Brother DCP-T780DW vs Epson EcoTank ET-4950

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DCP-T780DW compared with EcoTank ET-4950

	BrotherDCP-T780DW	EpsonEcoTank ET-4950
Overview
Released
Released	June 2025	September 2025
Printing
Type
Type	Ink tank	Ink tank
Colour
Colour	Yes	Yes
Speed, black
Speed, black	16 pages a minute	18 pages a minute (better)
Speed, colour
Speed, colour	9 pages a minute	9 pages a minute
Resolution
Resolution	1200 × 6000 dpi	4800 × 1200 dpi
Prints both sides
Prints both sides	Yes	Yes
Printing detail
Printing detail	Inkjet with refillable ink tanks; 2-sided printing at 7 ipm black and 5 ipm colour (ISO/IEC 24734); borderless printing up to A4; 128MB memory; quiet mode	PrecisionCore print head, 400 black nozzles and 128 per colour; 3.3 pl minimum droplet; automatic 2-sided printing on A4 plain paper at 7 pages a minute black and 5 colour (ISO/IEC 24734); borderless printing; up to 35 pages a minute black and 23 colour in draft on 75 g/m² paper
First page out
First page out	6.2 seconds black, 6.5 seconds colour (ISO/IEC 17629)	8.5 seconds black, 13.5 seconds colour
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	BTD180BK black (7,500 pages) and BTD180 cyan, magenta and yellow (5,000 pages each) ink bottles; key-lock bottles fill only the matching tank	Pigment black and dye cyan, magenta and yellow in refillable tanks; 127 ml black and 70 ml colour bottles
Page yield
Page yield	Two black bottles (2 × 7,500 pages) and one of each colour (5,000 pages) in the box; Brother's own method with ISO/IEC 24712 test pages, not ISO/IEC 24711; about 7,125 black and 4,450 colour pages remain after the first fill of the ink lines	Ink in the box (a full set plus an extra black) prints 15,100 pages black and 5,500 colour
Duty cycle
Duty cycle	Up to 1,000 pages a month recommended	Built for up to 100,000 pages over its life; warranty 12 months or 100,000 pages
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan and Copy	Print, Scan, Copy and Fax
Document feeder
Document feeder	Yes	Yes
Scanner
Scanner	Colour CIS scanner with A4 glass and 20-sheet document feeder; 1-sided scanning at 17 ipm mono and 7 ipm colour (ISO/IEC 17991); 1200 × 2400 dpi from the glass, 600 × 600 dpi from the feeder; scan to email, image and file	Contact image sensor (CIS) with flatbed and 30-page document feeder; 2-sided scanning from the feeder; 1,200 × 2,400 dpi optical; feeder 5 ipm 1-sided and 3.5 ipm 2-sided, black or colour; flatbed A4 in 9 seconds black and 21 seconds colour; saves BMP, JPEG, PICT, TIFF, multi-TIFF, PDF and PNG
Copying
Copying	11 ipm black and 8 ipm colour from the feeder (ISO/IEC 24735); 2-sided copying; first copy in 13 seconds black, 25 seconds colour; up to 1200 × 2400 dpi; 25–400% zoom; 2-in-1 ID copy	2-sided copying from the document feeder (A4 plain paper)
Fax
Fax	–	Black-and-white and colour fax at up to 33.6 kbps (about 3 seconds a page); 100 speed dials; 100-page memory; PC fax, broadcast, fax preview, polling reception
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A4	A4
Paper tray
Paper tray	150 sheets	250 sheets (better)
Paper sizes
Paper sizes	Tray A4, Letter, Legal, Folio, Executive, A5, A6, 10 × 15 cm photo, 13 × 20 cm index card, 13 × 18 cm, envelopes C5, DL, COM-10 and Monarch; manual feed slot (1 sheet) A4, A5, Letter, Legal, Folio and 10 × 15 cm; document feeder 139.7–215.9 mm wide by 210–355.6 mm long; 2-sided A4 only	A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, Letter, 10 × 15 cm, 13 × 18 cm, envelopes (No. 10, DL, C6)
Paper types
Paper types	Tray plain, inkjet, glossy and recycled paper, 64–220 gsm; manual feed slot 64–300 gsm; document feeder 64–90 gsm; 2-sided 64–105 gsm	64–300 g/m² (300 g/m² with Epson Ultra Glossy Photo Paper)
Output tray
Output tray	50 sheets	30 sheets; opens automatically when a job starts
Connections
Connects by
Connects by	Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct and USB	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
Connection detail
Connection detail	Hi-Speed USB 2.0; Wi-Fi 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n and 5GHz 802.11a/n; Wi-Fi Direct; WPS	USB; Ethernet; Wi-Fi 5 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) on 2.4 and 5 GHz; Wi-Fi Direct; WPA3
Printing from phones
Printing from phones	Apple AirPrint (print and scan), Mopria, Brother Print Service Plugin; Brother Web Connect for Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Evernote and SharePoint Online	Apple AirPrint, Mopria Print Service, Mopria Scan, Epson Connect (Email Print, Remote Print Driver, Scan-to-Cloud)
App
App	Brother Mobile Connect (Android, iPhone and iPad)	Epson Smart Panel
Control panel
Control panel	4.5cm (1.8″) colour display with buttons	6.1 cm colour touchscreen
Design
Weight
Weight	7.9 kg	7.3 kg
Power use
Power use	16 W copying, 2.5 W ready, 0.6 W sleep, 0.15 W off	15 W copying (ISO/IEC 24712), 7.4 W ready, 0.7 W sleep, 0.1 W off; TEC 0.1 kWh a week
Noise
Noise	55 dB(A) printing (sound pressure)	–
Size
Size	390 × 343 × 183 mm (W × D × H)	375 × 347 × 240 mm (W × D × H)
In the box
In the box	Printer, ink bottles, power cord, quick setup guide, warranty card	Printer, one set of ink bottles (127 ml black; 70 ml cyan, magenta and yellow) plus an extra black, power cable, quick setup guide, warranty document