Brother enters the all-in-one for business and home use sweepstakes with their MFC-230C. With less of a focus on fax capabilities and more of a look at a balanced all around system, the MFC-30C delivers everything that a home office needs. The color inket printer allows it to produce quality prints of color or black and white documents and images at up to 25 pages per minutes. It's still fully capable of sending any of those documents and files out as a fax, and the scanner works at resolutions of up to 2400 dpi in quality. It can even function as a PC Fax via USB connection, and is fully compatible with a direct connection from PictBridge capable cameras and camcorders.
As with any printer of any kind, ink is the lifeblood that keeps it humming. And with a need for four cartridges to be up and running for the entire system to work to full capability, there is the possibility for things to become expensive. Each of the individual color cartridges are good for 400 pages, and the black ink for 500, but that can add up in a hurry. ClickInks offers free shipping within the continental U.S., and they cut their already low prices even more the more that you add to your order. Buy a bundle of their own compatible cartridges and you can save even more over the official units.