As the premium printer in Brother's Business Smart collection, the Brother MFC-J4710DW uses everything you'll find in the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J4610DW and more. That equates to begin with, the very same 400-sheet capacity for letter-size paper and a manual feed for up to tabloid dimensions (11 by 17 inches), among other features, and then adds a bigger touch display, duplex scanning, and the capacity to load up to 250 sheets of tabloid-size paper in one of its trays. The combination makes it a simple Editors' Choice pick for mini and tiny workplaces.
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Brother MFC-J4710DW Review
What every model in the business Smart multifunction printer (MFP) series has in common is that it can print on tabloid-size paper fed via a manual-feed port. For most models, the hand-operated feed is the only option for larger-than-letter-size printing, limiting how much you can publish at tabloid dimensions (or legal size, for that matter) without it becoming an irritating task.
The capacity to place tabloid-size paper in one of the MFC-J4710DW's two cabinets removes that concern. It likewise turns the printer into a true tabloid-size MFP, in much the same course as the Brother MFC-J6510DW and the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J6710DW. Nonetheless, compared with those printers, it also has the advantage of being a whole lot smaller.
Set the drawer to tabloid-size paper, and it sticks out from the printer, adding 14.9 inches to the printer's depth. Nevertheless, collapse the drawer for letter-size paper, and the printer is just 10.0 by 18.9 by 11.4 inches (HWD).
Basics
If you ignore the large-capacity tray, the MFC-J4710DW is essentially the same as the Brother MFC-J4610DW in most other respects. It can print and fax from and to a computer system, including over a network; it can work as a standalone photocopier and fax machine; it can print directly from a PictBridge-enabled electronic camera; and it can print from and scan to an SD card or USB memory stick. It will additionally let you preview documents on a flash memory card or USB drive before printing, utilizing a 3.7-inch color touch screen rather than the 1.8-inch display on its less expensive near-double.
The two printers likewise share the same mobile printing features, including cloud printing, printing from a smartphone or tablet over Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi Direct, so you can connect to a mobile device even if the printer isn't on a network with an access point.
To say that the paper capacity for printing is a strong point is an understatement. In addition to the 400-sheet capacity, it includes a 150-sheet cabinet for letter-size paper and a 250-sheet cabinet for paper up to tabloid size, an integrated duplexer (for printing on both sides of a page), and the manual feed slot in the back that I've already discussed.
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The paper drawers feed into the printer with the long side of letter-size paper facing the front, so it feeds out the long side first. Given that layout, it's very little of a leap to likewise let you feed tabloid-size paper via the hands-on feed slot with the 11-inch side as the leading side, or to extend the one paper cabinet, making it big enough to hold tabloid-size paper, with the 11-inch side as the leading edge entering into the printer.
For scanning, the MFC-J4710DW offers both a letter-size flatbed and a 20-page automatic file feeder (ADF). Similar to the majority of office-oriented MFPs, the ADF allows you to scan up to legal-size web pages. More crucially, however, unlike the scanners on most affordable MFPs, the MFC-J4710DW scanner can scan in duplex, which means scanning both sides of a page concurrently.
If you handle duplex files frequently, duplex scanning is a crucial feature. Many cost-effective MFPs that can scan paired pages make use of duplexing ADFs, not duplexing scanners. The difference is that a duplexing ADF needs to scan one side, flip the web page over, and scan the other side, which takes much longer than scanning both sides at once. That's faster than doing it by hand, but it's no match for actually scanning in duplex.
As you would expect, the ability to both scan and print in duplex lets you duplicate both single- and double-sided originals to your selection of single- or double-sided copies. You can also check for simplex (one-sided) or duplex printing for faxing and copying.
