MFC-290C BROTHER Multifunction Colour Inkjet W/ FAX NCB

Product Specifications

Technology Inkjet

Printing Speed Monochrome Up to 30 ppm

Colour Up to 25 ppm

Print Resolution Up to 6,000 x 1,200 dpi

Prints From USB Host Yes (JPEG) (colour)

Connection Full speed USB 2.0 interface as standard

Standard Paper Capacity Up to 100 sheets

Standard Paper Tray Media Type Plain / Inkjet / Glossy / Transparency

Weights 64 – 220 g/m2

Sizes A4 / A5 / A6 / EXE / LTR / LGL / JISB5 / Photo 10 x 15cm, 89 x 127mm, 127 x 178mm / Postcard 100 x 148mm, 148 x 200mm / Index card 127 x 203mm / C5 Envelopes / COM 10 / DL / JE4 Envelope

Borderless Printing Borderless printing is available for A4/Ltr/A6/Photo Card/Index Card/Post Card

Droplet Size Minimum droplet size of 1.5pl

Colour Enhancement Brother Image Enhancement allows the user to customise colour output

ADF (Auto Document Feed) Up to 15 sheets

Photo print speed 49 seconds (6x4")

Paper Output Up to 50 sheets

LCD 1 Line 16 character LCD

Standard Memory 32 MB

Printer Driver Windows Compatible with Windows®2000/XP/Vista

Macintosh Mac® OSX 10.2.4 or greater (includes auto installer program)

Colour Fax This model is capable of sending and receiving colour faxes to and from other colour capable fax machines, using the ITU.T-30E colour fax protocol. (Cannot send from memory in colour)

Modem Speed 14,400 bps

Speed Dials 40 Speed Dial locations

Group Dials Up to 6 groups

Broadcasting Send the same fax message to up to 250 separate locations

Automatic Redial Automatic redialling if the recipient fax is busy

Distinctive Ring Detection A service purchased from the Telephone Company that allows two or more telephone numbers to share a single fixed line, the function enables the machine to provide a different ring tune for each number

Auto Reduction Long documents are automatically reduced to fit to A4

Transmit/Receive Memory Up to 170 pages

ECM (Error Correction Mode) Where machines share the ECM feature, errors during transmission are corrected automatically ensuring received documents are error free

Fax / Telephone Switch Automatic recognition of fax and telephone reception

Telephone Index An electronic, alphabetical listing of stored speed dial and group numbers

Simultaneous Operation Yes

External TAD Interface Interface for connecting external telephone answering devices

PC Free Copying Yes

Copy Speed Monochrome Up to 20 cpm

Colour Up to 18 cpm

Copy Resolution Up to 1,200 x 1,200 dpi

Reduction/Enlargement Ratio Reduce or Increase document sizes from 25% to 400% in 1% increments

Scan resolution (optical) Up to 1,200 x 2400 dpi

Scan resolution (enhanced) Up to 19,200 x 19,200 dpi

Scan to Allows the user to scan to e-mail, OCR, Image or File (file for Windows‚ and MAC OSX 10.2.4 or greater) and USB memory stick including PDF format

Grey Scale 256 shades of grey are available for copying or scanning

Colour Depth This model has a 36 bit internal processing colour scanner

Photocapture Centre Print digital images directly from MemoryStick, Memory Stick Pro, Secure Digital, Secure Digital High Capacity, xD Picture Card Type M & H

PictBridge Support Yes

Consumables Individual colour ink cartridge - LC-980BK, LC-9800C, LC-9800M, LC-980Y

Ecology Power Save This model has an On/Off button on the control panel

Dimension (w x d x h) With Carton 465 x 255 x 460 mm

Without Carton 390 x 375 x 180 mm

Weight With Carton 10.9 Kg

Without Carton 7.8 Kg

Warranty 1 year on-site (upon registration)

In The Box Consumables Black, Cyan Yellow and Magenta cartridges

Paper Pack Brother Paper Pack

Software Printing/ Scanning software for Windows and Macintosh (CD ROM) & Reallusion® FaceFilter Studio Software (CD ROM)

Power Supply Cord Power supply cord

Telephone Line Cord Telephone line cord

Quick Set Up Giude Quick set-up guide

User Guide User guide

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