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CoolCanucks Review of Brother Canada’s Smart Business Machines ~ All-in-One Multi-Function Center

Thursday, May 30th, 2013

 

 

After recently con­nect­ing with Brother Canada, I was aston­ished to see such an exten­sive lineup of awe­some prod­ucts that they actu­ally sell!

When I thought of Brother Canada, I actu­ally thought of sewing machines right off the hop, and was not obliv­i­ous to the fact that they sell phe­nom­e­nal sewing machines as well as awe­some office machines!

One thing that I did not know was that Brother Canada also car­ries a phe­nom­e­nal lineup of type­writ­ers, fax machines, labellers, scan­ners, and even the best Busi­ness Smart print­ers!!

 

 

 

 

 

Brother Canada and designer Saman­tha Pynn are on a mis­sion to help Cana­di­ans fall in love with their home offices again and cre­ate spaces that are both styl­ish and func­tional.  Home offices are often neglected spaces – filled with clut­ter, mis­matched fur­ni­ture and bad light­ing – but it doesn’t have to be that way!  Using some sim­ple design tech­niques and Brother’s office equip­ment solu­tions, like the small and sleek Busi­ness Smart inkjet all-in-ones, the home office can be trans­formed into a wel­com­ing space that is also a pro­duc­tive place to work.

“Peo­ple who work from home get the lux­ury of being able to design, style and cre­ate their work­space based on their own per­sonal style,” said Saman­tha Pynn, expert inte­rior dec­o­ra­tor, styl­ist, and host on HGTV Canada. “As we all look to max­i­mize every hour of every day, it’s time to rein­vig­o­rate our home offices to cre­ate not only styl­ish spaces but more pro­duc­tive, func­tional and effi­cient ones.”

Cana­di­ans want to spruce up their home offices. Accord­ing to a new Vision Crit­i­cal national sur­vey* com­mis­sioned by Brother Canada, 82 per cent of men and women sur­veyed who work from home say they do invest time, effort and resources into mak­ing their home office look styl­ish and appeal­ing – but 20 per cent are still strug­gling to cre­ate a space that reflects their own style and per­son­al­ity and eight per cent work out of any place at home that is avail­able and con­ve­nient at the time.

Accord­ing to Pynn, there are a few sim­ple tech­niques we can use to freshen up our home offices, which is impor­tant as 40 per cent of peo­ple sur­veyed say they plan on meet­ing with clients and col­leagues at their home office: • Incor­po­rate fur­ni­ture pieces that seam­lessly fit with your exist­ing décor – don’t be lim­ited by tra­di­tional office furniture

• Use brightly coloured area rugs to cre­ate a defined space that’s all your own

• Brighten up your work­space with table lamps and non-fluorescent over-head lighting

• Use dec­o­ra­tive trays to store office essen­tials and equip­ment like sta­plers, tape dis­pensers, pens and paper to cre­ate ele­gant and func­tional groupings

 

 

With one third (34 per cent) of employed Cana­di­ans work­ing from home at least once a month, the sur­vey also dis­cov­ered these work­ers’ unique tech­nol­ogy needs:

  • 82 per cent of respon­dents ranked print­ers as a very impor­tant piece of home office equip­ment – fol­low­ing only lap­tops (86 per cent) and well ahead of items like smart­phones (40 per cent) and tablets (12 per cent)
  • 93 per cent of those polled agree that hav­ing the right office equip­ment and tech­nol­ogy is required to be productive

 

“The sur­vey tells us that peo­ple who work from home have really dif­fer­ent needs in terms of tech­nol­ogy,” adds Pynn.  “One of the great­est ways to cre­ate both styl­ish and pro­duc­tive home offices is with the new Busi­ness Smart inkjet all-in-one print­ers by Brother Canada.  With these all-in-ones you won’t have to give up pre­cious work­space or style as they fea­ture a sleek design that is per­fect for smaller, mod­ern work­spaces and the home office.”

 

The Busi­ness Smart Series is now avail­able at Sta­ples ($199.99 for the MFC-J4510DW and $249.99 for the MFC-J4710DW), Future Shop ($189.99 for the MFC-J4410DW) and Best Buy ($189.99 for the MFC-J4410DW). The MFC-J4610DW model will also be avail­able at other online retailers.

 

 

 

I was sent an awe­some All-in-One Multi-Function Cen­ter from Brother Canada’s Smart Busi­ness Machines Series and it rocks!!

