@John,
You are right in a lot of ways. I appreciate your view point, but I have to respectfully disagree. (But, I will admit it is from my view point).
To quote you, sometimes you have to look at other things. The Muratec is a lot less than $10,000 at least the one we used. We now use a Xerox which is $8,000, and I guess it is just what one needs.
There is no excuse for any MFP to not scan to PDF or allow software on a server. Plus, I still don't get why you can't just set the path to a shared folder. But, that is probably just one more thing a Brother can't do. For the money, you're right, but they are still in the dark ages. They have to provide you software to convert from TIFF to PDF. If they know you want PDF, then import to PDF.
I would also say that for that market niche, they are a good deal. But, even at $700, they ought to be able to do those few things.
I love HP and Xerox. My point wasn't that Canon is a better choice. I despise Canon. My point was you don't hear about them or mainly the HPs, Toshibas or Xerox because their engineers decided to allow them to work with PDFs and servers.
Any person I have ever talked to (and of course that is a selection bias as the ones with no issues don't say anything) has networking issues, pdf issues and path issues.
Love ya John. We will just have to agree to disagree on this one. And, I have to give you 5 points on the fact that those others are more expensive.
