{"id":191,"date":"2019-04-23T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2021-05-23T20:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:43:58","slug":"brother-mfc-j6945dw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/index.php\/brother-mfc-j6945dw\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother MFC-J6945DW Printer &#8211; In-Depth Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"Fast_Facts\">Fast Facts<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BrotherMFCJ6945DW_Overview3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-238 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BrotherMFCJ6945DW_Overview3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Brother MFC-J6945DW Printer shown here in its promo photo. Two expandable trays on the bottom plus a rear feed gives lots of paper options.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BrotherMFCJ6945DW_Overview3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BrotherMFCJ6945DW_Overview3-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BrotherMFCJ6945DW_Overview3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brother MFC-J6945DW Printer shown here in its promo photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Print + Copy + Scan + Fax all-in-one printer<\/li>\n<li>Two internal trays + rear feed tray (600+ page capacity)<\/li>\n<li>Four-colour pigmented ink 1680 nozzle print engine<\/li>\n<li>FSOT (First Set Out Time) 16.2s four-page colour.\u00a0 B&amp;W in 13 seconds,<\/li>\n<li>Colour simplex print speed (ESAT) 19.8PPM, duplex 11.8PPM<\/li>\n<li>Wide format duplexed printing up to ledger\/tabloid (11 x 17) or A3 (11.7 x 16.5) paper<\/li>\n<li>Borderless on any type up to ledger<\/li>\n<li>Auto-duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF) scans both sides simultaneously at up to 600dpi<\/li>\n<li>Flatbed scanner optical 1200dpi, interpolated 9600dpi<\/li>\n<li>Scan to USB, computer, network folder, cloud, and email<\/li>\n<li>PCL6 &amp; Postscript<\/li>\n<li>Good candidate for aftermarket refillable ink cartridges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Synopsis\">Synopsis<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Brother MFC-J6945DW is just impressive at every turn.\u00a0 As an office printer it easily competes with offerings that are more than four times its price.\u00a0 As a home printer it&#8217;s expensive enough to be a bit painful, but with a price-per-page and feature set that makes it attractive even there.\u00a0 Originally my second choice behind the Epson WF-7720, this printer has come from behind to become, at first, a reluctant pick for purchase and then on to delight and surprise so much that it has turned out to be, hands down, the finest printer I&#8217;ve ever owned.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not interested in pre-purchase considerations, then feel free to skip down to the &#8220;in the field&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Fast_Facts\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> Fast Facts<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Synopsis\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> Synopsis<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Pre-Purchase_Considerations\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">3<\/span> Pre-Purchase Considerations<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Purchase_Motivation\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">3.1<\/span> Purchase Motivation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Requirements\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">3.2<\/span> Requirements<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Other_Contenders\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">3.3<\/span> Other Contenders<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Epson_EcoTank_ET-16500\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">3.3.1<\/span> Epson EcoTank ET-16500\n<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Epson_Workforce_WF-7720\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">3.3.2<\/span> Epson Workforce WF-7720\n<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Dad_and_Grandad_the_Brother_MFC-J6935DW_and_MFC-J6930DW\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">3.3.3<\/span> Dad and Grandad, the Brother MFC-J6935DW and MFC-J6930DW<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Post-Purchase_8211_8220In_the_Field8221\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">4<\/span> Post-Purchase &#8211; &#8220;In the Field&#8221;<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Unboxing\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">4.1<\/span> Unboxing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Physical_Setup\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">4.2<\/span> Physical Setup<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Paper_Handling\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">4.2.1<\/span> Paper Handling<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Cabling\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">4.2.2<\/span> Cabling<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Ink_8211_It8217s_a_Front_Loader\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">4.2.3<\/span> Ink &#8211; It&#8217;s a Front Loader!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Software_Setup_8211_First_Disappointment\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">4.2.4<\/span> Software Setup &#8211; First Disappointment<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Printing_8211_Show_me_the_Money\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">4.3<\/span> Printing &#8211; Show me the Money!\n<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Print_Speed\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">4.3.1<\/span> Print Speed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Print_Quality\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">4.3.2<\/span> Print Quality\n<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Copying\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">5<\/span> Copying<\/a><ul><li><ul><li><a href=\"#Copy_speed\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">5.0.1<\/span> Copy speed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Copy_Quality\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">5.0.2<\/span> Copy Quality<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Scanning_and_Faxing\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">6<\/span> Scanning and Faxing<\/a><ul><li><ul><li><a href=\"#Scan-to-Anywhere\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">6.0.1<\/span> Scan-to-Anywhere<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Scan-to-PC_Means_Whatever_You_Say_it_Means\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">6.0.2<\/span> Scan-to-PC Means Whatever You Say it Means<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#OCR\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">6.0.3<\/span> OCR<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Faxing\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">6.0.4<\/span> Faxing<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Connectivity\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">7<\/span> Connectivity<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#So_what8217s_missing\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">7.1<\/span> So what&#8217;s missing?<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#5GHz\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">7.1.1<\/span> 5GHz<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Print-From-Email\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">7.1.2<\/span> Print-From-Email<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#What_is_Included\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">7.2<\/span> What is Included?