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MFC-7420 Laser Flatbed Printer, Copier, Scanner, Fax |  |
Printer Type:
LASER
Max Horizontal Resolution:
600 DPI
Multifunctional Copier:
Yes
Multifunctional Fax:
Yes
Multifunctional Scanner:
Yes
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Brother MFC-7420 5-in-1 Monochrome Laser Multifunction
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MFC-7420 Brother MFC-7420 Monochrome All-In-One Printer, Print/Copy/Scan/Fax/PC Fax
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Brother MFC-7420 Laser Multifunction - Scan Copy Fax Print With a combination of high-quality laser printing, flatbed copying, full-feature fax and color scanning in one product, the MFC-7420 offers great value, while saving you space. It is the perfect l
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MFC-7420 Grayscale Multifunction Printer With a combination of high-quality laser printing, flatbed copying, full-feature fax and color scanning in one product, the MFC-7420 offers great value, while saving you space.
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Brother MFC-7420 Multifunction Printer - Monochrome Laser - 2400 x 600 dpi - Printer, Copier, Scanner, Fax
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MFC-7420 5-in-1 Monochrome Laser Multi-Function Center The Brother's MFC-7420 5-in-1 Monochrome Laser Multi-Function Center is a fax, printer, scanner, copier, and PC-fax all in one lightweight machine with a small footprint. As a fax machine, the MFC-742
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| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Best Bargin
This printer saved me time and money compaired to my old ink jet. I use this product for scanning and faxing as well as printing over 1000 sheets a week. This was the best investment I had in a very long time. | 5 | Today | brother laser printer
Comared to my previous AIO Dell inkjet, this one is a good deal faster. It also has large paper load capacity so I don't have to refill paper nearly as much as before. The copies are very good quality. | 4 | Today | Scanning Quick - Printing Great - It does the job right
I originally bought this machine because I was having problems with my other multifunction laser's scanning in Windows XP x64 Edition, after an upgrade. And although you have to download the drivers from Brother to work with this edition of 64 Bit Windows, it is easy to find them if you try to install the regular versions, because there is a link right in the software telling you where to go. And amazingly enough, the link works! (This was never the case with HP's or a variety of other company's outdated printer links)
The first thing I used was the sheet feed scanner, for a particularly long scanning job. I unbound a book and wanted to scan it so I could OCR and search the document. (What a time saver that was) I made quick work of the scanning with Paper Port. After you set it up on your PC, all you have to do to get something into your pc is hit the scan button, and then select the mode you set up, and press the center button. You can scan pages in at the rate of about 1 every 10 seconds or so, or as fast as the sheet feeder will keep up. I always did it one sheet at a time, because my edges were kind of curly from being unbound.
Unfortunately, the OCR that comes with Paper Port is not highly reliable. For a 430 page document with 2 GB of memory, it would never finish, and when it did, the pages were out of order.
I finally finished the job with a third party PDF compressor/OCR combo, after scanning it into a PDF with paper port. The Paper Port interface is about stacking pages like cards. So you don't have to do the job all in one shot and can easily combine stacks of jobs. It took only one day and one night of scanning and several days of shopping for third party OCR software to get the right software and settings combos. But the scanning is very quick and efficient, not to mention intuitive. If you have a color printer, it serves as a color copier as well.
I also wanted to comment on the printing. It has a lot better quality than my previous multifunction--which was an HP Laserjet 3015--in terms of clarity and contrast. Since I'm not a heavy printer user, I haven't run out of the starter toner yet, and don't expect to soon.
I'll just say that I am totally happy with the quality of this machine, but not with the quality of the software. It's fast, inexpensive, and does the job right.
My old 3015 is now my I-Mac's printer. I had intended on donating it, but couldn't find a way to share the windows printer (MFC-7420) without a print server, to the Mac. Maybe in the near future I will go the print server route instead of running two printers.
