Customer Reviews

Brother FAX275 Personal Fax & Telephone

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not meant for office use.it is not sturdy as other big machines. Good for home use only. otherwise it is great value for your money.

is great for home use. It's very easy to setup and the directions are straight to the point. Fax quality is wonderful for a little fax machine like this and makes good quality photocopies of documents. If you want a fax machine for minor faxing and great value for your money, I would suggest this.

The small FAX275 personal fax and phone is a great value - not only
for faxing .... But you may use it for E-mail too. The 10 programmable
One-Touch keys plus 15 Speed-Dial buttons make it easy to poll your
E-mail from services like "Yahoo! by Phone" and others. My
wife don't like computers but she like to receive E-mail through this
FAX275 machine. For less than ... we got a fax - phone - E-mail
center, ordered on November 7th 2000 - arrived and installed (it's
that easy) on November 9th 2000 and now in use - for faxing and MUCH
more. Sincerely - Jan A. Loeffler, Yes2Art.com originator

If you are going to do minor faxing then this product is good for light faxing.

Bought this after using older version with no problems for ~10 years.
No ink cartridges needed.
Works well with manual answering machine.
Small footprint.
Has speakerphone, caller ID, speed dial, redial, makes copies and more.
This nicer, updated version did not disappoint and appears to be another dependable workhorse and good value by Brother.

This fax/telephone is simplicity itself. It is great for light-duty, infrequent faxing -- exactly what I need for a home machine. No ink-jets to dry out if it stands inactive for a while. It is also extremely light weight. It's a pity that it has been discontinued. I'm buying a second one to have as a backup machine -- I hate the new, 10-ton wonders that have a million complicated functions I don't need. I hope some smart manufacturer -- perhaps Brother themselves -- will put it back into production. In my search for this one, I spoke to many sympathetic friends & colleagues who were sorry this kind of machine is no longer readily available.

I get so much garbage faxes everyday. Did not want to deal with expensive paper or toner. I buy cheap roll of paper and that's it. No worries. I make a copy if I need to keep it. If I need an excellent copy, I'll ask for email. This is an inexpensive work horse. Can't find them in stores anymore.

These "oldfashioned" fax machines with thermal paper have kept one extremely useful feature that seems to have been lost in the new plain-paper machines, at least according to their descriptions and specifications as found on the internet: being able to operate on the same phone line with a telephone answering machine. When a call comes in, the fax machine leaves it to the answering machine to answer it and listens in to the beginning "conversation", starting with the outgoing message of the answering machine. If the caller is a fax machine that sends its fax identification signal, the local fax machine cuts off the answering machine and takes over the incoming fax call.

These Brother fax machines seem to be the last ones that can be connected to an answering machine. The Fax275 is smaller and lighter than my old Sharp (whose internal power supply burnt out) and looks more flimsy, but it sports an automatic paper cutter, which the Sharp did not.

It was slightly disconcerting that the Fax275 during setup refused to accept the half-full paper roll taken from the old machine, declaring it as "empty". I hope that it won't quit when the new roll I finally inserted reaches the same half-full state.

This is a cheesy machine. The very first fax we tried to send resulted in black pages sent to our receiver.

Making a copy gave us the same results. Stay away from this fax!