<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Phyical_Layers\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">7.2.1<\/span> Phyical Layers:<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#PC-to-Printer_Printing_Protocols\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">7.2.2<\/span> PC-to-Printer Printing Protocols:<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Printer-to-PC_Scanning_Protocols\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">7.2.3<\/span> Printer-to-PC Scanning Protocols<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Printer_Languages_8211_Postscript_AND_PCL\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">8<\/span> Printer Languages &#8211; Postscript AND PCL\n<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Aftermarket_Ink_Prospects_and_Price-per-page\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">9<\/span> Aftermarket Ink Prospects and Price-per-page\n<\/a><ul><li><ul><li><a href=\"#Bulk_Ink\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">9.0.1<\/span> Bulk Ink?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Is_bulk_ink_needed\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_3\">9.0.2<\/span> Is bulk ink needed?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Conclusions\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">10<\/span> Conclusions<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Disposition\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">11<\/span> Disposition<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<h2><span id=\"Pre-Purchase_Considerations\">Pre-Purchase Considerations<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span id=\"Purchase_Motivation\"><strong>Purchase Motivation<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The main (and most urgent) motivator for the purchase of this printer was an upcoming aircraft controller training course and an existing HP OfficeJet 7610 that has been a disaster for years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very challenging course and it&#8217;s imperative to have a printer that can be trusted for the myriad of pubs, quizzes, study guides, and administrative stuff I&#8217;ll need to print.\u00a0 Reliability and consistency, after the expensive boondoggle of my last printer, are especially important.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Requirements\"><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Reliability, and this means <em>long-term<\/em> reliability.<\/li>\n<li>Duplex printing<\/li>\n<li>Duplex scanning (with the implied duplex copying)<\/li>\n<li>Wide format<\/li>\n<li>Good photographs<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi &#8211; actually the more connectivity options the better<\/li>\n<li>Low price-per-page printing, either inherently or through <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reliable<\/em><\/span> aftermarket refillable cartridges or CISS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duplex printing is an absolute requirement, really, and not just a nice-to-have feature any more.\u00a0 An all-in-one printer that supports duplex scanning and duplex copying is a huge plus too, also on the order of a requirement.\u00a0 My last printer had an ADF, but it&#8217;s lack of duplex scanning (and inherent inability to copy double-sided documents without heroics) was a constant annoyance from day one.\u00a0 Wide format isn&#8217;t strictly <em>required<\/em>, but is a great &#8220;nice-to-have&#8221; feature for other uses and hobbies.\u00a0 My first introduction to wide-format capability was the HP OfficeJet 7610 which this printer is replacing.\u00a0 That printer may have been a disaster that I was happy to feed to the recycle center the day after I bought this one, but in the brief sunny breaks in its otherwise entirely troublesome life, being able to print wide format turned out to be more of a bonus than expected even in a home environment.\u00a0 From posters for fund raisers, to ham radio schematics.\u00a0 Equipment manuals with fold-out diagrams, bi-fold booklets&#8230; I have to say, once you have a printer that is capable of wide format\u00a0 it will surprise you how useful it actually is, even at home.<\/p>\n<p>Photos are a factor too.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t had an acceptable photo print capability for a while, and I want to regain that.\u00a0 I am not after professional-quality photos.\u00a0 One really needs a dedicated 5+ colour printer for that, but I do require it to be capability of respectable glossies.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Other_Contenders\"><strong>Other Contenders<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Canon doesn&#8217;t make a wide-format all-in-one.\u00a0 And <a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/index.php\/2019\/04\/23\/why-not-hp-printers\/\">HP has removed itself<\/a> from the running.\u00a0 So, besides this printer, the other potential contenders were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span id=\"Epson_EcoTank_ET-16500\"><em>Epson EcoTank ET-16500<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This was the first printer I looked at more than casually.\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically an Epson WF-7620 with a continuous ink system factory-bolted onto the side.<em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>The allure of unlimited low-cost printing made my heart go pitty pat.\u00a0 The price tag, $1099CAD, made my stomach clench.\u00a0 Plus when they bolted the continuous ink system on the 7620 they ripped out the ability to do borderless printing!\u00a0 Likely this is a soft-restriction just in the driver, still it beggars belief Epson would do this and means the printer is useless for photos.\u00a0 High price, useless for photos, posters, brochures&#8230;\u00a0 why strap unlimited ink on a handicapped printer?\u00a0 Next.<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span id=\"Epson_Workforce_WF-7720\"><em>Epson Workforce WF-7720<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-WF-7720-Marketing-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-196 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-WF-7720-Marketing-Photo-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-WF-7720-Marketing-Photo-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-WF-7720-Marketing-Photo-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-WF-7720-Marketing-Photo-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-WF-7720-Marketing-Photo-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-WF-7720-Marketing-Photo.jpg 1053w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epson WF-7720<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Next I moved to the Epson WF-7720,\u00a0 which is a facelifted WF-7620.\u00a0 For some time this printer was my #1 choice.\u00a0 No Eco-Tank, but I was pretty sure it would work well with an aftermarket continuous ink system.\u00a0 If Epson could bolt one onto a WF-7620 to make the ET-16500, I&#8217;m sure I could too.\u00a0 It also seemed to meet all my other requirements.\u00a0 Borderless wide format printing, all the way up to super-tabloid 13&#8243; x 19&#8243;, auto-duplexing ADF, and at $299CAD list price, it&#8217;s $150CAD cheaper than the Brother.\u00a0 In the end, though, the fact that it really is just a facelift of the 7620 is what eliminated it.\u00a0 My partner helped me make the hard decision here because I really had my heart set on the 13&#215;19 capability of this printer.\u00a0 The WF-7720 print engine is old, slow, and many reviews suggested it had already had subpar graphics five years ago.\u00a0 Plus the ADF, while it will scan both sides, can only do this by scanning one side and then flipping the page.\u00a0 In the end, while the Brother is more expensive, it really seemed like it took quality seriously whereas Epson was still doodling around putting minor facelifts on an already aging system.\u00a0 Reluctantly, this printer was eliminated from consideration.<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span id=\"Dad_and_Grandad_the_Brother_MFC-J6935DW_and_MFC-J6930DW\">Dad and Grandad, the Brother MFC-J6935DW and MFC-J6930DW<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Finally, I considered this review printer&#8217;s two immediate predecessors, both of which are still available.