BROTHER MFC-J6920DW

This printer has an excellent level of equipment and communicates with Wi-Fi smartphones and tablets. In the office, it is proving effective both at the level of speed and quality. The rendering pictures is correct but nothing more. Is also Too bad the scanner offers just average quality.

BROTHER MFC-J6920DW, a swift multifunction prints in A3 The Brother printer offers good performance in office as at the level of speed and quality. In addition, the cost for use is reasonable. The rendering pictures is itself satisfactory. It communicates over Wi-Fi with smartphones and tablets.

BROTHER MFC-J6920DW

Brother launches multifunctional model for the home office that prints, scans and photocopy service A3. the Brother MFC-J6920DW has a high level of equipment with an automatic duplex unit, a document feeder and two paper trays. It also has Wi-Fi and wired network interfaces Is it fast? Prints are they quality? We tested it to find out.

This Brother printer is more bulky than the average because it has two paper trays 250-sheet automatic document feeder. With a capacity of 35 sheets, this last treats the double-sided documents, what is practical for scanning and copying.

Brother MFC-J6920DW knows the manage printing in A3 format. For this, both trays are growing through a rather ingenious telescopic mechanism. Note that the "tray" of receiving is just above the first tray, and not a separate receptacle. The printer has a color 9.5-inch diagonal touch screen, really well-designed and fun to use. A hatch on the left rocker to reveal the memory card reader (SD and Memory Stick) and port to connect a USB stick or a camera. You can print without a computer images Jpeg, even scan a document and save it on a USB stick in Jpeg format PDF or Tiff. The right flap provides access to four ink cartridges are easily replaced.

More than 20 pages / min in draft mode

In printing office (mail, internship reports, Web pages), printer turns very fast and approaching 17 A4 pages per minute in black and 13 pages / min in color. In addition, the quality of text and graphics proves excellent. In comparison, the BROTHER DCP-J752DW A4 model does not exceed 10 pages / min. If you select draft mode, the actual speed exceeds 20 pages / min. The text is less clear but still legible. On A3, we measured a speed of about 8 pages / min what remains swift. On the other hand, it takes less than a minute to print a picture on photo paper 10 x 15 cm. Quality is satisfactory but we see the presence of light vertical stripes parasites. You can eliminate them by choosing a higher quality print settings, but the draw takes three times as long!

A reasonable cost to the page

With standard cartridges, the cost of office use is reasonable: 5.3 cents per page for black and 16.1 cents in color. Brother also offers high capacity cartridges offering theoretically four times greater autonomy in black and twice more for other colors. If the print quality is satisfactory, scanning reveals that on the other hand very average. However, the Brother MFC-J6920DW provides correct results for photocopies with fast processing (17 s and 20 s black in color for A4 page).

The Brother MFC-J6920DW connects with wireless network

The printer has a USB port, but also communicates network wireless through its 10/100 Ethernet and Wi-Fi b / g / n interfaces. The latter is easily set by the Panel. It connects to your access point but can also establish a direct connection to your tablet and smartphone. You can print directly from a mobile device with Apple AirPrint technology. For Android models and Windows Phone, Brother MFC-J6920DW offers a free download iPrint & Scan app. Employment simple, it manages printing photos, documents and web pages and scanning. Brother MFC-J6920DW also the access to your storage space online (SkyDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr) for printing and scanning. Finally, Brother delivers a complete office suite for Windows and Mac OS that offers OCR functions (converting images to text) and document management.

Our Opinion About BROTHER MFC-J6920DW

BROTHER MFC-J6920DW is the admittedly expensive (about $ 400) but this price is justified by the assumption of A3, impression that both scanning or photocopying. If you print regularly, you will be seduced by the speed, the cost per page and two reasonable paper trays. Pity that the rendering of pictures is not the best. It also regrets the average quality of the color scanner. Finally, the integrated fax is a nice touch for the professions.