Brother mfc-255cw Datasheet

WIRED OR WIRELESS

ALL-IN-ONE

PRINT, COPY

SCAN & FAX

Everybody loves wireless technology. It gives you the

MFC-255CW

WIRELESS SETUP

EASY AND

SECURE

freedom to print from anywhere in your home or ofce,
or share your printer with others. Now this inexpensive,
easy to use all-in-one makes wireless much more
affordable.

The MFC-255CW prints, scans, copies and even faxes, all in a neat, compact
package. And with high print speeds to save time and excellent print quality to
make the most of your photos and colour documents, it’s pretty much perfect for
the home business user.

Quick and easy colour printing

Nobody wants to hang around waiting for their printer. So for letters, reports, or even
your holiday snaps, the MFC-255CW prints impressively quickly in colour and black
and white. It even produces lab quality photos too. You can even adjust skin tones
and eliminate blemishes and red eye with the free FaceFilter software. With Brother
inks and paper, your photos are designed to last for up to 100 years, with no fading
due to exposure to light.

Efcient faxing and copying

The fax on the MFC-255CW won’t have you waiting around either, thanks to 40
speed dials and a transmission speed of 6 seconds per A4 page. This fast
transmission could even save you money on your phone bill.

You’ll even save time copying, as you don’t need your computer switched on to copy,
reduce or enlarge images or even condense multi-page documents onto one sheet,
saving you paper.

Flexible colour scanning

Scanning is easy and exible. The MFC-255CW makes light work of scanning bulky,
bound documents or books, simply place your document on the at glass surface
and choose how you want to scan. For instance, you can scan direct from and
to media cards in PDF format or directly to email. There’s also the OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) feature, which means you can edit pre-printed documents
without having to re-type them.

Technical Specications MFC-255CW

General

Technology Inkjet
Memory Capacity 32MB
Warm-up Time 0 seconds
Interfaces High speed USB 2.0, Media Card
Display 1 line x 16 characters
Network Wireless LAN IEEE802.11b/g (Infastructure Mode/Adhoc Mode)
Protocols TCP/IP (IPv4)
Wireless Setup Secure Easy Setup
Wireless Security WEP 64/128bit, WPA-PSK (TKIP/AES), WPA2-PSK(AES)

Colour Printer

Speed Up to 30ppm mono & 25ppm colour
Resolution Up to 6,000 x 1,200 (vertical x horizontal)
Borderless Printing Available for A4, LTR, A6, Photo 4” x 6”, Index card, Postcard
Colour Enhancement Brother Image Enhancement allows you to customise colour output
Minimum Droplet Size 1.5pl (when used with Brother BP71 paper, see supplies section)
Direct Photo Print Print photos direct from Media Cards (see Direct Photo Print section)

Colour Fax

Modem 14.4kbps
Colour Using the ITU.T-30E Colour Fax Protocol to other compatible fax machines
Data Compression MH, MR, MMR (mono), JPEG (colour)
Automatic Redial Automatic redial if the recipient fax is busy
Speed Dials 40 locations for pre-stored numbers
Group Dials Up to 6 groups
Fax / Tel Switch Automatic recognition of fax and telephone reception
Distinctive Ring Detection Yes
Super Fine Enables quality transmission and reception of very small print or line drawings
Grey Scale 256 shades of grey
Memory Transmission Up to 170 pages (ITU-T Test Chart No 1)
Out of Paper Reception Up to 170 pages (ITU-T Test Chart No 1)
Broadcasting Locations Send the same fax messages to up to 90 locations
Auto Reduction Automatically reduces a received fax to t to a single A4 sheet
Error Correction Mode Where machines share the ECM feature, errors during transmission are corrected automatically ensuring received documents

are error free

Dual Access Scan a fax for transmission whilst receieving a fax (mono only)
PC-FAX* Send faxes from your PC (phone line required)

Colour Copier

Speed Up to 20ppm mono & 18ppm colour
Resolution Up to 600 x 1,200dpi (colour), 1,200 x 1,200dpi (mono)
Multi Copy Produces up to 99 copies of each original
Enlargement / Reduction Ratio 25% - 400% in 1% increments
N in 1 Reduce 2 or 4 pages on to a single sheet
Poster Printing Enlarge an image to print onto 3 x 3 pages of A4 size paper (available for A4 only)

Colour Scanner

Resolution Optical: Up to 1,200 x 2,400dpi, Interpolated: Up to 19,200 x 19,200dpi
Scan Speed From 3.44 seconds Mono & from 4.83 seconds Colour (A4 size, 100 x 100dpi)
Grey Scale 256 shades of grey
Colour Depth 36 bit internal processing colour scanner

‘Scan’ Key Allows the user to scan to E-mail, OCR, Image, File, Card or USB Flash Memory Drive supporting: JPEG, BMP, PDF, TIFF, PNG
(USB Flash Memory Drive supports PDF Mono & Colour, JPEG, TIFF)

