| Average Customer Rating: |  4.5 |
| Brand: | Brother Printer |
| Model: | MFC-6490cw |
| Language: | Original Language: English; |
| Weight: | 36 pounds |
| Dimensions: | 21.3 inches x 19.2 inches x 12.7 inches
[Width x Length x Height] |
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The Professional Series MFC-6490CW color inkjet All-in-One is perfect for creating impressive everyday business documents such as reports, presentations, spreadsheets, proposals and more! Plus, it offers the ultimate in versatility with up to ledger (11"x17") size print / copy / scan / fax. Making the everyday business documents more impactful and the fine details easier to read. Other powerful features include: wireless networking, large up to 150 sheet paper capacity and up to 50 sheet automatic document feeder.
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For the ultimate versatility at a reasonable price, the Brother MFC-6490cw All-in-One Printer with Wireless Networking is the ideal solution for homes and small offices. Everyday tasks will be accomplished more efficiently thanks to this powerful device that can quickly produce high-quality prints, copies, scans, and faxes.  | The Brother MFC-6490cw Multi-Function Printer: - Lets you print, copy, scan, and fax with one device.
- Has wireless and wired networking built-in.
- Supports paper sizes up to ledger size (11 x 17-inch).
- Has two paper trays holding a maximum of 400 sheets.
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Make high-quality prints, copies, scans, and faxes with the MFC-6490cw. | Large Prints for a Big Impact
Unlike most printers and multi-function devices in this range, the MFC-6490cw prints on up to ledger-size (11 x 17-inch) paper, giving you the versatility to print presentations, signs, reports, photos, and other print-outs that will give you a more dramatic visual impact. Built-In Wireless and Wired Network Capability
The MFC-6490cw features both a built-in 10/100 Ethernet and 802.11b/g Wireless networking interface. Simply connect it to your router and everyone on the network with wireless capabilities can print, scan, fax, and access the digital camera media cards. With support for WiFi Protected Setup, network security setup is as easy as a push of the button. Fast, High Quality Printing in Color
The MFC-6490cw offers up to 35ppm black and 28ppm color printing, so you'll never be kept waiting. Featuring a 4-cartridge ink system, the device can print up to a maximum resolution of 6000 x 1200 dpi for outstanding, crisp text and photo quality. Borderless prints are no problem, and the device includes two input trays with a capacity of 150 pages and 250 pages each. The printer has a recommended monthly print volume of up to 2000 pages, and a maximum monthly duty cycle of up to 5,000 printed pages. Scan, Copy, and Fax
In addition to answering your printing needs, you can also rely on the MFC-6490cw for your black-and-white and color scanning. With an optical resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi with a 48-bit color depth, you'll get crisp, clear scans of photos, as well as text. Included OCR software for both PC and Macs lets you convert documents into editable text. Scanned documents and images can be exported as graphic files such as TIFF, JPEG, BMP, and PDF. 
Edit and print photos directly from your digital camera and memory cards. | You can also make high-quality copies without the need for turning on your computer. Simply place up to 50 pages on the automatic document feeder for copies at a speed of up to 23 copies per minute black and 20 cpm color. Just as with printing, you can copy up to ledger-size sheets. The copier automatically sorts and can reduce and enlarge from 25 to 400 percent of the original. The fax function has Super G3 capability, which means that you can transmit black-and-white and color faxes at the fastest speed possible (approximately three seconds per page). Out-of-paper reception, auto fax reduction, fax forwarding for black-and-white faxes, and automatic redial are all supported. The fax machine is caller ID and call waiting caller ID ready. Built-in Media Card Reader for Quick Photo Printing
The MFC-6490cw's PhotoCapture Center has a memory reader for CF, MS, MS Pro, SD, SDHC, xD, xD type M/H, and USB Flash drives, letting you pull photos you've taken and edit them directly on the integrated widescreen 3.3-inch color LCD display. You can crop, auto correct, enhance skin tone, enhance scenery, remove red-eye, and convert to monochrome or sepia, and then print them out. The Brother MFC-6490cw measure 21.3 x 12.7 x 19.2-inches (WxHxD) and weighs 34 pounds. It is backed by a 2-year warranty.
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FeaturesMultifuction inkjet 4-in-1 network device prints photos and documents, copies, scans, and faxesBuilt-in 802.11b/g wireless and 10/100Mbps wired interfacePrints at up to 35ppm black and 28ppm color; maximum resolution of 6000 x 1200 dpiPrints and copies on up to ledger-size (11 x 17-inch) paper; copies up to 23 cpmMeasures 21.3 x 12.7 x 19.2-inches (WxHxD); two-year warranty
Customer reviews
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A great multi-function office machine for the price.
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I bought this to replace several separate components that were not aging well, and 11" x 17" print & scan capability plus the built-in Wireless were the main selling points.