\u00a0 I considered them because they both have aftermarket ink refillable ink cartridges that are available now, and the 6945 doesn&#8217;t have one out yet.\u00a0 I eliminated &#8220;Dad&#8221; due to its cost.\u00a0 The MFC-J6935DW was never sold directly in Canada.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not hard to get online, but with shipping to Canada it&#8217;s more expensive.\u00a0 Grandad I eliminated simply due to age.\u00a0 Whereas Dad, the 6935, is likely identical to the 6945 except for the cartridge, the 6930 is another story.\u00a0 It has an older engine and from all accounts has visibly lower print quality.\u00a0 Only the availability of refillable aftermarket cartridges was making me consider them anyway, and a) I&#8217;m pretty sure they will become available for the 6945 and b) I&#8217;m not even sure I&#8217;ll ever use them, since the Brother&#8217;s price-per-page is basically less than paper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"my_expand\"><div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e09bc478a87\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"The Epson WF-7720 Redux!\"    >The Epson WF-7720 Redux!<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e09bc478a87\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">So, I obviously resolved on the Brother MFC-J6945DW, but two days after purchasing it, and just as I was starting the research for this review , what did I see?\u00a0 Epson Canada&#8217;s web site advertising refurbished (read &#8220;repackaged retail return&#8221;) Epson WF-7720 units on Epson Canada&#8217;s web site for just over a hundred dollars Canadian.\u00a0 Delivered to my door! \u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I was already ecstatic with my Brother, but at that price, it was worth it to me to get one, even just to handle 13&#215;19 jobs slash have as a backup.\u00a0 Plus, I have to admit, my inner nerd got to me and I wanted to answer the burning question, how well does the new Brother printer really stack up against the competition?\u00a0 And the Epson WF-7720 really is the only effective competition Epson has for the review printer (everything else Epson has that can compete is literally 3 &#8211; 5 times the price).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Any comparisons you see, then, between the Epson WF-7720 and the Brother MFC-J6945DW are with personally owned printers and hard data, not using web-site feature lists.\u00a0 I may also do a head-to-head comparison article in the future.\u00a0 Already, though, the writing is on the wall on what direction that would go.\u00a0 It is perfectly clear that the Epson is like a toy emulating a work printer, whereas the Brother is the real thing.\u00a0 More to follow.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"Post-Purchase_8211_8220In_the_Field8221\">Post-Purchase &#8211; &#8220;In the Field&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span id=\"Unboxing\"><strong>Unboxing<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-192 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The heavy duty &quot;unboxing bag&quot; makes it much easier (and more painless) to unpacking something as big and bulky as this printer is.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review1-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unboxing the Brother MFC-J6945DW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First impressions were good.\u00a0 Brother scored a point with me for their attention to detail right on opening the box.\u00a0 I love it when manufacturers put heavy items into an unboxing bag &#8211; a nice heavy bag with handles that you can use to just lift the unit out of the box.\u00a0 It makes unpacking quick, easy, and safe.\u00a0 This was just the first of the ways Brother&#8217;s attention to detail impressed me.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Physical_Setup\"><strong>Physical Setup<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span id=\"Paper_Handling\">Paper Handling<\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"You can see the three quick-flip paper guides for easily (and accurately) setting up the most common photo sizes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review2-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MFC-J6945 #1 Paper Tray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Initial physical setup of the printer continued to impress in two notable ways.\u00a0 First, the paper trays.\u00a0 And paper handling in general.\u00a0 I had compared the Brother and Epson WF-7720 in-store and already knew the Brother had sturdier print trays.\u00a0 What I hadn&#8217;t noticed, because in the store they were covered in paper, is that Brother&#8217;s #1 print tray is set up for easy and quick paper swapping with physical quick-flip guides for the most common photo sizes.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t a must-have feature, but touches like this are indicators that a company takes usability seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Paper handling in general for this printer is a dream.\u00a0 There are two main trays, each holding up to 250 sheets of standard-thickness paper.\u00a0 The rear feed, which many printers use for one-off prints, can actually hold another hundred 100 pages of standard thickness paper too (or similar thickness of photo paper).\u00a0 Each tray, even the rear, can take up to the full A3\/Tabloid size the printer can handle.\u00a0 The only limitation on paper handling is that main tray #2 can&#8217;t be used for photo papers.\u00a0 Since you will want plain paper in at least one tray, this is not any kind of real problem.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that detracts from the excellent paper handling (and from Brother&#8217;s otherwise meticulous attention to detail) is the output tray.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit small and doesn&#8217;t do justice to the full capabilities of the printer.\u00a0 This printer could easily service a mid-size office, but if you send a print job of any size to it, you&#8217;ll want to peek to make sure no one else left a previous print job on it before you click print on yours.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Cabling\">Cabling<\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review3-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Open up the top and it's cabling all-access. No showing off yoga poses to plug something in.\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review3-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review3-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review3-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review3-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internal Cable Routing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The second area that impressed me right out of the box was cable routing.\u00a0 Printers almost always relegate all the cables to a back corner of the printer.\u00a0 This is fine for when the printer is fully installed, and if there are never any problems.\u00a0 But as anyone who has ever worked on a network or printer before knows, nothing is ever truly fire and forget.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a matter of &#8220;if&#8221; but &#8220;when&#8221; something will happen that requires some amount of mucking about with cables.\u00a0 This printer has the best cabling system I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 The cables aren&#8217;t in the back at all.\u00a0 You access them by opening up the secondary lid.\u00a0 The entire scanner assembly flips up to reveal the inside of the printer.\u00a0 Telephone, Ethernet, and USB plugs are all right there.\u00a0 They still route out the back along dedicated cabling paths, so the printer keeps them nicely out of the way, but accessing them when you need to is drop-dead simple.\u00a0 Once again, this isn&#8217;t a make-or-break feature.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just another of those things that shows Brother takes customer usability seriously.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Ink_8211_It8217s_a_Front_Loader\">Ink &#8211; It&#8217;s a Front Loader!