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Review rated by 9 Ciao members on average: helpful
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The printer/scanner/copier/fax machine was bought to replace an ancient black and white printer/copier/fax machine that eventually broke down. Whilst we did not expect great things of the print quality - an A3 photo printer also connected on the network - it was hoped that the colour balance and intensity would be suffiecient for school work say. If I'm honest, it is probably just about passable, but looks quite streaky, the contrast is all over the place, and intensity of colour is very poor. However, black and white printing is fairly quick and here the contrast seems to have sorted itself out thankfully.
Ignoring the printing from PC, the MFC-210C is not that bad a piece of kit. The media centre, whilst slow, gives inputs for many different types of flash cards - and this is probably the most used feature of the machine. Don't use the printing straight from card feature as the image quality is very poor, transfer the images to PC for printing elsewhere. The actual speed of transfer is fairly slow, but not much slower than using a USB cable directly from the camera.
Copying is quick and good in black and white mode, colour mode is okay but the printing issues return to haunt again, the colour is just not intense enough to give acceptable quality. The features provided by the scanning option are quite good, you can save as an image, or file, or to email, and it even has an OCR (optical character recognition) feature to allow typed pages to be transferred to PC quickly. Unfortunately when image is selected you are taken into Windows Paint with the file, and this is not a particualrly useful or sophisticated editing package.
The fax feature has obviously had more time and though placed on it, there are a number of different settings to how you want the faxes answering, and you can alter the resolution of recieved faxes, and save numbers for speed dial into the machine. The ringer is very loud, useful if your phone is quiet, but when sending a fax you have to scan one page at a time - for long documents this can prove very tiresome.
The machine can hold a decent amount of paper, and the software provides an interactive ink monitor to tell you how much ink is left. The ink cartridges are black, yellow, cyan, and magenta - but run down quite quickly.
The Brother MFC-210C does its job, but at the minimum standard acceptable to the consumer. For the relatively low price you don't expect that much, but this is mediocre.
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23.04.2006 23:20
Not a bad review ....
22.02.2006 22:45
Anyoen who can make me understand electricals must be doign something right, and your review made SENSE, which was a good thing. Nice review!
15.02.2006 23:51
you have got a typo in the heading of your review. We have an ancient printer lol but it never breaks down