Last Friday Brother introduced its new multifunctional inkjet printer — the MFC-6490CW.

This printer is the first in a new line of “Professional Series” printers. It is also first Brother’s color inkjet to print, copy, scan, and fax on 11 x 17-inch tabloid sized paper.

The MFC-6490CW can print at speeds of up to 35 ppm in black, 28 ppm in color at up to 600 x 1200-dpi resolution. When copying, you can achieve speed of up to 23 copies per minute in black, 20 in color. The scanning unit supports resolutions up to 19200 dpi

The printer uses 4 separate color ink cartridges for imaging.

The Brother MFC-6490CW is well-equipped: it has a 50 sheet Automatic Document Feeder, dual paper trays that can hold up to 400 sheets, and Super G3 33.6Kbps fax modem.

You can connect this printer via USB 2.0, but it also supports Ethernet and 802.11g-compatible Wi-Fi connectivity.

The MFC-6490CW has a built-in 3.3-inch widescreen display and allows for direct photo printing from digital camera media cards, USB flash drives or PictBridge-enabled cameras.

The printer is TWAIN-compliant and compatible with Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later. The bundled software includes Presto PageManager OCR.

The printer is available at an estimated street price of $299.

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Regretfully, we cannot review each and every printer, but what we can do is to turn our readers to reviews we find interesting and helpful.

One such review is at CBSnew.com: tech analyst Larry Magid examines consumer-targeted Brother HL-4070CDW Color Laser Printer:

Until the mid-’90s, if you wanted to print something in color, you had to use an inkjet printer. Laser was for black and white only. Then in 1994, CMS came out with
a color laser printer but it was priced at $10,000.

What a difference a bit more than a decade makes. Today you can get personal
color laser printers for less than $400. And based on my recent experience with a couple of inexpensive Brother printers, the quality can be remarkably good.

It is a good news to hear that color laser printers like Brother HL-4070CDW are becoming available for home use. For now, laser printing is not very suitable for printing photos for a scrapbook, one of the pros for owning a home printer. However, color laser may have other advantages for home user. Reading the article you can see that for yourself.

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Manufacturers of printing devices are well-known to make profit selling not the printers, but rather consumables for them. However, it does not make it any less surprising the two new printers by Brother International, HL-2100 series monochrome laser printers.

Brother HL-2170W, a successor of a popular HL-2070N model supports two network interfaces: wired Ethernet and wireless Wi-Fi. Given the street price of $149.99, Brother can responsibly call it the industry first wireless laser printer to hit (reversely) the mark of $150. The other printer, Brother HL-2140 (priced even lower - $119.99,) is further development of HL-2040 model.

Both printers combine high printing speeds and compact dimensions: 14.5 x 14.5 x 6.7 inches. They are capable of printing up to 23 pages per minute at maximum resolution of 2400 x 600 dpi. And 250 sheets of paper is how much a input drawer can hold.

The Brother HL-2140 is equipped with USB port and has 8 MB of RAM onboard, while HL-2170W model comes with 32 MB RAM and supports Ethernet, 802.11b/g (Wi-Fi) and USB interfaces.

Both model use same printer cartridges. A standard yield toner cartridge is enough to print 1,500 pages, and high yield cartridge contains toner for 2,600 pages. The drum duty cycle is estimated as 12,000 pages.

List of supported OSes includes Windows Vista/XP/XP x64/2000/Server 2003/Server x64; Mac OS X 10.2.4 (or newer).

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Brother International has announced its DCP-9000 Series of Digital Color Laser Copier/Printers. The DCP-9000 Series is designed for small office and small workgroups, and includes DCP-9040CN as a base model and the DCP-9045CDN as an enhanced version.

Brother markets the series as copier-printers, they can equally be considered printers with copying and scanning features added. If you view them as multifunction all-in-one printers with printing, copying, and scanning, you won’t be wrong either.

General specification of the DCP-9000 Series are the following. Print speeds reach up to 21 pages per minute for both color and monochrome at resolution of up to 2,400 by 600 dpi. Copying speeds are a bit lower — up to 17 copies per minute in both color and monochrome. Copy zoom range varies from 25 percent to 400 percent in 1-percent increments.

The two copier/printers have built-in Ethernet network connectivity. They can scan in color at an optical resolution of up to 1,200 by 2,400 dpi. As for the paper input capacity, the devices provide a standard 300-sheet (includes a 50-sheet multi-purpose tray).

Besides, the Brother DCP-9040CN includes a 35-page automatic document feeder, a two-line LCD display, and 64MB standard memory.

The enhanced model of Brother DCP-9045CDN

• has a built-in auto duplex for two-sided printing, copying and scanning;
• comes with a larger, 50-sheet automatic document feeder (a 500-sheet letter/legal paper tray is available as an option;
• supports USB Direct Interface, to print and scan PDF and JPEG files directly from a USB flash memory drive without a PC;
• supports printing from PictBridge-compatible cameras;
• features a five-line LCD display; 128MB memory standard.

Information for the environment conscious: unlike the base model, the DCP-9045CDN is Energy Star certified.

Both DCP-9040CN and DCP-9045CDN support standard or high-yield replacement toners to choose from. Standard-yield black toner cartridge yields of 2,500 pages, while high-yield black cartridge has a yield of 5,000. Three standard color toner cartridges will be available with yields of 1,500 pages, and high-yield versions would yield 4,000 pages.The DCP-9040CN is available this month for estimated price of $600, and DCP-9045CDN will be available in December for approximately $700.

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