Panasonic KX-FLB881 All-in-One Laser Print/Scan/Copy Office Machine

 (8 customer reviews)

I purchased the KX-FLB881 from Amazon on 3/26/08. I guess I will grudgingly give this product 1 star. The network set up instantly with little thought, the fax works and the network scanning seems to function. However, every page that prints has a noticable mark running about every three inches, 1-1/2 inches in from the right side. I was hoping it would fade after a few prints but it will not go away. So I went to the Panasonic support website and left an email about the problem. They responded that they did not support this unit and that I should call a Panasonic support phone number. The automated reply at this number did not recognize this model and terminated the call. I went back to the website and they gave me another number for an overseas support site. I was told that they did not support this type of equipment. They gave me another number for support in New Jersey. They also did not support the printer and forwarded me twice whereupon I was disconnected. I called the...Read more

The scanner on my Canon multi-function machine died after just 3 years, so I decided to switch brand, and upgrade to a network-capable machine with scan-to-email functionality like I have at work, at a target price point of $250 or less.

I love this machine! The very fast copying speed, the scan/copy zoom feature, the built-in networking, and the scan-to-email feature make this a winner! If you don't have a printer server in your home network, it takes some time to figure out how to rig this up so that it uses the SMTP server from your ISP, but once you got it set up, with just 5 button pushes, you can scan a small stack of document and it shows up in your email account as a PDF attachment in just a few minutes!

The start-up speed to print the first page is also very fast.

Although I am very happy with this machine, I do have a few bones to pick:

1) When using scan-to-email feature, it can't handle very large number of pages. When I tried to...Read more

I've had terrible luck with Ink Jet printers, so I decided it was time to upgrade to an all in one laser product. I chose this one because of the price, and because it was designed for network use.

Set up on our desk top computer took less than 5 minutes using the Ethernet connections. I was amazed at how fast the software installed and everything worked the first time.

Set up on our Wi Fi Laptop took about 30 minutes. The security software kept interfering with the installation and connection, but we eventually were able to get it to work without calling the help number. Be sure to disable your security software before you install on Wi Fi and you will avoid this problem.

Printing. As good as laser gets.

Scan. Amazing quality. I scan a lot of lapel pins attached to a sheet of foamy rubbery stuff. The detail was amazing. It took about 25 seconds to warm up and scan, but all in all, for the quality of the scan, it was well worth the wait. The...Read more