Review on 🖨️ Brother MFC-L3770CDW: Compact Wireless Color All-in-One Printer with NFC, Touchscreen, & Duplex Printing by Matt Travers

I bought this printer from a local store so I can easily return it if I don't like it. I tried both the HP 281 and Canon 733 and returned both and finally found this Brother MFC-L3770cdw. All three printers print great in black and white and color on the regular 24 gauge paper that I use. While none of these are designed for stunning photo quality on photo paper, I easily solved this problem with the $100 Epson XP-7100 Photo Printer. I think you can print on laser photo paper (which requires paper other than inkjet photo paper), but I haven't had a chance to test that yet. For personal and business use, this printer works great. . The problem with HP and Canon starts with the ADF (Automatic Document Feeder). You couldn't ask for more crooked scans and copies if you tried; this is particularly bad at HP and very frustrating. I really liked the HP printer for its printing and (flat)copy capabilities and wanted to keep this printer. But the ADF was a nightmare and appears to be a design flaw. I returned HP and got another one with the same problem and I called HP and also used google to try and find a solution to make it work. In theory I could use Acrobat Standard to tweak and correct any crooked scans, but the problem would remain with what was copied using ADF. Similar problems with Canon, but not as much. I understand that not all ADFs can be perfect, but Brother seems to have the fewest problems and the copying and scanning are pretty good. the web server area of the printer where you can configure and adjust red, green and blue (which you can do with Brother and possibly Canon too). But unfortunately that automatic document feeder was a deal breaker and I needed something that would produce acceptable scans and copies that Brother makes. Next, the HP scans I found were very bloated, and the Canon scans aren't as good as Brother's either. Brother seems to produce black and white scans averaging around 50kb, which are optimized to around 20kb and compressed well with Acrobat Standard. HP scanned about 400,000 and looked poor quality and unacceptable. I liked how HP can easily email your scans directly via SMTP. I haven't figured out how to do that with Brother yet. I managed to get Brother to email me the scans, but it looks like it's from Brother and not my email. However, it's also easy to scan to a USB drive or network folder instead. Scanning from the ADF or the flatbed was definitely a lot better for me than HP or Canon. Both Brother and HP have very easy to use interfaces. However, the HP interface/front panel is a bit small. Canon was extremely difficult to understand and not user friendly at all. I had to watch a few YouTube videos to find out. HP is the smallest of the three printers and the most compact, which is good, then comes Brother and then Canon is pretty big. It's been a few weeks now and I haven't had too much time to delve into all the features, but I know I'll keep at it. Today I discovered something I like: I was trying to copy the cover of a small book and noticed that the cover is slightly lifted on the tablet. This keeps the flatbed lid horizontal/flat instead of moving at an angle (which cuts off more light when copying). One thing I noticed is that it takes a little longer to print on a Brother printer than other printers. first page. Not sure if it is related to waking from hibernation or something else. But I don't mind if I have to wait an extra 10 seconds for it to wake up from sleep. After waking up, it prints fairly quickly. I had to print a few hundred pages the other day and I timed it and it was about 26 pages per minute which was fine with me. I know I can change the sleep setting from 5 minutes to a few hours if I want, but then again I don't mind if it takes a few seconds longer to finish the first page. I hooked up my brother's printer. directly to a network cable in my network. I've been trying to print photos and other stuff from my phone and my phone (connected to Wi-Fi) has been typing for quite a while. But I think it's a wifi issue and has nothing to do with the printer as it prints quickly from my computer which is also connected to the cable. I remember sometimes with HP it just stopped working with only my Wi-Fi devices (although my HP was connected to a static IP with a network cable). I had to turn HP off and then turn it back on to get it working again. I've read that others have had this problem with HP. I'm not sure about Canon because I didn't have enough time to test it because I didn't like its complexity and the problem with ADF and scanning. I like the simple interface and need good quality scans and copies. . I couldn't find any reviews of this printer on Amazon, nor are there many of them on YouTube, so I decided to write my own. Apart from that, those who get it can download the manuals from their website. A good printer is a keeper.