Paper Handling

Paper Input 100 sheet paper tray
Paper Output 50 sheets
Paper Handling Sizes A4, LTR, LGL, EXE, A5, A6, Photo 4” x 6”, Index Card, Postcard, Envelope plus additional sizes
Media Type Plain, Inkjet, Glossy, Transparency
Media Weight 64 - 220g/m2 (up to 260g/m2 with Brother BP71 paper)

Direct Photo Printing

Media Card Centre Memory Stick: 16MB-128MB (Duo with Adaptor)
Acceptable Media Cards Memory Stick Pro: 256MB-16GB, MagicGate: YES if not use MG function, Secure Digital: 16MB-2GB (MiniSD with Adaptor),

Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC): 4-16GB, xD Picture Card: 16-512MB, xD Picture Card Type M/ M+, Type H: 256MB-2GB

Media Card Drive Save and retrieve les using any of the above listed media cards
Image Format Photo Print: JPEG, Scan to Card: JPEG, PDF (colour), TIFF, PDF (mono)

Software

Driver Software Included Brother MFL-Pro Suite
Windows® Brother ControlCentre3, ScanSoft® Paperport® 11 SE with OCR
Macintosh® Brother ControlCentre2, NewSoft® Presto!® PageManager7
Reallusion® FaceFilter Studio A simple and easy to use photo editor that enables you to ne-tune your photos to print perfect, professional looking photos
Software with or without borders
Supported Operating Systems Windows® 7 / Windows Vista® / Windows® XP Professional (32 & 64 bit editions) / XP Home Edition / Windows® 2000

Professional (SP4) / Mac OS X 10.3.9 or greater

Supplies

Standard Cartridges LC980BK - Approx 300** A4 pages, LC980C/M/Y - Approx 260** A4 pages
Brother Paper BP71GLA: A4 glossy photo paper, 20 sheets, BP71GLP: 4” x 6” glossy photo paper, 20 / 50 sheets, BP60MA: A4 Matte inkjet

paper, 25 sheets, BP60PA: A4 inkjet paper, 250 sheets

Weights & Dimensions

With Carton 465(W) x 225(D) x 460(H) mm / 10.2kg
Without Carton 390(W) x 365(D) x 150(H) mm / 7.3kg

Others

Power Consumption Operating - 22W, Ready - 4.5W, Standby - 0.75W
Noise Level 50dBA (Maximum)

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Wi-Fi Protected Setup

*Recei ving is for W indows® only **Appr ox. cartridge yi eld is declared in a ccordance with I SO/IEC 24711

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(WPS), AirStation One Touch Secure System

Brother UK Ltd, Audenshaw, Manchester M34 5JD
Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Website: www.brother.co.uk

Specication correct at time of going to print. Brother is a registered
trademark of Brother Industries Ltd. Brand product names are registered
trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.

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Cut out the need
for wires. And cut
your costs too.

All the top of the
range features you
need, for less.

Packed with handy, easy to use features

All the features on our machines are designed to make your life easier, by saving you
time, money and even space. Take a look at the features below to help you decide if
this printer is ideal for you.

Save money

as you can print, copy, scan and
fax in one machine

Save time

with fast 27/33ppm colour/black &
white printing and a 6 second fax
transmission

Better quality prints

with up to 60 00 x 1200dpi print
resolution, and borderless prints
(from 6x4” up to A4)

Green and clean

Low power consumption, minimal noise, non-hazardous materials and recycling
friendly design meets the renowned Energy Star and Blue Angel environmental
standards. Brother has also been awarded 100 out of 100 by the Ethical Company
Organisation for the third year in a row – the only printer manufacturer to achieve this.

And our commitment to the environment now includes sponsoring 4 square kilometres
of Amazon rainforest in partnership with Cool Earth, which protects endangered areas
to help combat global warming.

You’re covered

When you buy a new piece of equipment, the last thing you expect is for it to let you
down. In fact, when something does go wrong with one of our products, we’re as
surprised as you are, as every Brother machine has been through rigorous testing.
So, in the unlikely event that you do have a problem with your machine, you’ll be
pleased to hear that every Brother printer comes with a full 12 month warranty
24 hour online support. Which means if your machine does let you down, our
dedicated aftercare team won’t, even after your warranty period has expired.

plus

Colourful savings

For added convenience

you can print directly from, or
scan to media card. You can also
scan to email, OCR image, le or
media ca rd

MFC-255CW

With Brother’s Innobella original ink cartridges and paper you can be sure of top
quality prints time after time, with true, vivid colours from 100 years lightfastness
fade-resistant inks and specially coated paper. You’ll even save money too, as the
design uses individual ink cartridges so you only have to replace the one that’s
run out.