Product Description

The World's First Compact A3 Inkjet Multifunction Printer. Open up bigger possibilities with the worlds first compact A3 inkjet multifunction printer, easy to use with the 4.2 inch wide touch screen LCD the DCP6690CW also has the flexibility of print, copy and scan. Enjoy total connectivity including wireless connection with easy and secure setup. Main Features:Up to 28ppm colour printingUp to 35ppm mono printingUp to 6000 x 1200dpi print resoloutionHi speed USB 2.0 interfaceWired and wireless network read...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43942 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Brother
• Model: DCP6690CWU1
• Released on: 2009-04-19
• Dimensions: 34.39 pounds

Features

• Brother DCP6690CW A3 Inkjet MFC/Fax
  • Brother DCP-6690CWU1 wireless ready A3 colour inkjet multifunctional machine• Prints up to 35/28 ppm mono/colour• Up to 6000 x 1200 dpi, 64MB memory, 400 sheet paper capacity, 8.4 cm touch screen

Manufacturer's Description
Open up bigger possibilities with the world’s first compact A3 inkjet multifunction printer. Easy to use with the 4.2 inch wide touch screen LCD the DCP6690CW also has the flexibility of print, copy and scan. Enjoy total connectivity including wireless connection with easy and secure setup.

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Customer Reviews

There's no real competition for this printer
All-in-one A3 printers are rare beasts so find one below £300 and one is prepared to accept a few compromises.

It's true that the black may not be as intense as some other printers but apart from that it is difficult to criticise this printer.

For me A3 copying is perhaps the most important feature since I justified buying the Brother purely on the basis of what I spend at copy shops. Here the Brother excels at producing fast, accurately scaled copies in black and white as well as colour. Printing at A3 size is also surprisingly fast.

The fact that the printer has a tray for A4 as well means it could easily serve as a single office printer/copier.

Installation was child's play including configuring wi-fi networking and at no time during the process did the printer need to be cable-connected to a computer. All computers on the network could be configured to use the Brother simply by installing the Brother software.

I can't vouch for any of the Brother-supplied utilities because I don't need them but everything on the driver-side works perfectly.

Finally the on-printer touch screen is very user-friendly and allows several favourite copy and scan settings to be stored.

The printer is surprisingly compact considering what is does and its design is very pleasing to the eye.

Reliability may be an issue in the future but so far it has worked perfectly.

An very good A3 multifunction printer
Bought this multifunction printer a few weeks ago and, I must say that I am very pleased with it. It is a heavy machine and extremely well built, produces good results and is pretty fast.

Printing - letters etc are printed very quickly, the ink is even and the results good, however compared to my Canon MP800 the ink is not a black and the words look a little faded. Nevertheless the result is quite satisfactory if not perfect.

Printing photographs - A4 size again good but always a bit dark and with a slight lack of detail compared to the Canon. Prints quite fast and with an even finish, however the Canon is certainly better here. A3 colour prints are also a bit dark and need some tweeking to get right.

Scanning is excellent and fast particularly the feeder rather than the glass plate though I have yet to try scanning a colour photo.

Inks are easy to fit and there are no chips to worry about if you use other makes. Inks are also very cheap and seem to last well. One thing to note - as yet there is no-one making a continuous ink system for this printer which is a shame as I use one for the Canon MP800 and it is brilliant - best bit of printer hardware I have ever bought!

There are one or two gripes - firstly the software supplied with the printer (for printing photos etc)is poor, difficult to use, complicated and, compared to the Canon software, is rubbish! Canon really do have excellent photo printing software. Secondly the need to adjust sizes and centre everything in the feed trays (eg. envelopes) is a pain so I just leave A3 paper in try 1 and A4 in tray 2 and use my Canon for photo prints and envelopes - much easier! If you do only have the Brother printer it is not really a problem but it just takes time to have to reset everything in the feed trays each time you wish to change paper or sizes.

Really these are fairly minor gripes and, in general I would recommend the printer if you need an A3 model