Brother International - MFCJ5910DW - MFC-J5910DW Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer,

I've bought six printers for myself and my wife over the last four years, all from the same manufacturer who's name shall remain Epson. I've watched their standards drop from best on the market (MX80) to cheap plastic rubbish (all of them). Well I don't mind cheap plastic rubbish if it works and does it's job, but out of these six printers two remain. One was bought only two months ago and the other about two years ago. The one I bought two years ago was a professional photo printer and by far the most expensive: it uses more ink than my car does petrol but is more expensive. (And that one is showing signs of failing now.)Which is why I decided to change allegiances. I have a Brother label printer which has never failed me in many years of use, so I opted for a Brother.What a difference! It does everything I ask it to without arguing, putting in a new ink cartridge or cleaning the heads. It works seamlessly by WiFi every time. There are so many options for scanning and copying and of course it's a fax machine as well. I could go on, but I'd only bore you. But I will say that I've been using it for a month or so now and I just forget it's there: I pick up the prints when I need to and that's it. It sits in the corner without saying a word.It was said that the ink cartridges provided were just a sort of starter pack to get me going. I've been using them at a fairly modest rate for a month and they're still three quarters full. While on the subject of ink, because I thought the starter pack would run out fairly quickly, I bought a set of (original Brother) long lasting cartridges from a well known internet auction site for £60. That is so cheap compared to any other printer companies considering the size of them. (£136 for the photo printer and they're half the size!)Finally, When started this tome, I mentioned cheap plastic rubbish. Well the Brother is still plastic, but unlike most of the others, it most certainly isn't rubbish, but it was very cheap for what you get!

This is the 2nd time I’ve bought this Brother printer. To buy the same model again says something and to find that it is still on sale 2 and a half years after buying my first model also tells me that this must be a winner. My first model performed outstandingly with no mishaps at all during the past 2 and a half years (apart from the occasional paper jam) until a blocked black nozzle produced printing with the black reduced by about 80%. This machine is now relegated to another room as a spare; I need clear black printing as I mostly produce sheet music for orchestral use.The printer is very easy to set up. Yes I know it's a pain having to take out the paper tray to load different paper sizes, but after a while you get very slick. I don't do the duplex A3 printing as the printer demands very wide margins, so I always do this printing manually for better results. The booklet (A5 size) printing is excellent and gives me good results every time. Splendid to produce miniature scores and for proof-reading orchestral music parts.I always use real Brother inks. I have sometimes considered using compatible inks, but having had a bad experience with a previous (Epson) printer (I could only afford compatibles for it!), I decided to stick to real Brother inks for this one. The LC1280XL refills do last a very long time and if I shop around, I can usually find them at a reasonable price.This is an amazing printer on offer at an amazing price. Having used many different printers over the years, I think it’s one of the best yet that I’ve owned. I only hope they’re still around in a few year’s time when I’ll need to replace this one!

I have had this printer since late August 2013 and while it seemed like a good idea at the time it's proved a bit of a challange to get the thing to work for more than a day at a time.The big problem with this machine is the paper jamming. It's almost constant and even worse in A3 mode. Just about everything you print out requires you to unblock a "jam" as the paper hasn't fed from the tray. I thought it was me been a mong and using cheaper paper, but no. I bought some really expensive HP paper to try and that either refuses to pick up from the tray or if it does work it takes about 8 or 9 sheets through together. It also refuses to take thin card and A3 is near impossible unless you give it a helping hand.Another thing to take into account is the price. Ok, it cost me £129.99. That means that (as a retailer) it cost about £60.00 wholesale that means it cost about £30-£40 to produce at the most. This certainly shows, the paper draw is really cheap and nasty and is really flimsy. The paper size adjust levers are awful and I am surpised it's not broken yet. The plastics are dreadful but it's not meant to look pretty in an office but at least work for more than ten minutes!Plus points are wi-fi, cheap printer cartridges that are easy to replace that come in 4 tanks so you only have to change one at a time. Printing is ok, but make a cup of tea when using borderless A3 paper. It is so ponderous you can see snails run quicker than this!So it works, but don't expect the earth....Also if you have high blood pressure, forget it, you'll die with stress within a weekTHIS IS AN UPDATE TO THE REVIEW ABOVE:-After nearly a year and several phone calls to Brother about the paper feed problems that plague these printers I finally got a new off them. The problem was the continual paper jams and it to the stage where it was pot luck it the stupid thing worked for more than five minutes a time. The argument was that I had used non standard cartridges in the printer and Brother swore blind that this would of damaged the printer that is utter rubbish. Well after a visit to my solicitors he found a similar case between Honda and a customer who had fitted different tyres to his car after eight months. Honda said that the warranty had been voided, but a court decided this was rubbish as the tyres would not of caused a fault to the electrics which he was complaining about. My solicitor cited this and Brother backed off. I now have a new printer that is just as bad as the last one but it is new! The old one was plagued with paper feed problems that had NO impact on the cartridges fitted. Also there is interesting piece of EU law about your warranty...See below.In reality go a decent printer without all the rubbish on it. My old HPC2200 has been bought back into service. The Brother makes a good doorstop!Well after another printer been sent out via Brother, this one has packed up already after a couple of months. It is incapable of printing posters in A3 as the paper gets so saturaed it just cloggs up and jams up. I have never mananaged to print out anything on this printer without some sort of drama. Just DONT buy one, they are cheap, nasty and tacky rubbish. Buy yourself an Oki or Ricoh A3 printer, you'll pay 5 times as much but they work without fault. These Brother printers are just banged out of a factory in China for £14.99 a go (I found the source factory) and really are rubbish. Motto is:- Go and buy a HP or Epson printer. Brother really is RUBBISH. AVOID THIS PRODUCT AT ALL COSTS AND GO FOR A DECENT PRINTER. JUST CHEAP TAT.NEW UPDATE: 16TH MAY 2014Well after months of battling with the useless printer I rang up Brother, told them it was a pile of cheap tat and I want my money back as it was not fit for purpose. Argument, I feel coming on! I bought this from Staples and they said you need to contact Brother, well this is utter crap as I am in business myself. The contract of sale is between me and Staples, not me and Brother. The problem is the constant jamming, the inability to print out more than one A3 at a time with jamming and creasing the paper. Sometimes it refuses to pick up. I hasten to add that Staples refused but after a letter from my solicitor they soon changed their minds.IN A NUTSHELL DO NOT TOUCH BROTHER PRINTERS. THEY MAY BE CHEAP BUT THIS MEANS CHEAP AND TAT IN THIS CASE. I HAVE NOW BOUGHT A HP A3 PRINTER TOP FEED THAT IS PERFECT. REPEAT: DO NOT TOUCH THESE PRINTERS, THESE ARE RUBBISHUPDATE: 27th June 2014:-Well it now gone to the bin, can't be arsed to even call Brother. If you are thinking of buying don't they work great for about six months then the paper pick-up goes and that's it. We have had five of these printers and they have all had the same problem with paper pick up. A3 is nigh on impossible to get printed out. Also Brother customer services are not that helpful even when you tell the idiots there is a problem with their products. I hasten to add the HP is working perfectly even though I have dropped it three times and use cheap ink refills.

