Отзывы о МФУ струйное Brother DCP-T520W InkBenefit Plus, цветн., A4

I can't be more blunt about exactly how much I hate this printer. I "upgraded" in the hopes of being able to offer my customers a more consistent, awesome product. I'd say that was accomplished maybe a half dozen times. From then on every experience with this thing is a lesson in frustration, lost work time, wasted paper and ink. The chances of getting a successful print on the first go are less than 10%. Sometimes it mishandles the ink levels. Sometimes it decided to print across 4 pieces of paper. Sometimes it decides there is a paper jam when it hasn't fully loaded the paper in the first place. And sometimes it just spits out blanks and tells me the print job is done.This heavy, inconvenient beast does nothing to speed up my business. It slows me down and now just costs me money. If it wasn't so expensive I'd take the thing out back OfficeSpace style and then burn the pieces into a pile of plastic goo. I can say, unequivocally, that this office will never give another Brother printer a home.

These Brother multifunction laser printers are just about flawless and give you the best ROI for low cost. Networking, Duplex Printing, Duplex Copying, Duplex SCANNING!

This printer is very difficult to keep connected to wireless and uses up ink needlessly with "maintenance". Also, you can NOT print in black (or color) if ANY of the color cartridges are empty! Very frustrating to have a FULL black cartridge but not be able to print anything because the yellow cartridge is empty!! Will sell this printer on Ebay and buy from a more consumer friendly company. Say BYE to Brother not BUY.

This is simply a reveiw of a tested product. My business has used this unit to copy scan and print. the color is not the most defined but it has run for now over 3 years, made over 35,000 (Unit tells you how many not a guess)copies and has never needed replacement parts or repair. Used every day. Can't even remember the purchase price but it has been well worth it.

Fast printing and scan. very satisfied. easily installed, and works smoothly. The ink might go away fast, but you can always find cheap cartridges

I bought the Brother MFC-6890-CDW last fall (8 months ago) because it offered so many features during a special sale of $219.1. It was easy to set up, but the trays are somewhat flimsy. It is big and heavy, which is good as when it prints it is difficult to feel it shaking while a competitor top of the line model was visibly shaking. Overall, the body is well made.2. The first project was to print off 11X17 copies of a multi-colored chart from a scanned copy. It did an excellent job because of what I did under #3.3. The other reviews are correct that the colors are washed out. I have an iMac and use their printer/scanner dialog box. Checking off best print quality and vivid color gives pretty good color rendition. Anything less looks somewhat light or washed out.4. The color cartridges are smaller and hold less ink than the MFC-440 of which worked extremely well for four years until it died. However, the ink cartridges appear to last an adequate amount of time.5. The multi-touch screen on the computer is a little awkward to use - not sure what some of the features mean. There are two manuals - one that comes with the printer and the scanner portion is online. Documentation is one area that can be improved on.6. This is not a photo printer. As an pro-am camera enthusiast, the quality is poor.7. I like the dual side printing feature, but on the Mac, it only works through Preview. With that it does an excellent job.8. Sometimes on Fast Normal setting, the print on a line or two slants.9. Does a good job scanning moderate size books, just don't force down the paper feeder - just let it rest on the book.10. I was not able to figure out how to enlarge print in terms of where to place the paper on the glass. Several pictorial examples in the manual would help.This MFC currently costs $339 and I would not buy it given the reviews and my experience, but at $219 last fall it was a great bargain and serves my printing and scanning needs very well. It works extremely well with ABBY Fine Reader Express. Overall, the Brother MFC 6890CDW is a great deal with some rough edges. If money is a priority, I would wait for it to go on sale again.

