Brother MFC-6490CW

value for money, performance, usability, paper handling, print quality

design

66% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

value for money, performance, usability, print quality, size

build quality, noise

80% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Wide-format printing and scanning ; Roomy dual input trays; easy to use

Very slow ; Plain-paper prints look fuzzy and drab

Its wide-format capability is nice, but not its slow performance and variable print quality.

Prints and scans at up to tabloid size (11 by 17 inches). Ample paper capacity. Automatic document feeder

Slow. No duplex option

The Brother MFC-6490CW more than makes up for its slow speed by bringing tabloid-size printing and scanning to small offices on tight budgets.

Prints tabloid-size pages, 50-page automatic document feeder, includes fax, two paper trays, wired, wireless networking

Slow, no duplex printing, no automatic page-size detection, color oversaturated

The Brother MFC 6490 CW does a very good job of scanning, which was our main purpose for the purchase. It has the ability to produce quality black and white graphics on 11 x 17 paper - great for Auto CAD programs and other people who need large...

The only area in which the Brother didn't blow our socks off was with regards to performance. Printing our 20-page monochrome and colour documents in normal quality, the 6490CW managed speeds of 4.2ppm and 3.1ppm respectively. Moving to our more...

A3 printing and scanning, quick and detailed scans, fast first-page-out times, comprehensive connectivity, low running cost

Slow printing, photo quality isn't great, no automatic duplex or CD/DVD printing

There are better standalone A3 printers available, but Brother's A3 inkjet multifunction has its merits. A low running cost caps off a decent printer.

For example, the button marked Clear/Back in the navigation button group can’t be used repeatedly to back out of menus to the status screen. Instead, you have to use the Stop/Exit button, which is grouped with the black and colour copy keys - hardly...

The Brother MFC-6490CW multifunction printer's wide-format capability is nice, but not its slow performance and variable print quality.

A bigger Brother. Affordable oversize printing and scanning.

Only multifunction that will print A3 ; Relatively affordable for its feature set ; Acceptable black and white printing

Poor colour prints on plain A4 paper ; Incredibly slow A3 prints ; Huge size

Conclusion We have to commend Brother for breaking new ground with the world's first A3 inkjet multifunction. It's not at all perfect given its only average print quality on certain types of media, and it is incredibly cumbersome, but for those in the...