Looking for office-style printers and scanners for your home? Brother MFC-L3710CW may be right for you.

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Release time: Friday, May 14, 2021, 2:45 pm

Brother has been in the home and office printing business for decades. Like Japanese consumer electronics institutions Canon and Epson, it is probably best known as a printer manufacturer.

MFC-L3710CW was first launched in 2019, but it still performed strongly. Since then, its RRP has seen a gratifying decline. As part of the "MFC" series, MFC-L3710CW, as its name implies, is a multifunction printer that combines the functions of a color laser printer, scanner, and copier.

Larger and heavier than most consumer all-in-one printers, and more business-like in design, it may be best to think of it as a "home office printer" rather than a home office printer. For home users who need to print quickly and in large quantities without changing the ink cartridges all the time, the Brother MFC-L3710CW may be more suitable than a small all-in-one inkjet printer.

Brother MFC-L3710CW is a multi-function color laser printer, priced at £280.

Brother MFC-L3710CW is aimed at home office users, using toner instead of ink cartridges.

Therefore, Brother MFC-L3710CW has many advantages compared with typical inkjet printing-the page will dry out as soon as it comes out of the printing press, and the toner cartridge also guarantees a higher yield. The ink cartridge used by MFC-L3710CW can print an average of one thousand pages, which is much higher than the ink cartridge.

Most importantly, Brother MFC-L3710CW has a larger paper feed tray, which can hold up to 250 sheets of ordinary A4 paper. If you need a home office printer that is mainly used to print multiple documents, reports and newsletters on a regular basis, the higher printing bandwidth offered here will be very attractive.

In addition, the Brother MFC-L3710CW combines a scanner and copier with an automatic document feeder (ADF), which can hold up to 50 A4 sheets.

It's a bit larger and heavier than a typical home printer, so it's best to put it next to the table instead of on the table, but if you have space to put something with more horsepower, why not upgrade your home office?

The main specifications and features of Brother MFC-L3710CW are as follows:

Brother listed £346.80 as the suggested retail price of the Brother MFC-L3710CW.

The best place to buy the MFC-L3710CW online is Cartridge People, which is currently listed at a price of £276.90.

Other retailers, including AO, Argos and John Lewis, are selling the printer for £279.

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The Brother MFC-L3710CW is very fast and can generate single pages and copies in a few seconds. The scanning speed of documents and photos is also very fast. The scanning result is dumped to our desktop in less than five seconds at a speed of 300dpi, which is very fast.

Scanning directly to the desktop via USB usually takes about 5-10 seconds to warm up the printer before the actual scan can begin. The MFC-L3710CW is ready almost immediately.

During mass printing, Brother MFC-L3710CW often pauses for a few seconds every five pages or so. Nevertheless, we can still print a 20-page text document in a little over a minute, and a 20-page presentation in less than three and a half minutes, so although it has to stop frequently. Tone, but it's not tong.

Although it can quickly print photos on ordinary A4 paper, it is a pity that Brother MFC-L3710CW lacks the function of printing on glossy paper. It also cannot automatically print on both sides of the paper. Having said that, with fast printing times like this, manual duplex printing should not take up too much of your time.

The print quality of Brother MFC-L3710CW is usually very high, but the quality is also uneven. Especially the text, it looks very clear and rich. Because the printer uses toner, the bleeding is zero-everything printed is very clear every time.

The graphics usually look bold and clear, but on some pie and bar charts, darker areas can sometimes look grainy.

Photos printed on A4 usually look good, although they lack the clarity and detail that other inkjet printers can provide-and because you can't print on glossy paper, the quality of the photos won't get better.

A great advantage is that the pages do not warp in the middle, as they do when they groan under wet ink, and the paper is always dry when they come out, without any chance of smudging. No matter what you want to print, all the printed things give a crisp and even feeling.

Brother MFC-L3710CW uses four toner cartridges, black, cyan, magenta and yellow. Although large and heavy, they are easy to replace. However, they are not cheap.

The price of the black TN-243 cartridge is £53.99, while the price of any color cartridge is higher, at £57.59. Therefore, replacing the full set will cost you £226.76-although Brother also sold a full set of TN-243 cartridges for £189.59, saving £37.17.

Although it sounds like the operating cost of the Brother MFC-L3710CW is high, remember that the TN-243 cartridge promises you can print about 1000 times. Therefore, the price of a typical ink cartridge may be between 10 and 15 pounds-or about one-fifth of the price of one of the ink cartridges-they will also give you about 100-120 pages, or tenth of what you get One is from TN-243.

Please note that the price breakdown below is based on the price at which Brother sells TN-243 ink cartridges-if you shop around, you will be able to buy the same ink cartridges at a lower price-ink cartridge shops and ink cartridge people have some discounts (cost per page rounding):

If you have enough budget, you can also buy larger TN-247 cartridges, which promise to print prints worth up to 3000 (black) and 2300 (color). Of course, these are more expensive, but the overall value is higher:

The fact that Brother MFC-L3710CW takes up a lot of space and is very heavy to start up is inevitable. This may not be surprising when you consider to fit it into a 414 x 410 x 475 mm frame. Either way, this is much heavier than a typical inkjet home printer.

Setting up the Brother MFC-L3710CW is relatively simple, but it takes some time, depending on the quality and speed of the Internet service. Windows users need to go to the Brother website to download the relevant drivers, while Mac users can sit down, because like most home printers, Brother MFC-L3710CW can be used with Apple AirPrint, which means once you connect the printer to your Wi-Fi- Fi network, you only need to select the device in the "System Preferences" of your Mac OS device, and you can use it immediately.

With the control panel's 3.6-inch touch screen display, it is easy to manually connect to your Wi-Fi network, although this still requires some searching and pecking of all these special characters and uppercase and lowercase letters, but a lot more than the control panel of some printers. Easy to use.

The large panel and reasonable layout of the menu means that you can also more easily familiarize yourself with the general functions of the printer, whether it's checking the toner level or setting so that you can send scanned copies to colleagues, Microsoft SharePoint or the cloud via email, FTP server – Supports Microsoft OneNote, OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, Evernote, Box.

The Brother iPrint & Scan app for iOS and Android is a bit rudimentary, but powerful, allowing you to quickly perform printing and scanning operations anytime, anywhere, and let you know the toner level at a glance. In addition to printing files and photos stored locally, you can also print files stored in cloud services, including iCloud (iOS only) and DropBox, Evernote, Google Drive, and OneDrive.

If you want something more "office" in your home office setting, then Brother MFC-L3710CW will be suitable.

In addition to being able to print large amounts of paper without changing the paper tray every five minutes, it also provides you with the clarity and quality that only laser printers can really get, and it can print, scan, and copy documents quickly and without fuss.

Again, Epson EcoTank ET-2750 ink bottle provides more mileage at a lower upfront cost, so if you don’t understand the concept of a laser printer and want to be able to print on glossy photo paper, this will be more suitable Your needs.

Still browsing? Check out our guide to the best printers. Looking for a printer for sale? Go to our printer transaction summary to get the best price this month. Black Friday 2021 and Cyber ​​Monday 2021 also provide opportunities to purchase printers at lower prices.

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