<\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-201 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Front-loading ink is always great news since they are truly easy to use refillable cartridges with - in the background to the right you can see a 12-year-old HP Officejet Pro K5400 with extended cartridges. This printer, from back when HP was more serious about quality, will likely survive past the heat death of the universe.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front-loading Ink!\u00a0 And what&#8217;s that in the BG?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Installing the ink was particularly easy since this printer is a front-loader.\u00a0 This is where the ink isn&#8217;t in little cartridges that move back and forth with the print head.\u00a0 Instead they are in (normally bigger) cartridges that plug in the front and the ink is pumped into little reservoirs inside, normally right at the print heads.\u00a0 This is the way that really professional printers like the enormous wide-format ones do it.\u00a0 Why is this so great?\u00a0 First of all, it generally means the ink is available in larger, more affordable (per page) cartridges.\u00a0 Brother claims ink costs of a penny a page for black and 5\u00a2 a page for colour.\u00a0 The other reason these are great, is that they are drop-dead-simple to convert to &#8220;continuous&#8221; ink systems and use aftermarket ink with.\u00a0 The ability to use an aftermarket ink system has always been a requirement for my printers.\u00a0 But while this printer&#8217;s design makes that very easy to accomplish, I&#8217;m not actually sure I want to with this printer.\u00a0 More on that below in the discussion on bulk ink below.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Software_Setup_8211_First_Disappointment\">Software Setup &#8211; First Disappointment<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>I knew before I bought this printer that I&#8217;d want to review it, since it&#8217;s a pretty new product.\u00a0 Normally when I buy something like this I toss the accompanying CD in the bin and download the known up-to-date drivers.\u00a0 In this case I wanted to judge this printer by what they include in the box.\u00a0 That, and I reasoned that since this printer was a brand new release how out-of-date could the disc be?\u00a0 So in the went the CD.\u00a0 This turned out to be a <em>very<\/em> poor decision as the included CD was a disaster.\u00a0 The installer hung at the printer detection with no way to cancel, which left the installation in an unknown state.\u00a0 I can forgive this, after all I can&#8217;t make a real determination on the quality of the included CD based on how it worked on one computer.\u00a0 But what is really aggravating is the fact the installer didn&#8217;t make a Windows System Restore restore-point.\u00a0 This is criminally irresponsible installer design for <em>any<\/em> installer, let alone one that installs drivers.\u00a0 Plus the uninstaller on the included CD doesn&#8217;t uninstall all the monitor\/utility bits.\u00a0 This is especially troublesome because all the different little bits on the CD were compiled with different Microsoft Visual C++ runtime versions.\u00a0 I kid you not, I counted no less than four different MS runtime versions that were installed by that CD, and it didn&#8217;t even finish.\u00a0 All of the bits and pieces littered over my computer left me with hours of work uninstalling things and then going through the registry cleaning up the bits that I couldn&#8217;t uninstall.\u00a0 I was seriously unimpressed with the CD.<\/p>\n<p>After the clean-up, and with <strong>much<\/strong> more caution, I manually created a restore point and then downloaded &#8220;up-to-date&#8221; drivers from Brother.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, these ones installed without a hitch.\u00a0 I tried it out, and the uninstaller for the downloaded version seems to clean up most of its various bits too, and it also looks like there is only one runtime now.\u00a0 Betterer and betterer.\u00a0 That being said, Brother&#8217;s downloaded installer still doesn&#8217;t create an automatic restore point.\u00a0 While I love the printer, this is something I actually consider to be irresponsible behaviour in any driver installer and something Brother needs to address.\u00a0 So, for anyone buying this printer, make <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4027538\/windows-create-a-system-restore-point\">a manual restore point<\/a> before you install the drivers, and do not under any circumstances use the included CD.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Printing_8211_Show_me_the_Money\"><strong>Printing &#8211; Show me the Money!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Finally, after going through that pain, I&#8217;m now at the fun part where we get to actually print!<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Print_Speed\"><strong>Print Speed<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Lets get the nerdy stuff out of the way first, and see how good Brother&#8217;s print speed claims are.\u00a0 To determine print speed I&#8217;m using slightly modified <a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/index.php\/print-speed\/\">ISO 24734<\/a> tests.\u00a0 This standard specifies how to use three different test documents to work out how fast the printer a) gets a four page document out from hitting print to last page, and b) how fast the printer can output pages once it gets going.\u00a0 The first test is called the First Set Out Time (FSOT) and is measured in seconds, and the second is Estimated Saturated Throughput (ESAT) and is measured in pages per minute.<\/p>\n<p>I modified the standard a little for added realism.\u00a0 Of the three four-page test documents in the standard, one of them is a set of letter-head letters that are way too light on coverage to bother with.\u00a0 The other documents are pretty good at mimicking real-world print jobs.\u00a0 For simplicity, I use the PDF document, which is four pages each, one a different document type:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO24734_PDF.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-144 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO24734_PDF-300x83.png\" alt=\"The ISO 24734 PDF test document is a great overall printer test. It consists of a &quot;publisher&quot; style page, a letter on letterhead, a spreadsheet\/graph document, and a presentation page. All are with coverages that mimic real-world print jobs.\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO24734_PDF-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO24734_PDF-50x14.png 50w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO24734_PDF.png 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ISO 24734 PDF Test Document<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I consider that to be a really good estimator of real-world print jobs, so I use that PDF.\u00a0 I also print collated.\u00a0 For printers which output pages face-up, printing collated means that the entire document has to be sent to the printer driver before it can start printing, because it has to start printing with the last page first.\u00a0 This is so that the pages are in order on the output tray.\u00a0 This slows down the print slightly, but, this is how normal people print so it&#8217;s how I test.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a breakdown of all the print speed tests done:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Colour Simplex<\/td>\n<td>Colour Duplex<\/td>\n<td>B&amp;W Simplex<\/td>\n<td>B&amp;W Duplex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FSOT<\/td>\n<td>16.3s<\/td>\n<td>23s<\/td>\n<td>13s<\/td>\n<td>22.3s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ESAT<\/td>\n<td>19.8ppm<\/td>\n<td>11.8ppm<\/td>\n<td>21.8ppm<\/td>\n<td>12.4ppm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I also include duplex print speeds, since this is becoming more and more the norm.\u00a0 Brother doesn&#8217;t advertise duplex print speeds (because they are slower), but otherwise my results table matches their numbers pretty closely.\u00a0 For an inkjet printer, it&#8217;s a pretty zippy machine.