Brother MFC-J1300DW Driver Installer finds the latest drivers, utilities, and firmware installer for Brother Printer available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Mobile devices. The Brother MFC-J1300DW driver is an application software program that works on the computer to communicate with the Brother printer. The “Brother Printer Driver” acts as an intermediary and converts information from this program into a language. A format that the printer and operating system can understand the computer. It’s quite important to use the appropriate drivers to avoid printing problems.
When you connect the USB cable to the Brother MFC printer. The computer will try to recognize it and if it has the appropriate Brother MFC-J1300DW driver. It can automatically install and print. We need to install the Brother printer driver. The Brother MFC Driver Installer printer comes with a CD that contains a Brother MFC printer driver for another operating system that allows us to install it manually.
Brother MFC-J1300DW Driver Installer
Let’s start with the official device support page, as this is where the developers publish all the files and programs associated with the released products, including Brother MFC drivers. The search and installation process does not take much time, but everything looks like this:
- Insert the CD cassette Brother MFC into your PC.
- Then an option will appear, click Run start.exe (if a notification appears click Yes).
- Brother application will open. Please change to Indonesian first so that it is easy to understand.
- Then tick the I accept this license agreement.
- There are two options. Do you want to connect the printer using Wi-Fi or USB? let’s say USB. Put a check on the Brother MFC Driver Installer Connection (USB).
- If your printer is not on, please turn it on by pressing the power button on the Brother MFC printer. Then click Next.
- Finally, click Next until finished Brother MFC Driver Installer, and click Finish.
All that remains is to restart the Brother MFC-J1300DW or reconnect it to the computer for the changes to take effect. You will see a message that the product is ready. However, we recommend running a test print first to make sure the Brother MFC is fully functional.
Design and Features
The MFC-J1300DW is a fairly compact printer but supports duplex printing (i.e. printing on both sides of the paper). It is also an MFC (Multi-Function Center) printer – meaning it can scan, copy, and fax. I don’t know how many people still fax, but I’m glad to see that I can scan documents and directly email or upload them to my Google Drive and Evernote. Or for faster local scanning, simply plug a USB flash drive (or memory card) into the printer. The Brother MFC-J1300DW supports multi-page scanning to PDF (with searchable text) and images – which was my first test after setting up the printer. I can easily scan a multi-page document to PDF at 300 dpi (I could change it to 600 dpi but I find 300 dpi already gives me good quality) and send the PDF file to my email address.
There is an option to upload this document to many other document services online (like Evernote, Google Drive, etc) or even to FTP or SharePoint for collaboration purposes. Uploading took longer than I expected even for a 2 MB document, but it worked fine & seamlessly. Weaknesses of the Brother MFC-J1300DW printer is not equipped with a duplex scan function. But, you can scan documents manually one by one and select the scan command “To Next Page” with LCD touch screen and select “Done” after finishing. Duplex scanners are bound to add more volume and cost to the printer. So unless you need to scan hundreds of documents or contracts every day, duplex scanning is not a feature you will want to miss.
