Brother MFC-420cn

Small size. Rich feature set. Network port. Automatic document feeder. Prints directly from memory cards. High-quality photos. Scans and faxes over network.

Slow performance. Limited paper capacity, at 100 sheets standard and maximum.

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Excellent idea to add 10/100 network support to home printers. Printer has everything I needed

VERY poor text quality and not very good color image quality

This printer does it all. Scan quality is great. Copier is good too. Can't comment on the fax since i use a different fax machine. Tech support was very helpful. Didn't take them long to find the problem. They even did a followup a week later

I had to reinstall the software a few times because it wouldn't see the printer. I think it was because i turned the monitoring program off

Easy setup, seems to print OK. Used Linksys wireless router WRT55AG and two laptops setups without problems (do what the lit say and disable firewall/antivirus. Wired Desktop also setup easily

Flimsy feeling plastic parts

Pros include ; cheap third party ink, one cartridge per color ; better print quality for text and small graphics than my other epson and hp ; lots of features, fax/copy/print etc ; handsome look, with relativly small space taken up

very poor scan quality. dark scans with too much blue ; fairly poor and slow photo print quality, grainy

Nice features if you understand it's limitations. Would be a 5+ if Brother didn't limit what it can do

I purchased the MFC-640CW (wired and wireless version of this same machine) and told a few business friends about what a great small office multi-function device it was. So a friend purchased this non-wireless version figuring that all he was losing...

Compact, network ready, automatic document feeder, flatbed copy/scan

Only real con is the software the comes with the printer. My HP all-in-one printer/copy/scan/fax saves images of faxes being sent. This printer does not. If that isn't important to you, its a good printer