Very cheap all-in-one printer with many flaws (Brother DCP 135C)

Member Name: kiwiii85

Product:	Brother DCP 135C
Date:	08/11/08 (413 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Excellent quality scanner and low price printer.

Disadvantages: Not very well designed and poor value for money

When my local supermarket started stocking these printer scanner combos for £40 a year ago I picked one up and almost ran to the check-out with it.

The main purpose of the machine was going to be for printing photos, however I quickly found out that somehow Brother have managed to design the printer so that you can only use their own brand of photo paper with it. Any other photo paper (even expensive Kodak paper) just gets jammed and stains the paper.

As far as day-to-day printing, I didn't have any problems for a long time until it came to changing the ink cartridges when I again discovered that the only thing that works is the "genuine" brother ink rather than the refills that are readily available.

11 months after buying the printer I've now had to contact the manufacturer for a replacement printer as the ink cartidges aren't being recognised by the machine anymore.

On the plus side the scan quality is excellent, the software that it comes with is very user friendly and the Brother support team is marvellous.

For all the problems that I've had with this, I'm not even sure it was worth the £40 that I paid for it and if the machine wasn't still under manufacturer's warranty it would be going straight in the bin.

Summary: One of the worst printers I've ever owned and definately not worth the £40 paid.