Brother IntelliFAX 560 Plain Paper Fax

Pros: Compact & Easy setup, Copy feature, Quiet & Fast I think, Quality, Great home fax
Cons: Haven't found any yet

I needed a fax machine at home for occasional use. I have always liked Brother products, and have read they make the best fax machines. So I started comparing them online, and the Brother 560 came out on top in my comparison.

The price and...

Pros: small, easy to use, perfect for home use
Cons: none so far!

This is an excellent little fax machine. Easy to use, set up and program. Perfect for the home office. I am surprised by how often it comes in handy. Price: I got mine at office max (or depot?) for only $69, so I thought the prices quoted online ...

Pros: Very cheap
Cons: Very cheaply made

This promises a lot but delivers very little. Paper feeding
is very unreliable and the microprocessor seems to fail at
the worse times. A friend has been having problems with another Brother model, so I would avoid them all. Don't cheap out...

Pros: Very Inexpensive
Cons: You WILL go blind reading the LED Display

Well, it seems this little number is destined for the close-out bins at your local Office Max, Offic ...

Pros: Small, clear images received. Cheap.
Cons: EXPENSIVE REFILLS, RUNS OUT WITHOUT WARNING--BEWARE !!

Everything was fine until this machine ran out of carbon-like film (gee I thought that was obsolete!). Ordered refills rolls--VERY expensive. Claims to last for 150-300 pages. Lasted maybe 50 pages on the first roll ! Runs out without warning--including in the middle of receiving a fax. No indicator to tell you it is time to change the roll--just boom, it's out. Not too well designed. I would choose something else. I plan to use up the refills and buy something else and sell this at a YARD SALE !

Pros: None, unless you only want a fax to receive fax junk "mail"
Cons: Cheap cheap cheap. Paper jams. Poor quality print. CHEAP.

We bought this fax after our high-end unit needed a $400 replacement cartridge. With the advent of e-mails we rarely send faxes anymore so a basic fax was all that we needed.

I hate this machine. One day I will muster the courage to throw it against the wall...

I have NEVER been able to send a fax over 4 pages with it.
It always jams. It starts-out jamming and it jams throughout. You have to baby-sit your document. I have sent a 20 page quote - PAGE per PAGE. Incredibly annoying.

I am very aware that this is a "cheap" model and was not expecting much but I WAS expecting it to function normally.

Also, it has a carbon roller type ink cartridge which invariably gets crinkled and then prints-out uneaven pages.
Speaking of printing pages; everytime you get an error while sending a document - caused by the cheap machine - it will SLOWLY print out an "error report". Telling you just how much it SUCKS.

Pros: Pretty good quality printouts. Feeds sheets properly.
Cons: Volume adjustment. Not able to get into machine to check on vertical line problem.

Started out great, but am now having trouble with the machine and can't get inside of it far enough to try to fix it. Vertical lines showing up on my copies and faxes I send out, but not on faxes coming in. The fax machine is not picking up on TAD mode now when a fax comes through so I have to set it to FAX ONLY and unhook my answering machine. Changing cartridges is a little tricky as the directions in the cartridge box are not real specific. The dialing volume is extremely loud. If I turn the volume down, I can't hear through the phone set.

For under $100, it is sicerely hard to beat this fax machine. It copies, sends and receives faxes. For the simple home office, it is the best cost/benefit machine I know. And it is a Brother machine, a top fax brand.

This is a great, basic fax machine. It makes decent copies when you just need a quick copy. It's very easy to use, and great for the price.