04th May 2010

Five Reasons to Purchase the Brother MFC 5490

There are five concrete reasons to make the investment in this top quality printer for a small office, a home office or for a simple home PC. These five reasons are cost, quality, speed, ability and adaptability.

The Brother MFC 5490 is priced in the $120-$140 range and does the work of many different machines. By combining printing, faxing and copying all in one machine, the user has only one plug-in, one cord and one machine to keep operating. It would be simple to spend $100 on each of these and take up a whole desk area.

These machines produce professional quality reports and copies quickly. Print resolution is up to 6000×1200 dpi and copies can be reduced in scale to 25% or increased to 400% of the original. This machine will handle legal paper as well as letter size paper.

The fax machine is very fast, will receive a page in 3 seconds, sends, and prints faxes both in black and white and in color. This machine can print up to 35 pages of black-and-white a minute and 20 pages of colored print per minute. Copies are just a little bit slower at 23 copies per minute for black-and-white and 20 copies per minute for color. Best of all it has four different ink cartridges and only the one that is empty needs to be replaced, saving money and ink. As this is an Energy Star model, it is efficient to use.

The PC does not need to be on in order to fax, copy or make photos from camera. Other computers in the vicinity can use this Brother MFC 5490 by fast Ethernet network or Wi-Fi. This machine has the capability to handle multiple computers with ease.

The Brother has slots for multimedia cards such as Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro, Compact Flesh and Secure Digital. It was designed to work with USB flash memory drives.

This is a compact unit is easy to use, easy to store and does not take much space. It works well, does a multitude of things and is inexpensive.

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