Oh Brother, what a pile of poo

Advantages: looks like it could withstand a baseball bat attack
Disadvantages: tempremental, toner finisher is poor, cannot add up, copies at a snails pace

...I use this fax machine at work and it is the cause of so much stress and tension I thought I would let you all know how I was beaten by such a plain, dull and basically annoying machine that jams on a regular basis, smudges fax transmissions and forgets to send certain important pages at random. If you wanted to buy a Brother FAX 8360P and I would urge everyone reading not to it would cost around £230 and for that you get the fax machine, a network cable to hook it up to your LAN and a lead to plug it into the phone network to enable transmissions. We have had our Brother FAX 8360P for 6 months and the problems started pretty much straight away and the instruction manuals FAQ are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, as it the manufacturers support. In theory the fax machi9ne should allow you to send and receive documents...

pearlywhites 29.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Brother FAX 8360P

Very Reliable Brother

Advantages: Cordless phone, quick document scanning
Disadvantages: small recording time of answering machine

...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 bps(bits per second) transfer speed, which converts to 14 kbps (kilo-bits per second). Which does not seem a lot, but is sufficient enough to transfer the required data. This is because all fax machines as well as this one convert documents into...

yassarikhan786 25.03.2008 (02.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Brother FAX-1560

  Brother FAX Facts

Advantages: Combined Fax/answerphone, good paper handling
Disadvantages: Print quality only satisfactory, expensive consumables

...Our office fax machine gave up the ghost recently. It was a BT Paperjet-60, and while we had been fairly happy with it, it lasted less than two years. Wanting something a little more reliable, and being very pleased with our two Brother laser printers, we opted for a Brother T86. WHY A COMBINED FAX - ANSWERPHONE? Before the BT Paperjet 60, we owned a fax machine without an answerphone built in, and went through 5 different answerphones trying to get a combination that worked. Frequently, the answerphone would collect faxes on tape, and the fax machine would try to receive answerphone messages, or neither would work at all. In the end, we chucked the lot and opted for a combined machine. Like our previous machine, the Brother has a built in answerphone. For some reason the elctronics industry like to refer to an answerphone as...

izzwizz 20.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Brother T86

Big Brother

Advantages: A Lot
Disadvantages: Could not find any

...I had to set up an office on a shoestring. Well, actually it was in what used to be my sitting room but you know what I mean. One of the things we needed was a plain paper fax. I used to have one of those giant toilet roll jobs but that was very inconvenient with long documents and kept getting jammed up. Anyway, we bought one of these machines and it has sat between me and my partner in crime for about eighteen months. Now I will be truthful. I wasn't intending to write about this machine and had resolved that today I would just read what others had written and keep my mouth shut. But I have just had an experience with this machine that prompted me to write. It needed a new cartridge. Have you ever noticed that the ink always runs out in the middle of receiving a fax? Funny that... Now, I've changed a cartridge before on this...

booby 25.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Brother FAX 1030E Plain Paper

Brother MFC-235c all in one inc fax capability.

Advantages: Very economical on ink.
Disadvantages: None that I know of

...or second use! Compatible cartridges are prohibitively expensive, as they need to have a chip and a printhead in every cartridge!! This is where the Canon MFC-235c really shines, it has 4 cartridges that fit conveniently at the front of the printer, these are little more than ink "tanks" Good quality compatibles can be purchased for as little as £6.95 total for all the four tanks including postage on Ebay. I also appreciate the fact that this printer cleans itself, as you always know that your printer will always be clean and ready to print that unexpected Fax or copying job, if that means that it uses more ink, I`m sure you can afford it, it`s cheap enough! Also the printer uses an ink dot "counter" for each cartridge, which is reset when a new cartridge is installed, this can also be reset with the software. I also found that all other...

Matt_Chrome 20.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Brother 235C

A Horrible Fax Machine!

