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

Give your printer a proper clean

Advantages: Quick and easy, cleans well
Disadvantages: None

... Again, this should be done every 1000 prints, I usually do it at the same time as I have completed cleaning the printhead. # Open the front cover of the printer # Remove the ribbon (you can do this at the same time as cleaning the printhead) # Ensure you take all remaining cards out of the printers hopper # Remove the backing from both sides of the cleaning card (careful the card will now be sticky) # Insert the card into the manual feed input # Go into the printer driver (from printers and faxes) go into properties and click the Clean Printer button. # The printer will pull the card backwards and forwards and clean the rollers and Platen Cleaning the Interior and Exterior Occasionally you can use one of the cleaning pads contained within the kit to clean both the inside and outside of the printer. This will...

TheHairyGodmother 07.10.2009 · Read review
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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

laser printer

Advantages: laser printer
Disadvantages: bit dark on photos

...…………………………̷ 0;….................................................................. ................. Using a laser printer instead of a normal standard injet printer is great, there a lot faster than normal inkjet printers, there a lot more reliable and can carry on printing for ages without you worrying whether the things going to blow up or over heat or not. But most importantly of all, they have such better print quality, the ink stands out amongst the page which is what gives you that shiny ink and picture pages and it makes documents and pictures not only look great quality, but very professional too. This is why companies use them, so that their printed documents look a lot more professional, however all this does come at a price. These are known as office...

techno_man_37 04.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dell Laser Printer 1720dn

BEAST of a printer, scanner, fax & copier (phew!)

Advantages: A printer, scanner, copier and fax machine (phew!)
Disadvantages: It's heavy in size and in cost.

...What we have here is the Brother MFC-7420 Multifunction digital laser device. Try saying it in one breath. Go on, I challenge you to say it in one breath. Did you manage it? If you did then you probably deserve a medal, but then so would 'Brother' for managing to cram so many features and uses into one device. That is a challenge in itself, and I'd imagine it was far from easy to accomplish and keep the design as attractive as it is. I know what you're thinking though. You've seen plenty of other printers out there that also do copying, scanning and faxing. They may even have been a fair bit cheaper. This is true, but what this item has in its favour is the speed of the printing, the attractive design, the brand name 'BROTHER' attached to it and the hardcore feel of the product. It really does feel like something that would...

4leafclover 28.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Brother MFC-7420 Multifunction

No Fax Machine - No Problem

Advantages: Free - Easy - Quick - Reliable
Disadvantages: Requires a 380k download to read faxes

...Believe it or not, there are still people out there who use fax machines and do not have email! What do you do when someone insists on sending you a fax – dust off your old fax machine, plug it in and hope it still works? Not any more; there is a free alternative that allows you to receive faxes direct to your email box. eFax.com give users a FREE 0870 (Normal national rate) fax number; faxes are sent directly to any email address you nominate. The file arrives – normally within a couple of minutes of having been sent - as an attachment in .efx format and with each A4 page being only around 15K it takes seconds to download. The quality is better than on a normal fax machine. Using the simple eFax Messenger software (380k free download), the fax can be read on screen or printed out to hard copy – no more...

john.sw 14.12.2000 (13.06.2001) · Read review
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Review of eFax

eFax.com - best service, best price

Advantages: Great service... and still FREE!
Disadvantages: Need to use a proprietary viewer program

...Faxes may be on the way out but they?re not gone yet. If you want to receive the occasional fax but don't want to waste money on a fax machine that will stand idle for months then the solution is fax to email. How does fax to email work? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The basic idea is that a service provider (in this case eFax.com) supplies a telephone number for your incoming faxes. These are received by eFax and then forwarded to you as an email attachment. As well as the obvious advantage of not needing to buy a fax machine this also means that you don?t need to pay for a dedicated fax line and you can receive your faxes anywhere you can collect your emails (almost ? see a bit later). And what does that cost? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ eFax.com offer a number of differently priced services depending on the telephone number required...

pauljm 14.03.2001 (03.01.2005) · Read review
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Review of eFax

A printer that really works!

Advantages: Quality of print, ease of use, compact, price
Disadvantages: Noisy, pricey cartridges, poor back up

...Printers, don't you just love them. Just as your multi page report for the boss comes to the last page, the ink runs dry or the paper jams. All the warning lamps are flashing like a demented Christmas tree & you haven't got the handbook handy. Yes, we all been there, trying to find a reliable printer is like trying to find an honest politician! My tried & trusted old portable HP Deskjet 340 printer had given me around nine years of fairly loyal service when it expired after printing its last page. It was small & portable, at the time this proved to be very handy as I had a small study & little space for a small printer let alone a bigger one. A new one was required but with so many people complaining about their printers which one do you buy? I wanted a printer with a built in scanner, I was now in a bigger house so the size...

ScottishWestie 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP PSC1215 Printer

Canon Color Printer & Scanner & Fax

Advantages: Color printer, color photocopy, network connection, fax, color scanner..
Disadvantages: Double side print is not available..

...Let me first write what you can canon with this Canon.. :) Color Photocopy, Color Printer, Send & Receive Fax, Color Scanner, Comes with a pc program which enables you to install the driver easier and fax documents from your pc. And has netweok connection which means the printer is Pc free, you do not have to open the Pc where the printer is connected, you can print from any computer running. It has a tray and a cassette, and when you forget any paper in the tray, such as headed paper or stickers, you have no chance to print on them as it takes paper from the cassette, you have to chose tray to print, this feature prevents those kind of mistakes and wasting paper. I tried to print Cd cover in color, and succeed, ever tried to print photos, result was satisfactory. The only thing i am not happy is that double side printing is not...

admtrkn 24.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Canon MF8180C

Fax, Scanner, Printer, Copier = 4 in 1

Advantages: fast, high resolution, easy 2 use, 4-in-1 !
Disadvantages: none

...I decided to buy HP officejet 6210 when I was looking to get a device that was a fax, scanner and printer together. I've searched and read for many like these and finally I bought this one! This is a FAX, COPIER, SCANNER and PRINTER. All-in-one. Following I'm describing the main features of the HP 6210 and writhing my opinion about it. Where can I find it? -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- HP, Amazon, Misco, IT 245.com, microwarehouse.co.uk, PC World, etc. Price -:- :- :- :- The best Price is £121.49 and the most expensive is 140.78 that you can find it at. As least from what I've found out. I got it for 145 a few months ago. Type of connection -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- The connection is USB. You can connect HP 6210 using a regular USB cable that comes in the box. But unfortunately you can't connect it and share it...

dorach86 20.06.2006 (27.01.2008) · Read review
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Review of Hewlett-Packard Officejet 6210 All-in-One