\u00a0 One way it accomplishes this is through the clever trick of simply using its wide format capability to printer letter paper sideways in landscape mode.\u00a0 Reduced paper travel distance means increased speed.\u00a0 Another way the speed is increased is by the printer picking up the next page to print before the previous page is fully finished and ejected.\u00a0 This is something most good laser printers have done for a while, but it&#8217;s rare for inkjets to be designed to make this possible.\u00a0 This requires the paper pickup and its gearing to be able to operate independently from the paper feed and its gearing.\u00a0 I was pretty impressed when I noticed this bit.\u00a0 The Epson WF-7720 completely lacks this ability.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Print_Quality\"><strong>Print Quality<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"my_expand\"><div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e09bc478b0c\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Print quality assessment criteria\"    >Print quality assessment criteria<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e09bc478b0c\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">Print quality is judged in four areas, with each area normalized against what would be expected in a good, mid-range printer dedicated to that type of printing.\u00a0 For a multi-purpose ink-jet printer, a 10 in any of these areas is out of reach when compared in this way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s important, though, to see what you&#8217;re getting in comparison to what you would get with a mid-range printer that is dedicated to that particular area.\u00a0 The different categories are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black:\u00a0 Black text, lines, and shapes.\u00a0 How crisp are fonts, how straight are lines, how jagged are curves and shapes?\u00a0 Part of this is looking at the accuracy of dot placement.\u00a0 When a dot is dropped on the paper, is it ending up where the printer wants it to go?\u00a0 A 10 here represents what you could expect from a good modern laser printer.<\/li>\n<li>Greyscale: Text, lines, and shapes in various shades of grey.\u00a0 The printer&#8217;s DPI affects print quality here, but that&#8217;s not all.\u00a0 Different printers and drivers use very different halftoning mechanisms (error diffusion vs pattern dithers, etc).\u00a0 Some are much better at the greyscale halftones than others.\u00a0 Even high DPI printers with accurate dot placement can fail due to poor halftoning.\u00a0 A 10 here represents what you can expect from a good laser printer with excellent halftoning.<\/li>\n<li>Colour:\u00a0 Text, lines, and shapes in various colours.\u00a0 Business graphics, charts, diagrams, and vector drawings.\u00a0 Just like greyscale, this is a combination of DPI and halftoning.\u00a0 Scores are compared to what you can expect from the best of colour laser and ink-jets, with a 10 being laser crispnesss, ink-jet colour saturation, and zero banding.<\/li>\n<li>Photo: Photographic colour and monochrome output on glossy, semi-gloss, and matte photo paper.\u00a0 Scores are compared to what you can expect from a mid-range dedicated photo printer.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>Black<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Greyscale<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Colour<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Photo<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Brother MFC-J6945DW<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Epson WF-7720<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>9+<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Laser<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>8-10<\/td>\n<td>&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>All output was done at each driver&#8217;s standard quality settings, except for photos which were done at the best output quality obtainable but using each driver&#8217;s default settings for photo correction\/enhancement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black: On the Brother, black text is crisp to the naked eye and readable down to font sizes that are below my ability to resolve without magnification.\u00a0 With the naked eye, good laser printed black text is slightly crisper.\u00a0 Under magnification, if it is straight black you are considering (and not any form of greyscale) the Epson WF-7720 <em>may<\/em> just barely edge out the Brother MFC-J6945DW in text crispness, but it&#8217;s actually a hard call to make and even then it&#8217;s not noticeable with the naked eye.<\/li>\n<li>Greyscale: Greyscale anything on the Brother is simply fantastic.\u00a0 Dithers, gradients, and greyscale text and shapes are fantastic.\u00a0 Even light-grey text is crisp and readable.\u00a0 Normal-quality output is eminently readable and professional looking even at very light greys, which is excellent especially considering how fast this printer prints.\u00a0 Surprisingly, the Epson is notably terrible in comparison.\u00a0 And I do mean truly awful.\u00a0 Anything that isn&#8217;t pure black on the Epson has dithering with large, widely-spaced dots that makes it almost unreadable and which makes it look like it was printed on an old dot matrix printer.\u00a0 My 12 year old HP K5400DN is visibly better quality and I&#8217;ve included a photo to prove it.\u00a0 What makes this most surprising about the Brother vs Epson greyscale output is that the Epson has 800 black nozzles vs 420 on the Brother.\u00a0 The Brother has far more colour nozzles (1260 vs 768), but the Epson PrecisionCore head is pretty much designed for text and greyscale.\u00a0 Brother is doing some great work here.\n<figure id=\"attachment_208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-208 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review5-300x85.png\" alt=\"Brother MFC-J6945DW (right), Epson WF-7720 (center), with a very old HP K5400DN on the left to show how truly awful the Epson's greyscale is. You can barely see it, because the lighting is poor, but also because the Brother does it right, the line with the 01 is a very light gray. On the Epson, it's a hideous dither.\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review5-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review5-768x218.png 768w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review5-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review5-50x14.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brother vs Epson Text with K5400DN for further comparison<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Graphics are notably crisp on plain paper - which is one benefit of pigment inks, which tend to stay on the surface better.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review6-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ISO Test Print Output<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colour: With some solid colours on this printer there can be a very slight banding noticeable.\u00a0 Under magnification this seems to be an interaction of the dither pattern with the colour dot spacing.\u00a0 It has to be looked for to be seen though, and doesn&#8217;t really detract.\u00a0 I would feel comfortable using its colour output for almost any business purpose.\u00a0 The Brother is notably crisp on plain paper and produces some of the nicest plain paper full colour borderless posters I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 The Epson WF-7720&#8217;s colour graphics again suffer in comparison from the same halftoning issues as it does under greyscale.\u00a0 Colours tend to use less of the kind of dithering that greyscale uses, so it&#8217;s not as noticable, but it still detracts.<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-210 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"It's difficult to get an idea of photo quality from a picture of a picture, but these are some of the photos I have made on this printer and ones I intend to retain as keepers. It doesn't match top of the line photo printers, but this is about the best photo output I've ever seen on a general purpose printer. Very good quality, and even better accuracy.