Brother MFC-790CW Color Inkjet All-in-One with Wide 4.2-Inch Touchscreen LCD Display and Wireless Interface

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 21.9 x 18.1 inches ; 23.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 24 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001ISIK9Q
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: MFC-790cw
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 22, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The Brother MFC-790CW Color AiO with 4.2-Inch TouchScreen Color LCD Display and Wireless Interface prints, copies, scans, faxes, and more in one sleek, compact device. And with built-in wireless networking, you can easily set up the printer to work with all the computers on your network in your home or office.

The Brother MFC-790CW offers: Print speeds of up to 33 ppm black & white and 27 ppm color. Printing, copying, faxing, and scanning with one compact device. A 4.2-inch touchscreen display. Integrated wireless and wired networking. Phone handset and answering machine.

Fax, copy, print, and scan with just one compact device.

The 4.3-inch touchscreen makes menu navigation easy.

Built-In 4.2-Inch Touchscreen for Easy Menu Navigation
The MFC-790CW features a 4.2-inch touchscreen that makes it easy to navigate menus and preview faxes, as well as preview and edit photos directly without a computer. You can edit and print photos directly by using either the built-in media card slot or by connecting a PictBridge-enabled camera or USB flash memory. The media card slot supports compact flash, memory stick, memory stick pro, SD, SDHC, xD, and xD TypeM/TypeH.

Print Top-Quality Photos and Documents Fast
The MFC-790CW prints both documents and photos at up to 6000 x 1200 dpi and can reach speeds of up to 33 ppm black and 27 ppm color. The printer has two separate trays: a 100-sheet tray for documents, and a separate 20-sheet bypass tray for 4 x 6-inch photos. The printer supports paper sizes up to legal size (8 x 14 inches) and can print borderless photos. It uses separate ink cartridges for each color, so you only replace the color that runs out.

Built-In Networking Lets Everyone Use the Printer
The printer has both wired and wireless networking built in, making it simple to set up the printer to be shared by everyone in your office or home. The built-in wireless supports 802.11b/g and features one-button wireless setup for simplicity. Security standards supported include SSID, WEP 64/128-bit, WPA-PSK, and WPA2-PSK. For those without wireless, there is also a 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet port.

Copy and Scan with the Same Device
The MFC-790CW lets you copy and scan as well as print from the same device. The stand-alone copier doesn't require a PC and can make both black-and-white and color copies at a speed of 22 cpm black and 20 cpm color. It can scale copies from 25 to 400 percent of the original, and it supports sorting and 2-in-1/4-in-1 copying. A 15-sheet automatic document feeder lets you scan and copy pages unattended.

The flatbed scanner has a maximum optical resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi at 36-bit color depth for high-quality scans. It works with both Mac OS and Windows, and it includes Scansoft PaperPort v11 SE with OCR software for Windows and Presto! PageManager software for Mac.

Send and Receive Faxes Unattended
The high-speed Super G3 33.6K bps fax modem lets you send and receive black-and-white and color faxes at up to three seconds per page. A 15-sheet auto document feeder lets you send faxes unattended. In addition to functioning as a stand-alone fax, this unit also works as a PC fax.

Other handy features include a built-in telephone handset, which adds the convenience of a full duplex speakerphone, and a built-in digital answering machine that holds up to 29 minutes of messages.

The MFC-790CW measures 18.1 x 7.1 x 14.8 inches (WxHxD) and weighs 18.5 pounds. It is Energy Star certified and is backed by a one-year warranty.

Product Description

MFC-790CW comes with an easy-to use, intuitive and interactive wide 4.2" Touchscreen. 15-page auto document feeder is perfect for unattended faxing, copying or scanning of multi-page documents. Flexible wireless (802.11b/g) or wired (Ethernet) network connection. Fast print speeds at up to 33ppm Black/27ppm Color. Professional quality results at up to 6000 x 1200dpi resolution. Handy built-in digital answering machine, full-duplex speaker phone and handset. Also, includes high speed Super G3 33.6Kbps fax modem. Direct photo printing on demand from media card slots, USB direct/PictBridge Interface. 4-ink cartridge system ¿ replace only the cartridge that needs to be replaced.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brother - Overlooked All-in-One, January 30, 2009

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Bobby Bobs (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-790CW Color Inkjet All-in-One with Wide 4.2-Inch Touchscreen LCD Display and Wireless Interface (Office Product)

After looking through reviews and googling 'best all in one', I rarely saw Brother mentioned. It was either Canon, HP or Epson. So I first purchased the Epson Aristan 800. The first unit was defective with an error loop, so I replaced it with another. It's a nice printer overall with the added bonus of touchscreen, but the fax functions were poor, the paper tray was flimsy and it was a bit too large for where I wanted to put it.

