A Quick Product Overview Of The Brother A3 Printer

Belonging to the Professional Series of inkjet printers is the Brother a3 printer. Also distributed as MFC-6490CW, it’s suitable for carrying out the printing of professional documents in a large workspace. Apart from being an inkjet machine, it’s also a copier, scanner and fax machine in one. Several different standard interfaces allow it to catch up with a changing network structure.

Its compact body measures 21.3 in. X 19.2 in. X 12.7 in. (width x depth x height) and tips the scale at only 34.4 lbs. In front is a spacious back-lit color LCD screen which measures 3.3 in. Diagonally. Such allows for easy reading of the menus, previewing of faxes and editing of documents.

Black and white printing speed is a maximum of 35 ppm (pages per minute), while colored printing speed is at 28 ppm. A staggering print resolution of 6,000 x 2,000 dpi (dots per inch) allows for documents and images with sharp details. Supported media types are broad, from regular, glossy, matte, photo, transparency and more. Compatible paper sizes include letter, legal, executive, custom and envelope sizes. Up to 11″ x 17″ (ledger) media sizes can be handled by the machine.

The printer uses a high yielding 4-cartridge ink system. This can be very convenient, as only the empty cartridge needs to be replaced each time. Other counterparts have all the cartridges in a single unit, which leaves little room for economizing. Maximum monthly duty cycle is set at 5000 pages; the recommended monthly print volume is 250-2000 pages for optimum performance.

It features a flatbed copier that’s capable of reproducing in both colored and black and white. For black and white copying tasks, max speed is set at 23 cpm (copies per minute). Colored copying tasks are set at a max speed of 20 cpm. The copier has reduce and enlarge functions, ranging from 25 percent to 400 percent. Since it’s a stand-alone type of copier, it can be used even without being plugged to a computer.

Making scans of colored and black and white documents, images and photos are possible. There’s a maximum optical resolution of 1200 x 2400 dots every inch. But there’s also an interpolated scan resolution, which is set at a maximum of 19200 x 19200 dots every inch. To ensure consistent color scanning each time, a 48-bit scan depth is around.

The built-in fax modem has a speed of up to 33.6K bites every minute, and takes roughly 3 seconds for a page to be transmitted. A handset is nowhere to be found on the machine. Fortunately, there are a handful of functions that make up for its absence. They include automatic redialing, caller ID, caller waiting, distinctive ring detection and a memory of up to 480 fax pages.

Even if the network structuring of your workspace changes, the Brother a3 printer can adapt to it. That’s because other than the wired interface, there’s also an integrated wireless interface. Now it’s possible to attach the printer to a wired or wireless router for the workspace to benefit from its printing, copying, scanning and faxing features. Other connectivity options include the following: USB 2.0 high-speed, USB 2.0 flash drive, PictBridge and slots for memory cards.

Oyyy.co.uk supply hundreds of A3 printers every year, including one of our top sellers, a Brother A3 Printer and other products, as well as the different models of A3 Printer Scanner, with nearly 60 million worth of stock available for next day delivery, including over nearly 13 million worth of printer ink and laser toner cartridges.