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review7-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selection of photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The photo output quality was a pleasant surprised, and I was already anticipating pretty high quality photos from reading the PC Magazine review.\u00a0 PCMag is correct in stating that photo output is superior to what you&#8217;ll get in drugstore photo stations.\u00a0 I&#8217;d go a step further and suggest it is as good as some dedicated 5-colour photo printers I&#8217;ve seen.\u00a0 The Brother printer driver doesn&#8217;t suffer fools in that it gives you pretty much exactly what you ask for.\u00a0 Some printer drivers will really amplify the colour saturation by default.\u00a0 This printer isn&#8217;t like that, and I really like that.\u00a0 It means it gives you pretty accurate output.\u00a0 The Epson WF-7720 driver seems to want to take matters into its own hands and tries to give you what it thinks you want, rather than what you ask for.\u00a0 This can sometimes lead to the Epson&#8217;s photo output <em>seeming<\/em> to look more saturated until you compare both photos against the original and realize the Brother photo is far more accurate.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever watched an episode of CSI Miami and noticed how they cranked up the colour saturation on that show, then you&#8217;ll understand what the Epson driver seems to do.\u00a0 Brother&#8217;s driver is quite capable of photo enhancements and of tweaking the photo saturation and colours.\u00a0 By default, though, it values output accuracy over unasked for flash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Copying\"><strong>Copying<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Copying is fully functional on this machine, but in one important way it&#8217;s not done nearly as smartly as it could be.\u00a0 Copying is probably the weakest area of this printer. when it comes to multi-page documents.\u00a0 When when you put a multi-page document the ADF, you normally want your copied output to be in the same order as the input.\u00a0 This printer calls that &#8220;sorting&#8221;, though most people call that collating.\u00a0 This printer doesn&#8217;t sort multi-page documents by default.\u00a0 It copies in reverse order.\u00a0 It&#8217;s perfectly capable of sorting, but when it does sort it doesn&#8217;t do it very smartly.<\/p>\n<p>To understand why this is so, the printer mechanism has to be explained a little.\u00a0 This printer prints face up. \u00a0 This means, for printing multiple pages, in order to give you the last page on the bottom and first page on top, it has to print the last page first.\u00a0 But the scanner is set to scan pages face up, taking the top sheet first and last page last.\u00a0 To copy a set of pages and output them sorted (collated), it has to scan the entire stack on the document feeder before it can start printing the first page.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, Brother&#8217;s ADF scanner is perfectly capable of scanning both sides of the page at once.\u00a0 Which means a simple firmware tweak could change it from being a copier where you place your documents face up to one where you place them face down like most dedicated copiers.\u00a0 This way it would scan the last page first and could start printing right away when it&#8217;s set to output sorted.\u00a0 The option to copy sorted could then be on by default, where it is now off by default and you have to turn it on every time.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Copy_speed\">Copy speed<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Copy speeds are according to the ISO 24735 test document, which is the same four-page PDF as used for print speeds:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Simplex Unsorted<\/td>\n<td>Simplex Sorted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Four Page Test<\/td>\n<td>26.7s<\/td>\n<td>34.7s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>On a four-page test document, the eight seconds extra it takes to copy sorted isn&#8217;t really an issue.\u00a0 The fewer pages and\/or the more copies you print, the less of an issue it becomes.\u00a0 However, if you want one copy of a 40 page document, there is no way you want to hand flip the pages into the right order, and waiting for it to scan the whole document before it even starts printing the first page may make you want to hit start and then go get a coffee.<\/p>\n<p>There is one trick you can use to mitigate this problem, but it only works on 2-&gt;2 copying (double-sided input to double-sided output) and only if you want just one copy.\u00a0 That trick is to leave the machine set on copying unsorted, then put the originals in the ADF face down.\u00a0 The output will come out in the right order face up, and will have started copying after the first page was scanned.\u00a0 This trick, as mentioned, only works if you want a single copy.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Copy_Quality\">Copy Quality<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Colour copying quality is quite good. As good as any dedicated colour photocopier I&#8217;ve ever used.\u00a0 It has a thin-sheet mode for copying paper that might be somewhat see-through, and this works quite well as tested on full-colour catalog pages.\u00a0 You can set the quality from text to photo.\u00a0 Even onto plain paper the copy quality is quite good.\u00a0 If you copy output that was produced from another printer, it&#8217;s virtually indistinguishable from the original.\u00a0 If copying, say, a glossy full colour catalog page, then be prepared for some inaccuracy, simply because offset printing can use colours that are not duplicatable in the CMYK colour space.\u00a0 Even here, though, it was surprisingly good, with even tiny text readable.<\/p>\n<p>Black and greyscale copying is quite excellent.\u00a0 If you compare it to the Epson WF-7720 then it&#8217;s simply superb.\u00a0 This is due to the fact that the Epson&#8217;s greyscale copying suffers from the same poor dithering problem that its greyscale printing does.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Scanning_and_Faxing\">Scanning and Faxing<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><span id=\"Scan-to-Anywhere\">Scan-to-Anywhere<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Here is another area where this printer shines, and it is obvious that Brother spent some time getting this right.\u00a0\u00a0 Part of this is the fact Brother includes virtually every kind of network connectivity known to man.\u00a0 This printer can be set up with its own email account to send email (and thus scans and efaxes).\u00a0 It can be set up to send scans to another computer on or off your local LAN via SFTP.\u00a0 It can scan to a shared LAN directory over standard Windows networking (SMB\/CIFS).\u00a0 It can scan directly to any individual computer on your LAN that has the drivers set up on it.\u00a0 Lastly, it can scan directly to a USB stick or USB-connected card or drive.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Scan-to-PC_Means_Whatever_You_Say_it_Means\">Scan-to-PC Means Whatever You Say it Means<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>What makes scan-to-PC truly excellent is that every user that installs the driver can set it so that their computer&#8217;s settings are what the printer uses when you select scan-to-PC <strong>from<\/strong> the printer.\u00a0 There are four different scan-to-PC settings: scan to file, OCR, image, or email attachment.\u00a0 I can set it up so when I go to the machine, put a document on the feeder and select &#8220;Scan-to-PC-&gt;File&#8221;, then it means save it as a 300dpi colour multi-page PDF.\u00a0 We could set it up so that the same function saves it as a 600dpi one-page-per-file JPEG when it&#8217;s used to send to Michelle&#8217;s computer.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"OCR\">OCR<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Brother&#8217;s Scan-to-PC also has an OCR mode that is frankly amazing.