting the time spent, and potential errors.
Scan to other fax-server applications*
Law firms, accounting firms, consulting operations, and many other entities often use network-based fax-server applications. If you employ a leading networkbased fax-server application in your enterprise, your MFC can be set up as a document scanning device to work with it.1 Transmission of your faxes will then take place through your preferred network-based fax-server application, rather than through your MFCs built-in fax modem.

Fax-Server

Feature lock by user
Walk-up copying, scanning, and faxing are all great conveniences with your MFC, but you may not want everyone to have access to every feature, especially if you are handling confidential records and data on a routine basis. So your MFC provides the ability for your administrator to set various levels of passwordprotected access to certain features, for each of up to 25 different users per machine. Through this feature, you could restrict specific employees such as part-time workers or interns from access to scan-to-e-mail functions or other avenues for sending data outside your walls.
Boss Clearance: All features
Intern Clearance: Copy only
The high-speed laser all-in-ones for your business Speed, convenience and great print quality for everyone in your office.
For busy offices and small connected workgroups, Brothers new high-speed laser all-in-ones deliver exceptional versatility, print quality and performance in a highly efficient, space-saving design. You can print, copy, fax, and scan from any connected PC all from any one of these easy to use and maintain models. If youve been searching for a better way to provide the variety of functions you and your people need without the headaches and unnecessary expense of buying and maintaining multiple devices, these new Multi-Function Center products from Brother are the answer.
High-quality color scanning

Up to 50 page auto document feeder

The Brother MFC-8460N

High-Performance, All-in-One for your Business or Workgroup The Brother MFC-8460N can dramatically boost productivity in your home office, small office, or small connected workgroup. It easily replaces a variety of dedicated devices by including high-speed printing, convenient flatbed copying, color and mono scanning,

Backlit 5-line LCD

faxing and more all in one space-saving product. Theres no trade-off in performance and features for all this convenience.
Built-in Super G3 33.6K bps fax-modem and enhanced fax features
Improve productivity and efficiency, and be ready for the future.
Convenient flatbed design plus an auto document feeder
Lift the top cover and youll see a legal-size (8.5" x 14") glass, ready for you to make copies, scan documents or images and for faxing, too. Its perfect for copying, multi-copying (up to 99), color or mono scanning, or faxing pages from bound materials like reports and magazines. The top cover even lifts up further to accommodate bulkier materials like books. Youll get great copies at up to 1200 x 600 dpi resolution, and high-quality color scans at up to 19200 x 19200 (interpolated) resolution. For copying, scanning or faxing multiple-page documents, use the built-in auto document feeder to automatically feed up to 50 pages at a time, unattended a great time saver.
Versatile paper handling, with expandability for your future needs
These models all ship with a 250-sheet paper tray that can be adjusted to handle letter or legal-size paper. They also feature a 50-sheet, fold-down multi-purpose tray for envelopes, card stock, or for feeding individual sheets, such as letterhead. An optional second 250-sheet adjustable lower paper tray (LT-5300 ) can be added to boost total input capacity to up to 550 sheets.
Standard 50-sheet folddown multi-purpose tray Standard 250-sheet adjustable paper tray Optional 2nd 250-sheet adjustable paper tray
Connect one user directly via USB or Parallel.
Network-ready for the wired or wireless network you have now, or will have in the future
These MFCs are ready for the way you work now or the way you might work in the future. If you dont already have a network just connect one of these MFCs to your PC using its High-Speed USB 2.0 or Parallel interface. If you already have an Ethernet network these Brother MFCs offer a built-in Ethernet interface and easy setup software to connect to your wired or wireless router.

.or multiple users via wired or wireless router on a shared network
Models with duplex printing, copying and scanning

The Brother MFC-8860DN

LT-I N D U P
with automatic two-sided printing, copying, scanning and faxing The Brother MFC-8860DN provides all the features, convenience, versatility and performance of the MFC-8460N and adds built-in automatic duplex (two-sided) printing, copying, scanning and faxing. This feature can help you cut paper costs by as much as half, while giving you the ability to create professional two-sided documents for reports, proposals and other tasks, quickly and easily.

