Brother MFC-J6945DW A3 Colour Inkjet Printer Review – Seamless Printing Experience

With small business and home office options increasing every passing day, the requirement for a seamless printing machine to fulfil printing, scanning, copying and faxing needs becomes essential. The Brother MFC-J6945DW Multifunction Colour InkJet Wireless Printer fits the bill very well. 

It looks attractive, uses smart technology, is simple to operate, has larger printing capacity, connects to wired, wireless or USB, saves energy and cost, features secure printing and offers much more.

Key Features

• One-stop solution: The printer prints, scans, copies and faxes. It performs all these functions with great efficiency and uses latest technology for successful execution.
• Optimum Speed:It prints 22 ppm in black and 20 ppm in colour. The first printout time for black is 5.5 seconds and for colour it is 6.0 seconds
• Great Resolution:Its 1,200 x 4,800dpi (horizontal x vertical) resolution results in superior quality of printing
• Printing Capacity: The printer has an upper tray and lower tray, each having 250 sheets paper capacity. Apart from the aforesaid trays, there is a Multi-purpose tray with 100 sheets capacity. Additionally, the automatic document feeder (ADF) has 50 sheets paper capacity. The monthly duty cycle stands at 30, 000 pages.
• Paper Range: It uses a range of papers for printing, scanning, faxing and copying. The types of paper used by J6945DW are A3, LGR, LGL, A4, LTR, EXE, Folio, A5, A6, Photo(10x15cm), Indexcard(13x20cm), Photo-L(9x13cm), Photo2L(13x18cm), Com-10, DL Envelope, Monarch, C5, Mexico Legal, India Legal
• Paper size adjustments: You can print even at 11 x 17 inches with this printer. You can flexibly change the paper settings during printing, copying, scanning or faxing
• Flexible Connectivity:The printer flexibly connects to both wired, wireless and USB, giving more connectivity choices
• LCD Display: Its 9.3cm colour touchscreen display is easy-to-use and displays ink consumption levels
• NFC Printing:The printer is open for Near Field Communication printing that allows easy transfer of data between devices. NFC supporting mobile devices are used for printing
• Ink colours and tanks:It uses for different inks namely, black, cyan, magenta and yellow and features 4 individual tanks
• INKvestment Tank technology: Is a unique feature offering free ink up to one year
• Memory:The printer has 512 MB RAM capacity

Technical Performance

Todays’ printers use the latest technology to provide ultimate printing experience to the user. Exposure to technology has helped printers to upgrade based on current requirements. The MFC-J6945DW printer can be connected to wired, wireless or USB. Technical superiority makes this one amongst the high-performing printers. Technology is widely used by the MFC-J6945DW in every function and operation.

The Brother MFC-J6945DW printer is open for mobile and web-based printing & scanning. You can print and scan using Brother iPrint &Scan from Android device, iPad / iPhone / iPod, Windows® Phone, Windows® 8 and Windows RT Tablet. Similarly, you can also print or scan from Google Cloud Print 2.06, AirPrint, Mopria, Brother Print Service Plugin, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Flickr and Facebook. You can also directly print and scan from the USB flash memory drive. The iFax feature allows to fax from any corner of the world using internet. The printer’s Enlargement / Reduction Ratio feature is useful in copying process. It permits to decrease or increase the document sizes from 25% to 400%.

The printer uses technology to offer you a safe and secure printing experience. Its secure print, setting lock and Secure function lock v3 options enhance printer security. Under this, your print job is not executed until the authorised user releases the job using NFC ID card or PIN code. The MFC-J6945DW has the option to send e-mail notifications, to notify about any issue or updating and also periodic e-mail reports.

Printer Ink Cartridges

The Brother MFC-J6945DW multifunction colour printer is improvised with the unique INKvestment Tank Extended Print or popularly INKvestment Tank. Under the INKvestment Tank feature, when the ink goes dry and new cartridges are installed as usual, the cartridges relieve the ink to an internal tank. This arrangement helps in maintaining the ink levels optimally. The INKvestment Tank also notifies on ink cartridge levels. It approximately holds 300 prints per month, 60 percent black pages and 40 percent colour pages.

Use the LC3339XL ink cartridges for best performance and prolonged use.

Alternative Printer

Knowing about the alternative printer helps to compare the printer features and arrive at a judicious decision. One printer which is considered a good alternative to the MFC-J6945DW is the Brother MFC-J5945DW colour printer. Though several vital characteristics like functions, print resolution, printing technology, print speed, etc are same in both the printers.

There are some minor variations between both. The MFC-J6945DW uses duplex technology for printing, copying, scanning and faxing while, in MFC-J5945DW except for faxing duplex is used for other functions. Another difference is in weight, MFC-J6945DW weighs 24.2kgs and MFC-J5945DW weighs at 20.8 kg.

Inside the box

When you purchase this printer, you find the following in its box

• The Brother MFC-J6945DW Multifunction Colour InkJet Wireless Printer
• Installation Disc
• Quick Setup Guide
• Reference Guide
• Product Safety Guide
• Telephone Line Cord

Pros & Cons

Any product has its own pros and cons. Knowing them helps to gain better understanding of a product. Listed below are the pros and cons of the Brother MFC-J6945DW multifunction colour printer.

Pros

• All-in-one printer catering to multiple requirements
• Timeless and durable design
• Saves cost, time and energy
• Safe and secure use
• Uses latest technology

Cons

• Heavy built (24.2kgs)
• 512MB memory is somewhat low

Replacement Promise

When you buy this printer from Ink Depot you get 3 years return to base warranty.

Conclusion

A host of features and standard of performance makes the Brother MFC-J6945DW Multifunction Colour InkJet Wireless Printer as a popular model. Manufactured by Brother, a reputed name in the industry, you can be sure of the build quality of the MFC-J6945DW. Its performance, use of modern-day features, safe and secure use, environmentally friendly features, ability to save time and cost make it a very good choice for home office and small business.