\u00a0 I did not expect this, didn&#8217;t know that it even had the feature, and yet it has now become a staple of how I use this machine.\u00a0 It is hands down the best OCR I&#8217;ve ever see outside of a dedicated piece of OCR software.\u00a0 By default, Scan-to-PC-&gt;OCR saves a flat text file on your computer.\u00a0 However, you can configure it so that it will preserve the original document formatting as either a searchable PDF, or as a rich text document file that you can actually pull into LibreOffice, Wordpad, or MS Whatever and edit!\u00a0 With the formatting.\u00a0 How much of the original formatting is saved depends on the document complexity, and quality.\u00a0 The scanned test letter from the ISO test OCRed perfectly, including the letterhead graphic.\u00a0 I was jaw droppingly astounded.<\/p>\n<p>I expected the Epson WF-7720 to handily beat the pants off this printer when it came to scanning.\u00a0 The Epson Scan software has been a strong point for Epson for years.\u00a0 Their recent offerings, though, have been less than stellar.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t access OCR through the printer control panel and OCR is only available as searchable PDF.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quality is quite lacking.\u00a0 A test where the Epson &#8220;Start Here&#8221; document was scanned to searchable PDF on both printers produced about 90% accuracy through Epson Scan and better than 99% accuracy through Brother&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Faxing\">Faxing<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This has to remain in the &#8220;mostly untested&#8221; side of this review, since I don&#8217;t have a land line.\u00a0 What I have tested is eFax, which is essentially just emailing a TIFF to\/from the printer.\u00a0 The printer can be configured to print any TIFF sent to its email account, just as if it were a normally received fax.\u00a0 It works well but has one glaring limitation that will be covered below.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Connectivity\">Connectivity<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This printer can connect and communicate (physically or over the network) in almost every way imaginable.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably shorter to explain the two things that are conspicuously missing than to try and get into detail on everything it includes.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"So_what8217s_missing\"><strong>So what&#8217;s missing?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span id=\"5GHz\">5GHz<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>First of all, although it has Wi-Fi, it&#8217;s missing support for Wi-Fi at 5GHz.\u00a0 This is becoming more important as the density of Wi-Fi signals increases and channel congestion gets worse.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also a performance issue.\u00a0 Much higher speeds are available at 5GHz.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Print-From-Email\">Print-From-Email<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The printer, as mentioned above, is capable of connecting to a mail server over SMTP and POP\/IMAP in order to both send and receive email.\u00a0 So it can send scans or efaxes over email.\u00a0 It can also receive and automatically print an efax.\u00a0 What it can&#8217;t do is receive and automatically print anything in colour or high res.\u00a0 It is limited, strictly, to printing out email attachments that are black and white fax G3 TIFF files.\u00a0 Absolutely nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Brother all-in-one printers had the capability of automatically printing what they called colour efaxes, which was just a PDF scan received over email.\u00a0 This is functionality that Brother actually ripped out for this printer.\u00a0 There is literally no technical reason why the printer couldn&#8217;t print out a PDF received as an email attachment.\u00a0 It already has the ability to render and print PDFs.\u00a0 So why did Brother take out this fantastic feature?\u00a0 My sneaking suspicion is that it was required in order to get the license to use Google Print.\u00a0 Google loves improving connectivity, but only in ways that\u00a0 foster a dependence on their infrastructure.\u00a0 Having a printer that can just print out any PDF you email to it without going through any third party detracts from people depending on Google.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"What_is_Included\"><strong>What is Included?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Connectivity wise, then, what is included?\u00a0 Well, honestly, almost everything shy of smoke signals:<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Phyical_Layers\">Phyical Layers:<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Wi-Fi 802.11b\/g\/n<\/li>\n<li>Ethernet<\/li>\n<li>USB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span id=\"PC-to-Printer_Printing_Protocols\">PC-to-Printer Printing Protocols:<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>LPR, IPP, Raw<\/li>\n<li>Airprint\/Bonjour<\/li>\n<li>Mopria<\/li>\n<li>Web Services\/Mobile Printing for Windows<\/li>\n<li>Google Cloud Print<\/li>\n<li>FTP server (yes, you can submit print jobs over FTP)<\/li>\n<li>IMAP\/POP email (limited to B&amp;W TIFF G3 Fax)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span id=\"Printer-to-PC_Scanning_Protocols\">Printer-to-PC Scanning Protocols<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Scan-to-PC<\/li>\n<li>SMB\/CIFS (Windows networking)<\/li>\n<li>SFTP<\/li>\n<li>FTP<\/li>\n<li>SMTP email with optional LDAP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t an exhaustive list of connectivity options, but it hits all the key players.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Printer_Languages_8211_Postscript_AND_PCL\"><strong>Printer Languages &#8211; Postscript <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AND<\/span> PCL<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked about how this printer kicks the pants off the Epson WF-7720 for greyscale print quality and colour graphics.\u00a0 What wasn&#8217;t covered is why.\u00a0 The reason for this is likely because of another high-end business feature this printer has, which is dual support for both PCL6 and Postscript.\u00a0 The Epson WF-7720 is tooling around with ESC\/P-R, a raster print &#8220;language&#8221; (calling it a language is giving it more credit than its due).\u00a0 I have a strong suspicion that Epson&#8217;s poor showing in greyscale and dithered colour has to do with the tradeoffs they are making by everything essentially having to be rasterized before it&#8217;s sent to the printer.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not some of the print quality differences noticed between this and other printers are due to the printer language, the fact is that Postscript and PCL 6 support still give this printer huge advantages.\u00a0 Linux support is drop-dead-simple for Postscript printers.\u00a0 Also, for Windows Brother offers universal PCL and Postscript drivers that allow you to control multiple devices with one driver &#8211; which is fantastic for an office environment.\u00a0 Postscript support also gives this printer the ability to natively render PDF files.\u00a0 This is great as a connection option of last resort.\u00a0 If all else fails, if you have a guest with a wacky computer you just can&#8217;t (or don&#8217;t want to) get on your network, then just export that must-print document as a PDF and put it on a USB stick.\u00a0 The printer can print a PDF right off a stick.\u00a0 This is, with some professional copiers, a last resort I&#8217;ve had to rely on and it&#8217;s a great universal fallback.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Aftermarket_Ink_Prospects_and_Price-per-page\"><strong>Aftermarket Ink Prospects and Price-per-page<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><span id=\"Bulk_Ink\"><strong>Bulk Ink?