Brother MFC-J6710DW All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer

The Brother MFC-J6710DW all-in-one inkjet printer is built for heavy use in small offices, and its main advantage is that it can work with paper sizes as large as 11x17. Those who need that kind of functionality will find this a great buy. Those who don't should look for other all-in-one inkjet printers. The printer is fairly fast and has built-in duplexing capability, wireless or wired networking, and a three-year limited warranty. But while colors look good, especially with photos, I wasn't impressed by the lackluster black printing, which had a greenish hue at normal print quality.

The Brother MFC-J6710DW all-in-one color inkjet printer is built large for small offices with heavy printing needs. It offers all the features that would add convenience to a small office: wired or wireless printing (which is very easy to set up, despite the somewhat primitive keyboard), built-in duplex printing, a 35-sheet automatic document feeder as well as a single-sheet bypass tray (for thicker media and 11x17 paper), and two paper trays that can hold as many as 500 sheets total. Optional high-yield ink cartridges (rated up to 2,400 pages for black and 1,200 pages for color) are a handy option.

Print speeds were perfectly adequate and even impressive. At normal quality, a four-page Word document took only 35 seconds, with the first page out in 17 seconds, leaving about six seconds a page for subsequent pages. Printing the same document using the duplexer took twice the time. There are a number of settings designed to help you save ink and make pages with ink on both sides less floppy; however, using these settings drove printing time to 2:28 for four pages, and the results looked unimpressive. Compare that with recently reviewed Epson WorkForce 635 All-in-One Inkjet Printer that's half the price and puts out better-looking duplex pages.

For an all-in-one, there was nothing to complain about in terms of photograph printing. Not only is it fast (a 4x6 took less than 30 seconds), but the final results are very good. In fact Brother's Innobella color inks seem to do a fine job; so does the black ink, as long as you choose "high" rather than "normal" quality. That will use up your ink cartridges faster, but the results are well worth it. The printer has a built-in PhotoCapture feature (for PictBridge and memory sticks) that allows basic on-board photo editing features such as auto correct and red-eye reduction.

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