The Brother MFC-8870DW

with automatic duplex functions and wireless network connectivity The Brother MFC-8870DW provides the automatic two-sided printing, copying, scanning and faxing functionality of the MFC-8860DN, and the same great features, plus 802.11b/g wireless connectivity. This means that if you have an 802.11b/g-enabled PC or notebook, you can connect to the MFC-8870DW wirelessly, right from that PC or notebook, in AD HOC mode. In infrastructure mode the most common wireless environment you can connect and take advantage of all the features of the MFC-8870DW through your wireless access point/router. Its a perfect fit for offices where you have a mix of wired and wireless-enabled desktop PC and notebook users, some of whom connect via an established Ethernet network, and others who are on the move during the work day. Its also ideal for offices with drop-in users such as sales people equipped with wirelessenabled notebooks who normally work outside the office.
Output as 2 single sheets One double-sided (duplexed) sheet
Automatic duplex printing
You can take a typical document file and simply choose to print it as a duplexed document right from the MFC-8860DNs print menu, with the orientation you prefer. Your selection then happens automatically, without the need to reload the paper to print the other side.
Automatic duplex copying and scanning
Now you can copy or scan two sides of the same document and either print the copy or store the scan as two single-sided pages, or as a single two-sided page. Or, you can copy or scan two single-sided documents and produce a copy or store a scan as a single two-sided page.

Connection possibilities with the MFC-8870DW
Via access point/router in infrastructure mode

Automatic duplex faxing

Scan a two-sided document for faxing with only one step and it will be received as two single-sided pages. Also, cut paper costs by printing out the multiple-page faxes you receive as double-sided pages.
Via Ethernet interface to router or wireless router Via 802.11b/g from wireless-enabled PC or notebook
MFC-8460N / MFC-8860DN / MFC-8870DW

Technical Specifications

Modem Speed/Best Transmit Speed Auto Document Feed Capacity Paper Capacity (Std./Max. Pgs.) Paper Size(s) Standard Memory Capacity (Max. Pgs.) Broadcasting (# of Locations) Quick Scan2 (Seconds/Page) Remote Retrieval Fax Forwarding/Paging Dual Access 33.6K bps Up to 50 Pages 300/550 Sheets Letter, Legal, A4, B5, A5, B6, A6, EXE 32MB (600) 390 Yes (2 sec.) Yes Yes Yes 40/300 ITU-T Super G3 MH / MR / MMR / JBIG Yes Laser 30ppm NA Up to 1200 x 1200 Yes Yes Yes NA NA 98/98SE, Me, 2000, NT 4.0, XP PCL6, BR-Script 3(PostScript3 Compatible) OS 9.1-9.2, OSX 10.2.4 or greater 30cpm NA Yes Up to 1200 x 600 dpi Yes 25% 400% 1% increments Flatbed NA Yes Yes Yes 600 x x 19200 ScanSoft PaperPort SE with OCR Presto! PageManager with OCR for Mac Yes 544 MB TN-550 (approx. 3,500 pgs.)w TN-580 (approx. 7,000 pgs.)w DR-520 replacement drum unit3 20.9 x 17.7 x 18.7 24.7 x 22.3 x 22.6 36.3 49.8 36.8 49.5 36.8 49.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Fax

