I cannot imagine that there is a worse printer on the market. This thing is terrible. I may print 20 sheets per month and 60% of the time there is an ink problem or paper jam. I am constantly having to buy color ink and have not printed in color in years. This thing isn't good for a boat anchor.
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22.01.2011
10/10
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Великолепно
I bought this machine about 1 1/2 years ago. I had originally purchased a Lexmark all in one at Sams club. The POS broke after two weeks. I took it back and bought a Brother instead. I have been very happy with this machine. Works great for on demand faxing. We do not receive faxes at home, but have to fax out ocassionally. for lite copying and printing, it works great. I have NEVER had a jam in the machine. I just purchased a new machine (Brother MFC-9320CW) to replace all 3 HP laser jet printers and the MFC-290C we have in our house currently. Based on my past experience with the Brother, I purchased another. I would put it's quality up against HP any day. Not to mention, I have not had any trouble with getting the proper drivers for windows on brother products like I have with HP. I recommend Brother to everyone. Go Brother!!
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13.03.2011
6/10
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Плохо
The ink is cheap but there is always something amiss with my unit. It often claims the ink heads need to be cleaned, which uses a lot of ink. Today the black ink just went out, without warning of ink low or a blockage. Loading paper in the tray can be tricky. If not loaded just right along the slop near the head of the tray, the printer will not pick up the paper.Worst of all: the unit claims to be a printer, fax, copier and scanner. The scanner will only work on the PC the printer is plugged into. There is no reason this functionality can not be shared as the printer device is. This means I can't hide this huge device in my closet. It must remain in my office.
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14.09.2010
6/10
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Плохо
I'm sadden to hear that this printer has caused so many problems. I bought mine over ten years ago and it wasn't until this year that it finally started to give up the ghost. Over ten years of relative trouble free operation.Around March of this year I printed a cover sheet for a project I was working on that contained this huge black area. The MFC 210c printed it just fine but it used up over half of the black ink. That was the straw that broke the camels back. After that it was never the same. No more black. I guess I could clean the heads since I believe that it's probably just clogged. I could clean the heads but the thing is ten years old. Why bother. I got me a new HP D1660 basic printer which I use as my main printer. But I'm still using the old Brother MFC 210c to FAX and to scan. They still work. I was considering buying a new all-in-one but when I read of all the problems people are having with their printers, I decided to leave well enough alone. So with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, my ten year old Brother printer soldiers on.Addendum: Autumn 2011. Found an unused pack of ink for the 210 that I had forgotten about, but it in, cleaned the heads and the thing began printing again. Back from the grave I guess. An extra 3/4 star for never say die.
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25.11.2010
8/10
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Хорошо
So far, so good. Had it for 2 months now, and no significant problems. I do admit the reason we bought it is the ability to print 11X17, which it does just fine, once you learn to select tray 2. Automatic tray selection does not work. I saw other comments that the tray printing is a problem and that the scanner and the photo printer are not good. I don't use it for photo printing (I have an Epson for that) and the tray issue is simple if you pay attention to what you are doing and send the machine the right commands the first time. Otherwise, you are into a problem of having to clear everything out and turn the machine off to clear it as well, but these are problems you cause yourself by not remembering to click the right buttons. I don't expect it to make copies as fast as the $5,000 machine in the office, but it does everything I need, which is primarily to print 11X17 engineering drawings and to scan them. My machine seems to make acceptably good scans of 11X17 drawings as well. They are hard to tell from the originals.
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06.05.2011
6/10
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Плохо
.Brother MFC-6890CDW Professional Series Color Inkjet All-in-One Printer/Copier/Scanner/Fax with Duplex Printing and Wireless NetworkingThe Brother MFC-6890CDW is what I had expected from reviews that I had read. The only thing that does not meet my expectations is the very slow speed that it prints envelopes. I bought it to print monthly statements for 250 accounts and it prints the statements at a good speed, but when it comes to printing the envelopes it falls way short
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26.12.2010
10/10
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I got lucky and happened to find on sale at costco.com. I bought it for the 11x17 printing capabilities. I now have had the unit for a couple months and really like it. I use the 11x17 printing a lot and it works great. I have yet to change out my black cartridge. I found the installation to be easy. Hooked up to wireless network with no problems. Just started to print some pictures with it the other day and they looked fine. sent to my sister and she couldn't even tell the difference. Scanning is quick and easy. Overall a good product, love it over my old HP's. Only hiccup is it's attached to only home phone line (which is really only for faxing). it has a feature that's supposed to cause phone to ring with different tone when a real call comes in, which it does, but won't actually let me pick up phone. I'm thinking operator/set up error. Don't really use it as a phone anyway, was just looking for icing on the cake.
