Brother IntelliFax-2820 Laser Plain Paper Fax/Copier

Worked great after 4 weeks then...

Strengths: Quick. Clear transmission

Weakness: Pauses while each page is being fed through. Poor paper output tray. I find most of my faxes on the floor.

Worked great after 4 weeks then started miss sorting my faxes and copies. Very bad receiving tray. Most of my faxes end up on the floor if its greater than 8 4 pages. No problem with the machine, just poorly designed I did not have these problems with the 2800.

By notmyballsqballs - Dec 30, 2005

Multifunction quality laser fax

Strengths: USB 2.0 printer interface, phone, copier,

Weakness: 14.4 modem speed, instead of 33.6.

This is a quality multifuction fax machine, which contains fax, phone, printer w/USB 2.0 interface, and copier. Quality laser print output. It only has a 14.4 modem, but this is sufficient speed- if you want higher speed modem get the Brother 2890 or Canon Faxphone L80. I would not go below a 14.4 modem fax. Easy install and user friendly, with LCD status display (very helpful).

By studentadvocate - Jan 18, 2006

Brother fax 2820

Strengths: ease of use, quality of print, memory storage

Weakness: size and weight

We have one of these machines at our main office at work and I have been very pleased with it there, so decided to buy one for myself. Very please with machine. The simple matter of only grabbing one sheet at a time and not jamming is a winner for me compared to my old machine. The speed of the copying and how it stores faxes to be sent or receive is a real plus. For the price it cannot be beat.
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We have one of these machines at our main office at work and I have been very pleased with it there, so decided to buy one for myself. Very please with machine. The simple matter of only grabbing one sheet at a time and not jamming is a winner for me compared to my old machine. The speed of the copying and how it stores faxes to be sent or receive is a real plus. For the price it cannot be beat.

By pjrorech - Nov 21, 2005

Affordable Quality Office Laser Printer Fax Machine

Strengths: Fast Quality Copying - Plenty of Memory for Faxing Multi-Page Documents - Space Saving - USB Printer Option

Weakness: No USB Cable - Printer Driver has to download from Internet

I had good experience with Brother Printer before. This is another Brother Great Product. Fast & Efficient. Not like HP Printer, Brother shipped with good Starter Toner Cartridge of 1500 pages. Plenty of memory for faxing multi-page document. Adjustable paper tray to Legal Size is a plus to run your home business with. Weakness is bearable. Brother is currently having promotion of $30 Rebate on...
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I had good experience with Brother Printer before. This is another Brother Great Product. Fast & Efficient. Not like HP Printer, Brother shipped with good Starter Toner Cartridge of 1500 pages. Plenty of memory for faxing multi-page document. Adjustable paper tray to Legal Size is a plus to run your home business with. Weakness is bearable. Brother is currently having promotion of $30 Rebate on this product, so it's not a bad idea to grab one now. Overall, great fax machine, highly recommended.

By davidtran32 - Oct 13, 2005

Brother IntelliFAX 2820 Multifunction

Strengths: Easy to use, relatively small foot print, set-up with use of the quick setup quide

Weakness: User manual was written for 4 different multifunction machines sometimes making it difficult to know whether the instructions applied to the 2820 or not

I finally broke down and bought a dedicated FAX. I decided that I wanted a laser FAX because I didn't want to deal with inkjet inks. I also wanted a plain paper one. I asked one of my friends what she owned and she told me that she and her family owned several different FAXes over the years and all of them had problems. I was about to talk to some other friends, when I remembered that I had just...
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I finally broke down and bought a dedicated FAX.

I decided that I wanted a laser FAX because I didn't want to deal with inkjet inks. I also wanted a plain paper one.

I asked one of my friends what she owned and she told me that she and her family owned several different FAXes over the years and all of them had problems.

I was about to talk to some other friends, when I remembered that I had just faxed several things over the last two weeks at my local Staples store. The machine that they had was easy to use and didn't take up a lot of space. I didn't know if I could afford that unit but I called the store to find out what model they were using. It turned out to be the Brother 2820.

That was another reason that I bought the 2820: if Staples is using the 2820 for its self-service FAX station, I decided that it had to be a good unit. If it wasn't then Staples would constantly servicing it and would replace it with a different unit (because if the FAX didn't work, then they wouldn't be making any money with the Fax service).

Nice machine. Everything is accessible - no hidden/hard to reach knobs, plugs, doors.

Set up was relatively easy -- follow the quick set up guide and you're done in less than 10 minutes. Nothing was cumbersome or klutzy to setup.

I've only used it to make two photocopies. Nice and quick -- and beats getting into the car to run to Staples/OfficeMax/OfficeDepot. When I faxed from Staples, the unit was easy to use and worked fine.

Someone else mentioned the $30 rebate which brings the list price down to $170. Some of the big box office supply stores are offering another $30 off (in my case, it was Office Max) and free shipping. My final cost after sales tax will be around $150.

By MORE4MY$ - May 27, 2006