I have had this printer for a couple of weeks now and overall I'm very pleased. I'm not big fan of inkjet printers, and the fact that it wasn't a laser printer was my #1 hesitation before purchasing this model. I sat on the fence -- until Amazon.com had it on sale for just under $200, that is, shipped free to my door. Then how could I say no?If what you really want is a printer to output a lot of text documents for business, etc., you probably still want to look into laser printers. This model's big advantage, however, is that it can both print and scan tabloid-size documents (11x17" or A3). If you want that capability, you won't find a laser model for less than ten times the cost of the MFC-6490CW.Bear in mind, this printer really is very big. It's almost as big as a heavy-duty office printer. It won't share a desk with your monitor and keyboard comfortably, and if you use a laptop it will loom over you like a monolith -- so make sure you have space for it.Setup was easy enough, although you may need to be a little savvy to successfully share the printer with several PCs over a network. (I found it was safest to assign a static IP address to the printer and manually configure each PC to search for it at that address, rather than relying on the automatic setup.)Another reviewer said you can't use wireless and wired networking at the same time. To clarify, the printer will only use one network interface at a time -- if you enable the wireless networking on the printer it will disable the Ethernet and vice versa. But it makes no difference; the point is to use whichever interface is most convenient for you. If you plug the printer directly into the Ethernet port on a wireless router, you WILL still be able to access the printer from wireless devices. Likewise, you won't need to buy a wireless card for your desktop PC if you set up the printer on WiFi. Your wireless router will automatically bridge the wired and wireless networks. The printer is just giving you options.As for print quality, sorry folks, text output is NOT as good as a laser. It's not as fast, it's not as sharp, it's not as dark, it's not as crisp -- bottom line, a laser printer is going to yield nicer-looking text documents.The again, text quality is very readable, and normal-quality output on plain paper is quick enough for my needs. I realized that most of my prints are for my own files, or for me to mark up with a pen. Who am I trying to impress? Those of us who can still remember the days of dot-matrix printers should have no complaints. I would consider prints at normal quality mode to be fully acceptable for business use. The text becomes very sharp indeed if you use high-quality inkjet paper and one of the printer's photo modes, but that's too slow and expensive to be practical.I was pleasantly surprised by the graphics output, which I found to be rich, smooth, and clear. Outputting photos to plain paper showed noticeable banding, but that's to be expected. On the other hand, I printed out a document that had lots of areas of flat color and lots of gradients onto high-quality 36 pound matte inkjet paper, and on that job I noticed ZERO, repeat ZERO banding in either the gradients or the flat areas. If anything, the colors came out a little too dark and saturated, but I suspect that I used an overly optimistic print mode for the particular paper stock I had on hand. I have yet to try printing photographs at maximum quality onto glossy photo stocks, but I have no reason to doubt the quality of the output.Brother's "Innobella" inks seem to be a considerable improvement on those of the last inkjet printer I owned. I printed out a page of text on plain paper and on 36-pound inkjet paper, then threw a bunch of water onto the pages. The plain-paper sheet did seem to blur a bit, but not as much as I expected. Black ink seemed to survive the test well, while colors bled quite a lot. On the heavy ink jet paper, however, there was almost no change once the inks dried. I would actually include the sheet that got wet in with other pages in a presentation; it survived that well. Laser printers still have the advantage if you plan to take your prints out in the rain, but prints from this inkjet are no sissies.As others have noted, the printer isn't smart enough to know which kind of paper is in which tray. You need to configure it yourself, either on the panel on the front of the printer or via the configuration software. That's a small price to pay, however, and an example of the many minor compromises that Brother has made to keep the price of this printer at rock bottom. More annoying is the fact that there's no easy way to feed a single envelope without emptying out a paper tray.There is no automatic duplex scanning, copying, or printing, but I have never owned a printer that would do these things. Unlike others, the automatic document feeder (ADF) worked smoothly for me.The scanner was a treat. I had a low-cost tabloid scanner already (Mustek A3 U

I bought this to help in my shipyard consultancy. The 11x17 feature and the ability to duplex print got me to buy it and both work extremely well.

I ALREAY HAD ONE THAT COME WITH MY FAX MACHINE WHICH I PURCHASED YEARS AGO BUT AFTER SO MUCH USE THE KEYS WOULD STICK OR I COULDN'T PRESS HARD ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM CONNECT.THE NEW PHONE IS GREAT AND I'M SURE WILL LAST A LONG TIME.

I just thought I would write a simple review on how terrible this product is. As others have said, it won't print black if the colors are empty, which it conveniently empties everyday even when powered off.

The Brother MFC-6890cdw All-in-One with printing, copying, scanning and faxing capabilities has been in daily use in my home office for some time now, and it has proven to be invaluable. The wireless networking has saved my family time and effort. Another feature I really appreciate is the ability to use paper sizes up to 11 x 17. Altogether a sturdy, easy-to-understand and convenient machine.

