Brother Multifunction inkjet printer

The Brother MFC-J5720DW inkjet multifunction printer provides good rate and output high quality. Moreover, it offers a minimal running cost and has the ability to print at around 11 by 17 ins.

Editor Rating: exemplary (4.0)

US Street Price$250.00

• Professionals

  Two 250-sheet trays for tabloid size (11-by-17-inch) paper. Duplex (two-sided) publishing, checking, and copying. Low working price.

• Cons

  Lackluster speed and production quality on our tests.

• Bottom Line

If you need an inkjet multifunction printer (MFP) that can switch between letter- and tabloid-size (11-by-17) paper easily, make sure you take a close look at the Brother MFC-J5720DW ($249.99). As with any of Brother's company Smart models, it prints on letter-size report in Landscape mode, which gives it a broad adequate report road to in addition print on tabloid size report in Portrait mode. Unlike less capable models, it offers two report drawers plus a rear tray, to keep both letter- and tabloid-size paper loaded and printing with either size as needed.

At this writing the MFC-J5720DW is within the procedure of replacing the Brother MFC-J4710DW in Brother's line. Equally important, it provides enough to additionally replace the second as our Editors' option tabloid-size printer for light- to medium-duty use within property company or little workplace. As you might expect, both designs have actually loads in common. However, the MFC-J5720DW offers extra report convenience of improved ability, and a lower price per web page, which saves you money with every web page you printing.

Essentials

Fundamental MFP functions the MFC-J5720DW include publishing and faxing from, including scanning to, a PC and dealing as a standalone copier and fax device. It may also print from PictBridge cameras, both printing from and scan to a USB secret or memory, and let you preview images from a memory card or USB key on its 3.7-inch touchscreen display before publishing.

Going beyond the fundamentals, the printer also supports mobile printing and Web-connected functions. In the event that you connect the MFC-J5720DW to your network, utilizing either Ethernet or Wi-Fi, you can easily print through the cloud, and you can make use of an iOS, Android, or Microsoft windows mobile device in order to connect into the printer through an access point-on your system to printing from or scan on unit.

You'll be able to utilize the touch-screen menus to print from and scan to an array of web sites (including Dropbox, Bing Drive, Evernote, OneDrive, and anotherNote). Better still, the Brother Apps on menu allow you to scan to multiple file formats and then save your self the file to a cloud web site or deliver it as a contact attachment without needing a PC. Selections for the file formats consist of keyword, Excel, PowerPoint, and searchable PDF, with Brother's machines when you look at the cloud carrying it out of acknowledging the scanned text if they create the file.

If you connect the printer to just one Computer via USB cable in the place of linking it to a system, you won't have the ability to print through cloud or utilize the other Web-related features. But the MFC-J5720DW also provides Wi-Fi Direct, to help you still connect to it right from a mobile device to printing and scan.

Paper managing is definitively a solid point, with an integral duplexer (for printing on both sides of a full page), two 250-sheet drawers in front, and a one-sheet handbook feed within the back, along with a multi-purpose tray that will take 80 letter-size sheets or five tabloid-size sheets. Both front drawers may take paper as huge as tabloid size.

For checking, the MFC-J5720DW supplements its letter-size flatbed with a 50-sheet automated document feeder (ADF) that will manage up to legal-size pages. Better yet, the scanner itself can duplex, and therefore it scans both edges of a typical page at a time, without checking one side, switching the web page over, and checking one other. For copying, the mixture of duplex scanning and printing enables you to copy both solitary- and double-sided originals to your range of single- or double-sided copies.

Setup, Speed, and Output Quality

One of the nicer touches when it comes to MFC-J5720DW is that it's reasonably small for a tabloid-size printer, 12.1 by 19.3 by 13.6 inches (HWD) using rear tray sealed in addition to front compartments set for letter-size paper. Starting the ADF result tray adds just 1.7 inches toward width. Adjusting one or both drawers for tabloid-size paper and completely extending both front production tray and the rear multipurpose tray increases the depth to 29.3 inches. It weighs in at 31 weight 11 ounces. or my examinations, I connected the printer to a network which consists of Ethernet port and setup the drivers along with other computer software on a method working Microsoft windows Vista. Setup is typical.