- High-speed laser fax with copier function
- Transmits at 8 seconds per page
- High-speed 10 ppm laser printing, 600 x 600 dpi resolution
- 150-sheet paper tray, 15-sheet document feeder
- 16-character LCD display
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Offering a convenient package of phone, fax, and copier in one sturdy casing, the Panasonic KX-FL501 provides home offices with impressive options from all three of its functions.
As a copier, the laser technology brings you 600 dpi print quality as well as the ability to enlarge or reduce. As many as 99 copies can be made in one batch from a single original.
The telephone is ready for a variety of fee-based options from your phone company, including caller ID and pager call. Straight out of the box, you can use the 100-number speed dial and the one-button switch between phone and fax. If you do have caller ID, you can print a complete log of callers at the touch of a button.
The fax offers several options as well. Its 2 MB memory allows storage of over 100 pages, while the 14.4 Kbps modem delivers your pages at an average of eight seconds per page. With subscription to an Internet faxing service, IQ-Fax can send your pages while keeping your telephone line free. The paper tray has a capacity of 150 sheets in either letter or legal size. Panasonic provides a one-year warranty on parts and labor.
Product Description
Plain Paper Fax/Copier with digital answering system offers a modem speed of 14.4Kbps with each page out in nine seconds and performs a range of advanced copier functions. Generates four copies per minute as well as enlarges, reduces and collates. With two lines of up to 16 characters available and Caller ID compatibility, see the name and number of your incoming callers. Even displays and prints a list of Caller ID activity. Equipped with an all-digital answering system for quick, easy retrieval of crystal clear messages. Message operation has never been easier, with up to 18 minutes of recording time and up to two mailboxes, plus such features as prerecorded outgoing message, remote operation, message transfer, voice time/day stamp and voice pager alert. Stored in flash memory so they're unaffected by power failure or interruptions. Out of paper reception is up to 28 pages. Navigator key lets you easily access menu operations like the phone directory and dialer.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad, but...,
This review is from: Panasonic KX-FL501 Plain-Paper Laser Fax/copy Machine (Office Product)
It performs reasonably well. It can be fussy about feeding multiple pages to send, so it's generally best to feed them through one at a time. That's really a pity, because the quick-scan feature, when it works, is total gold.But the toner. Oh, god, the toner. I'm used to laser printers whining at me on the message display about low or "out" toner, and I'm just as used to ignoring them. The helpful people at Panasonic have decided that they don't like people ignoring those messages, so they include a pleasant beep. And when I say "pleasant", I mean it gives me nightmares. When the time comes for the machine to be replaced (and it will come, oh yes, it will come), I may run an extension cord outside so it can actually be actively beeping as I go Office Space on it. Anyway, toner. To guard against the possibility of someone with super-human will tuning out the beeping (or perhaps to guard against the deaf), they also have included a helpful print out. On this print out are several large bars of varying shades, designed, presumably, to illustrate visually to you exactly how low your toner is. I have never seen this page print in anything but a perfect, pristine manner. The bars are wonderful in their consistency, with nary a hint of lightness. While this would be an excellent demo of print quality, as a notification that the toner is low, I must admit to some confusion. It's *perfect*. It *never prints light*. So as far as I can tell, the only function it actually serves is to *use more toner*. Quite a bit of toner, considering the large black and near-black bars. In amusing phone conversations with Panasonic, I've determined that either A) there is no way to disable this helpful function or B) there is, but they require a more substantial bribe than I've offered to offset their loss in toner revenue. It gets better. After it's printed two or three of these frame-worthy gems over the course of a week, it decides to play hard ball. Now it claims that the toner is gone. Out. No toner remains. This is communicated in two ways. One, the beep. Only this time it's incessant. The beep just goes on and on until you replace the toner, unplug the machine, or throw it out the window (and perhaps even then). It also...*prints out a notice*. That's right, you read that correctly; to inform you that there is no toner, it *uses toner*. I'm sure you've guessed the best part already - this notice, like the joyous banners of greyscale earlier, also prints perfectly. It's never been even a little light. Now we engage in a little off-broadway production for the benefit of the fax machine. "Ahh, pity," we say, opening the machine and removing the toner unit. "We're out of toner. Guess I'll have to get more toner. I'll just open this package over here," we continue, as one of us makes crinkling noises in the background, and the other grimly shakes the toner unit from side to side. "Ah, good, I'll just pop that in, then," we say, winking, as we remove the toner drum, whisper an incantation over it, and pop it back in. "Whew, good as new. I'm sure glad we don't have to worry about any light printing thanks to the Panasonic engineers," we shout with glee, as we put the toner unit back in and close it up. If we've said the incantations correctly, the fax machine accepts our tribute and pretends everything is ok for a couple days, when the process is then repeated. Usually we perform the ritual twice successfully before it tires of our blandishments and insists the toner is out, despite the repeated evidence of our eyes. At this point we surrender to its whims and put a new drum unit in. We lived with it...until we upgraded to the KX-FL511, which works *exactly the same way*, except it is much better at scanning in multiple pages unattended.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
DONT BUY THIS DUD,
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This review is from: Panasonic KX-FL501 Plain-Paper Laser Fax/copy Machine (Office Product)
This machine looks and feels flimsy. Panasonic technical support is excellent, but unfortunately you will need it if you buy this machine. Also you'll need an extended warranty since you can expect problems. The instructions on how to set this up are confusing, and its easy to go wrong, and easy to make a mistake in putting in toner. I bought this for home use and wanted a plain paper laser fax to save on consumable costs and get good quality copies. My first unit didn't work at all. Panasonic sent a replacment without charge. After about 18 months of very light use (as a home fax), it started to make lines on every copy and fax sent out. Panasonic technical support tells me this is a problem with a bad chip and it will have to be sent back for repairs which which will be expensive and take time and effort. I am very disappointed with this machine. I liked the idea of a laser plain paper fax, but this one just isn't very good. I'm sure you can find a more reliable machine out there.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Panasonic junk,
By Laurence R. Durio (Baton Rouge, LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Panasonic KX-FL501 Plain-Paper Laser Fax/copy Machine (Office Product)
Purchased a Panasonic KX-FL501 from Amazon.com on August 01, 2001 and replaced it 06/13/02 with a Brother IntelliFAX 2800, which so far has been an infinitely more satisfactory machine for exactly the same price. The KX-FL501 was complex to set up, program, and use beyond absolutely basic functions, copy quality was barely adequate for a machine in its price range and it gave constant problems with multiple page FAXes; both sending and receiving. Sending, it would feed several pages of the original at once. Receiving, it would pull several blank pages from the paper tray, often so many it would jam. Adjustments did next to no good. Essentially, it was non-functional.
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