On Tuesday 11 January 2005 9:44 am, Chris Green wrote:
I've not had particularly good experience with Brother printers, we had an HL1060 laser for quite a while and it was never really quite as good as it should have been. The HP1150 laser we replaced it with is much better and more trouble-free.
Me neither, generally I find their Windows software to be buggy and quite lacking and I am not over impressed with the hardware either. It's a pity because they make some really nice looking low profile models.
However the MFC3345CN and MFC5840CN. are inkjets so are rather different. Does anyone have any experience with these two (or similar) Brother printers? They both offer:- 20ppm B&W, 15ppm colour inkjet printing (take the speeds with a pinch of salt, isn't really important). Fax Scanner (MFC3345CN sheet feed, MFC5840CN flat bed) Photo printing with photo card readers Copier function Automatic Document Feeder
Not had any direct experience with either of those models, personally I would avoid the sheet feeding version as there WILL be a day when you want to scan/fax a book or brochure page.
What I'm particularly interested in is:- Paper handling reliability and space used by paper in and out. Quality of printing (compared with HP 840C for example) Linux compatibility
In my experience the best you can probably hope for is printing support with almost any MFP, you may get some degree of scan support but in most cases fax from PC is out. I have seen a HP 5510 working on a linux box but I do not know what steps were taken to get it there (the HP 5510 is a budget "circa £130" printer,scanner,fax....not bad, a bit plastic fantastic but for the money it's not bad)