Brother MFC-L8690CDW 4-In-1 Color Laser multifunction device is ideal for business. Because the 4-In-1 color laser device shines with a printing speed of up to 31 pages per minute in color and black and white. You’ll have the first printout in your hand in just 17 seconds. The warm-up time of the MFC-L8690CDW is just 31 seconds. With the all-in-one printer MFC-L8690CDW from Brother. You get the option of wireless printing wherever you are. You can print documents in black and white and color. In addition, you can scan and copy. Suitable for productivity at home as well as for a more efficient office.
The MFC-L8690CDW is the optimal 4-in-1 color laser multifunction device for more productivity in the workgroup. Thanks to the automatic full-duplex function and numerous paper management options. This printer is fast and easy to integrate into a LAN network or WLAN network. The print, scan, copy, and fax functions are available to the entire workgroup in no time at all. The Brother MFC-L8690CDW is a professional 4-In-1 color laser printer with high print speed and mobile and cloud connectivity, so it can be easily integrated into your business. With this functional all-in-one color laser printer. You get an efficient printer with the option of printing, scanning, and copying in high resolution.
MFC-L8690CDW Design
The Brother MFC-L8690CDW is a large unit that would rather stand on its own desk than share a desk. It’s also comfortingly heavy. Brother seems to have beefed up their printers to improve longevity. For a mostly plastic device. It certainly feels very solid. Its large size means it takes up a lot of space to put paper and toner. You can even purchase an additional paper drawer that acts as a plinth and adds an additional 250 sheets of plain paper.
The traditional design has a scanner bed and an automatic document feeder (ADF). Located above a central feeder with a toner compartment and two paper trays below. The touch screen has a very generous diameter of 9.3 cm. Large side buttons that register with a loud beep when pressed. In the front, there is a USB port for flash drives, and in the back a square USB port for connecting a data cable (not included) with an Ethernet port next to it. This large flap in the front provides access to the four-toner cartridges. They’re good for around 3,000 black-and-white and 1,800 color prints. The Brother MFC-L8690CDW is a 4-in-1 color laser printer that can print, scan, copy, and fax. It is designed for small to medium-sized businesses and offers fast and reliable performance.
Brother MFC-L8690CDW 4-in-1 Device Function
As a Brother 4-in-1 device Function, the Brother MFC-L8690CDW can print, scan, copy, and fax. Is the premium model from the Brother stable, with plenty of other features too? It can print both sides of the page (double-sided printing) and print in full color on any size of paper up to A4. Including envelopes and glossy laser paper. Ideal and easy to use has a high print volume or can print in a variety of formats. The MFC-L8690CDW color laser multifunction device optionally offers up to three additional 250-sheet paper cassettes. In this way, you can adapt paper management to your personal needs. All feeds can be easily and specifically controlled by the driver.
Of course, you can connect via Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi Direct, and this is supported by a very useful free app called iPrint & Scan. A companion app lets you print wirelessly from cloud services like Evernote and iCloud. Easy to use to check the toner level and easy to use to scan documents remotely. Scanning is fast and high resolution. It’s actually double the DPI it can print at. Laser printers tend to be inferior to inkjets in this regard, but at 1200 x 600 dpi, print resolution is only average.
Brother MFC-L8690CDW Easy Setup and Installer
The Brother MFC-L8690CDW is unusual in not having an on-screen setup wizard or companion app to guide you through initialization, but this wasn’t a problem as the printed installer guide is very easy. It’s just a matter of removing all shipping straps and plastic parts from the machine and selecting the correct Wi-Fi network from the list. Entering the password is facilitated by the 9.3 cm touch screen, which registers with a beep every time a key is pressed. This printer is smart enough to set the correct date and time by itself.
The graphical interface touchscreen and large side buttons make the Brother MFC-L8690CDW particularly easy to use, while the indispensable companion app is even better at toner-level monitoring and remote scanning. The 9.3 cm touchscreen color display makes the installation and administration of the multifunction printer much easier for you. In addition to general menus and functions, you can also quickly and easily access documents stored in cloud services such as Box. Copy, scan, and fax on both sides without any problems. Because the MFC-L8690CDW is equipped with a duplex ADF with a dual CIS scanning unit and a capacity of up to 50 sheets. This allows you to quickly and easily scan double-sided documents in a single pass. Save yourself the hassle of turning the documents over manually. Gain valuable time and consequently speed up your workflow considerably.
Speed Print Performance
When it comes to scrapping text documents, the Brother MFC-L8690CDW is fast and accurate. The time required to print ten pages of text on both sides, including warm-up time, was just 53 seconds. Brother’s quoted 31ppm page is much faster and achieves the same speed for color documents. More importantly, every page is consistently clean and accurate, with no creases, smudges, or paper jams. It has a particularly light touch with plain text, allowing very small font sizes to be printed without loss of clarity.
Every printer we provide for testing is measured on our test bench and the results are critically compared to every other model we’ve reviewed. Instead of relying on the manufacturer’s specifications, we measure first-page time and single-sheet and duplex print speeds using a standard 10-page document and a stopwatch app. To compare print quality and speed, we print the same types of documents on every Brother printer. The twelve test pages include text with different font sizes and colors, mixed image and text pages, a set of photos, and a series of test patterns designed to assess sharpness, color fidelity, contrast, and grayscale. We also calculate running costs, compare functionality and consider the versatility, design, and quality of each product. The overall score reflects all these parameters and overall value for money.
The Brother MFC-L8690CDW scans at a higher resolution than it prints, and it scans fast too. You can save scanned documents to a USB flash drive, PC, or cloud using the accompanying application. Brother iPrint & Scan makes this especially easy. In general, we found the Brother MFC-L8690CDW performed reliably throughout the test and was intuitive enough to operate without reaching for the user manual.
