Brother DCP-7065DN Monochrome Laser Multi-Function Copier with Duplex Printing and Networking

We bought this as a "Black Friday" special a year ago. Now, almost a year later, would I buy it again? Absolutely, no hesitation. I wanted to give it a bit less than 5 stars - it isn't PERFECT, but it is very good. When I went to click on the stars to give it a rating - the 4 star says "I like it" and the 5 says "I love it" - well, I have to say that I fall closer to loving this product rather than just liking it. A lot has already been said, and I would encourage You to check the other reviews, but a few things from my perspective as a home user. Printing Costs - We are still on the starter cartridge and have printed over 700 pages. Costing this out at the library where I used to do a fair amount of my printing after my ink jet gave up, the cost was $0.15 / page - at this rate, the printer has already 'paid for itself' - but what about going forward? Well, costing out the Brother brand Consumables (Toner and Drum) - the cost works out to $0.02 / page - assuming that the yields are accurate (and I assume they are because the yield on the starter toner that Brother provides is 700 - and we are currently over that). So, we have a printer at home that gives us that convenience and at a cost that is very reasonable. We do have the settings for maximum yield - Toner Saver, Default printing is 300 dpi, and the replace Toner setting to Continue - I just recently (at about the 700 page mark) had to pull the toner out and give it gentle back and forth shake because the print quality was getting pretty flaky - and we are now printing out nice crisp looking page again. We are NOT power users - we use the printer pretty much only when we need (or REALLY want) to print something out - the printer can go days (if not weeks) without being used at all. The problem we ran into with ink jet is that the ink cartridges would often dry out - and we would have to run them through multiple cleaning cycles just to get a legible print. No such problems with this printer. What about energy costs? -- Well, let me say - it is pretty power hungry when it is actually printing - Brother rates it at 445W - which I have confirmed with my Kill-A-Watt. That is a pretty sizable sudden draw of power. BUT - in deep sleep (which it wakes relatively quickly from when a print request is made) - it is using less than $0.10 / month - I thought about just leaving it 'unplugged' when not in use - but the cost savings of at most $1/year versus the incredible convenience of it waking from any network request to print is well worth it. I have some very minor quibbles with it - You have to make sure that Your paper is well fanned before loading it (especially on anything 24lbs and up) because it just doesn't grab it all that well and has to be reset. You DO need considerable rear clearance for using the auxiliary printing (envelopes / card stock / etc). It isn't 'whisper quiet' - but that doesn't really matter to me - though it isn't horribly loud either - It is a laser printer - it makes some noise but not a whole lot. It DOES really draw a lot of power - especially when it first wakes to print in terms of initial power draw, but again, it is a laser printer, so it is going to use more than an inkjet. I don't LOVE the scanner part - it works ok. It works GREAT as a copier and the ADF part for full page copies is great. But, on the fly cropping and scanning doesn't seem available. Overall, my family is very happy with this. I wouldn't hesitate a moment to recommend the DCP7065DN to any home user.

I got this printer to replace an HP where HP had stopped supporting the scanning function after XP. I got it on sale for under $100, which made me a bit leery, since all the specs were better than my old printer. Faster, equal or better resolution, with automatic duplex (my old one was manual duplex). My old printer was network attached, so I already had an Ethernet cable available and didn't need (or want to pay for) wireless capability. The installation was quick and easy (on a Windows 7 and a Windows 8 machine). I downloaded the current Brother software from the web before I even started, so I didn't mess with any of the CDs that came with the machine. The print quality is great, the scanning software works great, it is fast, and I love the duplexing. It is not silent when it is printing, but it is not annoyingly loud, and it goes into a low power mode most of the time where you can't hear it at all. I needn't have worried about what I was getting at the low price, because it seems like a quality printer. Additionally, supplies are a lot less expensive for Brother printers than HP ones, based on what I can see so far.

