Having said all that, the best piece of advise I can give you about scanback cameras if you've never used one, is make sure you've got some excellent lighting. They also have an active User Forum with a searchable archive where questions are frequently answered by Betterlight's company president Mike Collette and other highly educated staff dedicated to finding answers and solving user problems. They've got a wonderful informative website full of all kinds of useful info and even a software tutorial to download. But I feel your best investment would be a Betterlight model as their customer support is the best of any I've ever dealt with. Build quality and software for both backs are high quality and easy to learn. Currently I use a Betterlight 6000E for Fine Art Repros. There's a way to override this by pressing random button combinations, but you have to do it every time and it's just such a PITA - like I'll decide when to stop using a toner drum thank you.Hello Mihai - Up until 3 years ago I used a PhaseOne PhotoPhase scan back, a not too distant relative of the PowerPhase FX.

You then can't print anything until you either replace the toner or override it. I think this is typical to all Brother printers, but the printer's opinion on the 'toner' life, is always wildly off, like it throws up the 'won't print, need more toner' flashing lights WAY too early, like 50% ink left early. It's manual which is fine but the problem is if paper is not new/perfectly straight, it just catches/blocks constantly so you have to keep taking the thing apart to get out stuck/ripped paper in paper jams. trying to print more than say about 40 pages, it overheats and will have to slow to a crawl (1 page every few seconds), and starts curling the paper up on the sides pretty bad as the heat rises. Like other Brother mono lasers this printer is fairly good for easy jobs and toner is super cheap off those eBay sellers, WiFi connection never seems to disconnect. Lucky it's wireless so you can easily swap to a secondary PC to do your printing. So you need to convert everything to PDF before printing and if you only want say page 10 to print, you have to extract that into its own PDF as you can't use normal print settings. Yeah using this with a mac sucks, you have to use this really crappy Brother software which only allows you to print PDFs and you can't alter any settings, just print exactly how the PDF is set up.

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