8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
Love it more every day!
Date of Review: Dec 4, 2007
The Bottom Line: I'd by another in a heartbeat.
Read everything I could about multifunction units on the 'net and finally broke down and bought one. Needed it for my home office for the obvious reasons. I am in real estate and regularly copy, fax and scan. I am not a technical guru by any stretch of the imagination, and this thing came out of the box, into phone and cat5 jacks, software installed, and up and running in no time.
Scanning function works great - for black and white documents or color photos. The included ScanSoft Paperport software is extremely user friendly. Images can be scanned in as PDF's, JPG, BMP, and TIF files. The OCR function works very well if you need to scan and save text to a Word file. If scanned pages are out of order, there is a function that will allow you to unstack the scans and stack them in the correct order.
Fax...what can you say...it is a fax. It's readable on the other end. You can fax via the document feeder, flatbed, or from your computer. Documents feed adequately enough, although pages which were stapled at one time or another may have a tendency to get fed through two at a time - easily remedied by feeding the bottom of the sheet first. There is a function which will alert you as to whether or not the fax went through or not.
Does an excellent job copying as well. Tight clean lines. I'd say I get about 1200 to 1500 copies per toner cartridge, which are $60-$70. I have yet to buy a new drum. Had the unit for about two and a half years without a hitch.
The reviewer before me said that the manual feed was not worth squat. I have not attempted to print envelopes, but have had to print numerous labels of varying sizes. The smallest labels were Avery 5125, and had a very tight tolerance. It has printed them perfectly.
I will certainly agree with the noise factor. When it prints, it sounds like a Lear jet gearing up for takeoff. Ok, maybe it's not that bad - but it might bother some folks. The fan noise is not any worse than the fan noise on your 1990's model desktop.
If you get one, make sure it is networkable.
