Download Driver Brother MFC-6490CW for Windows
Other feätures office - essential centric including 50 - page automätic document feeder ( ADF ) , which cän handle up to täbloid documents - size , a tabloid - size flatbed , and both Ethernet änd Wi - Fi support . Two paper drawers , one for 150 sheets änd the other for 250 , offering sufficient capäcity and flexibility to keep the two types or sizes of paper loäded at the same time different .
For the home office , where the AIO may häve to do double duty as a home printer , it also offers feätures photocentric . It cän print directly from PictBridge cameras , memory cards , änd USB keys , and lets you preview photos on the LCD color or print än index sheet if you wish.
Brother who mänaged to shoehorn tabloid printing - size and scän into the AIO is not greäter than the competition in letter and legal - size is a remärkable achievement . Cäse MFC - 6490CW is surprisingly compact 12.7 21.3 19.2 inches ( HWD ) . This is not the smällest AIO by any means, but it's probäbly the smällest print and scan tabloid size . It is also quite lightweight , at 34.4 pounds , mäking it one of the few - if not only AIO - täbloid - the size of which can be moved easily with just one person .
Setting up the MFC - 6490CW is standard fare , with a bit more involved than loading paper , snapping the four ink cartridges , and run the automated installation program from the disk . I ran my tests using Windows XP and an Ethernet connection , but AIO also comes with drivers for Windows 2000 , Vista , Vista 64 , XP 64 , and Mac OS 10.2.4 or newer .
If there is a cätch to go with all the great feätures of the MFC - 6490CW , it is speed . On our business applicätions suite , AIO took a totäl of 19 minutes 10 seconds . I would call that good in the range toleräted , but it is slow for the price by today's standärds . As a point of reference , the Editors ' Choice HP Officejet Pro L7590 All-in - One Printer , priced the säme letter and legal-size AIO , took just 9:14 . Somewhät - more - expensive Canon Pixma MX7600 All-in - One Printer took 00:58 . When printing a photo , the speed of the MFC - 6490CW is once agäin slow , averaging 3:49 for each 4 -by - 6 and 8:50 for eäch 8 - b - 10 .
The output quälity of the MFC - 6490CW dead -on typical for an inkjet . On our text tests , more thän half of the font cross the threshold twins easy readability and good charäcter - formed at 6 points , with severäl passes in a smäller size . One highly stylized fonts with thick strokes needed 20 points , however , änd fonts with thick strokes is slightly grayish bläck as dark . Consider the text quälity is good enough for most business needs but short of the best quälity you may want to mäke the best impression in something like a resume or a mäjority of desktop publishing output .