This was a replacement printer for one that I had that stopped working. It is the exact same model that I had, which I was glad to find on Amazon. I used it a lot and then something went wrong, started making a strange noise. This was in the first couple of weeks. Manufacturer replaced free of charge, and paid for shipping both ways. I'm very pleased with 'new' one and would purchase this again if I needed another printer. I use the scanner feature a lot. Basic printer, scanner - my needs are not complicated. Like most printers, the ink cartridges add up. I don't like that it won't print if one cartridge needs to be replaced, so I have to keep spares on hand at all times. But I was aware of this when I purchased the printer - I had read the reviewed.

I have had this all in one for a few years now and can make these observations. You can adjust the dpi from about 200-600 effectively, the higher resolution slowing your scanning times considerably. It produces good copies and scans to .jpg and .pdf. I do not scan anything but documents (color and bw), maybe the occasional photo. I also fax a lot less than I used to because everyone just scans and attaches nowadays. I have never inserted a CF card or SD card into the machine because I can just email them to Ritz or a dozen other places that do a better job of it. So basically I scan, then email or archive the file or just use it as a copier and a computer printer. It's nice to have a machine that does it all in one and my needs are simple so it works for me. If your needs are more demanding, then open your wallet and move up the ladder. One MEGA complaint for me. When I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 in October 2009, Brother just blew me off and their support flatly stated there would be no drivers or software written specifically for Win7. Normally, I would not care one bit EXCEPT in Windows 7 there is NO .pdf conversion available. That's right. After scanning and converting docs to pdf files in XP for a long time, Win 7 is only empowered to convert all paper documents to .jpg only. It is still usable but totally sucks that Brother refuses to spend the effort for a patch that would make the machine more functional. PLUS, none of the old software will even install on Win7 so I am left to generic Win7 drivers which lack other small features of the original software as well.Final note: go to inkjetsuperstore.com or some other internet store and stop buying OEM cartridges. After years of experience, trust me they have the same ink volume and duration and quality as the original but instead of spending $75 for 4 cartridges (black,cyan,magenta,yellow), you get 5 cartridges (2 of them black) for $25 which includes shipping. This thing has lasted me a very long time, even without Win7 support from the manufacturer!

Easy to use and setup was a breeze, cost was good and output first class. I've changed from HP to Brother Products exclusively.

I bought this printer from costco a few years ago and it worked fine for me. Good print quality. I use mainly for scanning and print outs. I always used OEM ink, though it is expensive. Previously I used to change printers every now and then.Networking is very good with strong wireless router.Thanks,Saj

I purchased this item from Amazon Oct. 26th--It was delivered Oct. 27th by Fed Ex--no shipping charge--I use it a lot for scanning--I would recommend this product for ease of operation and the ink cartridges lasts longer than any other printer I have used.

The machine's frequent Jamming is my problem. Remove paper & LCD display (which also is barely visible) keeps scrolling message "Print Unable 36. See Troubleshooting & Routine Maintenance in User's Guide" Delete print job, message keeps scrolling. There is no 36 in Troubleshooting section of guide, only a 46 unrelated to jamming problem. Press Stop/Exit & the message keeps scrolling. Press On/Off & machine totally ignores the command & the LCD keeps scrolling it can't print. Only way to make it quit scrolling is to pull the plug & clear the memory. Then before printing next job, it will say Please Wait and it goes thru it's ten minute cleaning mode. Every time it's unplugged & replugged it's wiped memory doesn't know it just cleaned the print heads & does it all over again, using more ink. And then it has to spit out a blank sheet before it's ready to print. Not only then but will shoot out a blank page on it's own whim before printing.My b/w laser Xerox has special single feed for special jobs. I have plenty of special single feed jobs. This machine does not accommodate. The tray is a hassle to handle and load.I have only had it about six months. It was great in the beginning when I printed only letter-sized paper. But I print notecards and the more I use the machine, the worse it gets. It has wasted enormously my time & card stock & plain paper. Brother does not have customer support (Xerox has wonderful online support--or had; haven't had to use the service for over a year). In order to get any clue to a Brother solution, you have to pay an online technician.Oh, yeah. Another thing. The machine stalls at the onset of a print job:the message is "rastertobrother145 has failed" . . . this is when I am printing graphics from my word processor (Pages-Mac). Only clue--raster--assuming to do with graphics--to brother--assuming graphics instructions to printer failed. 145? no clue. Cannot find one on Brother or Apple website or anywhere. Have to unplug machine to clear memory of that too. But after a while it will be back. Nerve wracking.On the good side so far: scanner works fine with my Mac software. Copier is fine for single side; try to manually do double side, paper jam most of the time. More wasted paper. Still does a decent job printing photos. 4x6. And so far has not jammed photo paper. But I need the machine to do more than just print 4x6 photos.Would not recommend the Brother MFC-255CW or any Brother for that matter.

