Printer followup

As posted previously we’ve been looking to buy a printer for the home office. We ended up buying a Brother DCP-340CW from enavia.com. It arrived yesterday and these are my initial impressions.

The DCP-340CW is one of those multifunction types of gizmos: It -cooks, stirs, and fries-prints, scans, and copies. It does suffer from being a jack of all trades, master of none, and seems to be a clear tribute to the fact that you can only get two, not all of quality, good price, and many features.

Downsides

• The prints are slighty fuzzy around the edges.
• The scans have slighty visible vertical lines.
• It isn’t – as far as I can tell – terribly fast (20 pages per minute in black’n’white prints).

Upsides

• It connects to cabled or wireless ethernet. Being able to put it anywhere in the apartment without having to worry about anything but power cables is going to be a blessing.
• Works without issues with both the Windows machines and the iBook.
• It’s cheap.