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Brother MFC-665CW Photo Color All-in-One Printer with Wireless Networking | List Price: $199.99
Discount Price: $176.39
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Brand: Brother
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Color multi-function unit with wireless networking capabilities prints, copies, scans, and faxes
- Features a flip-up, 2.5-inch color LCD
- Built-in digital answering machine records up to 99 messages or up to 29 total minutes
- Up to 27 ppm black and 22 ppm color print speed; up to 20 cpm black and 18 cpm color copy speeds
- Dimensions: 18.4 x 7.1 x 14.6 in. (WxHxD); weighs 17.7 pounds; 1-year warranty
Not reliable. Won't print black and white if out of color [Posted on 2008-05-02]
Answering machine crashed once a week. Had to be "rebooted" to reconnect to wireless about once a month.
Mac, Linux support not great. I had to download drivers, the drivers weren't built into OSX and Linux.
I printed only two photos, from then on I printed nothing but black and white, then one day it said it ran out of Cyan and won't print until I replace the cartridge.
POOR MACHINE & TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE - DO *NOT* BUY [Posted on 2008-06-07]
I have been very disappointed with this machine: poor quality printing, jams easily, feeds paper poorly, and the scanning has never worked.
To make matters worse, the Brother's customer service is among the worst I've encountered.
Makes for good disposable fax/printer/scanner. But that's all. [Posted on 2008-07-08]
I purchased the Brother MFC-665 in Sept. 2007. Since I already had a color printer and a laser mono-chrome printer, this device would be used mainly as a scanner, fax and telephone (but not a copier).
As a fax machine it is great, with many useful features.
As a scanner it is great, with many useful features.
As a phone it is great, with many useful features.
As a printer it is pure garbage, with many money-wasting features. Allow me to elaborate.
Being cognizant of the price of ink, I chose to use this printer only to fax, scan and make phone calls. As mentioned before, I have printers dedicated to printing both color and BW. About four months ago, when the printer was about six months old, the icon in my PC's system tray began to indicate that the yellow print cartridge was less than 50% full. This was not only surprising (as I didn't use it for color printing), but also annoying. Now, to be fair, I did have the printer print a BW fax confirmation page and I have sent about 60 faxes in the last 10 months. The fax confirmation page is in very plain font and covers about half a page and consists of about 10 lines, so not very much ink.
As time went on, the warnings continued until a few days ago when the warning indicated that I was totally out of color ink (still plenty of black ink). Thinking there might be a problem, I contacted Brother's tech support. Here's what they told me. Even though you don't print color, color ink still is used when printing BW and once a week when cleaning (?? - where does the ink go?). The color cartridges are good for 400 pages at 5% coverage (one paragraph, so about 20 +/- pages at 100% coverage. The black cartridge is good for 500 pages at 5% coverage or about 25 pages at 100% coverage. (Following formula used: The Brother rep indicated the numbers regarding life expectancy. If the black cartridge is good for 500 pages at 5% coverage, then it should be good for 25 pages at 100% coverage 100% = 5% x 20. 500/20=25).
So they are making a printer that, if used to print full pages, is only good for 45 pages?? That doesn't count the "cleaning" cycle, which also uses ink, and is done once a week.
Replacement ink for the Brother cartridges is about $50 for the three color cartridges and $40 for the black cartridge. 3rd party ink, which Brother says they don't recommend as it may damage the printer, is much less expensive. I can buy the MFC-445 which doesn't have the phone feature on it for $80 and it comes with the ink cartridges or I can buy new ink for $90. Hmmm.
Unless you have a large fund for ink, I suggest looking at alternatives to this multi-function printer.
Cost to Own: WAY TOO HIGH $$$$$$$ [Posted on 2008-07-22]
This machine is on of the most expensive printers/all-in-ones ive owned. If you are planning to really use your printer (more than a few pages a month) please take this into consideration: This Brother machine will completely disable itself if it has a low ink warning on ANY of the 4 inks. The ink levels are based on # of pages not actual ink used. I am very conservative and set this printer to low quality black and whit mode to save money. in 4 months I have had to change all the color and black inks twice- almost $200! Keep in mind i have not used a single drop of color ink. By comparison the same amount of printing would have cost me $11 on my Canon.
Great all in one printer!! [Posted on 2008-08-25]
Bought it Sept. 07, not from amazon, and don't understand the negative feedback.
Reviewers Mark Twain and Super Dolfan state cost of ownership is too high.. i can replace all 4 carts-3 color, 1 black for $50 total and have printed 100's of pages, only replaced the black once. don't do a lot of color printing. Cleaning cycle is not done once a week, more like twice a year.. never had to clean or clear the heads yet.
As far as ownership costs go, take a look at HP or Epson and your costs are much higher.
Carolyn Stevenson said the unit jams and doesn't feed properly.. this is user error. your overloading the tray and don't know what your doing. My printer jammed once, cleared it in a few seconds and that was it.
It's obvious the 8 people who gave it one star should use a mac.
The unit took 10 mins to set up with usb cable, never had a problem with printing color/black, copies or faxes. The wireless is slower obviously.
No printer is perfect, they all have there problems, in the year i had mine, i had less trouble with this, than any hp, epson or canon in the past and i used them all and paid less than $130 for it.
If your looking for a solid all in one printer with fax/copy and wireless features.. this one can't be beat.
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