If you run out of ink in any of the four cartridges you lose all functionality of this product. $30 every time. If left unused for any length of time you must remove the cartridges or you will be taking it to get fixed. only scans through USB. Cool device when its working correctly.

I purchased this printer for a home business. About two months out of the year I simply pound on a printer and its reliability is critical. I had always used HP prior to purchasing this printer and was somewhat skeptical of Brother, but purchased this printer based on the reviews. What I love is the speed, duplex printing and dependability. The copy function is excellent, but the scanning, although it works fine, can't compete with a dedicated scanner. If you print a lot of envelopes, beware that it wrinkles them pretty badly. Overall, if your looking for a workhorse printer/copier, you will not be disappointed. When this printer dies, I will be buying another.

I've had this printer for some 9 months now, and I feel it was an excellent choice. Others admire it, too, and are always showing up with something that needs printing, copying, scanning or faxing.I selected this printer to replace my old HP 1130 which accepted 11x17 paper. This was the only color multifunction ink jet I could find in my price range that does tabloid sizes. It is too big for the average desk and should sit on its own printer stand.I must disagree with some reviews I read. For instance, one person said, "The LED screen is very complicated...changing trays or paper size or reduction is confusing. Too many buttons, too many options....". I don't understand where they're coming from. It couldn't be easier for me. When I want to copy, I just hit the copy button and then the start button. It's just that simple. If I want more than one copy, I select the number from the numerical keypad. For size reduction, press the arrow down button once and you are on the Enlarge/Reduce line. Use the left and right arrow keys to select the amount of enlargement or reduction and press the start key. What could be simpler?"As a copier, it's slow." Yes, it's slower than I'd like, but I remind myself that it is an ink jet printer, not a copier. Large or multiple copy jobs should be performed on a real copier."There is nothing to catch the output pages so very often, especially with legal paper, they land on the floor and you need to figure out the order they belong in." Not true. The top paper tray has a front tab that gets pulled out and up. This keeps the paper from falling out. Try it; it works.I am responsible for printing business cards for several people. Using Avery, I never have any problems with the printer for cards and labels. I did find that greeting cards didn't work well, and I messed up practically the entire box. Those were Office Depot brand, which I suspect caused the problem.I've never had any problem with the automatic document feeder, either, and I use it practically every day. Perhaps those having issues are stacking too much paper in the tray.If you print a lot of photos, I probably wouldn't recommend this for a photo printer. In my opinion, this is really a document printer which you can use occasionally to print images and make a quick copy. If you're a stickler for photo quality, buy something else.I do find this machine sometimes makes noise when I'm not using it. I'll be quietly working at my desk, typing or something, and suddenly I hear a grinding noise. Startled, I look over to the display and see that it is doing some self-cleaning.I also notice the printer On/Off works strangely sometimes. I can sit at my desk for the longest never using the printer and it's still lit up, but other times it's all dark. It usually comes on automatically when I send a document, but sometimes I have to press the On/Off button.I was spending a lot of money purchasing the high capacity ink cartridges from Office Depot. I found a "compatible" supplier on the internet where I could get 12 for the price of one brand name. I did find that some photo colors don't look quite as good, but other than that, the compatible cartridges save a lot of money.Speaking of ink cartridges, whether using the brand name cartridges or compatible ones, I noticed that my family and friends who use printers like Lexmark go through a lot more ink than I do, even though I do a lot more work than them.It is missing a manual feeder. Using the tray for envelopes can be a pain. I prefer to print labels and stick them on the envelopes. It also does not have duplex features, but since this is the only color inkjet multifunction that prints tabloid, it's a matter of which feature is more important to you. The ability to print tabloid size was paramount in my decision to purchase this printer.My printer did include the USB cable and free ink cartridges.Overall, I am quite pleased and feel I made a good choice for my home office printer.