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20.01.2011
2/10
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Ужасно
I have had this printer for about a year. In theory, it works great! Setup was relatively easy and the first month of using it went of without a hitch. I don't use it often, so I was very surprised when I ran out of ink. Especially since I usually print in grayscale only mode. How did I keep running out of colors? If you run out of one color, the machine won't do anything! It won't print, copy, fax or SCAN (which uses NO ink at all). I have replaced the yellow and magenta cartidges already once this month and now it's telling me that I need a magenta and cyan cartridge. It stopped printing a GRAYSCALE ONLY mode print job (that I have to have for work tomorrow) to tell me I now have to go to the store and buy more color! I am furious.Does anyone else have a suggestion of a RELIABLE printer??? This one is pure TRASH!
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19.01.2011
8/10
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Хорошо
This review is simple: The 795CW is a great wireless printer, scanner, answering machine, voice recorder, and fax machine, that takes various memory cards, a usb stick, and has top-loading!!!! I love this part of the printer!!!!!However, it's ink consumption is a joke. Brother claims the print head must keep self-cleaning to ensure the nozzles don't get clogged; however, this machine will "self-clean" every time you print, during prints, and on a very busy schedule - it uses a LOT of ink. And, it's one of those printers that stops printing when one of the cartridges becomes low....not good, especially since there's still a bit left in the cartridge.Save some money and go to Cartridge World, or refill your own cartridges. At $8,000 a gallon, you'll thank yourself.Outside of that complaint, Brother made a great machine!!
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18.12.2008
10/10
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UPDATE: November 2012: No changes, still working just fine. Out of production I am sure; why not look for a newer one, maybe the MFC-6890. The prices for this one and the 6890 are sky high, maybe because of the great performance over time. Was under $300 with free shipping in 2008.UPDATE: March 2012 Still working fine with no faults. I should probably buy stock in this company.UPDATE: June 2011: Still fine. One small caveat: I am into scanning a 500 page manual today and noticed that after 20-30 (~15 minutes) scans, the process pauses for about 5-10 seconds before each page. This is for manual placement on the glass (not adf). If I wait 5 minutes, it's back to normal. Then the process starts again, 15 fast, 5 slow. Wonder what that's about...maybe getting too hot for something and has to wait....? Also, It's now on a Win7 pc.UPDATE: Feb 2011 still working fine. I'll let you know if it isn't.UPDATE: June 2010: Used the wifi for the first time with a new laptop pc. Worked flawlessly with the laptop able to use it in about a minute. So now it's connecting with USB and wireless. Everything else is still working just fine. When I noticed an ink tank looking low on the software indicator and replaced it, it seemed to have a lot of ink left (shook it). I opened up the old tank and examined the low-ink signal. It is a bit crude (a float and pointer flag that the printer can "see") and will go active when the ink still has about 20% left.UPDATE March 2010: Still going strong, no problems, no jams, perfect performance.Original review in 2008:I bought the MFC-6490cw after reading the favorable customer reviews, even though I didn't have a good opinion of Brother equipment. It was a good choice. I replaced an HP Deskjet 1220c wide format printer ($400 originally) because I need ledger size scanning as well as printing and the lowest cost I have found for a ledger size scanner is about $180. I can say as a printer it surpasses the HP in every catagory. Sharper, faster, easier and more free of jams( so far).I use a USB connection and probably won't use the wifi ever, so cannot comment on this capability.One user reported that he could not use the document feeder (adf) while scanning. I can say it will definately work for scanning or copying. The adf however skews the ledger size paper too much for my needs and so I will just use the glasstop scanner position instead. The skew adjustment auto-fix feature unfortunately only works with smaller sizes.Another user complained about the auto tray selection feature. This unit will, when set up properly, auto-select the correct tray according to print size when printing only. I am using letter in tray 1 and ledger in tray 2. When copying you will have to manually select the correct tray. Evidently it isn't "smart" enough to identify the document size while scanning. Also FYI, the online description of the procedure to do next-document size selection only is incorrect. You cannot temporarily change the tray 2 paper size or type; you must change those in the setup menu only. So, use tray 1 for temporary paper size changes.It looks like the 2x ink cartridges are more cost effective since they are only slightly more expensive than the standard sizes. I have noticed that not all stores stock either size to fit this printer. The Walmart in my area only has an older non-compatible type. Be prepared to have to order these by internet.System: Win XP Pro, 2.53GHZ, wired network
