Brother MFC-5460cn Color Photo Inkjet All-in-One Flatbed with Networking

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15 x 17 x 9 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 29.3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J2GUQ2
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: MFC-5460cn
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 22, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The Brother MFC-5460cn is a powerful color multi-function center with networking capabilities, making it a great addition to your home or small business office.

Color Printer
With the MFC-5460cn you'll enjoy up to 30 ppm black and 25 ppm color print speed, as well as photo quality printing up to 6000 x 1200 dpi. With a droplet size as small as 1.5 picoliters you can be assured of fine details and color accuracy. The unit's front loading paper tray holds up to 100 sheets. Borderless photo printing is possible, and USB and ethernet interfaces are included. The printer works with Windows and Mac operating systems.

Color Fax
When it comes time to send a fax, you can choose black and white or color faxing using the ITU-T30E standard. A 35-page auto document feeder makes big faxing jobs a snap, while the 33.6 Kbps Super G3 high-speed fax modem delivers your documents quickly. No PC is required for faxing, and you can take advantage of 100-station auto dialing, and 32 MB of total memory means you can store up to 480 pages.

Color Copier
The MFC-5460cn offers easy copying in color or black and white. No PC is required for copying, and you'll enjoy up to 22 cpm black and 20 cpm color copy speeds. The copier also offers up to 1200 x 600 dpi resolution, as well as multi-copying for up to 99 copies. Reduce or enlarge your copies from 25 percent to 400 percent, in 1 percent increments.

Color Scanner
Use the MFC-5460cn for 48-bit flatbed color scanning at up to 19,200 dpi (interpolated) resolution, and up to 600 x 2400 dpi (optical) resolution. The flatbed design also enables scanning from bound documents. The unit includes award-winning ScanSoft PaperPort SE with OCR Software for Windows and Presto! PageManager for Mac.

Photo Capture Center
Use the MFC-5460cn to print images or even an index--all without a computer. The MFC-5460cn features convenient digital camera media card slots for high quality photo printing (Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD-Picture Card Type M/Type H, CompactFlash, Secure Digital, and MultiMediaCard). The memory card system also works as a removable disk drive, and there's also a PictBridge interface to print photos directly from your PictBridge-enabled camera.

PC Fax
The MFC-5460cn comes with the Brother PC Fax Driver for sending and receiving faxes from your computer. The software supports fax broadcasting from your PC, as well as network PC fax send and receive. PC fax functionality works with Windows and Mac operating systems.

Product Description

This flatbed, color all-in-one combines Printer, Fax, Copier, Scanner and PC Faxing with a PhotoCapture Center and PictBridge interface. It delivers fast inkjet printing at up to 30ppm black and 25ppm color. Users can also select photo-quality printing resolutions up to 6000 x 1200 dpi printing for exceptional color output. No PC required for faxing or copying. Versatile flatbed design easily handles bound documents. The dual access memory faxes to be scanned in while sending or receiving. Compatible with Windows and Macintosh operating systems, it includes USB and Ethernet interfaces, and 35-page ADF.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, December 23, 2006

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Ashwini Aragam (Worcester, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother MFC-5460cn Color Photo Inkjet All-in-One Flatbed with Networking (Office Product)

I was looking to buy a printer and fax machine for some time. Our old fax m/c and the printer had reached the end of their lives. Recently Brother is having some great promotions with 2 year extended warranties. With the advertised low prices for these machines, I couldn't resist. After some research I decided to order the 5460 multi function all in one. Boy, am I delighted!

