Brother IntelliFAX 1820C

Pros: Prints great. For the most part this printer is a good one.

Cons: Sucks ink quickly unless you put it on "fast" print.

Review: I want to explain how I made it through a machine error 41. Turn the machine off and make sure you can turn it on but hold down the on/off button down at the same time. It somehow resets the stupid things and MAKES it accept the ink cartridges inside ...

Pros: Decent print quality and many machine options

Cons: Breaks too easily and snarfs up ink

The Bottom Line: Badly designed

Review: The Brother intellifax 1820 seems to have been badly designed; it has a decent print quality but it 'breaks' easily and uses ink at a high rate. This model is no longer in production by Brother; documents and drivers still seem to be available from the ...

Pros: Lots of features

Cons: It broke and the repair cost is more than a new fax

Review: Guess I'm not the only one with problems with the machine. It eats cartridges with nonsensical self cleaning of print heads. It is not user friendly. You don't want to lose the book. The user manual doesn't guarantee you'll figure out what needs to be ...

Pros: Cheap and sends well

Cons: Uses heaps of ink for cleaning

Review: It's very bad how it uses ink to clean it's self. Mine ran out of color (which I had not used) and would not print a black only fax, so I put black electrical insulation tape over the side facing forward and told the machine it had a new ink cartridge. ...

Pros: It looks good. That is all.

Cons: Wastes ink like no other device I have seen.

The Bottom Line: Do not buy this product as you will be spending a fortune on ink.

Review: First off, although I have never written a review for a product online before, I've relied on many reviews to make a purchase and do see the value in them. But I feel so strongly about this Fax machine as being a complete waste of money that I feel ...

Pros: Initially the print quality was pretty good.

Cons: Ink guzzling, unreliable and didn't even make it out of the warranty period.

The Bottom Line: Having owned a number of Fax machines I have never seen one fall so short of expectations. Brother can't hope to succeed by selling only to unsuspecting first time buyers!

Review: I tried to get our (Oh) Brother 1820c IntelliFAX to go to an IA (Ink Anonymous) meeting. It was drinking way too much of the stuff and not being very productive. It had all of the problems that Brother printer/fax machines seem to have: couldn't decide ...

Pros: Adequate faxing, copying and printing

Cons: Mortally flawed printing system.

The Bottom Line: Do not buy this machine! It can't be relied upon to for the most basic faxing needs. Enough said. I've wasted enough of my valuable time on this boat anchor.

Review: I am a small business owner, computer technician and web developer, and I've used in my work experience an untold number of fax machines of various designs, features and configurations. I have also in the past supported various organizations in the ...

Pros: none

Cons: brother rips consumers off using dodgy ink cleaning

Review: What a mistake, I will never buy a brother printer again. they are ripping us off by draining all the ink out of the machine every couple of weeks. - oh yes, and that great sound of cleaning in the middle of the night - while on standby! i unplugged it ...

Pros: Cheap and looks pretty

Cons: Does not know it is a printer!

Review: Well don't I feel the absolute idiot! Should have read all this before I bought the stupid machine. Nothing different to add from New Zealand. Eats ink, cleans like a maniac and now for some obscure reason one of the colors won't print even though it is ...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Upkeep and support is expensive.

Review: BAD product! Just like HP inkjets, you have to keep feeding it ink cartridges. I cannot clear error 41, and I noticed that daily (at about 3 AM) the printer goes through a complete clean cycle. This eats ink up at a huge rate. There is a tray under the ...