Brother MFC-6490CW Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer

by Brother

• Multifuction inkjet 4-in-1 network device prints photos and documents, copies, scans, and faxes
• Built-in 802.11b/g wireless and 10/100Mbps wired interface
• Prints at up to 35ppm black and 28ppm color, maximum resolution of 6000 x 1200 dpi
• Prints and copies on up to ledger-size (11 x 17-inch) paper, copies up to 23 cpm
• Measures 21.3 x 12.7 x 19.2-inches (WxHxD), two-year warranty

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 21.3 x 12.7 inches ; 34.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 45 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001AVPQ48
• Item model number: MFC-6490cw
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (174 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

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Amazon.com Product Description For the ultimate versatility at a reasonable price, the Brother MFC-6490cw All-in-One Printer with Wireless Networking is the ideal solution for homes and small offices. Everyday tasks will be accomplished more efficiently thanks to this powerful device that can quickly produce high-quality prints, copies, scans, and faxes.

The Brother MFC-6490cw Multi-Function Printer: Lets you print, copy, scan, and fax with one device. Has wireless and wired networking built-in. Supports paper sizes up to ledger size (11 x 17-inch). Has two paper trays holding a maximum of 400 sheets.

Make high-quality prints, copies, scans, and faxes with the MFC-6490cw.

Large Prints for a Big Impact
Unlike most printers and multi-function devices in this range, the MFC-6490cw prints on up to ledger-size (11 x 17-inch) paper, giving you the versatility to print presentations, signs, reports, photos, and other print-outs that will give you a more dramatic visual impact.

Built-In Wireless and Wired Network Capability
The MFC-6490cw features both a built-in 10/100 Ethernet and 802.11b/g Wireless networking interface. Simply connect it to your router and everyone on the network with wireless capabilities can print, scan, fax, and access the digital camera media cards. With support for WiFi Protected Setup, network security setup is as easy as a push of the button.

Fast, High Quality Printing in Color
The MFC-6490cw offers up to 35ppm black and 28ppm color printing, so you'll never be kept waiting. Featuring a 4-cartridge ink system, the device can print up to a maximum resolution of 6000 x 1200 dpi for outstanding, crisp text and photo quality. Borderless prints are no problem, and the device includes two input trays with a capacity of 150 pages and 250 pages each. The printer has a recommended monthly print volume of up to 2000 pages, and a maximum monthly duty cycle of up to 5,000 printed pages.

Scan, Copy, and Fax
In addition to answering your printing needs, you can also rely on the MFC-6490cw for your black-and-white and color scanning. With an optical resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi with a 48-bit color depth, you'll get crisp, clear scans of photos, as well as text. Included OCR software for both PC and Macs lets you convert documents into editable text. Scanned documents and images can be exported as graphic files such as TIFF, JPEG, BMP, and PDF.

Edit and print photos directly from your digital camera and memory cards.

You can also make high-quality copies without the need for turning on your computer. Simply place up to 50 pages on the automatic document feeder for copies at a speed of up to 23 copies per minute black and 20 cpm color. Just as with printing, you can copy up to ledger-size sheets. The copier automatically sorts and can reduce and enlarge from 25 to 400 percent of the original.

The fax function has Super G3 capability, which means that you can transmit black-and-white and color faxes at the fastest speed possible (approximately three seconds per page). Out-of-paper reception, auto fax reduction, fax forwarding for black-and-white faxes, and automatic redial are all supported. The fax machine is caller ID and call waiting caller ID ready.

Built-in Media Card Reader for Quick Photo Printing
The MFC-6490cw's PhotoCapture Center has a memory reader for CF, MS, MS Pro, SD, SDHC, xD, xD type M/H, and USB Flash drives, letting you pull photos you've taken and edit them directly on the integrated widescreen 3.3-inch color LCD display. You can crop, auto correct, enhance skin tone, enhance scenery, remove red-eye, and convert to monochrome or sepia, and then print them out.

The Brother MFC-6490cw measure 21.3 x 12.7 x 19.2-inches (WxHxD) and weighs 34 pounds. It is backed by a 2-year warranty.

