Brother MFC-685cw Color Inkjet Multi-Function Center with Wireless Network Interface
This All-in-One offers a unique, low-profile design, without sacrificing a 10-page ADF. It combines a convenient frontloading paper tray with a wide flip-up 3.3" color LCD, Ethernet and wireless (802.11b/g) network as well as USB Direct Interface. The MFC-685cw also includes the Message Center feature, a telephone handset and a full-duplex speakerphone.
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Brother MFC-685cw Color Inkjet Multi-Function Center with Wireless Network Interface Reviews
It is slightly noisier than the HP all in one machine I had prior to this one.but the Brother appears to be sturdier. Print quality is very good. The one HUGE advantage is the ink cartridges. However, if you print less than about 50 pages per day. That was the clincher for me. Print speed is adequate for my use. this machine might be a great fit. I can buy about 6 black cartridges (the one I use most) for about the same price as one of my old HP cartridges.
If you are a power user that prints constantly all day I think you may be slightly disappointed in the only adequate speed of this machine. The step by step instructions are a no brainer. Good luck to all. If you check amazon's price on the replacement cartridges they have available, I think you will be amazed at how inexpensive they are. Not only are they available from resellers at a fraction of what the HP cartridges cost. This printer was very simple to set up and install. Having 3 separate color ink cartridges means no more replacing the expensive 3 color cartridge when one of the colors runs out.
i love this brother had another model v ery similar for 4 years the printer head went outdecided to stay with brother,ink is alot cheaper. plus you can find brother products easily.
I have not yet been able to contact anyone, so it has just been sitting there. Please, I need some advise. cell 586-419-9982 Is there any way of using this without wireless internet.
Cindy Stewart. I did not know exactly what a wireless printer meant. I thought that we would not have to hook it up to one computer. My kids have seperate laptops.
Thanks. I am unaware of how to make a return.
No problems with this item so far and now its over six month. Its so amazing and unbelievable. It also print via the ethernet cable that you use to connect your computer to the wireless router to access internet. I waited this long to write a review because i want to see if it won't last or a piece of junk. I can print via wireless from anywhere in my house. I bought this printer for over six months.
Everything is mostly as expected. So in the end, it took a couple of phone calls that make it work. Out of the box, easy enough to start up, but the wireless network is where it gets tricky. I set up my home wireless network and usually my boyfriend just hopes and prays I can make it work, cause if I don't do it, no one will. I had toyed with the firewall settings before, but removing this software made me all wireless, all the time. It's been on my to-do-list to call the brother people for about a month and 1/2.
But we did get it working, with button hitting on my end, and calling the vonage people to have them do a couple thing for me too. Tried a lot of things, followed the manual, became frustrated and gave up. I'll say this, I HAVEN'T got it to print from my wireless laptop yet, works wirelessly with my desktop fine, don't know if it's my finiky laptop or the printer. I think, if I had a little set up help, I'd buy this again. So I was sold. So, I saw this in the Staples ad for $120, it links with the wireless network and I got a free label maker(which I had been wanting, oddly enough). I use Vonage(Voip) and when I called tech support the brother guy almost had me thinking that because I used vonage, I wouldnt be using the fax.
I had wanted this printer because I have both a desktop and laptop, and get frustrated having to change computer or wire up to print. I was removing norton anti-virus that was pre-installed on my laptop when I bought it, because it wanted me to pay to update, so I had decided to use some other free software. I just nearly freaked out. The color could be more vibrant, it seems more dull then on the screen. To start, know this: I deducted a star for the problems I had with wireless and fax.
I'm pretty tech savvy and hooking up to wireless isn't beyond me. MUCH happier with my printer choice now. I updated from an HP all-in-one because that one had stopped printing in color after only a couple years. I print a good deal in black and white, and occassionally in color.
The other thing that was difficult was getting the fax to work. The black and white is just fine. As soon as it was removed, my laptop was happily recognizing my brother printer icon(which tell you how much ink you have, etc). I guess what I'm saying is: I know my way around computers, I'm a girl who lovvvess her gadgets.
So for a person who isn't as good with technology, they'd probably toss this out the window. UPDATE 10/26/08: I figured out the wireless problem with my HP laptop, not by actually attempting to fix it, bu just a random side effect of something else. I didn't use the color often but didnt expect it to stop working just from not using it. I've scanned photos, made copies, sent faxes and received faxes.
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