Key Features at a Glance

MFC-8460N Up to 30ppm print speed Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi print resolution High-Speed USB 2.0, Parallel, and Ethernet interfaces Up to 50-sheet auto document feeder Flatbed design for easy copying, faxing and scanning of bound documents Legal-size document glass
One Touch/Speed Dial Locations Fax Compatibility Coding Method(s) Auto Fax Receipt Date/Time Stamping Print Printing Method Print Speed (Max. ppm) Print Resolution (Max. dpi) Duplex Printing Parallel & High-Speed USB 2.0 Interfacess Ethernet Interfaces 802.11 b/g Wireless Interface Windows Compatibility4 Emulation(s) Mac Compatibility Copy Copy Speed (Max. cpm) Duplex Copying Copy Resolution (Max. dpi) Sorting Function Reduction/Enlargement Scan Scanning (Color & B&W) Duplex Scanning Scanning Profile Presets Optical Resolution (Max. dpi) Interpolated Resolution (Max. dpi) Document Viewer & OCR Software
MFC-8860DN Includes the features of the MFC-8460N plus. Built-in automatic duplex printing, copying, scanning and faxing MFC-8870DW Includes all of the above mentioned features plus. Built-in 802.11b/g wireless interface SecureEasySetup (with your capable router)

PC Fax Software Maximum Printer Memory Other Consumable Type (Max. Yield)
Unit Dimensions (W" x D" x H") Carton Dimensions (W" x D" x H") Unit Weight (lb.) Carton Weight (lb.) UPC Code
Minimum System Requirements and Supported PC Software Functions
Computer Platform & Operating System Version 98, 98SE Me NT Workstation 4.0 Windows Operating Systems
Optional Supplies and Accessories
for Applications TN-550: TN-580: DR-520: LT-5300: Approx. 3,500 pages at 5% coveragew Approx. 7,000 pages at 5% coveragew Approx. 25,000 page replacement drum3 250-sheet lower paper tray
Supported PC Software Functions

PC Interface

Parallel, USB, Ethernet, Wireless 802.11 b/g7 Parallel, USB, Ethernet, Wireless 802.11 b/g7
Processor Minimum Recommended Minimum Speed RAM RAM
Available Hard Disk Space for Drivers
32MB Intel Pentium II or equivalent

128MB 90MB 130MB

Requires additional purchase Based on 5% letter size page coverage s Cables not included Duplex scanning through ADF letter size maximum * Available on MFC-8860DN and MFC-8870DW only
2000 Professional XP Home XP Professional1 XP Professional x64 Edition1
Printing, PC Fax 3, Scanning4
Parallel, USB, Ethernet, Wireless 802.11 b/g5,7 Parallel, USB, Ethernet, Wireless 802.11 b/g7 Parallel, USB, Ethernet, Wireless 802.11 b/g7

128MB 256MB

256MB 512MB

150MB 150MB

220MB 220MB
AMD OpteronTM Parallel, USB, Ethernet, AMD AthlonTM 64 Wireless 802.11 b/g5.7 Intel XeonTM with Intel EM64T Printing, PC Fax Send, Scanning2 Printing, PC Fax Send, Scanning2
USB6, Ethernet USB6, Ethernet, Wireless 802.11 b/g7
Brother MFC-8860DN & MFC-8870DW models capable of integrating with RightFax fax servers only 2 Using Brother No. 1 Chart with JBIG coding and standard resolution 3 Drum life may vary based on various types of use 4 See system requirements
For more information please visit our Web site at www.brother.com

64MB 80MB 160MB 200MB

Apple Macintosh Operating System
OS 9.1-9.2 OS X 10.2.4 or greater
All base models meet minimum requirements. 128MB
For WIA, 1200x1200 resolution. Brother Scanner Utility enables to enhance up to 19200 x 19200 dpi. Dedicated "Scan to" key functions only in the Mac OS X 10.2.4 or greater. Network PC Fax Receive not supported in Windows NT4.0. Network Scanning not supported in Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Mac OS 9.1-9.2 (Scan to Email Server <MFC-8860DN/8870DW only> and Scan to FTP are supported). 5 A wireless network connection is supported only between the Brother device and an access point for PCs running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and XP Professional x64 Edition (Ad-hoc connection is not supported). 6 Third party USB ports are not supported. 7 Wireless 802.11 b/g only available on the MFC-8870DW model.

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2006 Brother International Corporation, 100 Somerset Corporate Blvd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-0911. All registered trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective companies. All specifications subject to change without notice. Printed in U.S.A. CATMFC846088608870