Brand: Brother

Amazon.comWhat could be a better travel companion for your laptop than the featherweight Brother MP21C Color Inkjet mobile printer, offering quick print speed and brilliant color prints? With its quiet operation, remarkable lightness, high-quality printing, and easy connection, the Brother MP21C Color Inkjet mobile printer is practical for travel and use just about everywhere.In a hotel room, airport waiting room, on the plane or train, on vacation, and back home again, the Brother MP21C Color Inkjet connects directly to your laptop through a single, direct data and power connection. The easy PCMCIA interface means you simply insert the MP21C's PC card into your laptop's PCMCIA slot and you're ready to print. Piezo print technology provides high-quality resolution comparable with desktop models for photo printing and color graphics at 720 x 720 dpi, and provides print speeds up to two and a half pages per minute (a little longer for color and fine-quality printing).Requiring neither battery nor power adapter and weighing just 2.2 pounds, the MP21C is light and eminently portable. With its ultra-compact design, it fits easily into a briefcase or laptop case. The addition of options like the 30-sheet auto feeder and AC adapter will add weight, but will also extend the Brother MP21C Color Inkjet mobile printer's benefits for convenient setup and for more enhanced uses while traveling and on your home desktop.Product DescriptionBrother Mobile Inkjet Color Printer, MP21C mobile color printer connects directly to your laptop through its PCMCIA slot for both power and data. Up to 720 x 720 DPI in brilliant color, PCMCIA interface for power/data, PCMCIA card/cable included, up to 2.5 PPM print speed, color printer with built-in, adjustable single sheet/enevelope feeder.ReviewIf you've ever wanted to amaze your co-workers by pulling a 720-dot-per-inch printer out of a shoulder bag, check out Brother's MP-21C Mobile Color Ink Jet. It weighs only 2.2 pounds, operates on adapter-less PC Card power and has most of the functionality of a bulkier, entry-level color ink jet printer. The MP-21C's output quality is impressive for such a small, portable unit, but no better than entry-level compared to that of most full-sized ink jet models.The printer is easy to install and use. Its chief drawbacks are its print quality and relatively slow speed. I timed the MP-21C at approximately 2 minutes per page on text and mixed graphics in its normal (360dpi) print mode. At 720dpi, output speed slows down significantly to between 7 and 10 minutes per page. Text and graphics on plain paper at 360dpi had acceptable draft quality. Stepping up to coated paper at 720dpi enhanced text clarity and color definition, but not to the level of a full-sized ink jet. Photographs showed mild banding and some grainy quality, even on $1-a-sheet glossy paper.The MP-21C uses two $32 ink cartridges-one supplying black and cyan (good for 250 pages at 5% saturation), the other supplying magenta and yellow (yielding 150 pages at 5% saturation).Because the 4.17-by-11.81-by-2-inch MP-21C connects to notebook computers through its bundled PC Card controller, you don't need an external power adapter, and the unit imposes no significant drain on notebook battery life.If portability and convenience are more important to you than speed and print quality, the Brother MP-21C may be just what you're looking for. You can use it in a hotel room to produce acceptable near-letter-quality text or passable production proofs in full CMYK color. -- From Winmag®

Features:

• Up to 720 x 720 dpi in brilliant color
• Prints using up to 90 percent less power than other mobile color printers
• Up to 2.5 ppm print speed
• Color printer with built-in, adjustable single sheet/envelope feeder
• PCMCIA connection means less to carry
• no external power supply required

Product Details:

• Color: Black
• Model: MP21C
• Quantity: 1