Executive Summary:
Printing 5/5 (flawless)
Scanning 4/5 (minus one star for unhelpful OCR in Paper Port SE)
Windows Compatibility 5/5 (Only Minor Issues with bundled software)
Mac Compatibility 5/5 (Would have worked if it were not a shared printer)
Windows Sharing to a Mac 3/5 (not possible without external print server)
Reliability ?/5 (so far, runs large scan jobs without jamming... Will update this review if it ever breaks)
Overall 4.4/5 (4 stars) | 4 | Today | very good value and reliable performance
I replaced an HPG80 and Canon 4150 with this Brother unit. I am happy that I made the change. I wanted to get away from ink cartridges and use toner so I dont always have to have cartriges on hand, which end up costing much more than toner. It also prints faster and more reliably. The Canon product was horrible and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy. The Brother unit is a solid performer, integrates well with a separate telephone answering machine (which the Canon could NOT). The machine is relatively quiet and functions well as a printer, copier and fax. The scanner resolution is not great, but certainly adequate. The price is right and worth the money! | 4 | Today | more than one year ownership report
Having used the MFC-7420 for more than a year, and having "graduated" from its predecessor, the DCP-1000, this machine is great and economical. We are still using the DCP-1000 after more than three years of use. I bought a refurbished MFC-7420 at a great price and it has functioned perfectly out of the box all this time. The 7420 has higher resolution, faster print speed, more built-in memory, and uses less desk space volume than the 1000, and it has a built-in fax, which eliminates another machine on our desk. I would caution potential buyers of this machine to use only Brother toner and avoid cheap third-party toners, based on my experience with the 1000. OEM toner is a little pricier than the third-party stuff, but should get better results and greater longevity of the drum. Brother is one of few laser printer manufacturers to use a separate drum and toner design, which this writer feels is more economical in the long run. Since getting the 7420, I have replaced the toner once (the included "starter" toner cartridge has a lower capacity than a regular OEM cartridge), and since ownership have printed several reams of paper (around seven or eight). Based on our usage, which includes printing and copying schoolwork, copying business documents, sending and receiving faxes, scanning sheets and books, the 7420 has performed excellently. It also has a handy front single-sheet/envelope feeder for those occasional special printing jobs. Most of the printing has been on copier paper, but we have also printed on address labels, card stock and envelopes. | 5 | Today | Good for everything - except for scaning
I have this machine in my office for more than a year now, and it worked flawlessly - A real pleasure to use. I was always "addicted" to HP laser printers (I have the LaserJet 2420 in the same office), and I only needed a cheaper laser fax and scanner, so I went with the Brother. Couldn't be more happier. To my surprise, the print quality is much better than my HP printer! Black is much deeper black, graphics are much better and clear - it was the first time I was seeing (and believing) with my eyes such a big difference between 2 laser printers. Before I bought this Brother, I always thought, well, a laser is a laser, they're pretty much all typically the same. (There are a few kind of photos that the HP is actually more easier to the eye, but most of the time, the Brother wins).
The copier and the fax are also terrific. Faxes coming in fast, handling outgoing very well, and the auto-feeder is so useful. And it's a real "Multi-Function" - it could do more than one job at a time. i.e. you can scan while faxing.
The only real disappointment is the scanner. Forget about photo scanning, but even just documents and text is a pain, having dark shadows all over and a terrible purple color cast. I usually scan my documents to a JPG file and then fix them with a photo-correction program. Of course, I did not expect a $300 scanner quality in this cheap all-in-one, but it's subpar and too low quality. So if the main reason of you looking in this machine is about scanning quality scans, look elsewhere. This is the reason I took off 1 star.
Speed is OK and close to the advertised 20 ppm range. It's a bit noisy but not intrusive at all. There is no second tray, but you can manually push in a single paper or envelope, although most of the time it will not print 100% straight.
Overall it's an excellent value machine. We traveled with it so many times, and it still works like new. | 4 | Today | Seems like a near-perfect match for Apple OSX Leopard!