Advantages: ... it's a fax machine
Disadvantages: EVERYTHING

...I warn my readers that this could be a raging review since I just threw this fax machine into the bin. Not only it costed me more than £30 two years ago but for the little times I've needed it it hardly worked properly. This morning I was trying to send a fax and the paper kept jamming into the rolls... but let's proceed in order. This Olivetti Fax-Lab is one of those product that you always see in offer (and for a reason), a couple of years ago they costed even up to £60-£70 but I found mine with a 40% discount so, since I often needed to fax documents and stuff like that, I bought it without second thoughts Later on I found out that I didn't need to fax documents SO often to justify purchasing a fax machine but still, it has been useful sometimes. But most of the times it was dreadful (read problems later on) THE MACHINE...

EVIT 29.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Olivetti FAX-LAB 100

YOU WANT THE FAX

Advantages: Reliable brand, good after sale service
Disadvantages: Large amount of room taken up

...write this opinion was the CIAO instructions themselves. Namely Helpful point Number one: ?When writing your opinion, please try to imagine a user who will have to make a buying decision soon and needs your help? (Hmm, get an email address and a good laser printer). Ok Stop it, stop it, Helen. Now for those of you who left school/college/university in the late 1990?s and don?t know a fax machine from your own elbow, here is an industry definition to make things clearer:- Facsimile: A system which provides a facility to transmit an exact copy of the image on a piece of paper from one location to another. Ok, now I have cleared that up, problem number two. Maybe my Fax Machine is no longer in production and therefore I would have a hard job recommending its purchase to my fellow readers (unless they also shop at www...

helencbradshaw 01.04.2002 · Read review
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Review of Brother 1020E Plain Paper

  My Brother's The Best

Advantages: wide range of functions and stiches
Disadvantages: thread tension is quite tricky to get right

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About Brother ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brother UK Ltd are a part of the Brother group Japan. Brother began manufacturing products in London in 1959, and then in 1968 they moved to Manchester after they took over the Jones Sewing Machine Company. When Brother took over the Jones Sewing Machine Company they started to market their range of Knitting Machines, Sewing Machines and Typewriters. Brother still work from this office in Manchester, although it is now the headquarters for brother Europe. Brother manufacture and make a wide range of electrical products, such as, Printers, Fax machines, Word processors, Typewriters, , Sewing Machines, Knitting Machines and Industrial Sewing Machines. You can buy Brother Products from a majority of retail outlets, specialist dealers, mail order catalogues or on...

just.bcoz 27.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Brother PS-33 Sewing Machine

eFax.com - Definately the best free fax service

Advantages: Free fax number, no need to have a dedicated fax line
Disadvantages: None

...eFax.com is definately the best free fax to e-mail service around today. I presently have two free fax numbers with them. One is a USA fax number and one is a UK fax number. Since I do business with some companies in the States it works out cheaper for them to send me faxes on a local USA fax number. They are incredibly fast. Just to test it out I sent a fax to my own number and checked my e-mail after just 30 seconds and presto it was in my Inbox. It's really easy to download the viewer from their site. Another plus point is that you can send this fax as an e-mail to others or save as a file just at the click of a button. If the person your sending the fax to my e-mail has the software then you send the message as it is. If they don't then you send it with the viewer. It gives you both options. They have many...

vinodgm 06.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of eFax

Brother HL5240 laser printer

Advantages: Good all round laser printer, loads of pros
Disadvantages: very few, if any

...General & price: WOW, what a brilliant printer this is. Another great laser from Brother. I have had this printer for quite a few months now. I bought it for around £150 but the prices come anywhere between £140 and £220 from verious online retailers or some high street stores. There is so much i could say about this printer but it would take me ages to write it all and i'm not sure if i can handle it all. But i will right all the important parts. Design: The design of the HL5250dn is brilliant. In my opinion the best looking printer Brother have ever done. Most of Brother's lasers as well as many others on the market are just a neutral cream colour but this is black and grey which may not sound very appealing but when you see it, it looks great. It is a good size, simple printer that will fit into any office, school or home. It...

marktomo06 08.06.2007 · Read review
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