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Brother Launches "world First" A3 Multifunction Printer
When I moved offices in 2002, the Brother range of printers wasjust "coming of age" in the UK as a real alternative to HP andEpson in the lower to mid range price bracket, offering reasonablypriced printers and good consumable economy.As we are an officesupplies dealer and I like to practice what I preach, I bought acouple of the laser printers for our new office. An HL-1070 and anHL-1050.


To cut a long story short, neither let me down in the entire time Iwas using them, about 3 years in all, after which time I decided to"upgrade" to a duplex printer (the HL-5150D) to gain an advantagein faster printing, but also in an attempt to save money byprinting on both sides of the paper. Again a decision I haven'tregretted for one moment. I do just wish they'd make the printerwith a transparent cover so I could see how it manages to printboth sides, without being an enormous great bulky piece of kit.Maybe I'll submit a feature request.....

So fast forward a couple of years and we come to Brother's latestrelease the "world first" MFC-6490CW. A very good friend of mine(30 years plus since we became friends) is just setting up a newbusiness and he asked me for my recommendation for a multifunctionmachine at really good value. He has limited office space andneeded something to cover all his needs, but in one box. Oneparticular feature he had to have was the capability to print A3,as he likes to produce his own A3 colour flyers, as well as all theregular things like faxing and copying.

As a new business, he couldn't run to the expense of a lasermachine, so, even if ther had been a suitable A3 laser, his budgetwouldn't stretch that far.He's a computer novice, but managedinstallation and setup with no problem at all and was faxing andprinting within an hour of the box being delivered to his office.He is totally thrilled with the MFC-6490 and I guess it's hisenthusiasm for this new printer that prompted me to put pen topaper as it were, to spread the word a little.

Naturally if anyone decides to buy one, I'll be more than happy tosupply, though in general I don't tend to promote machines unless Ihave a particularly strong recommendation or a good history. Themargins are very very low and with untried products, returns tendto outweigh profits!.

Since Brother are claiming a world first with the printer beingable to print not only A4 but A3, I think it's probably a good ideato list what I consider are the most important benefits of the newmodel.

Faxing - it has a 50 sheet auto document feed for those long boringreports you may have to fax. The modem speed is 33.6K, which is okand a good memory - up to 400 sheets in case you run out of paperand are away for a week!

Copying - up to 23 copies per minute mono and 20 pages per minutecolour, 25-400% reduction and enlargement and 1200 x 1200 dpioutputPrinting - up to 38 pages per minute mono (that's faster thana lot of more expensive laser printers) and up to 28 pages perminute colour. Still very quick! Print resolution is 1200 x 6000dpi.

Scanning - flatbed or ADF which is handy and at resolutions up to9600 dpi.

Scan to email - which is a handy featurePhotos - there are 6different smartmedia slots, so getting pictures straight from yourcamera using pictbridge should be a breeze. The MFC-6490CW canaccept compact flash, memory stick, memory stick pro, securedigital & Xd picture M&H card as well as removavble disk drive.

Drivers - works with Windows 2000, XP, Vista Mac OSX 10.2.4 orgreaterSo you get all that in a printer weighing 15.6Kg andmeasuring 540 x 488 x 323mm, plus it comes with a 12 month on siteBrother warranty upon registration.
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