Brother FAX-1560

The Brother FAX-1560 is an inkjet fax machine with an integrated telephone as well as an answering machine. The use of inkjet technology means that your received fax documents will be of high quality, but will not be waterproof like all inkjet technology using devices. Other technologies are also put into practice on this fax machine, one technological advantage is the transmission of super fine details and the auto-correctness of errors that occur during transmission. Another advantage is the Fax machines ability to reduce long documents to A4 size. The on-board modem delivers a 14,400 ... more

We purchased the 1560 Brother fax based on other reviewer’s experiences. However we found this unit to have a major problem. As a business user we required a robust fax and answer phone. The fax works very well and generally the machine is well laden with features. Now the problem. When the machine is set to Fax/Tel using the internal TAD, the answer phone take approx 5-6 second to cut in. This is a major problem as experience tells us that nearly all callers hang up as they think the line has gone dead. The delay is much too long. On reporting this problem to Brother, they said the setting ... more

I wish I'd read the last review before purchasing the 1560 Brother fax . I've spent ages setting up this fax/answerphone to discover this signficant design fault. The main problem is when it's set to Fax/Tel using the internal TAD, the answer phone takes a good 5 seconds to cut in. Callers then believer there is no answerphone message because the phone appears to be dead, and the caller then hangs up without leaving a message. Hence lost calls and frustrated customers. My last Fax/Tel machine was a 4-year old Canon which worked very well until it wore out. I am now faced with the problem of ... more