MFC-L8690CDW Color Laser Printer – The Brother MFC-L8690CDW is a printer that can be a large unit that prefers to make a square on your own desk. Apparently Brother has a printer that is robust to extend its life and definitely feels very durable for a tool that’s mostly made of plastic.
Its large size means there’s plenty of room for paper and toner. You’ll even buy an extra paper drawer that acts as a base for adding 250 sheets of plain paper.
Brother MFC-L8690CDW Color Laser Printer Show
The time it takes to print 10 pages of text on both sides, along with the time it takes to heat up is only fifty-three seconds. Brother MFC-L8690CDW quoted page speed of 31ppm is much faster and reaches a constant speed as a Color Laser document.
More importantly, each page is often clean and precise, with no creases, smudges, or paper jams. it deeply touches plain text, which makes it possible to print very small font sizes without losing clarity.
Color Laser documents are less spectacular because Color Laser tend to sink into each other by touch. At 1,200 x 600dpi the resolution is not very high, so photos tend to look soft and flat, even after using optically glossy maser paper. Note that inkjet exposure paper should not be used because the Brother MFC-L8690CDW electrostatic printer generates enough heat to break the glossy edge.
Highest Resolution Scanner
The Brother MFC-L8690CDW scans at a later resolution than prints and scans quickly too. You’ll save your scans to a USB flash drive, PC, or to the cloud using a companion app. The Brother iPrint&Scan app makes this very easy to try and do.
In general, we have a tendency to find that the Brother MFC-L8690CDW performed well during our tests and was quite intuitive to control even if it didn’t reach the user manual.
Brother MFC-L8690CDW Easy operation
The Brother MFC-L8690CDW is, unusual in that it doesn’t have an associated on-screen setup wizard, or companion app to direct you through formatting the data, but that’s okay as the written setup manual is very easy to follow.
It’s just a case of removing all the transport tape and plastic stuff from the machine and selecting the right Wi-Fi network from the list. Entering the password is, made quite simple with the nine.3 cm touchscreen, which records with a beep every time you bite the key. This Brother printer is reasonable enough to set the exact date and time itself.
Connectivity
There’s a Brother MFC-L8690CDW USB port on the front for flash drives and a square USB port on the back for plugging in an information cable (not included), with an associated local area network port on the side. The large flap on the front is where you can access the four toner cartridges.
They’re great for around 3,000 mono and 1,800 Color Laser prints, which is also great because they cost £87.59 for a refill of the black and expensive Brother MFC-L8690CDW cartridge.