Brother took a huge step for­ward with the MFC-J4510DW all-in-one inkjet printer. Where pre­vi­ous mod­els deliv­ered basic fea­tures and plain hard­ware designs that felt far behind the com­pe­ti­tion, this brand spank­ing new office friendly setup deserves its “future-proof” descrip­tor with Web-connected fea­tures like cloud print­ing com­pat­i­bil­ity by way of Apple Air­Print, a 3.7-inch capac­i­tive touch-screen dis­play, and Wi-Fi con­nec­tiv­ity. While its 150-sheet paper input capac­ity lim­its its usabil­ity for large teams, its fresh and styl­ish design and very gen­er­ous 2 year war­ranty earns this phe­nom­e­nal printer extremely high marks and a solid rec­om­men­da­tion for per­sonal offices and small work­groups all over the world!

 

 

 

Prod­uct Details:

 

Per­fect for print­ing, copy­ing, scan­ning and fax­ing up to 11” x 17” (Ledger Size) documents.

•Print, Copy, Scan and Fax

•Prints up to 35ppm Black and 27ppm Colour

•3.7″ Touch­Screen plus TouchPanel

•Up to 6000 x 1200 dpi print resolution

•Con­ve­nient mobile device printing—AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Brother iPrint & Scan, Cor­tado Work­place and Wi Fi Direct (allow­ing a user to print wire­lessly from PC or mobile devices with­out the need for a router)

•2-sided print­ing

•Prints up to 8.5″ x 11″ paper tray; 11″ x 17″ bypass tray

•150-sheet paper tray

•Con­ve­nient up to 20-page ADF for fax­ing, copy­ing, or scanning

•Brother Land­scape Print Tech­nol­ogy stores and feeds paper in land­scape lay­out result­ing in a more com­pact machine size

•Access FACEBOOK, PICASA Web Albums, FLICKR, GOOGLE DOCS, EVERNOTE, and DROPBOX accounts via the Web Con­nect Touch­Screen Interface

 

Included in the Box:

 

•Brother MFC-J4510DW All-in-One printer

•(4) LC103 Series Starter Ink Cartridges

•CD-ROM – Assem­bly for Win­dows and Mac

•User’s Man­ual

•Quick Setup Guide

•Tele­phone Line Cord

 

 

 

 

Hubby and I test this baby out today and we did every­thing imag­in­able! We printed, scanned, faxed, copied, you name it, we tried it out! I love the look of it, it makes my small home office look so pro­fes­sional and sharp! The Brother Canada’s Smart Busi­ness Machines All-in-One Multi-Function Cen­ter is the absolute best all-in-one printer that I have EVER owned, no word of a lie.

The MFC-J4510DW BUSINESS WIRELESS COLOUR INKJET 5-IN-1 printer gets a huge thumbs up from Cool­Canucks, and I rec­om­mend that every­one own one! You won’t be sorry!!

 

 

♥→I received prod­uct for review. The opin­ions within this post are of my own and I was not influ­enced in any way. Please do your own research before pur­chas­ing prod­ucts. Your opin­ions and results may dif­fer than mine.←♥

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CoolCanucks Blog Contest ~ Brother Canada ~ Limited Edition Laura Ashley Isodore Innov-is 5000 Sewing Machine Review, and Laura Ashley floral-patterned umbrella Giveaway!

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

 

 

After recently con­nect­ing with Brother Canada, I was aston­ished to see such an exten­sive lineup of awe­some prod­ucts that they actu­ally sell!

When I thought of Brother Canada, I actu­ally thought of sewing machines right off the hop, and was not obliv­i­ous to the fact that they sell phe­nom­e­nal sewing machines as well as awe­some office machines!

 

 

Brother Canada has an exten­sive lineup of inno­v­a­tive sewing machines, each with dif­fer­ent equip­ment and per­for­mance ranges. Home sewing machines are designed for one per­son to man­u­ally sew indi­vid­ual items while using a sin­gle stitch type. Mod­ern sewing machines are designed in such a way that the fab­ric eas­ily glides in and out of the machine with­out the has­sle of nee­dles and thim­bles and other such tools used in hand sewing, automat­ing the process of stitch­ing and  thus sav­ing time.

 

 

Brother Sewing Machines are designed to be easy and fun to use and to inspire your cre­ativ­ity. You will always find a sewing machine at Brother Canada to meet your true needs.

Brother has always been ded­i­cated to the love of sewing by cre­at­ing machines for sewing, embroi­dery, serg­ing and quilt­ing – all with ease-of-use, extremely high qual­ity added with a touch of elegance.

Let Brother Canada help in assist­ing you in mak­ing your next home sewing project sim­ple and excit­ing with a new sewing machine, serger or quilt­ing machine, or let their deluxe line of embroi­dery machines add just the per­fect fin­ish­ing touch! Brother car­ries the best sewing machines out there today!

 

 

 

 

This month, Brother Canada is extremely excited to launch a new sewing machine: the Lim­ited Edi­tion Laura Ash­ley Isodore Innov-is 5000!!

