cheap, easy printing sulotion (Brother DCP 130C)

Member Name: cfcfan

Product:	Brother DCP 130C
Date:	28/03/09 (40 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: cheap, multifuntions

Disadvantages: bad at everything

My dad bought this as the family printer, no doubt with saving money in mind.

It took a while to set up because it doesn't come with a usb cable that is essential for it's use. but other then that it is pretty straight forward, you just plug it in and install the software.

this is an okay printer not very special at all, the print quality is okay for just plain text documents. But the moment you start Printing things with colour you'll notice how dull it all comes out. photo printing however (on photo inkjet paper) is surprisingly not bad.

Scanning anything with this printer is absolutely abysmal, everything just comes out blurry even simple black and white documents are unreadable.

Photo copying is not much better, on smooth paper it seams to find many creases which come up as black/ grey marks all over the copy. and same problem as printing, the colours come out dull.

Another Feature I dislike is the fact that it uses 4 different ink cartridges(Black, Yellow, Magenta & Cyan) instead of 2 (Black & colours) like most printers.

If you are looking for a multifunction printer, I would suggest you get an HP printer as these are a lot better at everything and just a little more expensive. But on the other hand if you want a simple printer and quality doesn't matter, this is the printer for you!

Summary: cheap, easy printing sulotion