BROTHER MFC-J825DW BLACK OEM INK CARTRIDGE

Brother MFC-J825DW Review

Overview:

The Brother MFC-J825DW printer is one of the best wireless touch screen printers on the market today, and it is a perfect fit for small offices, or home offices. This printer can be connected wirelessly, with USB 2.0, or with Ethernet networking; also, the 3.3” Touchscreen, Color LCD Display, provides easy help menus to navigate through. Other features to the MFC-J825DW printer include CD/DVD printing capabilities, duplex printing, a 4-cartridge ink system, and the touchscreen is connected to websites such as Facebook, Google Docs, and Flickr.

Pros:

The Brother MFC-J825DW only weighs about 20.5 pounds (7.1 H x 14.9 D x 15.9 W), and it is the perfect size for a home office, which it can be easily situated on a desk, table, shelf, or in a college dorm room.

The 3.3” color LCD touchscreen, makes the tasks of printing, faxing, scanning, and copying easier and quicker to handle, and instead of trying to figure out which button does what the touchscreen gives clear menu selections and instructions. Also, the touchscreen provides a way to edit and clean the pictures before they are printed off, which it also has double-sided printed that is used to make photo books, cards, or double-sided documents.

The CD/DVD printing capability in the Brother MFC-J825DW allows photos to be easily copied onto a CD or DVD (even Blu-ray), so photos can be uploaded onto a computer or played on a DVD player.

The wireless, and wired connectivity provides access to many benefits than if it were just a wired connection. First, it has fast printing on demand, and a mobile phone can be used to print from anywhere, and if a person is out of the office the mobile phone can still connect to the printer. Having both wireless and wired connectivity allows the printer to be a versatile machine that can be connected anywhere, whether there is wireless in the area or not. However, the wireless capability provides access to websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa web album, Google Docs, and Evernote. This enables photos (or other documents) to be printed straight off of the Internet. There is a printing and scanning mobile phone app that provides free printing and scanning (for JPEG and PDF) straight to the Apple or Android mobile phone.

Another feature for the Brother MFC-J825DW printer is the 4 ink-cartridge holders that print 12 ppm in black and 10 ppm in color (it also copies 6 cpm in both color and black). The printer has a capacity of 100 sheets of paper (with a 20 sheet document feeder), which it has a monthly duty cycle of 2,500 sheets of paper, and can print up to 6000 x 1200-dpi resolution. The scanner has a letter-size scanning glass that can scan up to 2400 x 2400 dpi, and the fax goes up to 33.6 Kbps.

Cons:

The Brother MFC-J825DW printer has a small tray for the paper, which makes it difficult to print off larger documents because the paper can only fit the tray size. The maximum printing size is 8.5” x 14” for the paper tray, which there is a different tray in front for printing off pictures.

The printer is difficult to setup and some stores can leave out the manual (the manual can be found online if this is the case), and, even though the menus on the touchscreen are easy to use, the initial setup can be time consuming. When getting the wireless network to connect in the initial setup, the connection can be lost a few times throughout the process.

The Brother MFC-J825DW printer speed is slow, and it can be time consuming to print multiple copies of the same document. Sometimes when multiple copies are being printed the machine will jam easily, and when this happens the touchscreen will alert the owner of the problem and guide them on how to get it unstuck.