Brother Canada has extended its exclu­sive part­ner­ship with leg­endary lifestyle brand Laura Ash­ley, rec­og­nized the world over for its quin­tes­sen­tially Eng­lish home fur­nish­ings and fash­ions with clas­sic styling and clean lines. They have launched the Lim­ited Edi­tion Laura Ash­ley Isodore Innov-is 5000, the lat­est in a series of limited-edition, high-tech sewing and embroi­dery machines!

Named for Laura Ashley’s beloved flo­ral pat­tern, the Lim­ited Edi­tion Isodore™ Innov-ís 5000 can bring all of your cre­ative crav­ings alive. The first mem­ber of the Laura Ash­ley fam­ily with embroi­dery capa­bil­ity, the Isodore™ offers pre­mier embroi­dery, quilt­ing and sewing fea­tures in one ele­gant, high per­for­mance machine. It boasts an array of included sewing stitches with vir­tu­ally end­less sewing and embroi­dery options with the My Cus­tom Stitch™ and My Cus­tom Design™ fea­tures, and the inno­v­a­tive Auto­matic Height Adjuster™ AHA® fea­ture auto­mat­i­cally adjusts for any fab­ric thick­ness lead­ing to con­sis­tent stitch qual­ity across uneven sur­faces. You can even take your Isodore™ on the go! It comes stan­dard with a beau­ti­ful rolling bag.

Find out more about the Laura Ash­ley Lim­ited Edi­tion Isodore™ Innov-ís 5000!

 

•My Cus­tom Design™ and My Cus­tom Stitch™ Fea­tures
•531 built-in sewing stitches (includ­ing 44 on CD), 416 built-in embroi­dery designs includ­ing 50 Laura Ash­ley Euro­pean flo­ral designs, 17 embroi­dery let­ter­ing fonts and 3 sewing let­ter­ing fonts.
•Auto­matic Height Adjuster™ (AHA) fea­ture
•Laura Ash­ley rolling bag and BES® Mono­gram­ming Suite Soft­ware included
•Large 12″ x 7″ Embroi­dery Area
•Piv­ot­ing Func­tion and Back-to-Beginning Key
•Dual USB Ports and Built-in Embroi­dery Card Slot
•Super bright LED work lights
•Large 8.5″ x 3.75″ LCD touch screen dis­play
•Included Bob­bin Work and Cir­cu­lar Attachment

 

 

 

“Brother has extended its exclu­sive part­ner­ship with leg­endary lifestyle brand Laura Ash­ley, rec­og­nized the world over for its quin­tes­sen­tially Eng­lish home fur­nish­ings and fash­ions with clas­sic styling and clean lines, to launch the new Lim­ited Edi­tion Isodore Innov-ís 5000, the lat­est in a series of limited-edition, high-tech sewing and embroi­dery machines.

Launch­ing this month, the Lim­ited Edi­tion Isodore Innov-ís 5000 (named for Laura Ashley’s trade­mark flo­ral pat­tern) will be the first Laura Ashley-branded sewing machine offer­ing pre­mier embroi­dery, quilt­ing and sewing features.”

 

The machine’s inno­v­a­tive fea­tures include:

 

•My Cus­tom Design and My Cus­tom Stitch fea­tures to cre­ate and save per­son­al­ized sewing stitches and designs

•Built-in stitches, embroi­dery designs and font

•Large 8.5″ x 3.75″ LCD touch screen display

•Built-in embroi­dery card slot, which enables the use of thou­sands of designs on optional Brother embroi­dery design cards

The Lim­ited Edi­tion Laura Ash­ley Isodore Innov-is 5000 is the lat­est in a series of three Laura Ash­ley Lim­ited Edi­tion sewing machines from Brother, and it will be avail­able at spe­cialty retail­ers across Canada for a sug­gested retail price of only $6,999.99! Be sure to get yours while they last!! You can find out where to pur­chase Brother prod­ucts in Canada (other than at the Brother Canada Web­site) by send­ing them an e-mail at iss@brother.ca or call them at 1–877-Brother (1–877-276‑8437).

 

Thanks to the very kind and gen­er­ous folks over at Brother Canada, 2 very lucky Cool­Canucks read­ers with each win a beau­ti­ful Laura Ash­ley floral-patterned umbrella! Sweet!!

 

 

 

 

Win It!! Enter my sweep­stakes give­away below for a chance to win your own beau­ti­ful Laura Ash­ley floral-patterned umbrella! Open to Cana­dian and US residents.

 

How to enter: All entries must be sub­mit­ted using the Raf­fle­copter form below. After you com­plete the easy manda­tory entry, you can do as many bonus entries as you’d like to increase your chances of win­ning. I will be check­ing for dupli­cate entries to make sure it’s fair, and no cheat­ing will be tolerated!


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