Brother MFC-J4540DW vs HP OfficeJet Pro 9132e

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MFC-J4540DW compared with OfficeJet Pro 9132e

	BrotherMFC-J4540DW	HPOfficeJet Pro 9132e
Overview
Released
Released	August 2021	October 2023
Printing
Type
Type	Inkjet	Inkjet
Colour
Colour	Yes	Yes
Speed, black
Speed, black	20 pages a minute	25 pages a minute (better)
Speed, colour
Speed, colour	19 pages a minute	20 pages a minute (better)
Resolution
Resolution	1200 × 4800 dpi	4800 × 1200 dpi
Prints both sides
Prints both sides	Yes	Yes
Printing detail
Printing detail	Piezo inkjet (210 nozzles for black, 3 × 210 for colour); 2-sided printing at 11 ipm black and 10 ipm colour (ISO/IEC 24734); borderless printing up to A4; 128MB memory; quiet mode	Automatic two-sided printing; draft speeds up to 39 ppm black and colour; borderless on photo paper up to A4; print language HP PCL3 GUI; 1.2 GHz processor, 512 MB memory
First page out
First page out	5.8 seconds black, 5.9 seconds colour (ISO/IEC 17629)	As fast as 10 sec black, 11 sec colour (A4, ready)
Resolution detail
Resolution detail	–	1200 x 1200 rendered dpi black; up to 4800 x 1200 optimised dpi colour on HP Advanced Photo Paper (1200 x 1200 input dpi)
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	LC426 cartridges (3,000 pages black, 1,500 pages each colour) or LC426XL (6,000 black, 5,000 colour)	Four cartridges (black, cyan, magenta, yellow), HP 937 or HP 937e EvoMore; HP Instant Ink subscription available
Page yield
Page yield	Cartridges in the box for about 3,000 black and 1,500 colour pages; yields declared to ISO/IEC 24711	HP 937: ~1,250 pages black, ~800 pages each colour (ISO/IEC 19752); HP 937e EvoMore: ~2,500 pages black, ~1,650 pages each colour
Duty cycle
Duty cycle	Up to 2,000 pages a month recommended	Up to 30,000 pages a month (A4); up to 2,000 pages recommended
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan, Copy and Fax	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); up to 1200 × 2400 dpi from the glass, 1200 × 600 dpi from the feeder; scan to USB, email, network, FTP, SFTP, SharePoint and OCR	Flatbed (up to 215.9 x 297 mm) and 35-sheet single-pass two-sided feeder; up to 1200 dpi optical; up to 18 ipm black and colour, 21 ipm black and 15 ipm colour two-sided (A4, 200 ppi); scan to email, network folder, SharePoint and USB drive; OCR
Copying
Copying	13 ipm black and 10.5 ipm colour 1-sided, 5 and 4.5 ipm 2-sided; first copy in 10.5 seconds black, 13 seconds colour; up to 1200 × 2400 dpi; 25–400% zoom	Up to 23 cpm black, 15 cpm colour (ISO, A4); up to 99 copies; 25 to 400%
Fax
Fax	ITU-T Group 3, 14,400 bps; PC-Fax send and receive; 180-page memory; 100-name address book with 2 numbers each	Colour fax, 33.6 kbps; up to 100 pages of fax memory
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A4	A4
Paper tray
Paper tray	400 sheets	500 sheets (better)
Paper sizes
Paper sizes	Input 150-sheet tray and 250-sheet second tray, plus a 1-sheet manual feed slot; tray 1 and manual slot A4, Letter, Legal, Folio, Executive, A5, A6, 10 × 15 cm, 9 × 13 cm, 13 × 18 cm, 13 × 20 cm and envelopes C5, COM-10, DL and Monarch; tray 2 A4, Letter, Legal, Folio, Executive and A5 plain paper; document feeder 148–215.9 mm wide by 148–355.6 mm long; 2-sided A4, Letter, Executive and A5	A4, A5, A6, B5 (JIS), 13 x 18 cm, 10 x 15 cm, envelopes (C5, C6, DL); custom 76.2 x 127 to 215.9 x 355.6 mm (tray 1); two 250-sheet trays (tray 2 plain paper only)
Paper types
Paper types	Plain, inkjet, glossy and recycled paper; tray 1 64–220 gsm; tray 2 plain and recycled only	Plain, photo, matte and glossy brochure papers, cards, envelopes, labels; plain paper 60 to 105 g/m², photo paper 220 to 280 g/m²
Output tray
Output tray	100 sheets face up	100 sheets
Connections
Connects by
Connects by	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB and Wi-Fi Direct
Connection detail
Connection detail	Hi-Speed USB 2.0; front USB host port; Ethernet; Wi-Fi 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n; Wi-Fi Direct; WPS; NFC	Hi-Speed USB 2.0 (device); Hi-Speed USB 2.0 host; Ethernet; dual-band Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) with self-healing; Wi-Fi Direct; 2 RJ-11 fax ports
Printing from phones
Printing from phones	Apple AirPrint, Mopria, Brother Print Service Plugin; Brother Web Connect	HP app, Apple AirPrint, Mopria, Wi-Fi Direct, Chrome OS
App
App	Brother Mobile Connect (Android, iPhone and iPad)	HP app
Control panel
Control panel	6.8cm (2.7″) colour touchscreen	4.3-inch colour touchscreen
Design
Weight
Weight	10.4 kg	11.84 kg
Power use
Power use	21 W copying, 3.5 W ready, 1.2 W sleep, 0.2 W off	5.58 W ready, 1.22 W sleep, 0.14 W off
Noise
Noise	57 dB(A) printing (sound pressure)	7.0 B(A) sound power, 61 dB(A) sound pressure (printing at 21 ppm)
Size
Size	435 × 372 × 250 mm (W × D × H)	437 x 396.3 x 318.3 mm (W x D x H); 437 x 547 x 318.3 mm with output tray extended
In the box
In the box	Printer, ink cartridges, power cord, quick setup guide, product safety guide, user guide, warranty card	Printer, HP 937 setup cartridges (black, cyan, magenta, yellow), setup poster, reference guide, power cord