Brother MFC-9200C Flatbed Color Multifunction

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 18.9 x 14.7 inches ; 35.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 46 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004XPOT
• Item model number: MFC-9200C
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 17, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

In addition to printing quality color digital photos, the MFC-9200C faxes, copies, and scans--all in one unit--greatly simplifying your home or work environment and saving office space.

Printing at up to 14 ppm (10 ppm color) at 1,200 x 1,200 dpi resolution, your documents and photos will come out bright and clear. The MFC-9200C downloads, captures, and prints photos and even video frames using its own NTSC video port. Parallel and USB ports are built in for quick and easy connection to your PC or Macintosh. Media drives for CompactFlash and SmartMedia are also included.

The MFC-9200C has equally impressive faxing, copying, and scanning features. Fax documents quickly at just three seconds per page with a 400-page memory, so you'll never have to lose valuable information. It also faxes in color for customized or color-critical documents. The MFC-9200C delivers color copies at a crisp 1,200 x 1,200 dpi and is capable of producing 10 copies per minute. Reduction and enlargement features allow you to easily adjust documents to suit your needs. The scanner function offers 30-bit color scanning at 2,400 dpi and includes a popular scanning software package. --Emily Bakko

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great All-in-One Device, May 28, 2001

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Jeffrey P Link (Fort Meade, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-9200C Flatbed Color Multifunction (Office Product)

I got an MFC-9200C on April 16 and began using it immediately. As a copier (mono or color), it is worth the $ I paid. I can drop a stack of papers into the sheet feeder and it runs them through without any problems, making excellent copies. Although not great, the color matching while copying is good. Another sheet feeder advantage is the ability to scan several pages; priceless for entering multipage documents into an application. If you want to FAX, there is no need to use the computer, the 9200C can operate independently as a FAX machine. It also has ports for CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards but I have not used them at all. I was leery of buying an all-in-one device because of reliability concerns but I am glad got the MFC-9200C. I saved many hours scanning a 200-page document into Adobe without any problems or having to individually handle all those pages. Since it has a flat glass surface, you can scan (or copying) several small items (like receipts) at once or pages from a bound book. As a printer, it is a little noisier than I would prefer but the output is high quality and fairly fast. Discount ink cartridges are not yet available but their cost is not too high. I would certainly buy this device again and highly recommend it to anyone who frequently needs to scan or wants the convenience of a home copier.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save your money (Warning - dissatisfied customer), July 27, 2002

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Kevin D. Royce (Gig Harbor, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother MFC-9200C Flatbed Color Multifunction (Office Product)

Where should I begin? I purchased this multi-function machine knowing I would need to live with less than best of breed quality for each of the components (fax, flatbed scanner, copier, inkjet printer) to save space on my desk. However, I was not prepared for just how bad this experience was going to be.

Let's start with the positive - The fax worked fine.

Let's move on to the merely irritating - Scanner resolution is exceptionally poor for photographs and on an XP machine there are no drivers to adjust it. However, the quality is acceptable for text based scanning.

This leads into the area where this product really is inadequate - Print Quality. Black and White text is acceptable. However, this is a color inkjet printer. Ostensibly you are going to want to do something with it besides print black and white text.

Since the copier function depends on both the print quality and the scanner resolution, you can imagine how I feel about this feature.

The final irritant is that the print cartridges become unusable if you do not print almost daily. This can become quite expensive.

My opinion is that Brother cut too many corners in the design and manufacture of this beast.

This is the first time I have purchased anything other than an HP Printer and I am exceptionally disappointed.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If it only made espresso...., May 11, 2001

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WHills (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother MFC-9200C Flatbed Color Multifunction (Office Product)

This machine was replacing a 5-year old fax that was of the roll type.

I've had the machine in the office for three weeks, so I'm bound to discover new glitches or features, but here's the initial reaction. It's attached by a USB port to a Dell using Windows 98.

Positive comments:

It set up out of the box fairly easy.

As a fax machine it works fine. This is a big upgrade from what my office had, and the sheet feeding option works very well. It even handles our need to punch in codes for billing within the long-distance service we use.

As a copy machine it works very well. Previously we had to walk out of our office to use the copier and now for 80% of our work, the MFC does great. In fact, our current copier does not have a sheet feed function and so for those cases the MFC is a real time saver.

As a color copy machine it works well for draft work, and if you have the time to wait, it will do a fair, detailed color copy, similar but not as good as one you could get at Kinkos.

As a compact flash card reader for digital camera images, good for draft level work only, but it is fairly straightforward to use.

I don't quite have a sense of what a per page cost of the machine is. We've gone through one black cartridge so far, which seems a little fast.

I liked the idea that I was able to get rid of my desktop scanner. It has a twain interface which seems compatible with most programs so far.

Negative comments:

A few parts of the machine seem wildly flimsy. I speaking of a plastic flap on the paper tray which seems to have only a little less thickness than a milk carton.

The instruction book needs a rewrite. I haven't documented it, but the feeling is that occasionally it's describing things that don't quite relate to what the machine wants to do. This seems to occur especially in the section that covers the software to PC issues.

The software comes with PaperPort, which is overall a very useful bit of software, but the interface could use some tweaking to have it follow a Microsoft Office model. I still haven't figured out the fax-from-PC software that is part of the bundled software.

The fax setting has a default setting that slightly reduces the incoming faxes. Our work requires that everything be sent and received at 100%, so after I changed the settings it now spits out a few blank pages along with every fax. I guess it's trying to get the whole sheet area.

The keypad and buttons are confusing. This may just be a case of trying to do too much. It could use one of those large LCD screens that changes to take you through complicated operations. Fairly non-intutive.

Overall I'm pleased and would recommend the purchase of this. I think Brother is on the leading edge of these machines along with HP.