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Brother MFC-465CN review

Verdict:

This is the only wired network printer in this Labs and, with its built-in fax, would suit a small or home office. Its main failing is its slow correspondence-quality document printing. It is also slow in draft mode, and draft quality is mediocre. Lexmark's X6570 has a fax and wireless networking, and is a better office MFP.

Review Date: 12 Nov 2007

Price when reviewed: £112

Buy it now for: £64

Supplier: http://www.ameiva.co.uk

Our Rating 3 stars out of 5

User Rating 4 stars out of 5

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The sturdy MFC-465CN has a fax, automatic document feeder and both USB Hi-Speed and 10/100 Ethernet ports.

It was easy to set up, although it beeped annoyingly with every keypress. Fortunately, this was easy to switch off in the setup menu using its colour screen.

Draft print speeds were below average, and draft text was very pale. The 'fast normal' mode produced slightly better results, but still took nine minutes and 33 seconds to print a 50-page document. Correspondence-quality printing was slow, and we had to wait almost half a minute for the first page. Text documents looked good, although the edges of bold characters were faintly smudged. The black text in our mixed-colour prints was sharp and the colours were accurate, but solid areas of colour were speckled and inconsistent.

Photos were painfully slow to print, and there were specks and imperfections in areas of dark colour. Mid-range colours and skin tones looked faded, and while extremely dark and very light tones were accurate, grey and brown mid-range tones were indistinct. Like Brother's cheaper DCP-135C, this MFP couldn't print 6x4in photos without a thin white border, even with borderless printing enabled.

The scanner software is basic, but it let us perform multiple scans per session by default. It successfully auto-cropped A4 previews but couldn't do this for smaller sizes, so we had to define the scan area manually for photographs. Software scanner control was available only when connected to the device by USB rather than over the network. Scanned text was hard to read at 150dpi but sharp at 300dpi.

Author: Kat Orphanides

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Brother MFC465CNU1 scored:
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The 2 most helpful reviews based on 160 reviews:

31 Jul 2008 Graham, Stockport

9

Good Points

Easy to setup, Good print quality at a reasonable speed. Just one thing to remember when setting it up is, when you connect the printer to your hub/router I found the connection kept getting lost. To fix, simply add a rule in the router to "reserve" the printer IP Address that you enter during the setup process.

Bad Points

None really !

17 Feb 2008 Anonymous confirmed purchaser

7

Good Points

Has LAN network connectivity. Easy to use. Separate print cartridges for different colours.

Bad Points

Print quality on regular paper somewhat disappointing. Print speed is average.

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