Brother MFC-9700
The Brother MFC-9700 is a multifunction monochrome laser printer designed for the home or small office user. It has an impressive number of features and excellent print quality, but its scanning quality is sometimes poor, and it is more expensive than competing products.ÊThe MFC-9700 has virtually every function an office could need. It can print, scan, copy, and fax. As a printer it is excellent, but the other functions are somewhat degraded by poor scanning quality, as they all utilize the machine's scanner for their functions. The unit has an automatic document feeder with a capacity of 50 sheets. It also has a flatbed scanning surface for media types that can't be fed automatically. Unfortunately, scans come out somewhat fuzzy, affecting scans, copies, and faxes. Faxing is generally well-designed, but it is a little slow. At 14.4 kbps transfer speed, it falls behind many competing units with Super G3 speeds built in. Each Brother MFC-9700 toner cartridge has a capacity of 3,000 pages, but high-yield cartr