I was skeptical of Brother printers, but after having a miserable experience with HP trying to get a 6380 to work (two broken units delivered; two units returned; 4 hours on phone with tech support), I broadened my search and found consistently good reviews of this printer. I live in a mixed household (Windows and Mac), which also eliminated many competitors. Finding it on sale tipped the scales.Out of the box, the printer is compact, has a low profile, and is a bit sleeker looking than the competitors. Overall workmanship is solid.Only exception is the paper tray which feels a bit flimsy, but nothing that would deter me. There is also no easy way to feed envelopes or letterhead without pulling out the papertray -- and to run envelopes, you need to remove regular paper since the bypass tray is only for photo paper.Fax machine is a nice feature to have and, thankfully, it does not come with a phone handset attachment which would just take up space for no reason.Per the manual, the printer can NOT handle both wireless and wired USB/network connection at the same time. Not a problem for me at all as the unit will only be used via wireless.It is energy star rated and defaults to putting itself to sleep after a period of non-use. Startup out of sleep is very fast when you send a wireless document. I tend to unplug my power strip when I won't be using the computer for a while and was afraid that the settings would wipe, but when I plugged it back in the printer sprang back to life with all wireless configurations intact.Set up was pretty simple. Following the quick start instructions went fine. Found my wireless router, connected, printed test page, no problem. Installed drivers/software on Windows XP, and it looks to be a lot less heavy than HP's full software. Only wrinkle in installation is that it asked me several times to connect/verify the wireless connection (each piece of software plus the hardware basically asked me the same thing a few times... I probably didn't need to enter it so many times, but it wasn't difficult so I decided to be safe). No problems with Mac install either. Very simple.Overall, the set up was easy and quick. Brother could learn a bit from HP in terms of integrating the documentation and the printer set up a little bit better, but that's a minor issue. It was easy and the thing worked right away.Automatic document feeder on top of the machine is a great feature to have in a printer at this level, and it works well.The wireless integration is well done. I was able to print wirelessly immediately, and, quite a pleasant surprise to find that the "scan" feature actually worked as advertised.Scanning was as simple as dropping a document into the feeder, hitting scan, selecting which of my two wireless PCs I wanted to receive the doc, and then hitting start. Seamlessly scanned and dropped the PDF onto my hard drive.Ditto for requesting an OCR of the paper document. OCR quality is pretty amazing. I haven't had experience with desktop/consumer OCR in a few years, so maybe they are all of similar quality now, but I was pleasantly surprised. No formatting came over, but I was able to take a memo sitting on my desk and scan/OCR it in a few seconds. The text dropped into a plain text file and had no errors in text recognition or punctuation.Print speed appears to be slower than the box claims. I haven't tested it, but it feels slower than a lower quality HP deskjet it replaced. Could be a function of the wireless throughput. I'm not terribly concerned since this is for a low-volume home setup. Print quality is good, not fantastic (I will play with settings and see if I can't improve that). Photo prints onto plain paper are not as clear as HP.I am also very happy with the low noise level. The printer is quiet (much more so than my prior HP inkjet) and it doesn't rattle and shake and rumble like my prior HP inkjet.If you're having trouble getting the photo paper bypass to work, I had to resort to the manual. You need to physically move the bypass tray forward and lock it into place -- there is no software setting or configuration switch in the print properties. (You can select paper type and all the normal options there, but not the bypass.) Then when done, you pull the paper tray out and physically move the bypass tray back into standby position. At first I was annoyed, but given the frequency of printing via the bypass, I don't care. And I figure not having two paper paths probably means less chance of paper jams.The model higher than this one is essentially the exact same unit but with a phone handset and a built in digital answering machine. I didn't think that was worth an extra $50, but if you need an answering machine it might be worth it to save footprint.So far so good. I highly recommend this printer. For the price, features, ease of set up, size, and quiet, it is a very good deal.I had tried the HP 6380 which had (to me) slightly better print quality, bu