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28.05.2009
4/10
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The Brother MFC-490CW Color Inkjet All-in-One Printer packs a lot of useful features for the money which is what attracted me to it, especially the Wi-Fi network printing feature. However, after only 2 months I turned it on one day and the unit displayed an "AF Error" along with a very loud sound, sounded like plastic gears griding against each other. I went to the Brother website for support and was referred to a local Brother repair center in town to ship the unit to for repair. A Brother repair technician told me on the phone if they are unable to economically repair the unit (their decision) they will replace the unit with a new or refurbished model. My only disappointment from all of this would be that I end up getting a refurb instead of it getting repaired. It's at the repair center now, so we'll see. I had to pay the shipping expense to the repair center. Overall though I was very happy with the unit before it failed.UPDATE TO THIS REVIEW, date August 6, 2009. The Brother repair center replaced the malfunctioning Brother MFC-490CW Color Inkjet All-in-One Printer I sent to them with a "Factory Refurbished" MFC-490CW, rather than repairing the original MFC-490CW I sent in. The refurbished MFC-490CW I received was shipped to me packed in a plain brown colored cardboard box. I sent my original Brother MFC-490CW printer to the Brother repair center in its original, shiny and colorfully printed "retail store style" box it came in when I purchased the MFC-490CW. The Brother repair technician I spoke with on the phone *before* I shipped the defective MFC-490CW printer to their repair center told me to send the unit to them in its original shiny retail box. Not having the original retail style box anymore is a disappointment to me.A new instruction manual and four new Brother ink cartridges were included with the refurbished Brother MFC-490CW printer I received from the Brother repair center. The refurbished MFC-490CW printer I received does function as well as the defective MFC-490CW printer I had, however if I examine the refurbished Brother MFC-490CW printer I received you can tell that it is not a new unit. There are some small hairline scratches on the shiny black plastic located on the top left of the printer.The LCD display panel on the Brother MFC-490CW printer can be adjusted up and down at different viewing angles. When I adjust the LCD display panel on the refurbished MFC-490CW I received it is looser in feel and doesn't click in place as solidly as the LCD display panel on my original MFC-490CW. This makes me feel suspect of the long term reliability of the LCD display panel on the refurbished MFC-490CW I received. Everything else on the refurbished Brother MFC-490CW printer I received seems OK so far.In conclusion, I would have preferred to have received a new Brother MFC-490CW, or my old Brother MFC-490CW sent back to me repaired as new.
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08.08.2010
6/10
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Плохо
I love that this scanner/printer is 11x17, and very affordable, and has wifi. All that is great. However it's been a big problem for us, because:1. We were intending to manually fake duplex by running pages through a second time, and2. I need to scan color drawings on off-white paper.You cannot do manual duplex on this machine. It feeds multiple pages at once or it jams. I was trying to print my 20-page zine, and it's taken 4 hours already today due to slow print speeds, jams, multiple page feeds... a real pain. I have maybe 60 duplex sheets printed, and about 25 pages in the wastepaper bin.Secondly, the color sensitivity in the scanner is poor. I do watercolor drawings on deeply cream-toned paper, and the paper scans as pure white - obviously this means all the actual watercolors get quite washed out as well. It works well for black and white, and *sometimes* for color - but I wouldn't recommend this scanner for artists.The software is a bit limited as well; it's constantly trying to print to the wrong paper tray, hard to clear it when it gets stuck, and sometimes we can't figure out why it's still trying to go to tray 2 when we already told it to go to tray 1. More paper wasted.In the end, I think this machine would be great for a lot of people, but don't touch it with a ten foot pole if you're trying to print comics or zines or if you scan color art.
