| Oh, Brother! How Versatile! By TIM BOXER  have been reluctant to use a multi-function machine. In the past I used separate machines for different tasks – fax, copier, printer, and scanner. If one is incapacitated, it won’t affect the others. Whereas in a multi-function environment, if one part goes on the blink, you have to send the whole machine off for repair and you’re left without the other capabilities which are still intact.
Brother changed my work habits. They have the ideal all-purpose machine. It’s an MFC 9200C that offers six functions in one unit: printer, fax, copier, scanner, PhotoCapture Center, all in color, plus a PC fax. All these functions in one would cost you less than if you’d purchase the individual machines. Street price for the versatile MFC 9200C is $499. The price tag is well worth it when you consider that you’ll save a bundle and reduce desktop clutter at the same time. What more could you ask for? It’s an excellent document station for home office and small business. With the PhotoCapture Center functionality you can use two digital media drives for Compact Flash and SmartMedia cards. You plug in your memory cards and print your digital pictures directly from the unit, without downloading the images to your PC. The flatbed design is especially useful, enabling me to scan, copy or fax from a book or magazine. This was a tremendous improvement over my previous fax machine, which was not flatbed and allowed me to copy only single pages. Installing the unit was easy. You connect to your PC with either parallel or USB connection. Print quality was excellent. Check it out for yourself at www.brother.com. | 
