🚀 go-pugleaf

G'day mate,

Thank you *very* much for this review.  What you say pretty much fits 
with my expectation from the advertising blurb, and with my experience 
with the more up-market business models from F-X; so it's good to have 
that confirmed from a user!  The price here in Oz at the moment seems 
to be around AUD400 (after cashing in the $100 cash-back offer).  I'm 
close to deciding to buy one next week when down in the nearest big 
smoke.  At the very worst, it's *got* to be way in front of my defunct 
6L Pro which set me back around AUD600 a few years ago!

About the only downside from my POV is that it means also paying for a 
fax capability that I don't need or want.  But that seems to be par 
for the course for all these MFCs as sold in Oz.  I guess our market 
is not big enough to support the addition of the plain vanilla models 
available in the States.  :-(

I'm glad to hear you're happy with it to use with a Mac.  As I said 
earlier, the only user review I'd seen before yours was from some poor 
sod who couldn't get the scanner function to work with his Mac!

In article <1179459729.002916.176460@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, 
sputnik <twangtown@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I have a PE220 and I use a Mac with OSX so your mileage may be
>different.
>
>I have had the unit for a bit over a week now.  Observations:
>
>Print quality - exceptional. If you've been living with the mushy text
>output of inkjets, this looks great. Colour photos are rendered in
>grayscale with remarkable detail. I have been able, with some coaxing,
>to run 220gm card through the manual tray.
>
>Speed - a bit slow out of the gate on the first print but then they
>come thick and fast. I  don't mind this as I'd rather have a unit more
>energy efficient than intermittently fast.
>
>Scanning - good if you are planning to send the output to a device
>with similar resolution. It''s obviously meant to be good enough for
>its own output (600dpi) but I wouldn't use it for making high quality
>scans.
>
>Copying - See printing and scanning above.
>
>Faxing - Good and easy to set up. I like the way it handles
>distinctive ring tones and the phonebook is easy to get to.
>
>Firmware - The internal menu functions are straight forward and its
>easy to figure out how to drive it without the manual, which is good
>as its only supplied on CD (Yay! no usless paper!)
>
>Software - From the manual it looks as if the Windows software for
>both scanning and printing has more features than the Mac (Unix)
>software, but in reality the functionality has just been displaced
>from the controlling application to the Windows print manager, in my
>opinion the kind of typically Microsoft dopeyness that helps drive me
>to use a Mac - I don't want imaging controls in my print drivers thank
>you very much. If one does want that sort of thing there are often
>third party driver additions that can add that sort of thing.
>
>Hardware - The thing is remarkably easy to set up and the cartridge
>design is great - hold it by the handle, slide it in until it seats,
>close the door and go!  If the door won't close, it's not in
>correctly. If that doesn't clue you up the display will tell you as
>well when you try to print. The thing has yet to mis-feed or paper jam
>(unlike just about every inkjet I have ever owned)  and I like that it
>will grab a page from the manual feed tray if there's one there. It's
>quiet and seems to use very little power when in Power Save Mode -
>essential if you are leaving it on 24/7 to catch faxes.
>
>Cost - I got the machine (in New Zealand) about half price as the
>supplier was overstocked.  I haven't had it long enough yet to know
>how much it costs to run but I'm sure it will be cheaper than the
>Brother inkjet multifunction POS I replaced. At least if you don't use
>it much the laser printer doesn't waste ink cleaning itself all the
>time like a cat with OCS. The replacement cartridge in New Zealand is
>about $100 wholesale which is supposed to do 3000 pages at 5% making
>it pretty competitive price per page.
>
>All in all I'm happy with it so far. If it lasts longer than my
>previous Brother inkjet trash (3 years and two print heads, I stopped
>at the third one that they wanted me to pay for), which I suspect it
>will, I'll be a happy camper.
>
>Hope this is of some help as I am avoiding what I should be doing by
>writing this!

Hope you managed to get done what you had to do!  :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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