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Brother MFC-3240c All-in-One | 
 enlarge | Brand: Brother
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $99.00
You Save: $50.99 (34%)
New (2) from $99.00
Rating:  20 reviews
Color: Gray
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 16
Dimensions (in): 18 x 11.6 x 17.6
MPN: MFC3240C
Model: MFC3240C
UPC: 012502610878
EAN: 0012502610878
ASIN: B0002XCZAS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Print, scan, copy, fax, and PC fax functions | | • | Breakthrough technology, up to 6,000 x 1,200 dpi print resolution | | • | Up to 20 ppm black, 15 ppm color print speeds | | • | Up to 17 cpm black, 11 cpm color copy speed | | • | 600 x 1,200 dpi scan resolution, 2,400 dpi interpolated, 36-bit color |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
20 Page Auto Document Feeder / Up to 20ppm Black and 15ppm Color print output / 100 Sheet Tray / Up to 1200x166dpi / Windows and Macintosh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Goodwill bound November 25, 2008
I used this model as a scanner. Mechanically, it was fine and delivered image quality consistent with resolution specs. There is no reason to believe that it would not have worked equally well as a fax machine.
But the driver used to force my OS to crash (XP Professional) and perform a defensive memory dump about once every week or 10 days. I understand that no one is perfect, and tried a couple of times to locate driver updates but there were none available. Unacceptable. If you buy this machine, throw the the driver disk out so it can't interact with your operating system. I really shouldn't have waited this long. Buy one used, at best, obviously.
I switched to an HP Officejet J4550 for feeder-scanner purposes, and have experienced no problems with the driver.
 Garbage October 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do not buy this printer unless you really feel the need to waste money. If I could give it zero stars, I would. I have had this printer for less than a year. If any of the cartridges goes out it will not allow you to print at all. Tonight, I went out and bought replacement cartridges at the sum of $40. Came home and installed them. The printer will only tell me that there are no cartridges installed. Won't even let me use the cleaning utility. I recommend that you think twice before buying any Brother product.
Do Not Buy August 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Any money you save on the cheap price you will more than make up for paying for ink. I get 5+/- one to two page faxes a week and go through a black ink cartridge every 2 months and have to replace the color catridges every 3-4 months. The machine virtually disables itself if any ink cartridge runs low. You can't even use the scan functions. In addtion the machine forces you to change them when ther is ink clearly visible in the cartridges they are not empty.
 Cheap to run - works well June 25, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
In a small office environment, this has got to be about the least expensive fax/printer to run.
The printer does go through cleaning cycles periodically, and if you don't use your printer often, you might be better off with something else. But look at the ink cost before deciding.
We're getting compatible ink for under $2 per tank. (the tank type is LC41) The savings on ink in the first year compared to our Canon bubblejet fax more than paid for the Brother. We've taken to using it for routine office printing too - it's actually cheaper to run than our laser.
We're using roughly 5 tanks of black and 2 or 3 of each color in a typical year in a small office environment where we typically print a few hundred pages a month. At $2 per tank, that works out to less than $30 per year, or less than a penny per page.
One glitch is a few times a month, my computer looses contact with the brother, and I need to reboot the computer. (my computer is on 24/7) I don't know if the problem is in the computer or the printer.
We've never used the scanner function, but we have used it as a color copier. The normal quality mode is much faster than the best quality mode for copying, and is fine for things like copying letters and forms.
The normal print quality is fine for typical household, school or business printing. If you're looking for professional quality printing for photos, you'll do better with a dedicated photo printer, but the "fine" and "photo" settings do surprisingly well.
After 18 months, the printer is still going well, and if something happened to it, I'd buy another in a heartbeat.
Ink? What ink? April 27, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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