Customer Reviews

PANASONIC KX-FPG391 Fax / Copier w/ 5.8 GHz Phone System

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Sometimes manufacturer's get it right. This product is no exception. All of the features work as advertised. It is economical with it's use of the "printing film" (for copies and faxes). Of course, the more you fax and copy, the sooner it will run out.

I've purchased 4 additional "remote hand sets" (Quantity:2 of KXTGA520M and quantity:2 of KXTGA523M). I also purchased the Headset KXTCA92) as well for my office.

I've owned this system for 10 months and everything works flawlessly! Calls are crystal clear; Conference works great; it stores over 30 "missed" calls (I usually delete them when there is that many). I've only replaced the replaceable film once. I'd say that I fax and copy maybe twice a week. The battery life on all of the phones is excellent. I've had conference calls lasting up to 5 hours (thank god for the headset) and the battery still listed 3 full bars after I hung up.

There is a nice backlight to see who's calling. There is also a nice female digital voice that reads off who is calling when the phone rings. This feature may seem trivial, but it works at every handset throughout the house so you don't have to be near the "main terminal" to hear it. If the caller does not allow caller ID, but allow their call number to display, the female voice says "number available" but does not read the number. If their "name" comes up, it will read the name and gets it pronounced correctly about 85% of the time. For example, a phone call from "Dan & Angela Dickens" is pronounced correctly but a call from "UNICOM" is pronounced "u-ni-come" instead of U-NI-COM.

Here's the one drawback: When someone like a telemarketer calls and you see that it's from an "888" number, you can hit the "off" button which stops that particular phone from ringing any further. However, it does not stop ALL of the other phones from continuing to ring. As I said, I purchased 4 other handsets scattered throughout the house so you can hear the other phones ringing after you hit the "off" button. A minor annoyance I've found to be a small mark on the overall feature set.

The distance allowed from the "main terminal" is also excellent. I've been on conference calls and walked to my mailbox outside which is about 700 feet away with no loss or degredation of signal. I am not sure what the manufacturer specifications are but I believe that is plenty for just about any household or small office.

To summarize, I've owned 3 of these types of "all in one" phone systems over the past 10 years and this model (and it's accessories) are top notch! I recommend it highly to anyone!

I did a lot of research before buying this product but decided on it because of its 5.8GHZ cordless telephone/fax capability. Once I had the machine, it intimidated me because of all the features it offered but I quickly found out that it is extremely user friendly. It offers easy to use menus and even contains help information which can easily be printed out from the fax. Receiption on the telephone is crystal clear, even when used near a PC. Faxes received are also very clear. The only negative aspect of this system is the fact that it only comes with one extender phone and additional phones are a little pricey. That said, I am very happy with my choice and would buy this system again in a heartbeat.

This machine is awsome. I had first purchased the Sharp UX600 but returned it because it seemed like a toy. The panasonic feels sturdy and durable. You can also download your favorite ringtones to the handset. The only reason I did not give this unit 5 stars was because the handset was a little bulky. It was twice the size of the sharp. Overall the features out way the handset. Maybe panasonic will make the next model with a more streamline handset.

This is a great system. I purchased this and three additional handsets to replace a broken fax machine and an older cordless phone system I had not quiet liked. The sound quality is very good. One of my favorite features is checking the voicemail right from any of the handsets.

There are two improvements I would make to this system: (1) Give the base unit a good old corded handset, and (2) equip the cordless handsets with better battery technology, one that would allow keeping the handsets on their chargers most of the time, instead of strongly suggesting to wait until batteries discharge to a certain level.

Make no mistake it's a fantastic system. The best cordless phone system I've had yet. I definitely recommend it.

This is my fourth fax-copier and telephone answering system. By far the easiest to use, smaller on the desktop, quality sound and printing. Highly recommended.

We bought this unit about a year ago and it seemed to work ok for the first few months. The telephone part of it works great. We don't recieve faxes to often so it's hard to tell when it went haywire but now the paper feeds in crooked so it can't complete the fax, so it stores it. Not a word in the book about how to recieve a stored fax. The onscreen notes say to check the ink and we do but it doesn't help. We've decided to throw it in the trash can and buy a Brother. The last Brother we owned worked perfectly. We thought upgrading to Panasonic would be nice. NOT

I bought this machine as a replacement for a 10 year old Panasonic answering machine fax/copier. I was surprised that it was so easy to set up, as I am technically challenged. It makes very good copies and the fax works well. I am very happy with this purchase.

My priority with this phone was to merge the cordless landline we had in the house, with a fax machine that we did not have room for. The cordless phone is great. Voicemail, all of it was easy to set up. The fax quality from an incoming fax is good. Can't say great, but it's not terrible. Don't rely on this machine to triple as your copy machine if you care about keeping crisp details. All in all, I am very happy with this product.

I joined VONAGE & needed a phone that would work wirelessly as VONAGE rendered the telephone wiring in my house useless. I bought one extension & it's been OK. The 5.8 gig size provides plenty of coverage throughout my tiny house. The one thing that doesn't work well for me is the Toll Saver feature when calling to check messages - it may be the phone or it may be related to VONAGE, but I had to set it to five rings for checking messages. It would be nicer to have Toll Saver work properly, but otherwise the thing works well. I don't fax a lot but the few occasions I do, it's fairly OK - again, any problems I have may be related more to the VONAGE/phone interface.