Color Copies | Brother MFC-J625DW Review: Low-Cost, High-Performance MFP
January 6, 2012 – 12:51 pm
At $130, the Brother MFC-J625DW color inkjet multifunction printer (print/copy/scan/fax) is a surprisingly good deal for a home or for a very small, low-volume office. It’s one of the cheapest color inkjet MFPs we’ve run across that features automatic duplex (two-sided) printing, which saves a lot of paper and money over the long haul. Other nice surprises include extraordinary speed for the price, and a two-year warranty.
The MFC-J625DW is easy to set up, via either USB or Wi-Fi. On the PC, setup is a simple matter of clicking through the dialog boxes. On the Mac side, check your installation CD: If it has the 4.1.4 version of the driver, as our evaluation unit did, the Scan button will not show up in the Mac’s System PreferencesPrint Fax dialog box. Downloading the 4.1.5 version will solve the problem. If you have already installed the older driver, you will need to install the new driver, and then delete and re-add the printer.
Brother includes PaperPort 12 LE on the PC, and Presto PageManager on the Mac, for scanning, document management, and OCR. The Brother Control Center handles the rest of the tasks, including offloading photos from USB, SD Card, and Memory Stick storage inserted into the front-panel PictBridge and memory-card slots.
The paper-handling features on the MFC-J625DW are adequate for low-volume use. We’re glad to see the automatic two-sided printing (duplexing), a feature that’s missing from this model’s recently reviewed cousin, the bargain-priced Brother MFC-J430w ; the function is even supported in both the PC and Mac drivers. The input tray holds 100 sheets, and the MFP also has a 20-sheet photo bypass tray. The automatic document feeder for the A4-size scanner holds 20 sheets. The scanner will scan one-sided to two-sided, but not two-sided to two-sided.
In tests, the print speeds for the MFC-J625DW weren’t what we usually expect to see from a
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