I wrote this review approximately one month after setting up the printer. I bought this printer in December when all the sales were going on. So yes, it's a great printer for the 79.00 price at that time.This is my second Brother printer. I am a home user. My brother had several other brands of printers over the years, except Brother, so I got the grand tour of printers, LOL. They all had problems, so before I bought my first Brother printer I did a little research and got the MFC 210c. I used it for nearly 5 years before it died on me, but since I didn't pay but 89.00 for it brand new at OM, I'd say I got my money's worth from it. It was a great printer. Both color and black and white printing. I never had a problem with it until it suddenly died. I don't have a problem with the speed of a printer, but I'd say it was a fairly fast printer. The images were always sharp and clear and the color saturation was always good.This new model is very similar to the older model in that it has a small footprint, it's not tall and clunky. I like the auto cleaning so I don't have to worry about the printer heads drying out. The only thing I don't care for on this one is having to take the entire paper tray out to put paper in. It's easy to do, but it's an extra step when I'm busy. The tray pulls out easily, and slips back in easily. I just scratched my head over that one. Why change the paper feed design, and add an extra step? I haven't tried the paper feed gadget on the top yet.It's a fairly quite machine, much quieter than the Lexmark I borrowed until this one arrived. The Lexmark clattered and chattered, until I thought there was something wrong with it, it also gobbled ink like a bottomless pit.This model has a very nice, brightly illuminated color LCD display that tilts up, and it's big enough to read, YAY! This is a great improvement over the small monochrome LCD displays of the older models.The various function buttons are placed logically, and they're of a nice size, and far enough apart that even someone with big fingers won't press two at the time. The cord is just the right length, not to short, and not too long.You don't get a USB cable in the box with the printer. I'm sure most people have one around if they've had a computer for a while. If not then buy a USB cable before this printer arrives so you won't be frustrated when you open the box, and begin set up.The set up was quick,simple,and easy, even with my CD/DVD burner on the fritz. I was able to go to the Bother website and download the installation package with no problems whatsoever. It took less than twenty minutes from opening the box to printing a test page, and that included downloading the set up software from the Brother website.The instruction book is clear. The menus on the printer itself are easily accessed, and the set up for time, date and etc, are easy to follow with no muss or fuss. I don't use the fax function, so I haven't hooked that up and tried it yet.The scanner, and copier, are easy to use. I can scan and copy from my computer screen to a file, or an email. The control center on the computer is easy to use. I like the Brother Creative Center. It takes you to the Brother site, and they have free templates for a lot of different things, like calendars and what have you. You can even use your own photos to make the calendars and cards. That's very easy and convenient, no extra software to download:)The ink cartridges are easier to install on this model than on the MFC 210C. Just open the ink cartridge compartment door,located on the front of the printer, pull the old cartridge out, and slide the new cartridge into the matching color slot. No more lifting the scanner bed to replace cartridges. It also has four ink cartridges to save you money; black, yellow, cyan and magenta. You only need to replace the ink cartridges that are empty. I just wish it took the same cartridge as the MFC 210C, as I have about ten cartridges left from that one;>The first test page was perfect. I've already printed out receipts from online bill paying, and purchases. I've printed recipes with pics:) I've printed emails, and text files. All in all it looks like this printer is going to be just as good a printer as the last one was. It seems to be as frugal on ink usage also.I haven't tried to set it up on my wireless network yet, so I can't give you a decent report on that function. But during set up, the very first screen gives you that option before it continues on with the entire set up. Either LAN, Home Network, or wireless.I also haven't used the photo printer yet, so I can't give you a report on that either. Hopefully there are others leaving reviews that can say something about those functions I haven't tried out yet.I guess that's it, I'm trying to think of anything I've left out. I guess I can come back and edit this later if I think of anything else.All in all, for the price I paid, which was 79.00 here on Amazon, it's an excellent printer. This

This brother printer copier is a great addition to any small business. Copying and printing work great. Only complaint is no duplex copying or staple/collating, but one can't expect that at this price. A very good product.

The copier / scanner we purchased has been a problem. I had to pay a computer hardware consultant $125 to fix the scanner problem. He fixed it and now I am having the same problem. Guess I should have purchased HP. I think Brother's should solve the problem or replace the machine.John Johnsonjohn@ducti.com