🖨️ Brother MFC-J491DW Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer – Color Duplex Mobile Printing Review

Do not buy this printer and I recommend reading about other brands, period. It only exists to stealthily siphon off unused ink and shut down the entire machine whenever it wants until you put in another cartridge. This isn't just an exaggeration of angry commentators. Reviews for this printer seemed to be generally positive when we first bought it. Immediately after the purchase, bad business practices began to circulate. There are certainly many test reports with this information, but the more

So the manual says how to set it up and then it prints a test page. Our cyan test showed nothing, so we followed the printhead cleaning instructions and got the same result. Two more times. On a brand new printer. We call Brother, they say the "starter" cartridge is probably empty because we cleaned the print head 3 times. How much does it cost if you clean it? How small are starter cartridges? They tell us to buy him a new cartridge. Why should I buy cartridges for a printer that hasn't been…

My old but useful Cannon printer was starting to have problems and because I needed a printer that I could hide in a closet and not have cables attached to laptops tied up in my house, I went in search of wireless printers. I don't print often, so I didn't need a lot of features that would hardly be used, just a reliable printer that works wirelessly, is compact and lightweight, and replacement cartridges aren't too expensive. That's when I found it and after reading a lot of great reviews I…

Do yourself a favor and shop something different. This thing is very good at printing, but I'll probably never know. I broke my 3+ hour install (I'm not stupid enough to take that long) to write this. Now I'm trying to figure out how to shrink the copy to 50% of the original. The printer controls (and installer) are the least intuitive I've seen. The custom settings are there but keep going back to 100%. You can't type 5 and 0 unless 100 is removed with the X key, which is all that's available…

got defects, fought with it for 2 months. Should have sent it back, but despite my stubbornness I managed to do it and finally gave up after the return period had expired. I just replaced it with a much better performing, more reliable (but more expensive) non-Brother laser printer and couldn't be happier. After setup, the printer would print for about a day and then throw a "4F" error on the next print job. was presented. The documentation says to check for "4F" error jams and shut down the…

UPDATE: After 4 months we love this printer. From time to time we need to reset the WiFi connection, but it's very easy since our modem has a WPS button. Unlike HP, inks last forever and are much cheaper than HP. It's also VERY easy to use, despite our initial difficulties setting it up. It can easily be printed on both sides. It prints from both of our computers. Copies and scans are no problem. I haven't used it to send faxes, but that's because I didn't need it. UPDATE AS PROMISE: We…

Overall impression, this is a great printer for the price. Print quality was excellent for color and regular black and white. Fast enough for color photos and black and white photos. The scanner works fine, the copier works fine, it prints fine from the phone. I haven't tried NFC as I've added it to my phone on the LAN and haven't tried the cell phone's fax function yet. I also don't have a landline to connect to. The printer is very compact and durable. Doesn't feel like flimsy plastic and…