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18.03.2011
10/10
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I order this printer to replace a hp that basically had the same functions but only had 8.5" x 11" capabilities. I needed a printer to do 11" x 17" for architectural and engineering plans I do as a side business. So far after a few weeks of use, the printer is functioning great. Very good print quality (I have only used b & w so far) and the copying on the glass scanner is a great feature! The two paper trays also work out nicely to have different sizes in the printer at the same time.Overall a great printer for the price! Amazon shipped for free and was to my door in 2 of 3 days.
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25.01.2011
10/10
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Set up is easy, I have my desk top hard wired and the two lap tops Wi Fi'd. I'm using a 2wire867 router from AT&Tthat was a little bit of a challenge because there are no configuration instructions with the AT&T router and Ididn't dare want to call and get out sourced so the process of elimination worked for me. It just took a littlelonger. And also if your using Mozilla Firefox and you can't get the printer to work, switch to internet exploreron the lap tops. Funny the Acer laptop will only work with internet explorer and the H.P works with either. Justthought I would share my hook up issue's in case you run across the same problems. Saves a little hair pulling time. Over all its a really great printer. It's quite large so make sure you have room for it.
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22.02.2011
4/10
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I received this item in perfect condition. I plugged it in and began to print and receive faxes. I ran out of black inkin 3 months and replaced the ink cartridge and it would not print in black at all. Changed the cartridge 4 times in differentnew replacements in black and still no printing in black. Prints in colors, but does not read or print black.Warranty for only 30 days from seller, Brother for one year. Am sending back machine, waiting for a replacement. Very muchof a hassle....I do not recommend this printer, if you get this one, pull out your black ink cartridge immediately and tryand put back in and see if it prints black again. Good Luck!!
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06.12.2010
2/10
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I bought this printer because it presumably could fax, copy, scan, print photos, and (hopefully) print every day stuff. It worked for 3-4 weeks of very very light printing. I never did get a chance to use the fax, scan, and copy functions before experiencing virtually all the problems mentioned in previous reviews (which I unfortunately did NOT read before buying it). I have had connectivity problems requiring very time-consuming and frustrating "resets", empty ink cartridge after light use, difficulty getting printer to do anything after getting error message that one cartridge was empty (which still seems incredible), problems getting printer to print in black only, and so on. I'm tossing in the towel and agree totally with the reviewer who simply reported that this printer is so bad that one does not want to give it away or unload it on another person. My sincere recommendation: stay away from this piece of junk.
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10.07.2011
2/10
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This printer is a total piece of garbage! Its slow, it make these weird noises even when its turned off, its slower that s---, the ink in VERY expensive, and pictures don't print.
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03.12.2008
10/10
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Just received the item and it appears to do what's promised, though I haven't done any photo printing yet, I think the photo print quality will be just fine, being that they included some small photo paper in the box. In my opinion, wi-fi is the only way to go for printers. USB is just another cable. I also needed a fax for the few times I get faxes every couple months and I chose this model because I didn't want the cordless phone on the higher model to get a dead battery or anything on me. I figured that this corded phone would be dead simple.The software included helps interface with the printer including sending pc faxes out through to the printer. I'm excited to hook my other computers to it to share everything. I somewhat regret not getting the fancier cordless phone model, but it's not a big deal. To me, this unit having an answering machine is an extra bonus. I would have bought it without the answering machine, but I'm happy using it. Also has a speakerphone button. It has EVERYTHING!Comes with a set of 4 inks. CMYK. I had a little fumbling with the paper tray, as it has several slider mechanisms in it to get it ready, but once I figured it out, it seems pretty simple. Just the diagram isn't much help and I was a little 'gun shy' of breaking sliders that were a little stuck. I love the touch screen and despite a couple menu items not quite in the spot i'd expect (I would have put answering machine and outgoing message recording in better menu hierarchy) it's just fine and probably won't need much changing.I just have a regular single phone line and it works as a fax.I saw this item while searching for wireless all in one, apparently it was a featured item on the home shopping network at one point, but despite those shows being often cheesy gagetry, this seems like a winner.The look of it is not super cool, but appealing enough. I feel bad replacing a perfectly excellent canon 610 scanner / printer with this, but I needed the fax and I was tired of being tethered to the computer. Plus, several of the canon printers say wireless, but only are for bluetooth camera phones. This Brother printer is true wifi, and can handle WEP, WPA and I think one other security protocols I didn't recognize. You type in the codes right on the touch screen to connect to your network.You might be wondering, where is the cat5 network and usb printer port? YES it does have them. You can't see it in the images, but in case you do need them, you can flip up part of the unit under the scanner lid and both a USB and network port are there, from there the cable can plug in and feed out of a hole in the side. I haven't done it, but I saw the ports.You must set up the printer inks and the tray / test page printing before the phone will work. You'll get a dial tone right away, but you gotta run the intial setup before you get the button functionality.I'll probably not revisit this review, but again I haven't printed out photo quality stuff yet. I doubt this printer will surpass a canon or epson photo printer, but I do think it's gonna be fine. Hopefully others will post their reviews about the printing quality here soon.If you found one or two of the epson wireless all-in-ones on here, they were more expensive at the time and didn't have a phone line. The epson wi-fi model, one of them had color correction.Please post another review so we know somebody's printing experiences with this....
