Product Description

The MFC465cn includes a 2¿ color flip-up LCD display and a 4x6 photo bypass tray. Print rich, vibrant borderless photos with a droplet as small as 1.5 picoliters and True2Life® technology. The MFC465cn can also do other tasks with built-in functions to scan, copy, fax/PC fax, and the PhotoCapture Center® to print high quality color photos from digital camera media cards, PictBridge-enabled camera or USB Flash Drive. Print resolutions up to 6000 x 1200 dpi and color inkjet print speeds (30ppm in black and 25ppm in color).

Product Details

• Color: BEIGE
• Brand: Brother
• Model: MFC-465cn
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.10" h x 15.70" w x 14.60" l, 22.70 pounds
• CPU: AMD Athlon 1 GHz
• Memory: 128000MB DRAM
• Hard Disk: 1GB
• Processors: 1
• Native resolution: 640x480
• Display size: 669.2913385827

Features

• Multifunction color inkjet will Print, scan, copy, or fax
• Print at speeds of up to 30 ppm black and 25 ppm color
• Full-color print resolution as high as 6000 x 1200 dpi
• 100 paper tray; 20-sheet 4 x 6 inch photo tray; 10-page automatic document feeder
• Built-in media card drive, USB direct, and PictBridge interface

From the Manufacturer
The Brother MFC-465cn Color Inkjet Multi-Function Center with Networking capabilities will print lab-quality photos, scan documents, copy, and even fax. This compact all-in-one machine offers everything that you would need to increase productivity and produce professional-quality results fast from your home or office.

Print black and white documents and photos as fast as 30 pages per minute and color in 25 ppm, and with a print resolution as high as 6000 x 1200 dpi, you can expect these prints to be extremely sharp and accurate. With a built-in 2 inch LCD display, it's easy to stay in control of the MFC-465cn whether printing, faxing, scanning, or copying.

The MFC-465cn is perfect for any multi-printer setup thanks to its built-in Ethernet interface which makes it easy to share this printer throughout the entire office. Print without using a computer by utilizing the printer's media card slot, USB drive, or by printing from any PictBridge-enabled camera.

The MFC-465cn can handle up to 100-sheets of paper via the main paper tray and up to 20 4 x 6 inch sheets in the bypass tray. It can handle up to 8.5 x 14 inch (legal) paper. The 10-page automatic document feeder makes it a breeze to copy multiple pages at speeds of up to 22 copies per minute. The scanning feature is equally impressive and is capable of scanning high-resolution documents at 600 x 2400 dpi and ultra-high interpolated scan resolutions reaching 19,200 x 19,200 dpi using a Windows-based scan utility.

Compatible with both Windows and Macintosh, the Brother MFC-465cn color inkjet all-in-one measures 15.7 x 14.6 x 7.1 inches and weighs 18.1 pounds. It's backed by a 1-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
Brother MFC-465cn

Customer Reviews

Sweet! No More HP 1410 FrankenPrinter!
I can't be happier about finally being able to take a sledge hammer to the festering pile of... err... that is, the HP PSC 1410 All-in-One Printer (Q7290A#ABA) I've been chained to for the past two years. This new Brother MFC-465CN is *everything* that the HP PSC 1410 is not -- it's quiet, it's fast, it's insanely easy to use, and (the single most important feature of all, in my opinion) it doesn't install hundreds of megabytes of useless bloat-ware and a dozen memory- and cycle-pig services on your computer when you install the printer driver.

I've got the MFC-465CN plugged into my LinkSys WRT54G wireless router, with wireless NIC's on five Windows boxes. It took me less than a minute per machine to install the driver, and (*gasp!*) it didn't add any services! Or tool tray garbage! Or auto-run garbage in the registry! My prayers had been answered! I wept for joy!

Regarding the other reviewer comment about slow printing, I have the feeling that your mileage may vary depending on how things are connected together. I just dumped this here page (lots of color, graphics, images, and whatnot) to the MFC-465CN and it took just a hair over 30 seconds from start to finish. Much, *much* faster than my old FrankenPrinter. And the print quality is *superb*, for both text and images. No idea how photos will look, but my bet is that it'll do an excellent job of it.

