BROTHER INTELLIFAX 1860C BLACK OEM INK CARTRIDGE

Brother intelliFAX-1860c Fax Machine Review

Overview:

Brother intelliFAX-1860c Fax Machine is a high speed, color inkjet fax machine that is perfect for your small business or home office. Supporting black and white as well as color faxing (approx. 3.0 seconds per page), intelliFAX-1860c also offers fast, convenient color copying. With a handy telephone handset, speakerphone, and caller ID, this practical, capable machine can support your faxing and copying needs while doing all the “little things” more expensive units might skip out on.

Pros:

IntelliFAX-1860c features a high speed 33.6K bps SuperG3 fax modem that can transmit as fast as 3 seconds per page. Should the recipient of your fax have a less-capable, slower fax unit, 1860c is capable of slowing down automatically to communicate with such devices. In the event that this machine runs out of paper during an incoming fax its built-in 16MB memory can store up to 300 pages for printing at a later time.

IntelliFAX-1860c has dual access capability, meaning that if the device is in use and you wish to charge the unit with an additional task you can scan new faxes into 1860c while it is busy carrying out other faxes and/or tasks (utilizing the aforementioned 16MB of memory). This way you do not need to stand around and wait for the machine to finish a task in order to set it on a new one, and can instead tend to your other office responsibilities with the confidence that intelliFAX-1860c will get to your faxes shortly.

This device uses a cost-saving 4-cartridge ink system, meaning that if an individual cartridge/color runs out you only have to replace that individual unit. Where single multi-color cartridges must often be completely replaced when a single color is low—not only wasting the remaining ink of other color but also costing the user plenty of money—the 4-cartridge ink system has been designed with much more consideration for the consumer’s wallet.

With its compact design, intelliFAX-1860c can help you save space in your office thanks to a combination of fold-out paper trays, front-panel access to ink cartridges, and front-loading 100-sheet paper input capacity.

IntelliFAX-1860c can be connected to your PC via USB cable and offer 6000 x 1200 dpi printing at 29 pages per minute in mono and 20 pages per minute in color.

Cons:

With an input of 100 sheets and an output of 50, IntelliFAX-1860c leaves room to be desired concerning paper capacity. Users may find themselves relying on the unit’s 16MB of internal memory more often than they’d like to store interrupted jobs should it be common for their office to receive multiple large faxes in a row.

While decent for small businesses, this device’s copy speed of up to 18 ppm (black and white) and 16 ppm (color) would probably leave larger, more hectic offices dreaming of more speed.