Brother MFC-7420 Multifunction Fax Printer Review
A few weeks ago my printer packed up, well it was 10 years old, and I ended up purchasing a Brother 7420 laser machine to replace it. However, as well as it being a printer, it’s also a fax, copier, and a scanner too.
Yes I like my gadgets, and sometimes I do like to get the best machines because they are the best. This time though the decision to purchase the Brother 7420 printer fax wasn’t because I fancied something hi-tech. Purchasing a multifunction printer made life easier, and saved me money as well - I bought my Brother 7420 from Nicomm for £150 less than the RRP, and at £124.99 (inc vat) it was the cheapest one I could find. Nice!
Cheaper Printing Costs
The trouble with most things these days is that you have to keep paying to keep things running, the cost of running a car for example. Everybody knows that if you drive a lot of miles your best off going for a diesel engine. When it comes to purchasing a printer it is exactly the same, if you buy a cheap inkjet printer it costs a lot of money in ink to run it. The Brother 7420 machine is a laser printer so instead of using expensive ink cartridges it uses a consumable called toner, which is much cheaper and cleaner to run. For example, you can buy an ink cartridge that does 200 copies for £20, or buy the TN2000 toner for the Brother MFC-7420 for £40 and do 2500 copies. So whilst the initial cost is higher, the actual cost per page is much cheaper.
It was when I was looking into the cost of running printers that it dawned on me that my fax machine also prints, and was costing me a lot of money to run. This was one of the deciding factors when purchasing the Brother MFC-7420 as I could also gain a laser fax machine instead of my current model at the same time.
Brother MFC7420 Making Life Easier
Using the multifunction printer and fax is much easier now as I don’t keep having to change consumables and paper every week and it is much quicker at printing. Also as the Brother 7420 has dual access I can actually still scan a document in for sending whilst it’s in the middle of receiving a document. This might not be necessary for everyone but my fax machine gets some hammer so it works well for me.
The Brother 7420 also has the ability to copy as well. Having a copy facility on a fax machine is not uncommon but with this machine it has a flat bed copier for copying 3D objects such as books.
Last but not least, built into the Brother MFC-7420 multifunction fax is a computer scanner, which is very handy as the printer is hooked up to the PC already and it saves a huge amount of space on my desk too.
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