Editorial Product Review:Item Description:This sheet fed, multifunction product includes color printer, fax (33.6Kbps), copier, scanner and PC Faxing. It delivers fast inkjet printing with speeds up to 20ppm mono and 15ppm color and photo-quality printing resolutions up to 6000 x 1200 dpi for exceptional color output. No PC required for faxing and copying. The 8MB dual access memory stores up to 200 pages so faxes can be scanned in while sending or receiving. Includes a front loading 100-sheet paper capacity, 20-page ADF, USB 2.0 Full Speed Interface and scanning resolutions up to 2400 dpi (interpolated).
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Average Buyer Rating:
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Garbage
Do not buy this printer unless you really feel the need to waste money. If I could give it zero stars, I would. I have had this printer for less than a year. If any of the cartridges goes out it will not allow you to print at all. Tonight, I went out and bought replacement cartridges at the sum of $40. Came home and installed them. The printer will only tell me that there are no cartridges installed. Won't even let me use the cleaning utility. I recommend that you think twice before buying any Brother product.
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Do Not Buy
Any money you save on the cheap price you will more than make up for paying for ink. I get 5+/- one to two page faxes a week and go through a black ink cartridge every 2 months and have to replace the color catridges every 3-4 months. The machine virtually disables itself if any ink cartridge runs low. You can't even use the scan functions. In addtion the machine forces you to change them when ther is ink clearly visible in the cartridges they are not empty.
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Cheap to run - works well
In a small office environment, this has got to be about the least expensive fax/printer to run.
The printer does go through cleaning cycles periodically, and if you don't use your printer often, you might be better off with something else. But look at the ink cost before deciding.
We're getting compatible ink for under $2 per tank. (the tank type is LC41) The savings on ink in the first year compared to our Canon bubblejet fax more than paid for the Brother. We've taken to using it for routine office printing too - it's actually cheaper to run than our laser.
We're using roughly 5 tanks of black and 2 or 3 of each color in a typical year in a small office environment where we typically print a few hundred pages a month. At $2 per tank, that works out to less than $30 per year, or less than a penny per page.
One glitch is a few times a month, my computer looses contact with the brother, and I need to reboot the computer. (my computer is on 24/7) I don't know if the problem is in the computer or the printer.
We've never used the scanner function, but we have used it as a color copier. The normal quality mode is much faster than the best quality mode for copying, and is fine for things like copying letters and forms.
The normal print quality is fine for typical household, school or business printing. If you're looking for professional quality printing for photos, you'll do better with a dedicated photo printer, but the "fine" and "photo" settings do surprisingly well.
After 18 months, the printer is still going well, and if something happened to it, I'd buy another in a heartbeat.
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You Get What You Pay For.
This multifunction unit was purchased in 2005 to replace an ancient HP Officejet we had in our home office. The Officejet still worked after 10+ years (!) but I needed a unit that could network, so after extensive comparison, I went with the Brother MFC-3240. It is connected to our netgear printserver and works easily with all 4 of our windows XP/2000 pro computers. The included software was a plus, and with all controls logically presented helping scanning, printing and fax functions all work drama free. As I said before, we had a hardy HP fax/printer before, and the Brother does not use more ink (we do use the large black refills), but the fact that it will not print at all unless all tanks are filled demoted the rating by a star. I also wonder if the all plastic construction will be as sturdy as the old HP which had a heavy metal undercarriage, but is certainly physically lighter and has a smaller footprint. To close, I feel the MFC-3240c does the job, not impressively, but decently and at a fair cost, considering I print at least 25 pages per day.
