I need to buy another fax machine, so I thought I might get one of these fax/scanner/printer/TAM all in one efforts. I was looking at the Brother MFC 4820C..so my question is......does anyone have any opinions/user expierience/ ideas on this piece of equipment?

Up till now, my printers have always been Epson but I need the TAM and Epson dont do an all in one with TAM.

No experience of that particular one, but have a Brother laser printer which cost me a little over 100 quid new and has been fantastic

Chris

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We have a similar Brother multi-function device at work, and although I rate Brother's laserprinters very highly, I don't rate this one at all. The copy function is terrible, as its warm-up time is very lengthy due to incessant 'cleaning' of the printheads, and its user-friendliness while faxing or scanning leaves a lot to be desired.

The HP OfficeJet machines are much better in both respects.

Don't look at the price of the printer, look at the price of the cartridges... HP :eek:

We have just binned a MFC740 at work, although it was good as a fax machine and scanner as a printer it was terrible. Banding was the order of the day when printing in colour. Ink cartridges were ok though and on the 740 when one colour run out you changed just that not 3 colours.

would go for the epson range... as we can also get much ocheapo carts for them... (that come frmo same factory as epson so the ink is good!)

But do the Epson ones have a standalone fax capability? That is big reason for my looking at the Brother.

I must add, that this device will not replace my current Epson printer which is networked. It will replace my current Panasonic fax/phone/answer machine which eats ink films which happen to cost an arm and a leg..apart from being hard to source.

So further to the story....any opinions on an Epson RX500?? (have now changed original plans)

Or RX600 or 6400 Epson, or HP PSC2500.?

Any extra help guys..(looking for our resident IT experts )

Ok so any of you using an Epson RX500 or RX600 with any comments on it?

In case you're swayed back to the Brother MFCs, be careful. Some of them (eg MFC 580) ship with completely the wrong drivers. A little tiny note on the Brother website tells you this when you've spent a day trying to get the damn thing to work. Removal is not simple (fiddling with windows registry etc).

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