Brother MFC-J5330DW Colour Inkjet Printer - All-in-One, Wireless/USB 2.0/Network, Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax Machine, 2 Sided Printing, A4 Printer/A3 print capability, Small Office/Business Printer

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The bulky size of the Brother MFC-J5330DW makes it awkward for use in homes or offices where space is at a premium. We reserve the right to verify or ask for written proof of a competitors offer before we beat the price.

That’s on plain paper. When printing photos, on each company’s own-brand photo paper, there’s far less difference between Brother and other makes. Colours are bright where they should be and pleasantly pastel in landscapes. Detail is good throughout.To take advantage of AirPrint, your compatible printer must be connected to the same wireless network as your iOS device or Mac computer.

Running costs for this Brother machine, at 1.7p for mono and 5.2p for colour, are better than average for the class of printer. Apple AirPrint allows full colour, top-quality printing from iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads directly from within many Apps available from the Apple App Store. There is just one paper tray, so time needs to be taken to swap papers around when switching from A4 to A3 printing. At around the same price as the Epson, HP’s Officejet Pro 7740 offers a very similar feature set to the Brother, with A3 print but an A4 scanner. With that said, it isn’t eligible for HP’s Instant Ink subscription service, so print costs are higher than they are here.Where special offers provided by Printerland and/or the manufacturer applies, the competitor must also be providing the same offer/s for the NDP, RA, mDNS, LLMNR Responder, DNS Resolver, LPR/LPD, Custom Raw Port/Port 9100, IPP, FTP Client and Server, SNMPv1/v2c, TFTP Server, Web Services (Print/Scan), SMTP Client, POP3, CIFS Client, SNTP Client, IMAP4, ICMPv6, HTTP Server In addition to writing hundreds of articles for PCMag, over the years he also wrote for many other computer and business publications, among them Computer Shopper, Digital Trends, MacUser, PC World, The Wirecutter, and Windows Magazine. He also served as the Printers and Scanners Expert at About.com.

While it's not a photo printer, I timed MFC-J5330DW's photograph printing prowess, anyway. It printed our two highly detailed and colorful 4-by-6-inch snapshots at an average of 21 seconds. That's 14 seconds slower than the Brother MFC-J6930DW, 12 and 14 seconds faster than the HP 7720 and HP 7740, respectively, and 1 minute 4 seconds faster than the Brother MFC-J5830DW and MFC-J6535DW. Good Overall Output Quality On the other hand, the MFC-J5330DW printed impeccable photos for a printer in this class (or any class). When I took the time to use glossy paper and make the right tweaks in the driver, the images that rolled out were of keeper quality. They would perhaps be perfect for a realtor or somebody else who needs quality photos, or maybe even photos of your children or from your vacation. Reasonably Competitive Running Costs

Connection is via USB, Ethernet and Wi-Fi, with the last of these being the most flexible. As well as providing easy connection for PCs, Macs, iOS and Android devices, it enables the machine to scan to and print from the cloud, independently of any intermediary.