Brother IntelliFAX 1820C

Pros: Prints great. For the most part this printer is a good one.

Cons: Sucks ink quickly unless you put it on "fast" print.

Review: I want to explain how I made it through a machine error 41.

Turn the machine off and make sure you can turn it on but hold down the on/off button down at the same time. It somehow resets the stupid things and MAKES it accept the ink...

Pros: Initially the print quality was pretty good.

Cons: Ink guzzling, unreliable and didn't even make it out of the warranty period.

The Bottom Line: Having owned a number of Fax machines I have never seen one fall so short of expectations. Brother can't hope to succeed by selling only to unsuspecting first time buyers!

Review: I tried to get our (Oh) Brother 1820c IntelliFAX to go to an IA (Ink Anonymous) meeting. It was drinking way too much of the stuff and not being very productive. It had all of the problems that Brother printer/fax machines seem to have: couldn't...

Pros: Why bother

Cons: Shocking bad ink use. Will not print black only.

Review: This machine should have been recalled by Brother. It eats ink by waking up and cleaning itself every few hours. It stops completely (even to send a fax) when it runs out of just one colour. It cannot print in black only. A very bad machine. All...

Pros: Cheap and sends well

Cons: Uses heaps of ink for cleaning

Review: It's very bad how it uses ink to clean it's self. Mine ran out of color (which I had not used) and would not print a black only fax, so I put black electrical insulation tape over the side facing forward and told the machine it had a new ink...

Pros: Decent print quality and many machine options

Cons: Breaks too easily and snarfs up ink

The Bottom Line: Badly designed

Review: The Brother intellifax 1820 seems to have been badly designed; it has a decent print quality but it 'breaks' easily and uses ink at a high rate. This model is no longer in production by Brother; documents and drivers still seem to be available from...

Pros: none

Cons: to many to list

Review: This is the worse fax ever made. I agree with all the other bad reviews. I have never printed out anything in color but have gone through many many color cartridges, and even with ink in the cartridge it says empty. It cleans itself basicly every...

Pros: It looks good. That is all.

Cons: Wastes ink like no other device I have seen.

The Bottom Line: Do not buy this product as you will be spending a fortune on ink.

Review: First off, although I have never written a review for a product online before, I've relied on many reviews to make a purchase and do see the value in them. But I feel so strongly about this Fax machine as being a complete waste of money that I feel...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Upkeep and support is expensive.

Review: BAD product! Just like HP inkjets, you have to keep feeding it ink cartridges. I cannot clear error 41, and I noticed that daily (at about 3 AM) the printer goes through a complete clean cycle. This eats ink up at a huge rate. There is a tray under...

Pros: Neat looking and fairly simple to use.

Cons: Poor ink quality and drains ink too fast.

Review: We have two of these machines in our faculty, both are used casually in offices. Neither machine has printed many pages at all, yet they have both been through 2 sets of ink cartridges already!

Shockingly poor print quality too.

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Pros: Adequate faxing, copying and printing

Cons: Mortally flawed printing system.

The Bottom Line: Do not buy this machine! It can't be relied upon to for the most basic faxing needs. Enough said. I've wasted enough of my valuable time on this boat anchor.

Review: I am a small business owner, computer technician and web developer, and I've used in my work experience an untold number of fax machines of various designs, features and configurations. I have also in the past supported various organizations in the...