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 | Brother MFC-8870DW Multifunction Printer with Wireless Networking | |
 | "Good but not perfect....." | 2008-01-19 |
| My wife needed this all-in-one to replace an overloaded HP 1012, an old and balky fax machine and a flatbed scanner. The main impetus was her business was requiring scanning of multiple sheets. We've had it for 2 months now and here's the results so far:
THE GOOD: Frees up a lot of desk space; Quick & easy initial set up; big paper tray; superfast printing, quiet operation (despite some earlier reviews to the contrary); fax and document scanning has been a breeze; even the duplex feature has worked perfectly the few times we've used it. THE BAD: Our biggest grouse is the print output - when printing large jobs the output tray gets jammed up, eventually causing internal jams. It may be the cheapo paper we're using - after 40 sheets or so they seem to curl up and don't lie flat in the out tray - we have to constantly empty the output tray every 5 or 6 sheets otherwise it shoots sheets onto the floor or jams. Also as noted in other reviews, it will print envelopes for us but they tend to come out curled and wrinkled - we'll be doing envelopes (not a high priority for us) in our InkJet. Document scanning is great, but some initial attempts to scan 4x6 photo prints were spoiled by stripes or "plaid" artifacts - solution so far has been to resurrect the old flatbed. And lastly, we went and got the top-of-the line with wireless capability in the hope that my wife could print direct from her laptop. I was unable to follow the setup instructions in the manual first time through - will try again when I'm in the mood - would probably be easy for a halfways competent IT guy. Bottom line: vast improvement on what we had been using, for about the same aggregate price. Only intractable issue is the small and confined output tray, and that might be less of an issue if we upgraded our paper. | ||
 | Samson Audio Q1UCW Dynamic USB Microphone | |
| "QUALITY PRODUCT" | 2007-09-09 |
| Microphone is heavy and solid, and initial results indicate great sound quality. Bought packaged Cakewalk software - unbelievably complicated - seems to be a virtual studio - my mistake - there's good freeware out there that does everything I need without having to do a lot of study. | ||
 | Projection Alarm Clock with Indoor Temperature - Silver/Black - WT-5720U-B | |
 | "Way cool alarm clock" | 2005-10-26 |
| For $20 here's a nice looking clock that always keeps exact time and projects red LED-looking time on the wall or ceiling. Way cool! - even cooler: you can rotate the projected display with the click of a button On the negative side - the controls are cheapo and not very intuitive, plus the instructions seem to have lost a little in translation Way negative: OK, the snooze bar works intuitively, but how do you finally turn off the alarm? It says to push any button, but I can tell you pulling the power plug works just fine - then on the plus side again, when you plug it back in you don't have to set the time - it automatically sets itself | ||
 | Projection Alarm Clock with Indoor Temperature - Silver/black - WT-5720U | |
| "Way cool alarm clock" | 2005-10-26 |
| For $20 here's a nice looking clock that always keeps exact time and projects red LED-looking time on the wall or ceiling. Way cool! - even cooler: you can rotate the projected display with the click of a button On the negative side - the controls are cheapo and not very intuitive, plus the instructions seem to have lost a little in translation Way negative: OK, the snooze bar works intuitively, but how do you finally turn off the alarm? It says to push any button, but I can tell you pulling the power plug works just fine - then on the plus side again, when you plug it back in you don't have to set the time - it automatically sets itself | ||
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