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Name Inkjet multifunction printer: Brother DCP-J140W At a glance: Low print speeds,Oversaturated photo prints, with high ink consumption,Wi-Fi enabled, includes USB cable,Good scan speed and quality Summary: High ink consumption and low print speed make this a difficult machine to recommend. Spore creature creator online. Rating: 2/5 RRP: $100 Contact: brother.co.nz Brother's DCP-J140W has an RRP of $100, and sells for as little as $81. It’s the only printer we've tested lately that includes a three-year warranty, so long as you only use official Brother-branded ink cartridges. If you use refilled or aftermarket cartridges, and the warranty is the standard one year. The DCP-J140W is easy to get setup, and has a simple on-printer interface with thirteen clearly-labelled buttons and a single-line LCD status display.
This makes it particularly easy to perform maintenance tasks that would otherwise send you scrambling to download the manual you’ve long since lost. Brother earns massive points for being the only vendor in our March 2013 roundup to internalise the paper tray, rather than leave paper standing up in the rear of the printer or sitting half-out the front. Why does that matter? Because stand-up paper inputs results in curled paper, more likely to cause printer jams. Flat paper inputs are better, but allow paper to gather dust, moisture and other contaminants if you don’t print for a while. It’s easy to get the printer up and running, and Brother is considerate enough to include the necessary USB cable. The DCP-J140W also supports Wi-Fi, which is good if you want to share the printer between multiple devices, or just can’t find a spot for it within cable-reach of your PC.
Note that as with all printers we’ve tested, using Wi-Fi has a negative impact on print and scan speeds. The included Brother Utilities software gives you quick access to print and scan settings, without getting in the way. Optionally installable are simple portrait editor FaceFilter Studio, BookScan and Whiteboard Suite, oddly specific packages for cleaning up scanned book pages, and photographs of whiteboards, and Homepage Print 2 for printing specific portions of web pages (unsupported on Windows 8). It might be worth a play if you’re bored – FaceFilter Studio has a few nifty morph effects – but we didn’t find any of it genuinely useful. Black and white pages printed at the lowest speed in our roundup, at 6.1 pages per minute for text and line-art, and 4.2 pages per minute for graphics. First pages were delivered in 18 and 25 seconds respectively.
Colour print speeds? Unfortunately we can’t say, as we depleted both the included set of ink cartridges and a full set of replacements before we could run those tests. Cartridge yield is the highest advertised in our roundup, at 300 pages per black cartridge, 260 pages per colour (there are individual Cyan, Magenta and Yellow cartridges).
The total upfront cost is $79, which works out to approximately 9 cents per page for black and white, or 29 cents per page for colour. Very reasonable costs, until you discover that those capacities don’t take photos into consideration. Printing just six full-colour A4 photographs, 11 monochrome magazine pages, and four colour magazine pages, completely depleted our fresh set of cartridges, to the point that the printer would not even attempt to produce a page. ‘Yellow empty’, it said. Looking at the little clear window on the yellow cartridge, there were still a few drops of ink sloshing around.
Printer says no, however – that ink is apparently trapped in the cartridge for all time. Print quality may help explain this high ink usage. Text, line-art and colour graphics all come out fine – just as we’ve seen from the other printers tested. Photographs are also very sharp and detailed. However, calling the DCP-J140W’s photo prints ‘saturated’ would be like calling the late Barry White’s voice ‘a bit deep’. Colours are so oversaturated that prints look almost fluorescent. They really pop, and this will appeal to some users, but they’re not realistic.
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Now think about what saturated means, in printing terms. To get colour that overly rich, it’s gonna take a whole lot of ink. Scan speeds were fast, taking 11 seconds for a monochrome page (300dpi), 41 seconds for a colour page (600dpi) and a very quick 2 minutes 27 seconds at the maximum 1200dpi. Scan quality was great, particularly at the higher resolutions.
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I wish I could recommend the DCP-J140W. It’s solidly constructed, has an enclosed paper tray, includes everything you need in the box, and functions well as a scanner. However, as a printer, it’s slow. Its oversaturation and massive ink consumption make it unsuitable for photo printing, so cross it right off your list if that’s something you want or need.