Brother MFC-3240c All-in-One
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Customer Review: Good but Ink Eater
Summary: 2 Stars
Works good with all features, but usage of Ink is aweful. I bought it 6 months ago, and printed like 50 pages max, and it ran out of INK. INK is very expensive compared to the actual printer price. Dont buy it.Customer Review: Design problem, use too many ink to clean head, otherwise OK for me
Summary: 1 Stars
1. ) Use too many ink to clean head. Cited from http://global.solutions.brother.com/Library/en_us/faq/faq000038_000/index.html
Why do the color ink cartridges run out of ink even though I never or rarely print in color?
DESCRIPTION:
One factor that will affect your color ink consumption is the cleaning cycles of the machine. The machine is designed to automatically flush and clean ALL of the ink jet nozzles on a programmed schedule. A periodical cleaning or "flushing" of all the ink cartridges occurs approximately every two days. During the cleaning process, the machine draws out a small amount of ink to remove air bubbles from the cartridge and to remove dust and dried ink from the ink nozzles and channels. This not only ensures premium print quality but also ensures the life of the print head. Because of the ink jet technology, this process is common to all ink jet machines.
2.) If any one ink cartridge empty (there are four cartridges here, one black and three color), you cannot print anything, even fax. E.g. you run out of yellow ink, you cannot print black/white fax. This is not the case when I with my other inkjet printer. This is designed feature for printing quality. You can find something in brothe's web site.
So this is a cheap machine. I got it from Staple for $70. If you do a lot color / black printing. Then this is the one for you. Photos printed are not too bad as this cheap printer.
Another, do buy "One-Year Replacement Plan" You will need to replace this within one year!
Customer Review: Stay away from Brother at all costs
Summary: 1 Stars
Owned the Brother MFC and lived the nightmare of spending good money for nothing. You'll go through ink cartridges like paper towels because it will tell you that the cartridge is empty when it's 3/4 full and will refuse to print, and you'll go through this for a while only to end up with the "Machine Error 41" that comes with the defective print heads they put in these things - this shuts down the whole machine - you can't print, copy, fax, or anything else. Then after you've been on hold on the "help" line for over an hour, you get some office in Calcutta where the robot-like "service representative" will tell you that yes, they were indeed defective, and no, they're not going to fix your machine. It's $150 to repair this which is obviously more than the cost of a new product. I went to a local Brother service center, and they have stacks of these things in for the same issue. I didn't even have to say what was wrong, they looked at it and said "Machine Error 41?" Uh-huh...
You'd be better off just burning the money for fun than to buy this thing. Little wonder there's a class-action lawsuit in the making for buyers of these money-suckers. When a company makes a defective product, and knows it, then basically tells you it's your problem, that's a company to stay away from. They used to call that kind of thing "theft".
Customer Review: A great disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a printer, scanner, faxer and copier. You don't need to have it attached to a PC for it to work. The menus are wonderful, and it's very easy to use, print, copy or fax! To top it off, this is a cheap product, but of course you get what you pay for.
Without realizing it, this is my second of three Brother all in one printers. I may sound like a satisfied customer with loyalty like mine to have three brother printers in three years, but that is because each one has broken within a year. My Brother MFC-3240C always had constant paper jams. Serious paper jams, it would take a normal sized piece of paper and crumple it up down to a centimeter in size. Then I'd have to open it and figure out a way to get the paper out.
Finally, the last straw was the permanent paper jam. A mysterious one. The printer tells me there is a paper jam, and I go nuts trying to find the jam. I went so far as to take it apart and put it back together only to discover there was no paper in it at all. Not a sliver of paper, nothing at all! It says there is a jam still.
I've looked online for support, because Brother technical support was no help at all. Forums have told me that paper jams are quite common with this model of Brother printer. I am greatly disappointed.
Customer Review: Ink? What ink?
Summary: 1 Stars
You may as well spend your money on a big paperweight. Even if you hardly ever use this printer, it still runs out of ink. Every couple of months, you get a message saying, "Cyan empty". So you go out, buy a cyan cartridge and put it in, expecting to be able to print. Except that as soon as you put in the cyan cartridge, you get a message saying, "Magenta empty". Ha! As noted in other reviews, you cannot print B&W when any of the other color cartridges are empty.
The display is virtually unreadable, even when configured to the brightest setting. The printer casing is awkward to open. The paper feeder is finicky and you'll get "paper jam" messages even when there's nothing there. And I found that no matter how I set the paper guides on the automatic document feeder, my copies still came out slightly askew.
Honestly, I'm used to printer annoyances - they all have them. However, this is the first printer I've ever wanted to kill. We are in the process of replacing it and I've sworn to take a sledge hammer to it as soon as I get that replacement.