Connecting to my network was a little problematic. To connect, I had to change my office network's encryption, as I was using a WEP encryption of HEX codes that don't translate to alpha characters, but this printer will not allow anything but alpha. Anyway, once that was done, the unit worked beautifully, and actually has so many features in the software that I haven't had the time to explore them all.
Rating: 
(4
out of 5) @ 2008-11-30
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Brother MFC 6490cw All in One
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Absolutely fabulous! A great product with great quality print, scan, fax and copy. The seller was excellent...received the item in 2 days! Very pleased. The machine is bit large for a home office and it didn't come with a USB cord to connect to the computer.
Rating: 
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-11-24
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Great Printer, Wireless, Works with a Mac
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After approximately a month of using this printer, I am very impressed! I bought this printer to complement the new Mac that I purchased and I was looking for a printer that would print wirelessly. This printer does EVERYTHING I need it to do.
For example, I am working on a graduate project for school on the mac and I just sent several pages of the project to the printer (which is located in the other room). When I was finished printing, I did some more web research, and then went into the other room where the printouts were waiting for me. I'm not tethered with wires or tied to the room where the printer is located in order to print.
Set-up was (mostly) easy. At first, setting up the wireless was a little intimidating, so I used a simple usb wire and hooked into Apple's Airport Extreme BaseStation. I was able to print wireless using that option. Then, as I got more comfortable with the Brother's menu system, I was able to figure out the printer's built-in wireless option and I got it to work. Like another reviewer said, it works perfectly. (Hint: make sure you know your Wireless network settings ahead of time. This will SAVE YOU A LOT OF TIME. I didn't really write down my settings when I created my network, but I was able to use a PS3 to display the network settings I was using and then I put those settings into the printer and TA-DA, my Brother Printer was operating wirelessly).
Printouts are great. I'm a grad. student as well as a published writer, and I need both good black text for my stories as well as color images for school. So far, the Brother has preformed perfectly. Colors are crisp and bright, and black text looks professional (which is what I'm looking for when I send out my stories). I'm not a demanding user per se (I haven't needed to use the Fax option yet), so I can't really comment on how well it would be for Small Business owners, but I can heartily say that this is the best printer that I've owned so far.
Any negatives? The only issue that I'm having at the moment is trying to figure out how to get the Mac's Printer driver to let me select different trays. The Brother gives you two (2) trays. You can fill one with regular paper and the other with glossy, envelopes( or even more regular paper if you really want to). At the moment, I can't figure out how to manually select between the two trays, but I'm sure that is more an issue with me (I'm a recent Mac convert from Windows) than it is with the Brother Printer/Mac.
All I can say is that I think that this is an excellent product. I'm glad that I read the earlier reviews and decided to purchase the Brother MFC-6490cw. If you own a Mac (esp. a laptop) or if you have multiple computers in a home office setting that you would like to print from wirelessly, this is a very strong contender. Also, I feel that I should add that this printer works with Windows, but since I just switched over to a Mac, I can't really comment on setup/drivers for Windows, although I have a feeling that so long as you know your wireless settings ahead of time, setup for Windows will probably be fairly smooth as well.
With the Brother MFC-6490cw and the Mac working together, I now feel like the "creative professional" that Apple is always portraying in its ads.
Rating:
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-11-23
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Nice idea but poor color saturation
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In testing this printer I discovered that the sharpness greatly diminishes when enlarging past 130%. Color saturation in general copies is poor for reds (looks very faded) and yellow wasn't very bright. The paper tray capacity is great but the top piece is very flimsy. Wonderful printing in black and white at 100%. This would be an excellent printer for someone needing larger sized copies in black and white or with small amounts of color. Not very good as a photo printer. The wireless works fine too. If you need sharp enlargements and better color saturation (photos and copies) I would go with one of the HP printers with 9600 dpi.
Rating: 
(3
out of 5) @ 2008-11-20
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Works with a Mac - WIRELESSLY
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I unboxed our new MFC-6490CW last night and set it up. Within 10 minutes I had it connected to our wireless network. Loaded the included software on my wife's new Macbook Pro and I could SCAN and PRINT wirelessly!
Have a stack of bills you want to store electronically? This thing will scan to your PC through it's auto document feeder directly to the mac or pc over the network.
Want to fax something from your desktop? From the Mac or PC it works.
Amazing device. It has email features that I have yet to read about, but from what I can see it can scan to email, and print/fax from an incoming email as well. I picked it up at OfficeMax for less than $200 shipped with a coupon. Killer deal on a very useful device. Size is a consideration as others have noted, but its no bigger than you would expect from a wide-format and wide-scanning device. And where else can you find a 11X17 scanner for $200? For $300? Nowhere.
Rating:
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-11-19
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