Product Description

For the ultimate versatility at a reasonable price, the Brother MFC-6490cw All-in-One Printer with Wireless Networking is the ideal solution for homes and small offices. Everyday tasks will be accomplished more efficiently thanks to this powerful device that can quickly produce high-quality prints, copies, scans, and faxes.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

148 of 153 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars 11x17!! August 5, 2008

By CAB, mom of 6

I use AutoCAD at work and occasionally at home. My hubby and I jumped when we saw this printer: just had to get it! The print is as good as on the 11x17 HP inkjet at work, and this 11x17 scanner is a better size than any of the workplace ones (although I haven't used that function yet).
Hubby managed to hook up the 6490 to our home wifi without help, and no, he didn't set our wifi up originally, and no, he doesn't really understand how wifi works. In fact, hubby is visually handicapped! I'd rate ease of installation to wifi as 5 stars. The only glitch we had was that we didn't know we had a firewall, but the install disc talked us though that step too.
So now I'm sitting in bed typing on my Dell 1520 XP and sending to the printer in the other room. I don't know how it goes through ink, but will post back if I have an issue about that or anything else in the future.

Edit added 9-6-08: We just changed the first ink cartridge. I've been printing mainly with black, but also did about 300 very small (2"x3") photos with lots of sky. We managed 700 copies on the first black cartridge as far as I can tell. Cyan is at 50% and magenta and yellow don't really show as being low yet. The machine has been beeping for the last week warning us black was low, but only today did it quit printing due to lack of ink. The last page it did was as good as the first, so I have to wonder exactly how low that ink was when it quit on us. At any rate: we had no wasted prints from low ink and it was nice enough to tell us it had stopped. Can't say that with the HP at work!

94 of 97 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good overall. August 9, 2008

By Edgar Tovar

I didn't actually buy the printer from Amazon. I bought this hulking device at Office Depot because it came with a $100 rebate. But the overall list price is definitely worth it. I mostly got it because it has a large area scanner that I need for my pencil work.

Listing the features would be useless since there is already a description of what it does above. So i'll go over the pros and cons.

Pros

-Very large scanner. Largest i've seen at an affordable price and common availability.

-LCD screen. Decent resolution and overall the right size.

-Interface. It is very easy to navigate through menus and do what you want.

-Wi-Fi. Truly a god-sent. We have 4 computers at home hooked up to this puppy.

-Large print outs. 11x17. Woo!

-Fast scanning at multiple resolutions.

Cons

-Software. The package comes bundled with a picture and scanning software. It is overall very slow and I had to reinstall it a couple times because of how unstable it was. This was however on a mac. It might work fine on windows. But it's not mandatory to have it, and if your serious about your work you use other software anyway.

-Print quality. Not the best in the world i'll admit. Colors aren't as saturated as I would have liked. I don't know if it not being a laser printer has anything to do with it.

-Big and bulky. Consider your home or office space before spending your hard earned cash on this one. It's not a space saver, i'll tell you that much.

-The text on the LCD screen can a times be very small. Not a problem for me, but can sometimes be a problem for older people. (my parents)

-Printing process can take a while over a wi-fi network. Not painfully long, but enough to take notice.

Not applicable

-Fax function because I have yet to use it.

For me there were three major factors in making this purchase. Scanning in large sketches, printing large documents, and wi-fi. If your only going to print on standard 8.5x11 then go for something cheaper. But for an artist like me who needs a larger scanner and appreciates all the extra stuff that comes with it, I could not think of anything better for the price.

125 of 132 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The PERFECT solution July 11, 2008

By Gift Card

I've been looking for a large format all in one scanner for quite a while now. It is so disappointing to have so many large all-in-one printers that still have a tiny scan plate.

this one has a monster 11x17 inch scan surface!

i already was in line to buy at office depot when i saw that it also has wifi! then when i got home i noticed it has memory card readers and color lcd display. it just keeps getting better!

tried out the scanner, quality is great...and FAST! i'm glad this is a Brother too, i've never been impressed with any HP product, and they seem to dominate the industry now :(

so far, i couldn't be happier...and i assume with a 2 year warranty that i should stay happy :-) the only thing i could possibly think of to take it to the next level would be a laser version