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Brother MFC-685cw Color Inkjet Multi-Function Center with Wireless Network Interface Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Printer, huge bargain when you price ink cartridges!
Comment: This printer was very simple to set up and install. The step by step instructions are a no brainer. Print quality is very good. Print speed is adequate for my use. It is slightly noisier than the HP all in one machine I had prior to this one...but the Brother appears to be sturdier. 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. However, if you print less than about 50 pages per day... this machine might be a great fit.

The one HUGE advantage is the ink cartridges. Not only are they available from resellers at a fraction of what the HP cartridges cost... Having 3 separate color ink cartridges means no more replacing the expensive 3 color cartridge when one of the colors runs out. If you check amazon's price on the replacement cartridges they have available, I think you will be amazed at how inexpensive they are. I can buy about 6 black cartridges (the one I use most) for about the same price as one of my old HP cartridges. That was the clincher for me. Good luck to all.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: my brother the easy one
Comment: 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.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Brother Wireless printer (HELP)
Comment: 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. Is there any way of using this without wireless internet?

I have not yet been able to contact anyone, so it has just been sitting there. I am unaware of how to make a return.

Please, I need some advise.

Thanks
Cindy Stewart
cell 586-419-9982

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Customer Rating:
Summary: So far So good. It worth every penny invested on it
Comment: I bought this printer for over six months. I can print via wireless from anywhere in my house. It also print via the ethernet cable that you use to connect your computer to the wireless router to access internet. Its so amazing and unbelievable. No problems with this item so far and now its over six month. I waited this long to write a review because i want to see if it won't last or a piece of junk.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I've tried each and every aspect of this all-in-one
Comment: 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. 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 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.

I updated from an HP all-in-one because that one had stopped printing in color after only a couple years. I didn't use the color often but didnt expect it to stop working just from not using it. 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). So I was sold. Out of the box, easy enough to start up, but the wireless network is where it gets tricky. 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'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. Tried a lot of things, followed the manual, became frustrated and gave up. It's been on my to-do-list to call the brother people for about a month and 1/2.

The other thing that was difficult was getting the fax to work. 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 just nearly freaked out. 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. So in the end, it took a couple of phone calls that make it work.

I print a good deal in black and white, and occassionally in color. The color could be more vibrant, it seems more dull then on the screen. The black and white is just fine. I've scanned photos, made copies, sent faxes and received faxes. Everything is mostly as expected. I think, if I had a little set up help, I'd buy this again.

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 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. 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 had toyed with the firewall settings before, but removing this software made me all wireless, all the time. MUCH happier with my printer choice now.

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