The bright and high-resolution color touchscreen display makes navigating the printer’s many settings menus easy. All of the other printers we tested for this guide use old-school resistive touchscreens that aren’t nearly as accurate or easy to use as the capacitive touchscreens on most smartphones. Both their brother monochrome laser printer laser and inkjet printers tend to yield many pages before you need to replace their ink or toner cartridges. This is great if you’re constantly printing off several pages at a time. Unfortunately, while it has great connectivity options, it doesn’t support Bluetooth printing or printing from a USB thumb drive.
You will probably be able to get a Brother printer of the same specifications from Brother for a cheaper price. The HP M130fw, too, managed only 10.5ppm at this juncture in our benchmarking regimen. Label printers have a compact, handheld design that enhances portability, and they work on a variety of paper and film mediums. With a powerful, built-in battery, most label and receipt printers run for a long time on a single charge, making them efficient. The Canon ImageClass MF264dw and MF267dw are very similar to the MF269dw we tested, but both have a smaller ADF capacity and neither offers duplex scanning and copying. The Brother DCP-L2550DW is a good bargain option if you don’t need some of the features that our monochrome multifunction pick offers.
The bright, colorful, smartphone-style touchscreen interface is easy to work with, though it isn’t as large as the one on our upgrade pick. You can use the M255dw’s top USB port to print photos, PDFs, and Word documents. For this guide, we looked for the best options in each of these categories. Although their cartridges can cost a little more to replace, you have to do it less often, which results in a very affordable cost-per-print.
Their inkjet printers typically print worse-quality photos compared to other brands. Unfortunately, its color accuracy is disappointing, so even though it does print decent-quality photos, they look washed out compared to the originals. It doesn’t support Bluetooth, but you can still print with ease using your smartphone or laptop and even directly from flash drives, thanks to its outstanding array of connectivity features. Also, the Brother Mobile Connect app makes it easy to perform print, scan, and maintenance features right from your mobile device. Because of all these reasons, this is the best Brother printer for home that we’ve tested. At 33 pages per minute, or 58 images per minute for double-sided jobs, it is one of the highest-speed printers available for general sale.
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