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-ET-16500-EcoTank-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-ET-16500-EcoTank-1-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Epson EcoTank ET-16500, an Epson WF-7620 with a CISS factory bolted onto the side\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-ET-16500-EcoTank-1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-ET-16500-EcoTank-1-50x45.jpg 50w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Epson-ET-16500-EcoTank-1.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epson EcoTank ET-16500, an Epson WF-7620 with a CISS factory bolted onto the side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We touched on the front-loading ink and the tact that it makes it easy to use bulk ink.\u00a0 There are two general ways of using aftermarket ink in your printer.\u00a0 One way is to use aftermarket refillable cartridges.\u00a0 The other is to install a Continuous Ink Supply System (CISS).\u00a0 The latter uses ink cartridges that are connected to larger ink bottles with tubing.\u00a0 As the cartridges are depleted new ink is drawn in from the bottles to keep them continuously full.\u00a0 The Epson ET-16550, shown at right,\u00a0 is an example of where the manufacturer has factory-bolted this kind of a system onto their printer.\u00a0 It has ink bottles on the side and they connect with flex tubing to the print head reservoirs (which in that case are just a modified Epson 252XL cartridge system)<\/p>\n<p>CISS kits are most often used on printers that have relatively small print cartridges that are located directly on the print head so they move back and forth with the head as pages are printed.\u00a0 The beauty of the Brother MFc-J6945DW is that it doesn&#8217;t have cartridges like that.\u00a0 It uses a more professional approach &#8211; larger front-loading cartridges that are separate from the print heads.\u00a0 This is basically a form of CISS in and of itself.\u00a0 There are pumps which take ink from the cartridges to small reservoirs at the print head.\u00a0 In this case, simply using aftermarket refillable cartridges tends to be the best way to use bulk ink with this kind of printer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Front-loading ink is always great news since they are truly easy to use refillable cartridges with - in the background to the right you will see a 12-year-old HP Officejet Pro K5400 with extended cartridges. This printer, from back when HP was more serious about quality, will likely survive the age death of the universe.\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-768x733.jpg 768w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-1024x978.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4-50x48.jpg 50w, https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Brother_MFC-J6945DW_Review4.jpg 1923w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front-loading Ink!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is already bulk Brother-compatible pigment ink on the market (this printer uses the same pigmented ink as most Brother inkjets).\u00a0 Aftermarket cartridges aren&#8217;t yet available for this printer, though.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve contacted inkowl, one of the more reputable outfits for refillable cartridges, and they say cartridges are forthcoming.\u00a0 They should be available in two sizes.\u00a0 One size will match the existing Brother cartridges.\u00a0 The other, similar to what you can see coming out the front of an old OfficeJet Pro K5400DN in the background (click on the photo to the right), are extended so they come out the front of the device.\u00a0 These can allow some truly stupendous ink capacities, and have refill holes that are easily accessible on the top.<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Is_bulk_ink_needed\">Is bulk ink needed?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The real question for this printer, though, is do you even need bulk ink?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a question I haven&#8217;t fully answered yet myself.\u00a0 Brother claims a price-per-page at 1\u00a2 for black, and 5\u00a2 a page for colour.\u00a0 Those are based on 5% coverage for black and 5% per colour coverage for colour.\u00a0 I tend to double my coverage estimates for normal printing, so 2\u00a2 and 10\u00a2 a page.\u00a0 A full colour 4&#215;6 photo is about equivalent to 25% coverage of an 8.5&#215;11 page, so think around 25\u00a2 a photo for them.\u00a0 If you use good quality plain and photo papers, then the cost per page for the ink for black and for 4&#215;6 photos is roughly equivalent to the cost of paper.\u00a0 That tends to be my decision point.\u00a0 If the manufacturer&#8217;s ink costs more than paper, I tend to favour using bulk ink.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s less, I favour the use of OEM ink.\u00a0 This printer is skating around that demarkation line.\u00a0 Refillable cartridges aren&#8217;t available quite yet anyway, but even when they are, I am actually leaning toward keeping this printer using only original manufacturer ink.\u00a0 I have never found, ever, an aftermarket ink that was 100% accurate in its reproduction of the OEM ink.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not concerned about it hurting the Brother&#8217;s print heads.\u00a0 Brother uses piezo technology heads which are pretty good that way.\u00a0 But at this point I don&#8217;t want to jeopardize the great quality photos I&#8217;m getting out of this machine.\u00a0 Knowing that this printer is an excellent candidate for a bulk ink solution was definitely a purchase factor, but for now, Brother has done a great job of making their inks affordable enough that I don&#8217;t feel the need to explore that avenue just yet.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Conclusions\">Conclusions<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Brother MFC-J6945DW printer is a device that consistently punches above its weight class in almost every category.\u00a0 The consistent attention to detail is evident everywhere.\u00a0 Specifically areas this printer shines are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PCL6 and Postscript<\/li>\n<li>Advanced paper feed that picks up the next sheet before the previous one is done and two large paper trays plus a rear feed that takes another hundred sheets<\/li>\n<li>High quality photos<\/li>\n<li>Everything-shy-of-smoke-signals connectivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The driver CD that accompanies it is a notable departure from Brother&#8217;s standards otherwise, but you should be ok if you download their drivers (and create a restore-point before installing them).\u00a0 Even thinking about this and the other minor areas where this printer falls short, I have to admit, it really only falls short in comparison to the amazing attention to detail Brother has otherwise given this design everywhere else.\u00a0 What is most telling, is that to find an all-in-one printer that is even remotely capable of competing with it, you have to jump up to something like the $1500 price range Epson WorkForce Pro WF-8590.\u00a0 Anything that is remotely in the same price zone, like the Epson WF-7720, feels like a toy pretending to be an office printer when held up to the Brother.<\/p>\n<p>That is why, for either home or office, I can most wholeheartedly recommend the Brother MFC-J6945DW printer.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Disposition\"><strong>Disposition<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Purchased March, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Currently remains in service as my primary printer\/scanner\/copier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Facts Print + Copy + Scan + Fax all-in-one printer Two internal trays + rear feed tray (600+ page capacity) Four-colour pigmented ink 1680 nozzle print engine FSOT (First Set Out Time) 16.2s four-page colour.\u00a0 B&amp;W in 13 seconds, Colour simplex print speed (ESAT) 19.8PPM, duplex 11.8PPM Wide format duplexed printing up to ledger\/tabloid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/productrevue.ca\/index.php\/brother-mfc-j6945dw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brother MFC-J6945DW Printer &#8211; In-Depth 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