Cheap Brother MFC660MC 6-in-1 Multifunction (Electronics) Price

To set up the unit, we snapped on the wire paper guides, plugged in the handset, and connected the unit to our PC. We installed the software and then pulled up a comfortable chair and educated ourselves about all of the features of the MFC660MC using the thorough owner's manual. The functional telephone with speed dial and hold buttons is an added advantage. The clear 16-digit LCD screen helped us follow our own work as we programmed up to 124 of our important fax and phone numbers.

In our tests, the Brother 6-in-1 printed 2 ppm in 200 x 400 dpi resolution. The 50-sheet paper tray made a convenient backup to our main printer. We appreciated the convenience of having an in-house copier capable of reducing and enlarging in preset increments. We copied up to 15 originals at one time without paper jams and utilized automatic sorting for longer documents. The flatbed scanner handled books and text documents. Using 400 x 400 dpi (interpolated) resolution with OCR (optical character recognition) to speed editing, we scanned double-sided documents with satisfactory results. The driver software gave us the option to save the pages in the proper order.

A built-in digital answering system offers 30 minutes of recording and five personal mailboxes to store both incoming voice and fax messages. The fax transmits a page every 6 seconds and permits documents of up to 20 pages to feed automatically. Outgoing documents of 15 pages automatically feed. You can use your PC to send faxes directly from Windows-based applications. And you can continue working on other projects while the fax function works in background, freeing your PC for other tasks. To save print time and ink, you can also look at faxes onscreen before printing them.

A compact 15.4 by 15.1 by 8.5 inches and a light 12 pounds, the Brother MFC660MC 6-in-1 multifunction is packaged with all of the essential software and cables. It is supported by a one-year warranty with exchange service. --Barbara Price

Pros:

• Uses plain paper
• External and internal fax capability
• Convenient copies and backup printing

Cons:

• Relatively short print cartridge life for the busy user (450 pages)
• Limited enlargement/reduction sizes
• Does not support high-resolution printing