Finding multi-function units that are compatible with Apple is not easy. I first bought a Canon MF-4150 (about $250). Gorgeous unit, everything worked great until I tried to scan...no luck, no matter what I tried. Finally contacted Canon customer service, and they responded that Canon machines don't support scanning on Mac. I took it back (thank goodness for Staples' return policy...no questions asked, they just exchanged it for my next choice, a Samsung SCX-4725FN). Again, all the right features, but again, no luck getting it to scan. So last week, I exchanged the Samsung for a Brother MFC-7420. Seems Brother takes great pride in their support of Apple, according to another reviewer. (Again, awesome customer service from Staples on the return.) Got it home and spent 2 hours trying to get everything hooked up but NO SCANNER. After 40 minutes on the phone with Brother tech support, I learned that it does indeed support Leopard 10.5, but needs a bit of tweaking, accessed by the tiny little icon that loads at the very top of the monitor to the left of the clock. Once I clicked on that, a whole new world of scanning opened up. Very sad that this bit of information isn't anywhere in the manual, setup brochure, or disk. But once tech support told us what to do, the machine runs like a champ. Admittedly, I haven't used it much yet, but I am absolutely thrilled with this unit. You can scan directly into an e-mail, or into a folder, or onto your desktop. Scan is very flexible. Great Automatic Document Feeder, and flatbed scanner (ANY printer you buy must have a flatbed scanner if you plan to scan books, checks, photos, receipts or anything else, other than standard-sized paper, because without a flatbed scanner your original must be fed through the document feeder.)
Anyway, the Brother manual is written extremely clearly, with great diagrams and flow charts, and not full of typos like the Samsung manual was. There are higher levels of instruction that you must access from the CD-ROM, but you can get all the basics just by reading the manual, and lots of what you'll be doing is intuitive. Features, quality, dimensions and footprint are great. Brother has been making faxes for seems like centuries, and they're wonderful units. I'm only sorry that I didn't just go with this unit originally. A note on fax machines in this category: it seems (to me anyway) hard to find a multi-purpose unit with fax that will co-exist with an external answering machine. With most of these units, you have to plug the answering machine directly into the unit, or they 'fight' over which one answers the phone. I found an almost perfect solution with this one: you set its fax machine to 'manual' (it won't answer when the phone rings) and then if you answer your phone and hear it's a fax, you just type *51 on your phone's keypad and it activates the fax machine. It works like a charm...only down side is that you can't get a fax if you're not home to manually answer the phone first, so this option isn't for those who get many faxes. This machine has a 'brother' unit which I think is identical other than it is dark gray in color and that it can be networked; It's about $40 more.
If I have any problems down the road with this one, I'll update this review, but I have a feeling I'm going to be thrilled with it. If you've tried to find a Mac-compatible printer (laser or inkjet) you know what I've gone through...but for me, at least, it appears my search is over. Thank you Brother, and thank you Staples! (no offense to Amazon, but I spend enough money there already to not feel guilty). | 5 | Today | good except for envelopes
this is basically a good machine that does well in its price range
BUT
making envelopes is an exercise in frustration
The front feeder is very particular about how far in envelopes (or paper) should be and envelopes cause jams or simply fail to print. | 3 | Today | Quality all around item
This is an excellent item. I bought one for my office and this one is for my home. Does not email with AOL and only has one paper tray but there are ways go around these obstacles. For about $200, can't expect everything. | 5 | Today | Works As Advertised
I got tired of constantly buying toner cartriges for my other MFC so I figured that a laser printer is the way to go. I have only had this printer for about a month or so and am happy with the performance thus far. My only concern is everytime I print the light in my home office dims a bit. I guess that is when the internal heater kicks in, so I am a bit concerned about electrical consumption. Overall the experience is good from the setup to the printspeed and it is also a great space saver. If I run into any problems I will report back | 4 | Today |
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