Also no clue about how long I'll be able to go before I have to replace the ink cartridges, but ANYTHING has to be better than the FrankenPrinter, which ate a black cartridge every three or four weeks... even though I rarely print more than a page every other day (!!!).

Just the mere thought of being able to nuke all of that HP bloat-ware on my computers and disembowel that PSC 1410 gives me great pleasure. And I think I'll jump up and down on its carcass a couple of times, and sprinkle some salt on it, just to make sure it doesn't rise from the dead.

UPDATED, 16JAN08: I've been working this printer like a plow-horse for the past month, churning out all sorts of stuff (maps, photos, mailing labels, etc.) and I *still* love the bejabbers outta it. I've dumped at least a dozen full-color Google maps, a dozen or so photos, around a hundred B&W pages and lots (and lots!) of mailing labels, and as far as I can tell it's NOT EVEN CLOSE to running out of ink -- black or otherwise.

Very happy camper. Loving this printer, and thinking about buying another one and putting it up in the attic, just in case they stop making 'em.

Compact and cheap to run
This replaced a Brother MFC210 and Canon MP160 at home. Things I like:
Cheap--Consumer Reports rated this as one of the cheapest (i.e., ink) to use.
Compact--note the picture--no external paper feed or trough sticking out. It's all inside! I LIKE my desk space.
Ethernet hookup--I no longer have to keep a computer on so others can print.
Display--I didn't care too much about this until I noticed the caller ID displayed. The display gives a status of your phone line. Nice.
Easy to set up--no problems having wired and wireless computers detect the printer during setup. No IP address to setup.
Print quality is good. Photos print great--no lines. Card reader works fine. Cartridges are very easy to change--no need to open the printer because the access is on the front.
Copier reduces the image on the fly.
CONS: won't print or fax if one cartridge is empty. I ran out of cyan and c/n fax or print a black doc.

It's a (Multi-Page Scanner) Brother!
I've used Brother products mostly at work and found them to be functional no-nonsense products with the right features for SOHO (small office / home office) users. Although the feeder of our workplace Brother MFC device is busted... but these things never last too long, not more than a few (5K-10K) 1000 pages due to dust and wear/tear.

My main reasons for buying this multi-function center (MFC) device:

* Multi-page scan and fax (now I can scan in multiple documents, one by one from the feeder instead of being forced to use the flat bed, which is also an option for scanning larger or original/certificate-style documents that should not be put in a feeder). There are few/none low end products with this capability. You either get flat bed or heavy duty feeder machines that cost over $250.

==> The main value of this feature & my primary reason for buying this device is to scan all my important documents in to PDF for long term preservation. This is to reduce the number of copies of original I have to keep and anywhere access of digital documents. Not sure how well their OCR software will read the text in the documents. If it does read most of the stuff and that content is searchable via Spotlight/Google Desktop/Vista - whoohoo!

* Good software (PaperPort LE for Windows (XP & Vista) and PageManager for Mac OS X (including Leopard) for converting docs to PDF
* Network connectivity using Ethernet - connect it to a network hub/router and share it! And ofcourse it also supports USB.

* Decent price for refill cartridges (slightly higher than Epson & Cannon but not mind bending prices like Lexmark). I don't care much for the inkjet color printing since I don't need it and have a cheap & efficient Samsung (ML1040) black & white laser printer. For photo printing I'd rather go to retail stores since I don't print too many photos.

* Light-weight driver installation. I agree with the other reviewer that HP needs to take a good look at their software and reduce the bloat. Even Epson has some heavy duty stuff. Running their (HP, Epson & others) software at startup slows down the computer and the tray icons are just too distracting. Can't stress this point enough!

* A minor factor: Silver black finish, the flat top of this product makes it easier to pack and move if you lose the original box.

* And the rest, the usual: multi-function fax/scan/copy/print, multiple-memory card support, USB support (2 ports, not sure why).

Will update this review once I have direct experience on this particular machine.