The Brother bought from Amazon.it was out of date when I bought it, according to a request to join it to my desktop the number MFCJ5910DW was not on the list of Brother printers,The colour is atrocious it is slow and noisy, I have found this as I cannot connect it to my PC only by printing offline.It is a redundent PC sitting all alone by itself I have had to use my old printer as a standby until I gat another updated printer, I have not been able to use this one since it was bouight, at least not combined with my PC.

I was looking for a SIMPLE A3 Printer to just print and scan into my computer for college presentations and artwork purposes, however this was the best I could find though overall its design is unnecessarily complex. I didn't mind if it was wireless though in the instructions there was little information and simple told me to plug in the power and a cord into the phone line, firstly, I just need to do some home scanning and printing, no faxes or anything like that so I did not require the phone line connection.Having read the product description there was no mention of a USB cable so I ordered one myself, at worst, the printer came with one and I'd have a spare. Good thing I did, I bought  5M Printer & Fax USB Computer PC Cable Lead 5m for ALL Brother Devices Including DCP HL MFC  and connected the printer directly to my PC, in all honesty the printer should come with the USB cable or at least provide a link and clearly say it does not provide one.The USB connection is actually inside the printer which is really bad design, it would make more sense for it to be by the power socket but at least it tucks in neatly so it doesn't obscure anything once set, although in order to close the lid the plastic stand inside requires you to push it down while shutting it which is just begging to break eventually.The Scanner is A4 and works perfectly well, I haven't really toyed with the settings on the machine other than on my PC, changing colour quality to Vivid instead and things like that, you also have to set it each time to print duplex but its only a couple of clicks so can't complain.The inks that came with the printer worked perfectly fine and the printer produced its tester page with top quality, which is why in the instructions you have to load the paper tray first.I'm yet to know why the top of the printer is designed as it is, so far its done nothing, the paper tray is in the front as you can see in the images. to load the paper tray you actually have to slide it out entirely and measurements for paper is labelled on the tray, plastic tabs can be moved to keep the paper secure and in position and even more fiddly is in order to load A3 paper you have to hold a small plastic switch (which is not in the instruction manual) and then slide/extend part of the tray. The tray then goes back into the printer and when loaded with A3 the tray protrudes from the main body and even more so with the holder extended to catch the printed paper.In two words: unnecessarily fiddly.But it does its job, its a bit too noisy, it sounds like I do when I can't find my inhaler half the time, and as soon as you turn on the main power (plug, not machine) it switches on just to switch itself off again? like a dog that hears somebody at the door then shrugs it off and goes back to sleep, it doesn't make any sense. It's also very big, and heavy, I've given it its own small TV unit to position it next to my PC desk and keep printer paper/replacement inks and so on underneath in the unit so it works out but still, its totally unnecessary. I understand that most A3 printers are made for offices and so it has all this stuff I don't need and its big, BUT you'd think there would be one scanner/a3 printer that was just a regular A4 printer with a larger paper tray and printing area, not all this junk, if there was even one simple a3 printer it would make a killing.As it is, while the design needs some serious alterations, it works, prints A3 and smaller sizes too, scans A4, with the USB Cable it connects directly to my PC, the disc takes quite a few minutes to complete its process in your PC but overall is really simple, is perfect printing for my art/graphic design course and personal artwork prints too and for a great price. 5M Printer & Fax USB Computer PC Cable Lead 5m for ALL Brother Devices Including DCP HL MFC