Brother MFC-7300C Multifunction

Product Review

Whether you're starting a small business or replacing those odds and endsthat have become your home office, the Brother MFC-7300c multifunctioncenter incorporates just about everything you need into one compact unit.With its ability to print, fax, copy, and scan photo-quality colordocuments, you'll have the support of four different devices without theclutter. Plus, it offers a built-in video-capture port so it can be useddirectly with yourVCR, camcorder, or digital camera. Images can be faxed, printed directly,or integrated into files on your computer via a standard NTSC video port.

Its 14.4 Kbps fax transmits a color or black-and-white page in about six secondswith memory storage of up to 100 pages. It includes automatic fax/telephoneswitching so you can get your fax and voice calls on the same line. Itsupports call waiting/caller ID functions and stores up to 100 numbers forspeed dialing. Other features include broadcasting up to 158 stations, a20-page automatic document feeder, and a 100-sheet paper cassette.

The MFC-7300c can create color copies at 1,200 x 1,200 dpi and produce up to99 copies at a time, plus provide sorting. Reduction and enlargement functions rangefrom 25 to 400 percent in increments of 1 percent. Its TWAIN-compliant scanner features2,400 dpi interpolated resolution and 300 x 600 dpi optical resolutionwith a 256-level gray scale and 30-bit color depth. Dedicated scan buttons make iteasy to scan directly to e-mail and other applications.

For printing your faxes, copies, scanned documents, and video frames, theMFC-7300c provides up to 1,200 x 1,200 dpi ink-jet printing at up to 12 ppm in black and 10 ppm in color. It handles a variety of papertypes and sizes including letter, legal, transparencies, and envelopes andhas a 100-sheet paper capacity. The MFC-7300c includes parallel and USBports and is compatible with both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.It comes with bundled software, printer drivers, and ink cartridges. Cablesare not included.

Product Features

Send color faxes, print from your PC or Macintosh, copy, scan, and capture digital photos
1,200 x 1,200 dpi resolution for copies and prints
Parallel and USB interfaces, Windows and Macintosh compatible
Download and print digital photos from your digital camera
Scanner includes image editing software package

Accessories

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(13 customer reviews)

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful

This Multi-Function Rocks, April 20, 2001

Martin M Weiss (Cranberry TWP, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-7300C Multifunction (Office Product)

We never Owned a fax machine before, and were saving copies via a SCSI flat bed scanner. This item has worked well for us making copies, faxes, and the video capture function is cool. VERY FAST PRINTOUTS! Bought for Page per min (PPM) and the individual ink carts (which are each reasonably priced when compared to lexmark, etc.) You either pay now or pay through the ink.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

You get what you pay for..., December 9, 2001

Chad F. Colburn (Sonora, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-7300C Multifunction (Office Product)

I've had this mfc for 8 months now and after reading some of the other reviews I had to go back and check the model number to see if this was the same machine. Lighten up people.
Every computer user should know by now that multi-function machines are strictly compromises. None of the features, generally speaking, is as good as the stand-alone single-function machine. And, when you pay as little as this mfc costs, your expectations should drop a bit more.
I've found this machine to be more than adequate in each of its functions. Print quality is surprisingly good, although it must be said that you go through replacement ink cartridges fairly quickly -- too small.
It's a compromise. It's fairly small and takes less space than any two of the machines it replaces. If you're realistic in your expectations you'll find this to be a good, inexpensive mfc. It's easy to use, too!

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful

Stay away from this POS!!, September 18, 2001

Chris Weed (Platteville, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-7300C Multifunction (Office Product)

I have had this printer, (Or the step lower MFC), for over a year. Let me tell you "IT'S A PILE!!". The only things that work on it are the scanner. It works very well in fact but that doesn't begin to make up for the problems that this thing has. First off right after I bought the thing Brother discontinued the ink, and here is the only place I can get more. Also this thing has to 'Clean' the ink every time you want to print. And this cleaning does nothing for the quality. Every time I want to print a black and white paper it comes out blank. So I tell it to clean itself. After minutes of waiting out comes a wrecked piece of paper that you can't even read. So you spend another half an hour telling the thing to clean itself. Several pages later (and yelling and screeming) you finaly get an acceptable paper. Don't even ask for the thing to do color!!
Also don't even try to do anything while it is printing. For some reason it has to slow everything down on...Read more