Hi,
I buy nothing but Brother these days. I purchased the MFC-5460CN for
my sister and I have the older MFC 8540CN along with a Brother Laser.
I will say the ink is expensive and I have had some network issues
that were fixed by restarting the MFC, but all in all, the drivers
are why I went with Brother with what was at the time of Mac OS X,
far better Mac support than Epson or HP. Alas, I'd say Brother right
now is the best Mac printer company for my needs. And as you found
out, the scanning to a Mac over the network was the selling point for
me too. I will say the the color photo output of the MFCs is not as
good as a color photo printer, so don't expect top notch color
photos. Business quality graphics is no problem as far as quality,
in my opinion.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd buy a laser MFC and cheap
inkjet. It seems like one can buy a whole new inkjet printer for
less than the replacement ink these days. ANd, I tend to use more
b&w laser output than color inkjet jobs.
Bottomline: I like the Brother MFC 5460CN a lot.
Best,
Scottt
Folks,
I've been doing some research on all in one printer, scanner, and
fax machnes. I have found a Brother MFC-5460CN and a wireless
version of this unit which is an ink jet and the MFC-9840 series
which is wired and wireless units and this is a color laser. Now
what made me consider this particular brand is the fact that
apparently you can utilize the scanner, printer, and fax functions
from the Mac. I'd like to know a few things.
1. Does anyone know if there is an Epson or HP unit that would allow
the same abilities.
2. Do you know if Brother is a reliable brand like HP.
3. It seems that although laser is more expensive, does provide a
little better quality print, it does out last ink jets in terms of
those cases where you don't print as much since the ink jet uses
liquid ink which is of course going to dry up at some point.
Does anyone know if the ink jets have improved to make it worth
paying less for the unit up front and then just replaces cartriages
every six to eight months? Actually the one thing that Brother does
offer and I think some of the more expensive HP printers allow you
to replace some cartriages as opposed to all of them since they are
split into multiple cartriages of different colors.
tnx
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--Scott
