Brother DCP-8040
The brother dcp-8040 provides most of the features you'd expect in a $400 laser multifunction device, including a 50-page automatic document feeder with a roomy, legal-size flatbed 600-by-2,400dpi color scanner. Its 21-page-per-minute monochrome laser printer engine delivers decent print quality. Oddly, however, the DCP-8040 does not include a fax machine. Without a fax, this machine is simpler than most multifunctions, but it's unsuitable for many small or home offices. Most nonfaxing multifunctions are built around color inkjet printers and other features that appeal more to creatives than to business managers, but this laser-based device closely resembles the fax-capable Brother MFC-8440, which the DCP-8040 paces or beats on most image-quality and speed tests for $50 less.With no fax features to clutter the control panel, the Brother DCP-8040 looks cleaner than other multifunctions. It's 20 inches wide across the top by 17 inches deep, standing 18 inches high, with a 250-sheet paper tray nestled in the narrower, 14-inch-wide base. Above the paper tray, a hand-feed slot takes single sheets or envelopes. The same slot opens to expose the toner cartridge and the imaging drum, which snap together and slide easily into the printer on smooth grooves. The 20,000-page imaging drum costs $180. Toner costs $70 for a 3,300-page cartridge or $92 for a 6,700-page cartridge. That prices out to a whopping 3 cents per page with the small cartridge, or 2.3 cents with the big one--no bargain.
The control panel sits on a ledge above the recessed output slot, with its five-line, 22-character backlit LCD flanked by clusters of buttons for copying and scanning. A mushroom-cap-shaped scanner bed and an automatic document feeder top off the device. You can connect the DCP-8040 to a Mac or PC via a parallel port or the up-to-date USB 2.0, cables not included. Brother also sells an Ethernet option for $200(xerox phaser). The DCP-8040 gets kudos for a design that includes strong, deep handgrips at the base and under the scanner bed, making it easy to move the 35-pound machine. The narrow base of the device frees up room on your desk. We also like the control panel's easy-to-read backlit LCD, as well as the time-saving buttons designated for frequently used features. The scanner lid slides up about an inch on its hinges, but the lid won't come off to let you scan chunky objects or books.
Design aside, the DCP-8040's installation can be a little rocky. In our informal tests, we ran into a glitch connecting the multifunction device to a PC: it stopped between loading the software bundle and the drivers, so we had to relaunch it. The DCP-8040 runs on Windows 98 and up, plus Mac OS 8.6 and higher. Walking through the simple LCD menus and numeric keypad on the Brother DCP-8040 won't tax your technical skills, and most features beyond setup have their own buttons. For example, you can switch paper sources with the Tray Select button, collate a copy job with the Sort button, or shrink and copy multiple documents onto one page with another button. The LCD allows a clear display of your choices, such as the number of copies to print.
For more paper capacity than the 250 sheets provided by the DCP-8040, you can stack the machine on top of a second 250-sheet paper tray for $200. The DCP-8045D, a similar model with a 50-page auxiliary tray and an internal duplexer, costs $100 more. Brother provides an adequate 32MB of standard memory and will support a whopping 160MB if you need to expand. The only thing the DCP-8040 lacks, of course, is the ability to send and receive paper and electronic faxes. You may be able to make up for that with the fax modem in your computer or with a standalone fax machine. Brother bundles a useful software collection with this multifunction. For Windows, you get ScanSoft PaperPort, a document-archiving database with the OmniPage optical character recognition engine, which converts scanned pages into live text. On the Mac, Presto PageManager provides both document archiving and OCR. Overall, the Brother DCP-8040 performed well and quietly in CNET Labs' tests at its factory-default settings, which you can adjust to improve output and performance.
Speedwise, the DCP-8040 produced 15.5 pages per minute (ppm) of text and 15.2ppm of graphics, ranking among the fastest multifunction lasers we've seen. The winner in this category, the Brother MFC-8220, scored 16.2ppm for text and equaled the MFC-8040's graphics printing rate. Besides speed, the DCP-8040 also offers decent print quality. In our tests, text was too bright but otherwise crisp and sharp, with even the tiniest font sizes legible to the naked eye. The brightness didn't mar the text, but it undermined the graphics quality, with jagged transitions between colors, imprecise shading, and sporadic banding. Contrary to its printing swiftness, the DCP-8040 lagged in scanning speed, averaging 3.4ppm for color and 5.6ppm for grayscale images. However, thanks to its quick printing, the machine copies at an impressive 6.2ppm.
Color scans were decent, with detailed photographs and text. But the quality of colors, especially yellows, could improve. Grayscale scans were dark overall with too much contrast, losing the lightest and darkest ends of the spectrum.
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Electric Steam Cooker Questions & Recipes?
I just got a steamer at the 2nd hand store. It's a Salton, oval shaped with a clear plastic lid, and two baskets that sit inside. One has slots in the bottom and the other is solid. I have no problems with the slotted basket. So far I have cooked excellent potatoes, carrots, hotdogs and other vegitables in it. But I don't know what the solid basket is used for. I live in a hotel room with no refridgeration so I need simple basic recipes. Can I cook rice in this thing? How about meat? What about dried peas or beans? Any hints or recipes that you have tried out would work for me. How about egg dishes? Thx!
The solid basket is made to sit inside the bottom basket. you can cook things in there that require liquids...rice, beans, noodles..things like that. I have not tried eggs, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to me. It's a wonderful way to cook Tilapia, and Salmon...keeps all your meats from drying out.
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