This isnt quite like many of thebest laser printersweve tested.
Its reassuringly heavy at over 20 kilos and the off-white plastic casing feels solid and nicely rounded off.
The control panel with its 3.7-inch touchscreen juts out of the front.
All the cable sockets are at the rear, apart from the front-facing USB Host port.
Im always glad to see one of those on a business printer for walk-up printing from a thumb drive.
Theres no NFC module and it cannot auto duplex scan for example.
Its a pity because rival machines like theCanon i-Sensys MF735Cxdo offer single pass 2-side scanning.
What it can do is auto duplex print and copy A4 documents at 600 x 1,200 dpi.
The ADF will copy a stack of 50 sheets and the paper in-tray holds 250.
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The FPOT (first page out time) is an unremarkable 14 seconds.
Brother has a good companion app called Mobile Connect for Android/iOS that will help you with this step.
The app also makes remote printing and scanning easy.
Operating the printer in person is simplified by the 8.8cm color touchscreen.
In short, this is a very user-friendly machine.
Turning out plain pages of monochrome text is what this printer is best at.
Each character is clearly and lightly rendered so that its easy to read even at very small point sizes.
Printing in color takes exactly the same time, but the palette looks a little pale.
Thats more evident when printing photographs.
But then, this isn’t designed to be thebest photo printer.
The large 50-sheet ADF worked smoothly, drawing in a stack of pages without a hitch and copying them.
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