Brother MFC-J435W Network-Ready Wireless Color All-In-One Printer

Product Description

This all-in-one printer features wireless networking for a simple setup and a 20-page automatic document feeder for easily faxing, scanning and copying. A 1.9" color LCD display provides easy navigation of menus and features. What's Included Brother Network-Ready Wireless Color All-In-One Printer. LC71BK, LC71M, LC71C and LC71Y ink cartridges. Drivers and software CD-ROMs. Owner's manual.

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Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: Brother
• Model: MFC-J435W
• Dimensions: 15.00" h x 7.00" w x 16.00" l, 19.80 pounds

Features

• Prints up to 33 ppm in black, up to 26 ppm in color, Copies up to 22 cpm in black, up to 20 cpm in color,
• 4-in-1 functionality, Prints, copies, scans and faxes for convenience.
• Built-in wireless networking (802.11b/g/n), For an easy wireless printing setup.
• Flatbed scanner with 48-bit color, Plus a scan resolution up to 2400 x 2400 dpi to reproduce exact colors.
• Fax with 14.4 Kbps speed, 40 speed dials and up to 170-page fax memory, To meet your office needs. Color faxing to and from color fax machines.

Customer Reviews

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
A Document Feeder That REALLY works!
By Wretched Excess
I've been through a number of printers but none have had document feeders that I could turn my back on and feel certain that all pages would be fed, and fed one at a time. This Brother's doc feeder has been 100% reliable so far.

I also like the low price ink cartridges ....the cheapest ink of all the printers I researched (and I researched them all!). The J435W is also quiet compared to other machines I've owned, and it feels pretty sturdy.

But I have to say the print quality is only so-so. I wouldn't want to try to print anything on it that I wanted to look highly professional, for instance, a brochure. But I didn't buy it to try to compete with Fed-Ex Office. It does print out my color letterhead with above average results.

And one more thing. Since the LCD screen goes dark to save power after just a few minutes, there's often no way to know the machine is "on" or "off" by just glancing at it.

Taking everything into consideration, I'd buy it again. In a heart-beat.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Great Printer
By Dawn H.
I needed to replace a failing HP printer. I was tired of buying a new printer every year (yes, my HP printers would die after a year) so I searched out a different brand.
This printer has the 4 functions I require in a printer; print, scan, copy, and fax.

For those purposes, this printer works great.

I easily connected it to my pc and when I recently bought a mac, it easily found the printer as well.

It seems to go easy on the ink. I'm not replacing ink any more than I did before.

Works for me!
BTW, I've been using it for about 6 months, daily. I've replaced the black ink 1x and the yellow 1x.

37 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
Brother First Class Quality /Price of Feature Set?
By Richard S. Pasma
The comments posted on this thread on January 24th are agreed with wholeheartedly. About four years ago I purchased a Brother 2040 laser printer for about $50 and it has performed flawlessly. So far it has printed out about 15000 pages without one paper jam. This is not a lot for a business but a quite a bit for home use. Three cases of paper and still going.

Against Brother's recommendations I refilled the toner cartridges, used replacement generic toner cartridges and one generic drum. More than likely I have been lucky, but given the cost difference versus the cost of the printer, should it get destroyed, it seemed worth the gamble. The cost per page for the consumables with this printer has been less than a penny a page. Still I know people with kids that use ink jet printers that cost about three cents per page with a printer that is not likely to last more than 10000 pages, crazy. Running out of ink and having to change cartridges every 500 (it is usually less) pages is a pain as well.

One thing about these reviews is the opinions expressed often do not take into account the varying needs/usage people might have regarding a given item. For my use this printer should work out well since most of the printing will be done with the laser. Copies, occasional color prints, scanning and the rare need for a fax are the planned usage for this MFC and so far in this regard it has been working well.

This printer came with printed manuals with first class instructions. Each topic starts with an overview giving the various options and then points to the section you need to go to follow with step by step instructions, very cookbook. Illustrations and an easy to read format relating to the printer controls and menus was well done. Although this might sound simple it is not common to find. Some clowns thinking putting manuals on disc is a high tech way of saving money. Customer service provided with paper manuals is cheap given the goodwill it produces, hello?

Setting up the wireless on the printer given the one button setup option provided by both my router and this printer were available, was very easy. If you have a fussy router, no instructions or hardware is going to make your job easier.

The buttons and the menus provided on the LCD screen to access the MFC functions are easy to follow.

In the last 10 years I needed to Fax something once from home, and I went to Office Depot to do it with minimal trouble and expense. If the fax functions of this MFC are going to be used by me, they will be manually configured for a one time use. The documentation and setup seem to be clear enough for easy setup and use should that be desired.

The document feeder works well. For making copies there is not much if any warm up required. From a cold start on fast quality, three copies feed through the feeder took about 20 seconds to produce.

Photos printed with this printer have been about 85 percent as good as lab photos. Since generic (good quality) photo paper was used, better results might be possible. On 4 by 6 photos you get a border on all sides of about 1/8th of an inch. Unless you are going to be printing a huge volume of photos the general rule is lab photos are cheaper and better than any printer you are going to buy.

The original ink cartridges provided with this printer, living up to the starter cartridge "This is how we make money philosophy", did not last very long. The replacement cartridges taken from a set of 20 generic cartridges purchased for $22 on Amazon have been working well so far, but it is too early to know if this is going to work out.

The Amazon cost of this MFC at the time of this review was the same as other Brother MFCs having duplex printing, memory card slots and a bigger LCD screen with touch screen menu options including links to the social web pages. With the way Amazon rips though inventory you would expect rapid price adjustments to market conditions. For some reason this has not happened with this item to date. As such it is highly recommended you shop around a bit unless you see a more rational price to feature relationship.

All the Best,
Rich

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