Brother DCP-J1800DW review 2023: for home and office use

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Here’s a printer for your home office that can do something none of its competitors can. After printing on both sides of an A4 sheet, it will cut it into two A5 pieces. It’s the first small inkjet printer to have a guillotine, but is it just a joke or a real breakthrough. Brother has managed to keep the price of this well-equipped three-in-one device below £200, so the extra feature doesn’t add much to the price.

Even if you never use the Brother DCP-J1800DW to cut paper, it still has a lot to give. Even though it is small, it has a 20-sheet automatic document reader (ADF) that is cleverly hidden and a multipurpose tray at the back. There are hidden USB and Ethernet ports inside the unit, so the wires won’t come out by mistake. It also has built-in Wi-Fi that works with AirPrint.

Brother DCP-J1800DW specifications

Specification	Details
Print Technology	Inkjet
Print Speed	Up to 12 ppm (black), up to 6 ppm (color)
Print Resolution	Up to 1200 x 6000 dpi
Connectivity	Wireless, USB 2.0
Duplex Printing	Yes
Paper Capacity	100 sheets (input), 50 sheets (output)
Scanner Type	Flatbed
Scanner Resolution	Up to 1200 x 2400 dpi
Copier Function	Yes
Display	2.7-inch color touchscreen
Mobile Printing	AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Brother iPrint&Scan
Dimensions	16.1″ x 13.4″ x 6.8″ (W x D x H)

Brother DCP-J1800DW: Design

For an all-in-one device that includes an automatic document feeder, the Brother DCP-J1800DW manages to maintain a commendably small footprint. When the flaps of the ADF are closed, the top of the document feeder provides a handy flat surface on which documents can be inspected. Under the automatic document feeder (ADF), there is a glass scanner bed that is A4-sized, and the front panel tilts outward so that the 6.8-centimeter color touchscreen display can be accessed more easily.

The primary in-tray can hold up to 150 sheets of paper, and the out-tray can accommodate up to 50 sheets. Single sheets and envelopes can be stored in the multimedia tray located at the back of the printer. This printer appears to be of high quality construction with the exception of the back tray support flap, which is only just strong enough to hold a single sheet of A4 paper. You can buy this official website

Print Speed and Quality

The Brother MFC-J1800DW fared well in all of our testing. The action is swift. The printer can print our five-page paper at a rate of 6.5 pages per minute (ppm), and the first page of text prints in about 20 seconds. The procedure was sped up by making numerous copies of the same page. At 25 pages, the average reached 15.0pt. Easy color jobs printed at the same speed as their black and white counterparts on this printer. It sped up surprisingly little, considering the length and complexity of the graphics job we gave it.

Even more remarkably, it reached a level of 6.0 ppm. Not even pictures presented much of a challenge. It took roughly 75 seconds for each borderless print of 64 inches (10 centimeters) in size. Quick preview and full scan times ranged from nine to eighty-one seconds while scanning a letter at 1,200 dpi. Not surprisingly, duplication was similarly rapid. It took 13 seconds to copy a single page and 16 seconds to do so in color.

Brother DCP-J1800DW: Performance

The Brother DCP-J1800DW passed all of our quality tests without any paper jams or mistakes, and the cutting tool worked as expected. It’s not the fastest inkjet printer on the market, but it’s fast enough. In our timed tests, it met the print times given.

Plain text pages look clear and use a small amount of ink, so there was no smearing of ink when writing at very small point sizes. It’s not the darkest black ink we’ve seen, but it looks the same every time. Adding color to mixed papers showed that Brother’s CMY Innobella inks are not very bright either, but they do stay put on plain paper.

Final Words

The DCP-J1800DW does something that no other printer does, and it does it very well. It cuts tiny prints beautifully and quickly. If you often print on A5, the system gives you an easy way to avoid having an extra paper size on hand.

But this MFP is poor in other ways, even though its main feature is great. It has a lot of useful features and works quickly, but the scan quality isn’t great and it’s not the best at printing on plain paper. More importantly, it’s expensive to run, and since cartridges only last for 500 pages and there’s no ink contract, it could be hard to keep track of supplies.

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