This is a real gem in that it is rasonably priced and has all the functions required for most home and office situations.

It has multifunction (works as fax, printer, scanner and copier) It can also be set up vaery easily to takes its place on your home or office wirless network. The function that you wish to use is easilly selected by pressing the clearly labelled function button. Each of it's functions has its own area of the control panel which makes the pronter very user friendly. It has a crystal screen (colour) where you can preview what you are doing.

Very usefully it also has slots for all main types of memory card and a USB slot for memory sticks. This alllows you to print directly from the memory source rather than working through your PC.

The copier is obviously not as fast as a designated copier but a print rate of 32 sheets per minute (mon) is more than adequate. It is the same rate when working as a printer. When priniting in clour the rate is reduced to 31 sheets per minute.

It contains 5 colour and 1 black cartridge. The usage of the ink is quite heavy and to replace all cartridges together is fairly expensive. However a goos tip is to make sure that you select the print black only option (this is not automatic) to ensure that you dont use the colour cartrideges when you dont need to. Not only is the black cartridge bigger it seems to last longer.

You can see how your ink is lasting by viewing the ink cartridges on the screen this gives an accurate ink level for each cartridge and warns you in plenty of time if you need to replace one

the fax is reliable but in the email age this is not a function that i use a lot.

The scanner is good. You can scan direct to a usb sick that is inserted into the high speed usb slot. the images are then usuable on your PC.