The Brother DCP-J925DW Colour Inkjet Multifunction Printer CD is the top-of-the-range model of the latest 3-in-1 multifunctions. It is aimed at individuals who wish to print photos and office documents or at small businesses. The Ethernet and Wi-Fi connection, coupled with a standard memory capacity of 64 MB, ensure easy sharing among around twenty people. Brother promises professional-quality prints, fast speeds, and seamless usability. Numerous functions and decent ergonomics plead for this multifunction printer from Brother, which is quite attractive in terms of price.
With the DCP-J925DW, Brother wants to offer a well-equipped, high-performance multifunction printer at a reasonable cost. In fact, the device offers a lot for a model under €160. Automatic double-sided printing, document feeder, Wifi, and Ethernet network, printing on CDs and DVDs. Does the printer do satisfactorily? in practice? Here are our comments after a few days of use and numerous tests. The Brother DCP-J925DW is a color inkjet multifunction printer that allows you to print, scan, and copy documents and photos. It comes with a CD that contains the necessary software and drivers needed to install the printer on your computer.
Brother DCP-J925DW Brief Description
Sober and pleasing to the eye, but rather bulky, this Brother DCP-J925DW. You have to clear a nice space on the desk to fit it. The DCP-J925DW adopts a “low waist” format, all in width and depth. The DCP-J925DW has an internal “drawer” type tray that can accommodate both A4 sheets and 10×15 photo paper. On the other hand, it is coupled with a very practical CD and DVD printing device. Also practical is the color touch screen since. It allows easy and quick access to all the functions and settings of the device. The printer does without a computer to perform common tasks. From photo printing to color “photocopying”. It is also equipped with a memory card reader and a Pictbridge socket, for printing photos directly from a digital camera.
The DCP-J925DW offers the usual small editing functions such as color correction, adding effects, trimming and cropping, etc. After the Brother printer is connected to the computer/PC. We appreciate the double-sided printing. The automatic document feeder, and its ability to work on an Ethernet or WiFi network. The printer can also chat, wirelessly, with smartphones and tablets. Thanks to the free downloadable Brother iPrint & Scan software (Android device and Apple device). We were able to print but also scan with an iPhone and a Samsung Galaxy SII.
DCP-J925DW Decent Performance
During our first printing test, consisting of printing 20 pages of B&W text in draft mode, the result was a little disappointing: the copy was pale and the characters were imprecise. The throughput is then about 15 pages per minute. In normal mode, the print quality becomes correct, but the speed then drops to 10 pages per minute. The second test (20 pages with text and color graphics) took 2 min 37 s, which equates to a speed of about 8.7 pages per minute. Finally, printing a 10 x 15 cm photo took about 1 min 10 s. With such performance, the DCP-J925DW is one of the five best consumer multifunctions of the moment. In color mode, however, it gets the best score is only 8 ppm. Photo printing ranks seventh out of ten because many printers take less than 50 seconds.
Still, in terms of performance, this DCP-J925DW allowed us to make good quality photocopies in 20 s in B&W and in 21 s in color. Color scans at 600 dpi are also good. They require barely 29 s for an A4 page and only 8 s for an A4 page in gray at 300 dpi, which is very correct. The software suite provided – although quite complete – however disappointed us a little. Some modules – such as text recognition (OCR). Are very rudimentary and not very intuitive. That said, for basic functions, it remains usable. It is better to invest in real OCR software such as OmniPage Pro, ABBYY FineReader, or ReadIRIS, which is much more complete and precise.
Save electricity and waste ink
Finally, we cannot conclude the test of this DCP-J925DW without mentioning the comfort of use (or the disadvantages). Thus, it is quite economical from an electrical point of view: only 1.35 watts in standby for 22.5 watts in operation, while the average is around 3 watts in standby for 25 watts in printing. On the other hand, the device is only silent in “normal” mode. If you launch a quick print (draft mode), the sound level easily reaches around sixty dB.
Finally, the printer is not very economical since it quickly exhausts a set of 4 standard cartridges worth 43.26 euros (LC1220 series). Outputting only 195 copies on average per set results in a cost of around 22.2 cents per page in color and 6.1 cents in black. Only the Lexmark S505 manages to do worse with a cost per page of 23.4 cents in color and 7.8 cents in black. Note, however, that Brother offers “high capacity” cartridges (LC1240 series) whose announced autonomy is doubled while the price is only 50% higher. According to the manufacturer, this results in a cost per page reduced by 30%, or only 15.5 cents in color and 4.2 cents in black.