So I returned it, walked around the printer isles for an hour and came upon the Brother MFC-790cw. It had wifi, touchscreen, a phone, a real dial pad, a smaller footprint and a much cheaper price.

So after using it for a week, i'm really happy with the purchase. The wifi software was very easy to setup, and I had no problem installing it in Windows beta 7 unlike the Epson Artisan 800. Receiving and sending faxes is easy as pie. Normal and glossy photo print qualities are very good. And the unit overall looks solidly built.

The only two drawbacks I found was the above normal noise and the below normal print speed. But i'm not running a business with the need to print volumes of documents in a short time, so it's not really much of a concern.

This is an excellent AIO for personal use at a great price.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this product!, December 23, 2008

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Kee "-" (Usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-790CW Color Inkjet All-in-One with Wide 4.2-Inch Touchscreen LCD Display and Wireless Interface (Office Product)

Never before have a come across a printer like this, at such a low price. Brother has done it again, with their phenomenal line of office products. After witnessing the failure of not one, but three HP printers we decided to go with another brand. This unit features a great touch screen, easy to use fax machine, scanner (which lets you choose one of many places that the scanned image can be sent to). The other great feature that sold us on this printer was the fact that it features a built-in wireless care for printer sharing. No more USB cords or other unnecessary cords are needed. The setup for the wireless was a bit tricky at first, even for someone with college education in computer hardware. But we called Brother and they guided us over the phone and it was done!

Please consider this printer! You won't be sorry!

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Looks good, nice price, everything works, December 3, 2008

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michaelbuddy "michaelbuddy" (STL, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-790CW Color Inkjet All-in-One with Wide 4.2-Inch Touchscreen LCD Display and Wireless Interface (Office Product)

Just received the item and it appears to do what's promised, though I haven't done any photo printing yet, I think the photo print quality will be just fine, being that they included some small photo paper in the box. In my opinion, wi-fi is the only way to go for printers. USB is just another cable. I also needed a fax for the few times I get faxes every couple months and I chose this model because I didn't want the cordless phone on the higher model to get a dead battery or anything on me. I figured that this corded phone would be dead simple.

The software included helps interface with the printer including sending pc faxes out through to the printer. I'm excited to hook my other computers to it to share everything. I somewhat regret not getting the fancier cordless phone model, but it's not a big deal. To me, this unit having an answering machine is an extra bonus. I would have bought it without the answering machine, but I'm happy using it. Also has a speakerphone button. It has EVERYTHING!

Comes with a set of 4 inks. CMYK. I had a little fumbling with the paper tray, as it has several slider mechanisms in it to get it ready, but once I figured it out, it seems pretty simple. Just the diagram isn't much help and I was a little 'gun shy' of breaking sliders that were a little stuck. I love the touch screen and despite a couple menu items not quite in the spot i'd expect (I would have put answering machine and outgoing message recording in better menu hierarchy) it's just fine and probably won't need much changing.

I just have a regular single phone line and it works as a fax.

I saw this item while searching for wireless all in one, apparently it was a featured item on the home shopping network at one point, but despite those shows being often cheesy gagetry, this seems like a winner.

The look of it is not super cool, but appealing enough. I feel bad replacing a perfectly excellent canon 610 scanner / printer with this, but I needed the fax and I was tired of being tethered to the computer. Plus, several of the canon printers say wireless, but only are for bluetooth camera phones. This Brother printer is true wifi, and can handle WEP, WPA and I think one other security protocols I didn't recognize. You type in the codes right on the touch screen to connect to your network.

You might be wondering, where is the cat5 network and usb printer port? YES it does have them. You can't see it in the images, but in case you do need them, you can flip up part of the unit under the scanner lid and both a USB and network port are there, from there the cable can plug in and feed out of a hole in the side. I haven't done it, but I saw the ports.

You must set up the printer inks and the tray / test page printing before the phone will work. You'll get a dial tone right away, but you gotta run the intial setup before you get the button functionality.

I'll probably not revisit this review, but again I haven't printed out photo quality stuff yet. I doubt this printer will surpass a canon or epson photo printer, but I do think it's gonna be fine. Hopefully others will post their reviews about the printing quality here soon.

If you found one or two of the epson wireless all-in-ones on here, they were more expensive at the time and didn't have a phone line. The epson wi-fi model, one of them had color correction.

Please post another review so we know somebody's printing experiences with this....