On 06/02/05, Jens Gulden wrote: > Philip J. Hollenback schrieb: > >>My private scanner and printer is a Brother MFC 3420C > > > >However, I am a bit concerned by the reviews on the Amazon page for > >this printer: > > > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000CA162/102-0416636-9700117?v=glance > > There it says e.g.: > >The self-clean feature is especially daunting if you have a home office. > >This creature's feature comes on whenever it takes a notion, so that > >sometimes when one least expects it - mid day or in the deep dark of night > >- the darned thing noisily turns itself on and beeps and whirs its way > >through self-cleaning and Will Not Be Deterred! HAL's cousin, perhaps? > >Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer. > > Yes, all true. Surely HAL's cousin :-). The first weeks I had the > MFC3420C standing in my sleeping-room, it woke me up about every third > night because it just had the idea of performing an auto-clean right at > 4:30 o'clock ("beep beep rrrrr mmmm sssssseeeeeppppp beep beep > rrrrrroaaarrr sip sip beeeeeep...")... > This auto-cleaning "feature" is very annoying, I think its main purpose > is to use up ink and force you to buy another set of catridges every > couple of months. There is no way to configure this (at least I haven't > found documentation on that). > The machine would even refuse to print black-and-white pages if one of > the color inks is empty, which is unnecessary and also very annoying. > But at least it will still scan with empty ink... > > Anyway, I personally benefit a lot from the ADF, and my printing costs > are at least not higher than they were with my old HP-Deskjet...
So in your opinion if I just use this as a scanner with ADF it will work great? I really don't need another printer. It won't stop working as a scanner if the ink cartridges run out, will it? Thanks, P. -- Philip J. Hollenback Telemetry Investments [email protected]
