Brother MFC-J4535DW Business Smart 4-in-1

Brother MFC-J4535DW Business Smart 4-in-1 A4 Color Inkjet Multifunction Printer. The MFC-J5335DW is a 4-in-1 inkjet printer that prints in A3 and scans A4 documents. Sold at €229 and from the Business Smart range. It is mainly aimed at professionals to whom it offers a fairly advantageous cost per page. The MFC-J4535DW Business Smart 4-in-1 printer is a versatile printer designed for home office users. It can print several black and color pages before the cartridges run out of ink.

Brother MFC-J4535DW

The Brother MFC-J4535DW is excellent for the home office. It can print several pages before you need to buy a replacement cartridge. So you won’t waste as much ink as you would with other traditional cartridge-based inkjets. If scanning is a big part of your job, worry not. It has a flatbed scanner and an ADF that can easily scan sheets of multi-page documents. Unfortunately, you may prefer a different model if printing speed is very important to you. Because it doesn’t print as fast as other office models. Also, its ADF scanner cannot scan duplex. The Brother INKvestment MFC-J4535DW tank can print an incredible number of pages before the ink runs out. Impressive printer model compared to other traditional cartridge-based Brother inkjets.

Ergonomics

Due to its print format, the MFC-J4535DW is obviously a relatively large printer. However, it has a size of 53 x 39.8 x 30.4 cm which is acceptable for similar printer sizes. Has a sturdy design coated with strong plastic and is easy to place in the corner of the workbench. It can still have better printing quality than the previous Brother printer series. The automatic document feeder is located on the top of the printer, easy to use even for batch scanning. Which is always useful for fax enthusiasts. By opening the top cover of the printer, you find yourself directly with a scanner that is only compatible with scanning in A4 format. To scan in A3, it will therefore be necessary to go through a software solution to put two scanned pages end to end.

The main source of paper supply. The lower cassette can store up to 250 standard sheets (80 gsm). Both in A4 and A3. On the other hand. Do not have a paper backup of a pack of sheets of every size format ready to print. It will indeed be necessary to empty the cassette and only fill it with paper of the targeted format or use the manual paper feeder located at the back of the printer. General ergonomics also benefit from the presence of a USB port. Compatibility with the main Cloud printing services. The iPrint&Scan application gives the possibility of printing. Directly from Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, or even Picasa. Wi-Fi Direct is obviously supported.

Scan and Copies

The Brother MFC-J4535DW is an A3 printer, but it makes do with an A4 scanner. Which can fit in the compact printer cradle. It works up to 1200 x 2400 dpi and delivers quite correct results. It prints fast enough: up to 10 seconds for scanning 10 x 15 cm photos at 300 dpi resolution and 11 seconds for archiving black and white documents at 100 dpi resolution. Speed in copying, speed in copying for A4 paper size out within 10 seconds in black and white and within 12 seconds in color. The render this copy according to the original. Nothing more, with visibly faded originals while remaining largely acceptable.

Exactly like the product description and exactly what you expected for this Business Smart printer. However, with its inkjet technology. With borderless printing and a 1.5 picoliter drop size, the print is more than decent. The accuracy is good and the average delta E. Which measures colorimetric drift, is far from catastrophic, at 6.5. Despite poorly rendered cyan and green (delta E greater than 12). Take 1 minute and 12 seconds to output a 10 x 15 cm photo and 3 minutes and 10 seconds to print an A4 photo. The MFC-J4535DW is however relatively slow.

Brother MFC-J4535DW Business Automation

As we said above, the particularity of this A3 printer is to print in landscape format when working in A4. The printheads, therefore, have more distance to travel to scan the sheet. But also return trips to perform. Does this allow the MFC-J4535DW to be faster than its peers? No. It is relatively fast (24 pages per minute in black and white and 21.4 pages per minute in color), but there is better.

Print speed above similar printers, this printer speed is achieved in the printing mode that is enabled by default (in “fast” mode). A printing mode that gives less contrasting results and uses visibly less ink than the “superior” mode. This is easy for both drafts of documents as well as those not intended in presentations. But it will be easier to change the mode to print high-quality documents. In this context, the print speed drops to around 18 pages per minute. On and ready to print, the Brother MFC-J5335DW takes 10 seconds to print its first black and white page. When exiting sleep mode, this same page takes 12 seconds to print. A Chrono which goes up to 20 seconds starting from an extinguished printer.