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10.04.2011
2/10
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I rarely print, and never in color in an attempt to avoid buying cyan, magenta and yellow. But it somehow burns through all of them in no time and will not let you do anything until you replace whichever one is out. Want to print in greyscale? Gotta replace that magenta cartridge first! I don't want to imagine how much each page has cost me. Printer was on sale when i bought it, now it costs more to replenish the ink than i paid for the whole machine.
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10.01.2011
8/10
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Хорошо
The Amazon service was perfect. The above mentioned rate of 5 stars is for the Amazon Cutomer Service.The Brother MFC 6890 CDW arrived on promissed date. The down load disks were missing. The machine was replace within 3 days.I purchased this model mainly for 11" x 17" glass size feature and copy one side letter size to double sides, (not double to double). This met the volume of the job and the budget limit I have. I replaced my old Canon PC 850 that needed expensive repair 3 times more than the price of this one.I wish Brother had a version of MFC 9840 CDW with 11" x 17" galss.The cost of ink per page is much higher than laser but the machine is cheaper.Treat this machine gentelly, specially the paper trays. It is all thin plastic.
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04.12.2010
10/10
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Великолепно
I bought my refurbished Brother Laser Printer HL 5140N from Fry's Electronics in 2006 for 99$, and it has been moved around and banged up several times. This printer has even followed me to college because of its reliability. I used this printer to print out several debate documents and law reviews in high school, and have probably printed over 6000+ pages.Not only that, I have only replaced the toner once (the starter toner and the current toner cart I have in there now).As for the drum unit (DR510), I have not replaced since I bought the printer several years ago.This printer keeps on chugging out papers and I have been extremely satisfied.After my parents saw my Brother laser printer still working after 4 years, my family has bought 3 more printers from Brother and they are all working fine. Brother makes fine products and I will probably use them again.
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28.04.2011
2/10
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Networking breaks constantly, requiring a complete reinstall of the bloated software on each computer. On CNET somebody said the programmer should be placed on trial for war crimes. After many years of suffering, into the trash it goes (wouldn't be fair to sell it on Craigslist).Otherwise, I liked it. The ink cartridges are reasonably priced and easy to refill.
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07.04.2011
2/10
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Our company recently bought a refurbished Brother HL-5050 laser printer. After minimum use for only 30 days, the printer now jams constantly when we use the front loader paper extension! We were forced to buy this model printer because it was the only one certified to work with our Software on the Windows 7 platform with a 64 bit processor. We have always bought HP printers and aftwer this we will never by another Brother Printer!
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12.12.2010
10/10
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I ordered this cartridges back in Fed 09. Since I had a backup supply of cartriges already, I did not get to try these cartridges till today! When I open them, they looked vastly different than the old ones from the printer. They did not seem to fit right. I contacted the seller, today via email, almost a year later asking for replacement. In the mean time, I went ahead a tried one of the new ones from this seller. To my surprise they worked. Additionally, with an hour of my email, the seller contacted me back telling me of how sometimes the cartridges may look different but still work. I sent a reply telling them of my mistake.Show me another retailer who will respond to an order inquiry after almost a year AND on a Sunday!!!!Rest assured you will not go wrong with these cartridges or this seller!
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