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At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Meaty design
Handles upwardly to xi-by-17-inch documents
Depression ink costs

Cons

Default settings can create grainy graphics and flaws along border of printhead path

Our Verdict

Brother's MFC-J4510DW is a fast, innovative inkjet multifunction that handles large paper sizes, produces overnice photos and is easy to use. There'south also automated duplex press and an ADF, and best of all: affordable ink.

In a market full of cookie-cutter multifunction inkjets, the $200 Blood brother Business Smart MFC-J4510DW (re-create/fax/scan/print) is a little special. Where most printers are oriented to feed letter-size paper length-wise, the MFC-J4510DW stores, feeds, and prints it sideways. That means the paper path is 11 inches wide instead of 8.5 inches broad, so the unit of measurement will also handle larger paper, upward to 11 by 17 inches, fed one canvass at a time through the rear of the unit of measurement. It'southward a novel approach that also allows for a shallower-than-normal footprint.

Brother provides a 3.vii-inch touchscreen to facilitate control of the MFC-J4510DW. For the most part, options are presented in intuitive locations and in logical order. The driver dialogs for the unit are nicely realized every bit well, and PaperPort SE is included for scanning chores. Push scanning is available, but but via USB. The MFC-4510DW may also be continued via ethernet or Wi-Fi.

The MFC-J4510DW has a good overall design. It comes with a bottom-mounted, 150-sheet newspaper cassette. On superlative, in that location'due south a foldout, 20-sheet ADF (automatic document feeder) for scanning or copying longer documents. The printer prints in duplex, only the ADF doesn't duplex; Brother provides the selection to scan both sides using the letter/A4-sized flatbed and printer-based prompts, but that's not platonic for longer documents. The unit is solidly built, carries a ii-twelvemonth warranty, and has a recommended page volume of 250-2000 pages (duty bicycle is 13,000 pages).

The Brother MFC-J4510DW prints text and monochrome documents quickly, and photos at an acceptable footstep. On the PC, text pages emerged at a rapid 12.3 pages per minute (ppm), and on the Mac, 12.8 ppm. Four-inch by half-dozen-inch photos printed at well-nigh 4 ppm on plain paper using the default settings, and 2 ppm to sleeky paper. A full-page photo prints in about 38 seconds. Scan speeds are excellent at about 2 ppm.

The MFC-J4510DW tin produce very squeamish output, though you must select Best mode for optimal results. In default mode on plain paper, text and unproblematic graphics looked practiced, only photos looked done-out; and we observed either a precise white line or a precise overlap line where the printhead either over- or under-shot as information technology passed over the page. Switching to Best mode seemed to remove this take chances–and amend photo quality on plain paper. Photograph quality on Brother'due south ain paper (where Best manner is the default) is as colour-accurate equally that from any printer you'll find in this price range.

Ink costs for the MFC-J4510DW are very affordable. The high-yield, 600-page LC103 cartridges cost a midrange 4.2 cents per folio (cpp) for blackness and 2.five cpp per color. With the 1200-page, LC105 series XXL cartridges, costs drop even lower, to 2.5 cpp for black and only one.92 cpp per color. That's a 4-colour page for only ten.five cents with the LC103 regular supplies and eight.25 cpp with the XXL LC105 cartridges.

The Brother MFC-J4510DW is a capable all-around unit of measurement that looks nice and takes upwards less than the usual corporeality of space. The controls are nicely washed, ink is very affordable, and the speed is adequate for a pocket-sized or home office. It definitely belongs on your brusque list. The HP Photosmart 7520 costs the aforementioned and has a few advantages in print quality and features, but its inks are not quite as cheap.