What I like:
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- Setup was very easy. Hooking up the machine took me about 10 minutes. Installing the software, another 8-10.
- The print quality was great.
- The printer is network ready. It works with both wired and wireless networks. This feature alone is worth the price. No need for any wires from your computer or any computer on the network to the printer. If you don't have a network at home, don't worry. You can hook using a USB cable. The manufacturers don't include a USB printer cable usually as with this product. So don't discard the cable if you are throwing away your old printer - they cost around 35 bucks.
- You can receive the faxes onto your computer. You need to change the mode on the machine panel. The setup software opened up all the ports necessary. Now all the junk faxes goes to your PC and you don't have to waste paper! Even if your PC is off, the faxes are stored in the machine's memory so that you can later 'download' to your PC.
- You can send faxes right out of your PC using the provided software. Another cool thing. As I work from home remotely, this helps me a lot. Otherwise, I would have had to print out the documents before faxing. The software comes with an address book which can sync with your Outlook address book.
- The setup also enables your PC for internet faxing. i.e., even if you don't have your Brother fax machine connected, as long as you have an internet connection, you can fax documents using the internet. This is pretty cool though not a new feature. While I am at the airport, I can fax those last minute expense reports right from my laptop.
- I haven't tried the scan feature yet, that will be the least used feature for me.
- Given the print quality is good, I would believe the copier would be just great as well.
- The paper feeder sits within the footprint of the machine. This is another neat and space saving feature - no awkward paper supports hanging out.
- You also have digital media reader right in the front so that you can print directly from your media.
- The all-in-one is a space saver. It cleared much space off my work table. With all-in-ones, say, if the cartridge goes bust, all parts are affected though.

What could be better?
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- The USB cable and the network cable slots are not on the outside of the machine. You have to lift up the top bed and wire these inside. This takes up about 10-20% of the cable length depending on where you position your PC/laptop relative to the machine.
- The Brother cartridges are always relatively expensive compared to, say, Canon. I have found that Brother's tend to be more durable than Canon. But for the higher end Canon's you do pay more. So it is a trade-off between up-front price/running cost (ink refills,cartridge) and reliability.

At this point I love the machine. For $99 after MIR and extended 2 yr warranty, it is a great holiday deal!

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I like it so much that I bought 2., January 5, 2007

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Axnhero "r_k" (Fountain Hills, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-5460cn Color Photo Inkjet All-in-One Flatbed with Networking (Office Product)

I originally purchased this AIO for my mother. She needed a printer. However, for the price I figured that the 5460 was a better deal.

As has been mentioned previously, the setup was extremely easy. The only thing that I do not care for is the location of the USB port. You are forced to open the scanner lid and meander the cord through a set of curves in order to plug it in. I suppose this is to keep the cord from getting knocked loose in an office environment. This is a bit ambitious in my opinion. While the 5460 is great for a home office or for personal use, I think it would be out of its depth in a medium or larger office.

After seeing how well the ADF (auto document feeder) performed, I was forced to buy one of these for myself. I previously owned a Microtek 5950 with ADF. The ADF went dead after a year and the full unit costs around 175. For roughly $100 (I bought the 5460 with a rebate), I can get an ADF, Fax, Copier, and Printer. This wasn't a hard choice to make.

I almost forgot, the per page cost for ink are cheap. At least the per page cost for ink appears to be cheaper than the HP models that I researched. This is according to the info that I've read. I haven't printed enough pages to determine if this is true.

The color quality of the scans appears to be a tiny off with photos. But in all honesty, I haven't scanned many pictures. This might be my doing. Or they may be some sort of adjustment that I can make with the settings. I have scanned roughly 200 pages of documents, and they look perfect. For my needs, this machines is a great fit.

The print quality is typical for any inkjet printer in this price range.
Print speed is acceptable as well. I must saw however, that I haven't been able to achieve the same print speeds listed in the Specs.

I wasn't going to mention this, but this machine is also easy to use. Easy in that there are Scan, Copy, Fax, and Photo Capture buttons on the front of this unit. I didn't think much of them at first, but I have found that I've been using these buttons instead of the software utility that came with the 5460.

The bottom line is that the 5460 can be beaten in output quality (scan and print). There are better scanners, better printers, and better copiers. However, for the price I haven't seen a better deal.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Value for All-in-One, December 24, 2006

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iemike (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-5460cn Color Photo Inkjet All-in-One Flatbed with Networking (Office Product)

This is my first all-in-one, so I don't have a reference point with which to compare. However, I printed a photo on glossy paper and the machine produced what appears to me is an almost exact copy of the original digital image, something very close to what I'd expect from a photo lab. Text printing is not as fine as the laser printer I own, but it displays very well nonetheless. The copier and fax functions also work very well, and the controls are very easy to use. I can't imagine any other all-in-ones operating even slightly better than this extremely reasonably priced machine. I'm extremely satisfied with this product.