Good document feeder, good transmissions, easy to use
Disadvantages:
The output trays are a bit of a problem
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I've been using this machine for over three years now at work, and have found no real reason to change it. The documents to be sent feed easily into the top of this machine and we've almost never had any problem with it taking more than one page at a time. Mind you, if the paper is unusual in size or texture, you might find it getting stuck, as you would suspect it to. If that happens, all you have to do is open the front panel by pulling it towards you, and the caught page just slips out. You should know that this doesn't take paper other than A4, Letter and Legal size or smaller, but that's pretty standard. I found no fault with the clarity of arriving faxes except when the toner gets low (also to be expected). From what I've been told, my faxes also come out fine at their destinations. With 6ppm of printing, this is also about as fast a fax machine as any home or small business could want. So as far as that's concerned, this is a very good machine.
My biggest problem with this machine is how the paper comes out of it. There are two trays here, one for pages of faxes you are sending to fall onto, and the other for pages of faxes you are receiving, which is also where your confirmation page of sent faxes will come out. The upper one is very flimsy and I've had this break several times on me, and now I can't seem to get a replacement one (although they have promised that they have it, its just that their service here isn't wonderful). This means that both sent and received pages are all falling onto the bottom tray. Unfortunately, this isn't all that well designed and even with the whole of the machine and its tray fully on our counter the pages still fold under and fall off.
As for dialing, there are three ways to do this. You can either key in the destination fax number using the good sized, oval number keypad buttons, located right in the middle of the control panel, and then hit the pretty, gray-green start/enter button. Or you can use one of the ten little "one-touch" dial buttons to the left of the control panel, after you've stored fax numbers into them. Then there's the possibility of programming two-digit "speed-dial" numbers. That means you have a very large amount of memory you can program to make faxing as easy as possible (they say 2MB, which for phone numbers is lots). There are other options like group sending and redialing and setting up the information that will show up at the top of the faxes you sent. In fact, I'd say that this has all the major features needed, and a few more.
This is also a very nice looking, and compact fax machine, weighing in at only 7 kilos, but even so, still holds 150 sheets of paper. This also has a 14.4 Kbps internal modem (not terribly fast), using a six second page transmission filter, allowing you to send up to 20 document pages at a time. Finally, this is a plain paper laser fax machine, which means while you will need to buy toner, you won't need to buy special paper for it. In today's "email it all world", we only seem to need new toner every 9-12 months, so no matter how expensive the toner is, you won't use much of it. And for the energy conscious, this also has a power saving feature which puts it into a sleep mode between transmissions.
All told, this is a very good, reliable fax machine with just a touch of a design problem with the trays, and I will give it four out of five stars and recommend it for home business or small business use.
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Print Quality
Excellent print quality
Ease of Use
Very easy
Reliability
Very Reliable
Range of Features
Excellent
Value for Money
Excellent value for money
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