Brother · MFC
MFC-J4540DW
The MFC-J4540DW is Brother's A4 colour inkjet all-in-one for home and small offices, printing, scanning, copying and faxing, with two paper trays holding 400 sheets and high-yield ink cartridges.
- Type
- Inkjet
- Colour
- Yes
- Does
- Print, Scan, Copy, Fax
- Pages a minute
- 20
- Both sides
- Yes
What reviewers say
Reviewers agree it is a fast, well-featured home-office all-in-one with crisp documents and low running costs from its high-yield cartridges. They differ on photos: TechRadar found them average and colours muted, while Tom's Guide, testing the US MFC-J4535DW, found them attractive but copies less than sharp; TechRadar also noted it can't scan both sides.
From techradar.com and tomsguide.com
Specifications
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- Type
- Inkjet
- Colour
- Yes
- Speed, black
- 20 pages a minute
- Speed, colour
- 19 pages a minute
- Resolution
- 1200 × 4800 dpi
- Prints both sides
- Yes
- 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
- First page out
- 5.8 seconds black, 5.9 seconds colour (ISO/IEC 17629)
- Ink or toner
- LC426 cartridges (3,000 pages black, 1,500 pages each colour) or LC426XL (6,000 black, 5,000 colour)
- Page yield
- Cartridges in the box for about 3,000 black and 1,500 colour pages; yields declared to ISO/IEC 24711
- Duty cycle
- Up to 2,000 pages a month recommended
Scanning and copying
- Does
- Print, Scan, Copy and Fax
- 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); up to 1200 × 2400 dpi from the glass, 1200 × 600 dpi from the feeder; scan to USB, email, network, FTP, SFTP, SharePoint and OCR
- 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
- Fax
- ITU-T Group 3, 14,400 bps; PC-Fax send and receive; 180-page memory; 100-name address book with 2 numbers each
Paper
- Largest paper
- A4
- Paper tray
- 400 sheets
- 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
- Paper types
- Plain, inkjet, glossy and recycled paper; tray 1 64–220 gsm; tray 2 plain and recycled only
- Output tray
- 100 sheets face up
Connections
- Connects by
- Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
- 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
- Printing from phones
- Apple AirPrint, Mopria, Brother Print Service Plugin; Brother Web Connect
- App
- Brother Mobile Connect (Android, iPhone and iPad)
- Control panel
- 6.8cm (2.7″) colour touchscreen
Design
- Weight
- 10.4 kg
- Power use
- 21 W copying, 3.5 W ready, 1.2 W sleep, 0.2 W off
- Noise
- 57 dB(A) printing (sound pressure)
- Size
- 435 × 372 × 250 mm (W × D × H)
- In the box
- Printer, ink cartridges, power cord, quick setup guide, product safety guide, user guide, warranty card
Pros and cons
Pros
- 400 sheets across two trays, plus a 20-sheet document feeder
- Ink cartridges in the box for about 3,000 black and 1,500 colour pages
- Ethernet, NFC and a USB port for printing photos from and scanning to a flash drive
Cons
- 20 ipm black and 19 ipm colour (ISO)
- 2.4GHz Wi-Fi only
- Replaced by the MFC-J4550DW in 2025
Closest rivals
Model | Type | Colour | Does | Pages a minute | Both sides | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkjet | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy, Fax | 25 | Yes | Sept 2020 | |
| Inkjet | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy | 14 | Yes | Sept 2022 | |
| Inkjet | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy, Fax | 25 | Yes | Oct 2023 |
Newer model: MFC-J4550DW.
Sources
- store.brother.co.uk/devices/inkjet/mfcj/mfcj4540dw
- support.brother.com/g/b/spec.aspx
- dealersupport.co.uk/brother-uk-launches-new-inkjet-range-designed-for-hybrid-wo…
- dealersupport.co.uk/news-brother-uk-refreshes-inkjet-lineup