Brother INKvestment Tank Printer MFC-J4340DW XL

Considering you get an auto document feeder, wifi, print, copy, scan and fax, this is a lot for one machine, not that I use the fax functionality.The printer has so far worked well and if my experience with other Brother products is anything to go by, this should just work like a donkey (if perhaps a little clunkily compared to other more gimmicky products) for years to come.For me the print quality and speed is absolutely fine, who honestly cares about print speed unless they're on the Apprentice or something with Alan Sugar breathing down their neck for a printed sales report? Just put the kettle on.The wifi and remote printing Android app work fine, though it did take a few goes for the printer to find the wifi network, but once working, printing from a ... MoreConsidering you get an auto document feeder, wifi, print, copy, scan and fax, this is a lot for one machine, not that I use the fax functionality.The printer has so far worked well and if my experience with other Brother products is anything to go by, this should just work like a donkey (if perhaps a little clunkily compared to other more gimmicky products) for years to come.For me the print quality and speed is absolutely fine, who honestly cares about print speed unless they're on the Apprentice or something with Alan Sugar breathing down their neck for a printed sales report? Just put the kettle on.The wifi and remote printing Android app work fine, though it did take a few goes for the printer to find the wifi network, but once working, printing from a phone or Windows 10 machine via wifi works well as does old school wired printing.There are however a coulple of annoying points about this printer, the first is that the rear document feeder is a bit of a fussy prima donna and often throws a hissy fit if you're feeding, say, labels or a different quality of paper from standard into its rear entry port. Unless you get said paper exactly lined up and fed correctly it will tell you to remove it and start again. I have learned to push the paper in until I feel a little judder as the roller grips said paper, this usually helps but not always. If you tend to do a lot of rear entry you may want to consider other options, though of course it could just be a peculiarity of my particular model and anyway it's fine for occasional rear entry, ooh err.Another thing which initally made me almost return the printer is that after powering down from the power button on the printer itself, if you then swtich it off from the wall socket and later turn the wall socket on again, the printer will turn itself on and off again. This was annoying for me since the printer shared a wall socket with other devices that I turned off at the mains and when turning them on again the printer would make a noise starting and stopping, annoying as the printer is in a bedroom.I contacted support and eventually discovered that when you power the printer off, it isn't actually off and so they recommend you keep the printer powered from the mains at all times (it's fine to turn it off from the printer power button). The reason for this is that the printer from time to time moistens its print heads or something when they dry out and it does this even if switched off. If you don't allow it to do this (by unplugging it), then when it is switched on it will use much more ink while it first unblocks the print heads. There seems to be nothing in the printer documentation about this. So now I have the printer pluggin into its own always on socket and it's happy.Another slightly annoying thing is that you have to press two buttons to turn it off, one to turn it off and one to confirm that you will lose any "fax data", despite it not even being plugged into a phone line. Hey ho, it's an extra step but you can actually set the printer to turn itself off (this is the delault setting), which it will do after a user-configurable time, in which case you don't have to worry about the extra confirmation step.The only other slight concern is the woefully high cost of printer ink for this machine. As we know printer ink is more expensive than gold or something, well this one is probably more expensive than diamonds. However so far it seems to use very little ink and so the cartridges that came with the printer will likely last a long time and you can also buy bigger cartridges which will probably last forever, or longer.All in all I am quite pleased with this printer and would recommend it to anyone, certainly the casual home user.

This Brother MFC-J4340DW wireless all in one A4 coloour inkjet printer & fax machine is very good at its design and prints well. Worth buying. Only thing which annoys one is it has been very difficult setting the Inter Net and getting it working on Wi-Fi. Sorry.Overall = Good.Thankyou.

Great machine. I am not particularly quick in setting machines up but managed to set this up wifi to my iMac without too many problems after following the instructions from Brother on the internet as advised. I am pleased with the quickness of the print and the quality. No more standing around waiting ages for something to be printed. One of the reasons I chose this model was because of the number of pages it can print from the ink cartridges. My last machine not Brother used to eat the ink and was costing a fortune. Buttons on the front of the machine are self explanatory and the machine switches itself off in-between use and I like the paper tray which stores the paper without it being on show. Highly recommend this machine.