Can't believe I forgot to review this. OK. Got this almost 3 years ago, and it is literally the best printer I have ever used--in business, academia, or government. (I've worked in all three.) First off, I am frugal. I went through several home inkjets over the years because they were cheap. I decided to spend a little more and buy a laser printer instead. I hated spending the money, so I did my homework, and it paid off. The initial outlay on this thing has probably saved me hundreds of dollars in ink. This think can go as long as a year on the super cartridges, and that's with frequent printing (an attorney, a teacher, and 5 kids). The cartridges are tricky though. The name brand cartridges are so expensive that you aren't saving much over ink--though the quality is infinitely better. On the other hand, the generic ones are hit and miss. The first one I tried had terrible ghosting. If you bought it in a multipack and they were all that bad, you'd have wasted a significant amount of money. Second, I want simplicity. I always hated how most peripheral manufacturers *require* you to install a ton of bloated software to do something as simple as printing. This thing is literally plug-and-play. Of course they also recommend that you install their software suite, but the printer works just fine without it. And finally, I want efficiency and convenience. For the longest time I had this attached to a single computer, and we shared it over the homegroup. Only problem was, it had to be connected to that computer (a laptop) any time anyone wanted to print. We eventually started using it through a USB port on the router, but that required some print-server software. Then I noticed the Ethernet port. I have been using this thing for 3 years over USB and had totally forgotten that it can also be plugged directly into the router! Now we have it installed to every machine over the network--no more sharing, and no more plugging in to print. Now, as with anything, there are just a few limitations, mostly involving feeding. First, any blank material not fed through the single letter tray has to be fed through the front--which always feeds a little crooked. Furthermore, if it's an envelope or anything besides plain copy paper, it cannot be fed to the in the normal manner. You have to open the back, lower two prongs, then return them before printing normally again. Not only is this cumbersome, failure to do it properly can leave a paper jam that you will have a hard time figuring out. And it always chews up envelopes just a little. I also tried to run the really fancy wedding invitations through it. You know, the ones with the embossed border. It worked OK, but after 50 or so, the toner had started to run in little grooves--leaving streaks on the invitations. The printer was not damaged, and the lines eventually wore off, but the invitations looked a little sloppy. Second, and much less importantly, the duplex function is limited. You can copy 1-sided to 2-sided from the copy feed tray, but you cannot copy 2-sided to one sided, and I do not know of a way to scan two sided documents. And finally, the print orientation (from the letter tray) is not at all intuitive. So, let's say you have something with printing on one side, and you want to print on the reverse--but it's not all from one digital file, so you cannot simply duplex print it. (E.g. printing materials added to an earlier-printed draft.) The front feeder is intuitive enough, but as I said above, it prints crooked. So the only way I've found to print from the letter tray is to make a test page with "Top, Front" printed to the original orientation. All that being said, if you just want to print thousands of crystal clear pages without any hassle and at a bare minimum expense, then this is the printer for you!

Purchased two of these years ago and they are still running strong. Laser precision with easy and reliable connectivity via ethernet cable. Can't go wrong with this one (unless you need something wireless). I will say that I'm not a fan of the Brother Control Suite software, which I find bloated and unnecessary with intermittent product advertisements popping up in the Windows taskbar. No issues with OSX though.

I recently bought this Brother DCP7065DN Multifunction Laser Printer. After comparing prices, since I had my eye on it, the Amazon price was the best. I waited for a sale and bought it. I am so pleased with it. It's easy to set up and quick to print and scan. Also, it's not noisy. You do need some room for it, because it does take up some space. I simply put it on an end table and I'm fine with it. I may add that you will have to buy a printer cable, which is under 10$. The one that I bought from Amazon was the 10 foot USB 2.0 Gold A-B Printer Cable for the Brother Printer and can highly recommend it. I bought both the Printer and Cable at the same time, so they arrived together. I must add that delivery couldn't be any faster. I highly recommend this Printer and cable.

I bought it at $119 (and now it is $99 as of 9/10/2013!), which was really a great deal for its functions. The key features driving the purchase are Auto-duplex, built-in scanner and as a laser printer. Apart from the ordinary toner cartridge, a high yield version is available such that we can save some bucks when we still wanna stick to the genuine supplies. But still there are some short comings affecting me that you may need to pay attention to: -This printer, at the moment, has no support for WIndows Server 2012, that is unfortunately my case where I am using the printer with my workstation. Though if you know how this can be solved easily by getting a virtual machine with W7/8 or any other supported OS. -When it is first turned on, and during operation, it draws considerable amount of current that may set your main supply to fluctuate. My house is kind of old and this becomes something observable. The lights simply flickers a bit, my UPS kicks in, turning on and off a few times during the printing. While this maybe common to all laser printers which are supposed to draw a lot current, but you may need to consider an inkjet if you want to avoid it. -Finally, the default printing contrast is quite low, I tried to print some photos on my computers and it turned out to be a black picture. I am not sure if this can be tuned, but at least you shouldn't expect to print pictures well by default, even black and white only.

Bang for buck, you won't find a printer that will do what this one will at this price point. There is no competition: this one is it (unless something came out recently I'm not aware of). Duplex scanning? Duplex printing? Laser? True wireless? Compatible with iPhone AirPrint? All awesome features! And for the most part I am very happy with this printer. HOWEVER, they seem to have gone cheap on the memory. I keep getting an "out of memory" error when printing large jobs. (40 pages plus) I am a teacher and sometimes I need to print quite a bit. That's why I got a laser printer! I need to do annoying workarounds such as saving the whole thing as a new document, then printing it again in lower quality. Or else instead of selecting "print document ten times," I need to individually click "print one time" ... "print one time" ... "print one time" ... ten times so that the printer has bite-sized orders to work with. Sometimes it is surprising how few pages it can actually print without "running out of memory." Seriously Brother - how much does memory cost these days anyways? So yeah - great for all of the other features! And I am in communication with Brother and will change my review if they resolve this issue. But for the time being - three stars. That's all you get from me!

Have had this machine for six years and it's still working great. Print quality is excellent and it's done everything which I've needed it to do. A multifunction copier is the way to go. No more trips to the print shop for photocopies, and it's simple to scan documents to email. It's easy to clear paper jams and changing toner cartridges is a breeze. Very happy with this urchase.