MFC-J6940DW

For many years I've wished for an A3 scanner for my art as well as a decent printer. Had the opportunity to get one finally. Big thing. I'll give the delivert guy props that he actually carried it to my door. Two men are supposed to carry it, so the instructions say, though I managed it myself too. Quality kit. Lots of options on a nice small, but easy-to view, screen. Does wifi though I have not tried it yet. Ink seems to last reasonably long. Didn't lock me `online only` which is good. Every now and then it whirrs and clicks, I guess it's self-cleaning/checking diagnostics? Easy to install ink and paper, A4 or A3. Ink lasts a decent while and does not seem to run out of ink as fast as cheaper printer do. Decent quality prints, though that depends on paper and ink. Ink is not ridiculously expensive for what you get. Done some decent prints already. Quite pleased with it so far.

Replacement printer for a previous Brother machine. This range of printers from Brother are my favourite for a small office with various print needs. Inks are cheap to buy which is a major consideration. Most of our printers are replaced every two years and the old ones re-sold so a lot of the cost can be recouped. Delivery was swift and setup was easy as the drivers all self installed easily even for the Linux laptop. Best price was on Amazon which wasn't surprising.

Worked fine for a year then started going downhill after "updates". Complete waste of money.

I do occasionally need to print A3, hence this purchase. I bought it to replace an earlier Brother A3 all-in-one printer on which, after about 5 years, the print heads had become clogged beyond my capacity to clean them. The MFC-J6940DW is bigger than the model it was bought to replace and barely fits on my desk allowing room for my desktop screen. Another minor annoyance is that is keeps telling me off for buying non-Brother replacement ink cartridges. They are, of course, much cheaper than Brother's own brand and work perfectly well, so being nagged by the machine for saving money is a bit irritating. Apart from that, it's good. The print quality is actually excellent and the A3 scanner is very useful. If it lasts as long as its predecessor, I'll be happy. My previous Brother printer had the great advantage over its opposition that it didn't have built-in obsolescence in the form of parts that have to be replaced after a certain number of print cycles whether or not there is anything wrong with them. I very much hope that the new printer is the same. Forcing you to replace expensive parts when they're still working is not only a rip-off, it's also terrible for the planet. I'm hoping Brother have maintained their integrity.

Seems great so far. Print quality is excellent with ability colours too very high resolution. Which is useful for producing art reference prints. Ability to print in both A3 and A4 is very useful.

This is the latest in a long line of MFC models. It's basically the same as the previous models but with noticeably greater refinement. However there are a couple of concerns: I'm not so keen on the on-line driver installation because I like to have a local copy. They've broken the scan to email function. Previous models you could scan from the scanner into a PC's Thunderbird email but now it only scans to Outlook.

Printer was great when it worked but one of the colours has not worked for months, changed a few complete sets of cartridges whilst going through dozens of cleaning processes advised by Brother to Finally they put the ticket through to technical to contact me about next steps.... supposed to be within 48 hours of which was over 72 now. Typical service where they push you around stages of support to you eventually go away. I have spent a lot of money on cartridges just for the printer to attempt to fix itself let alone the waste of trees too. Very frustrated and no support from brother and no functionality on Amazon for me to escalate their either!!

Very good. Duplex scan, copy, print. A4. I have not tried A3 facility.