The Brother DCP-J1140DW Reasonably smart and compact, the Brother DCP-Series is easy to live with and easy to like. It offers impressive print speeds, reasonable performance elsewhere, and generally produces decent results. The problem is that he doesn’t particularly excel at anything.
An all-in-one for the home this simple inkjet all-in-one can scan and copy and has a duplex printer. Has a color touchscreen control function DCP-J1140DW which can display a simple settings menu that is responsive to use. If you want a fast printing device, the Brother DCP-J1140DW is the best choice for you fast workers. It launched the first page of my five-sheet text document in just 12 seconds and delivered the batch in 27 seconds – a rate of 11.1 pages per minute (ppm).
It reached 16.3 ppm in draft quality on 25 pages and achieved a rate of 5.2 images per minute (ppm) in duplex text printing. I am particularly impressed with the speed of this printer in color graphics. Where it can complete a five-page print it only took 39 seconds to complete. The Brother DCP-J1140DW is a reasonably smart and compact all-in-one printer. It offers printing, scanning, and copying functionalities in a compact design, making it a good choice for home or small office use where space is limited.
Brother Design and features
Brother has a certain talent for harmless printer design, and the Brother DCP-J1140DW ticks all the boxes. The included paper tray is accessed from the front. So there are no nasty trays or flaps popping up in unexpected places. Even the USB port is hidden under the scanner bed, although these days it’s not likely to be used.
It has a paper tray that fits up to 150 standard-size sheets, if you remove it and add it there will be a certain noise that interferes with your work. It seems a little flexible for work too, but it works well in practice. This printer supports automatic duplex (two-sided) printing, which helps you save paper and produce more professional-looking results.
Like other Brother inkjet printers, the Brother DCP-J1140DW uses tubes to connect stationary ink cartridges with their moving print heads. You fit the four cartridges provided into a cubicle at the front, after which the printer hums and sounds like it’s been sucking milkshake out of a straw for a while. You can buy new 500-page black, cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges, but even with these ‘XL’ supplies, print costs hover around 10.8p per page – of which black ink accounts for 2.9p.
Brother printers are usually a doddle to install once you’ve downloaded the relevant drivers, but I had to go to the Belgian Brother website to find them. Once installed, the DCP-J1140DW was as easy to use as I had hoped. Brother’s touchscreen interface is one of the easiest to learn, and I particularly enjoy being able to create quick shortcuts to my favorite features, saving time by looking through the menu for the things I do the most.
Brother DCP-J1140DW Print speed and quality
The Brother DCP-J1140DW also did not stop while scanning. Even when connected via Wireless. It took just 23 seconds to scan a 6 x 4-inch photo at 600 detailed dpi. But the same scan at a very high 1200 dpi took 1 minute and 20 seconds.
As you would expect. Has fast printing and scanning functions, and also supports fast copying. I timed a single monochrome copy in just 13 seconds. While the printer needed just 16 seconds to duplicate a color page.
So far so impressive. But stop to look at the results and the DCP-J1140DW starts to lose some of its shine. There’s nothing wrong with its black text, which is crisp enough and bolder than most. However, their color prints do not display the same authority. I could detect a little grain with the naked eye, while the colors had no impact compared to the best inkjet rivals. And while the photos were fine for occasional use, their colors were also a little dull.
It can help make things easier with the Brother DCP-J1140DW scanner it has if you only need it occasionally to scan documents. But it’s not a more challenging creative job. Overall, printing images with a quality that is not very sharp, while scanning documents cannot provide details of the text that is lighter and darker than the original document. On a practical level. This means that scans of bills and other documents will be fine. Unless you don’t want every detail of the photo to appear darker.
