Brother IntelliFAX 4750 Plain Paper Laser Fax

Pros: Excellence in all design and user aspects, and I mean ALL.
Cons: After using it for over a year, I truly find NO flaws!

I have had many fax machines over the years. It is now late October 2004. A year ago, October 2003, I bought this machine for your office and it has been our only machine at our small company. We really needed it to be reliable.

Better than reliable, it is the best fax machine we have ever had. I may sound like a gushing fool, but the Brother company really designed this thing very well. Not only has it been flawless and reliable to the extreme, Brother made it so simple to do what most advertising doesn't mention: this 4750 is simple to change cartridges, easy to program, intuitive controls, flawless printing, handles faxing a document stack of 50 pages without complaint, and has the largest memory!! We recently put in a 37 page legal document and sent it on high resolution (Brother calls it Fine) and we still had nearly 80% of the memory remaining available!

I applaud Brother for beating the pants off of HP, Canon. Excellence in all aspects. I don't remember the last time I could say that about a fax machine.

I am now a total convert to Brother.

Pros: When they work, they send and receive faxes.
Cons: Crummy toner/drum assembly that eats machines when you replace them.

They work great when they work. We have 6 in use at our company, but lately they are all dying. The replacement toner and drum assemblies they provide are so tight they strip out the plastic gears as they run, ruining the machine. One can't receive anymore because it generates a loud buzz on the line whenever it picks up. One shows "Machine Error" when its plugged in. I now have 4 Intellifax machines less than a year old sitting around the place as doorstops. Anyone know of a better manufacturer than Brother for Fax machines? I'll never recommend another Brother for fax machines

Pros: send/receive quickly. easy to use.
Cons: loud! very loud!

The Brother Intellifax 4750e is the best fax for small businesses. At least, it is for me.

Reasons:

22 pages sent in 7 mins, and not 35 mins as with the old HP multi function unit I had (3330).

Send/receive at the same time.

50 page send capacity.

Great reports, very easy-to-use interface, and just a fantastic machine.

We send and receive about 200 pages per day (!!) and it is great.

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