DCP-T780DW

Released June 2025

The DCP-T780DW is Brother's compact A4 ink tank all-in-one that prints, scans and copies, suited to a home or micro business that prints a lot of colour and wants low running costs from bottled ink.

Type: Ink tank
Colour: Yes
Does: Print, Scan, Copy
Pages a minute: 16
Both sides: Yes

What reviewers say

Reviewers agree it is a compact, sensibly equipped home-office all-in-one whose bottled ink brings running costs in line with Epson, Canon and HP tank printers, and they found the document feeder and scanning dependable. TechRadar liked its colour prints but found the dye black text greyish and the tanks small; IT Pro thought print quality competent rather than class-leading.

From techradar.com and itpro.com

Specifications

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Printing

Type: Ink tank
Colour: Yes
Speed, black: 16 pages a minute
Speed, colour: 9 pages a minute
Resolution: 1200 × 6000 dpi
Prints both sides: Yes
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
First page out: 6.2 seconds black, 6.5 seconds colour (ISO/IEC 17629)
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
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
Duty cycle: Up to 1,000 pages a month recommended

Scanning and copying

Does: Print, Scan and Copy
Document feeder: Yes
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
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

Paper

Largest paper: A4
Paper tray: 150 sheets
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
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
Output tray: 50 sheets

Connections

Connects by: Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
Connection detail: Hi-Speed USB 2.0; Wi-Fi 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n and 5GHz 802.11a/n; Wi-Fi Direct; WPS
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
App: Brother Mobile Connect (Android, iPhone and iPad)
Control panel: 4.5cm (1.8″) colour display with buttons

Design

Weight: 7.9 kg
Power use: 16 W copying, 2.5 W ready, 0.6 W sleep, 0.15 W off
Noise: 55 dB(A) printing (sound pressure)
Size: 390 × 343 × 183 mm (W × D × H)
In the box: Printer, ink bottles, power cord, quick setup guide, warranty card

Pros and cons

Pros

Ink bottles in the box for about 15,000 black and 5,000 colour pages
Automatic 2-sided printing and a 20-sheet document feeder
2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi as well as USB

Cons

16 ipm black and 9 ipm colour (ISO)
No Ethernet port or fax
150-sheet tray and 4.5cm display with buttons rather than a touchscreen

Closest rivals

Model	Type	Colour	Does	Pages a minute	Both sides	Released
EpsonEcoTank ET-2950	Ink tank	Yes	Print, Scan, Copy	15	Yes	Sept 2025
EpsonEcoTank ET-3950	Ink tank	Yes	Print, Scan, Copy	18	Yes	Sept 2025
EpsonEcoTank ET-4950	Ink tank	Yes	Print, Scan, Copy, Fax	18	Yes	Sept 2025

Sources

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