Brother DCP-T525W Multifunction Inkjet Printer is a handy helper for your home office. It can not only print in color but also scan and copy. You can connect it to your computer wirelessly via Wi-Fi or a USB cable, which you buy separately. Thanks to its compact dimensions. The printer does not take up too much space on your desk. In addition, its operation is very economical in terms of ink and energy.
The Brother DCP-T425W printer A4 color multifunction inkjet printer with a large-capacity paper tray with a capacity of 150 sheets. Offers print, scan, and copy functions. It is equipped with a high-speed USB 2.0 or Wifi interface. Print speed 6 ppm color and 16 ppm black and up to 6000 × 1200 dpi.
Brother DCP-T525W Fast printing
The Brother DCP-T525W is designed to print documents up to A4 size using color inkjet technology with a print speed of up to 16 pages per minute at 6 pages per minute in color. The maximum resolution is 6000 × 1200 dpi. Prints, copies, and scans have sharp, clean details.
The paper input tray can hold 150 A4 sheets. The device prints up to 17 black and 9.5 color pages per minute at a resolution of up to 1200 × 6,000 dpi. For duplex printing. You need to rotate the paper manually. The output bin holds 50 sheets. The DCP-T525W is suitable for monthly loads of up to 2,500 pages, which is equivalent to home or small office use.
How much is there to say here about using a Brother Color Inkjet printer that most of you don’t know? As we have already stated. The Brother DCP-T525W can print, copy and scan in classical mode, connected by cable or wirelessly to a PC, or it can also do most operations via a mobile device.
In this chapter, I would like to point out in particular how to refill the three tanks with ink. Right from the retail box, you get ink for about 15,000 pages. There are three color bottles, each enough for up to 5,000 printed pages, and two bottles of black ink, for 7,500 pages each. Of course, these figures are estimates, calculated by Brother according to the ISO/IEC 24712 test methods. Thus, there may be slightly fewer printed pages in reality, or why not, even more. Finally, the most important thing is that the original Brother ink, recommended for the DCP-T525W model, is not expensive at all and that using this ink you reach a low cost per page.
Brother Multifunction Inkjet Printer Simple control
You set the required print parameters and other functions on the front panel with control buttons and a single-line display. Thanks to the transparent tanks, you will always have an overview of ink supplies. The package includes two bottles of black ink. Which is usually the most consumed, and one from each primary color – cyan, magenta, and yellow.
The Brother DCP-T525W can be used via two connection modes:
- The classic first, with cable, Brother Color Inkjet printer does not require manual installation of any drivers in Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11. But only software from Brother if you want more options and settings;
- Both are wireless, using the integrated Wi-Fi module. Here you can plug the printer into your local home network and then print from any device that is part of the same network. You can use Wi-Fi Direct mode when you connect to the multifunction device directly with your mobile device.
I found it easiest to connect the Brother DCP-T525W printer to the Internet and then print from any compatible device. From mobile devices, more precisely from an Android smartphone in my case, everything is very simple. You can choose to send the file you want to be printed directly to the Brother DCP-T525W. From the operating system menu, you can use the Brother iPrint&Scan application.
Brother DCP-T525W Tools And Utility
The first application is Brother Utilities, a kind of management center for the DCP-T525W device. From its position, we can scan, and monitor the status of the device, install additional applications, update software, order consumables, or read the user manual.
Control Center 4
In one of the tabs, you will also find the Control Center 4 icon. The Scan and Copy functions are available in two modes, Home and Advanced. It should be used by people who want to take full advantage of these functionalities. This is where the OCR function is located, which is scanning and converting text for use in a word processor. Very useful.
Brother iPrint & Scan
Another application is iPrint & Scan. All in all, it is probably the most useful and boasts a modern, transparent design. With its help, you can, as you can easily guess, print (if for some reason you don’t want to do it directly from an open document) and scan.
The interface is as simplified as possible. Just click Print or Scan to start the corresponding function. In the next steps, the application will allow you to select the appropriate document or photo, as well as adjust all printing parameters (quality, number of copies, color or mono mode, and layout.
The scanning process is basically the same. Here, too, we have access to the scanning parameters, and after its completion, we can choose what we want to do with the file – save it on a computer, in the cloud, or send it by e-mail.
Print Configuration
However, we probably most often use the printing function directly from a text or pdf document. To set all the printing parameters according to your needs, just click on the printer properties on the print screen. The print configuration options available for Brother printers consist of four tabs.
- First, the basic settings
- Here you can select the media type, print quality, paper size, color mode, duplex, and multi-page printing.
- Second, advanced settings.
- Here, in turn, you can choose to print in shades or shades of gray, enable document scaling, print headers, and footers, or use watermarks.
- Third, print the profile.
- As the name suggests, there is a printing profile there. Both those prepared by the manufacturer and those made by the user.
- Lastly, maintenance.
- There is a very useful option for checking print quality and performing printhead cleaning.
