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Hands-On Test Report, Photos, and Video: Another Outstanding A3 All-in-One from Brother, the INKvestment MFC-J5920dw

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Maintenance

Replacing the four separate ink cartridges is very easy. Simply unwrap the four cyan, yellow, magenta, and black (CYMK) ink cartridges, open the front cover, remove the plastic sealing device, unlatch and pull out the depleted cartridge, slide the new color-coded ink cartridge into its color-coded slot, press it in until the latch pops up, and then close the cover.

Open a front cover for access to the ink cartridges.

Black ink cartridge shown.

Misfeed-access from the DADF and top, front, and back of the unit is very good, as there’s plenty of space provided to search for and remove misfeeds. That said, we did not experience any misfeeds during testing.

The MFC-J5920dw has three media trays, and all can accept media as large as A3/11″x17″.

Slide the blue latch (center) and pull outwards with two hands in order to expand Trays 1 and 2 to hold media as large as A3/11″x17″. Note that A4/letter-size media loads long-edge first.

Loading and servicing media was easy, but the output tray is attached to Tray 1. The trays must be removed in order to load media and the output tray must be swung out of the way in order to adjust paper trays for different media sizes. As far as the rear-mounted multipurpose tray, Brother provides a media support in order to prevent large media from drooping down behind the printer.

In the multipurpose tray, a media-tray extension pulls up, and a support folds out in order to support large media.

Build Quality

Build quality is surprisingly good and many convenient details are built into the unit, such as the adjustable touch panel, media-port cover, front-loading ink cartridges, internal cable routing, and folding DADF cover. However, the unit’s light weight caused it to slide around on the desktop when we were adjusting the trays and ink supplies  -a very minor inconvenience however when the quality of the whole package is taken into consideration.

Reliability

We experienced no misfeeds, image-quality anomalies, or maintenance difficulties while testing. This, coupled with notable build quality, indicates that the MFC-J6925dw should provide competitive reliability throughout its lifetime.

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