How is the quality of the color printing?
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I've been in photography my whole life and used the finest Epson photo printers and Canons too, and this little Brother does just fine as long as you use quality photo paper and select the paper type (and other settings) in the "preferences" before you print. Do some tests using various settings to find your favorites. Note that "matte" paper is MUCH less costly than other types and that "semi-gloss" is MUCH preferable to "gloss" (it's what the pros use).
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Hi Judith, the color printing is pretty good for home & personal use. But if you want really true colors, then it's not that great.
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I purchased the Brother as a replacement to an old HP inkjet. I have to say the photo printing on the old HP was better.
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Not at all, I have owned this printer for 14 months. So far I have had to replace *Cyan color even though we only print in monochrome (tried to reset no luck) * Belt * Black toner, runs out quick even if you get high capacity, * drum unit. the cheapest of those 4 replacements was the cyan color $82. Would not call this machine economical.
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Not really enough information to respond. Are all of the colors printing correctly? Are the various colors lining up correctly?
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It is a color priter, but if you set your computer settings to black and white or grayscale it will print that way.
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The photo quality seems real good to my eye, particularly for the price. I think it is worth it for you to try them out once. If it works for you it will save you a ton over time. If you don't like the quality you can still use them for everyday printing at a lot less.
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Tough question to answer. Photo quality is such a subjective thing. What one person thinks looks great, another does not. Can this printer print photos...yes, absolutely it can. Do they look better than the best photo printers out there...well, no they don't. Do they look good? The quality of the print using the manufactures ink looks good to me using generic glossy photo paper. Good enough to print snapshots, make promotional items for school fund raisers, etc. Would I use this printer to create photos to enter a photo contest...probably not. Keep in mind this as well, the software allows for many different settings of how the printer will print a photo and I have not spent hours tweaking it to my tastes. I just use the default settings and was happy enough with the results to use it again for that purpose. The speed is OK. Not super slow, and not super fast either. I deal with a lot of large format (11x17) drawings...that was my purpose in buying this printer.
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YES You will be very satisfied. Be sure to choose BEST when setting up print. I am a graphite artist and can print larger prints.
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I have not used this printer for photos, I have a photo centric printer for that duty. For printing presentations and general output, the color output looks great, accurate and bright, never blotchy or streaky.
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I've printed 3652 total pages with 2502 being color... I still haven't had to replace the yellow "starter" cartridge. The others were replaced at about the 1200-1500 page mark. Full disclosure, I had the setting on "color saver" for about the first 800, since then its been set back to default. Prints are fantastic quality
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Depends on your definition of "quality pictures". This printer all print acceptably, but not professional photo lab quality. There are far better printers on the market for photo printing (look for one that uses more colors).
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Colour printing quality is very good. It is not wireless. Must be connected to a computer
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I haven't monitored the copy count very closely, but I've tried a lot of after market toners and this brand prints dark and sharp. I'm very satisfied with the print quality. And I don't have to shake the toner cartridge until it's almost empty.
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What kind of problem? Print quality, size, resolution??? Can you be more specific?
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Frankly, I don't know. But I did notice that it distorts the colors more than you'd expect from an "advanced" printer. The printed image is sharp and detailed, but it's of different huge (e.g. yellowish camel instead of beige, or bluish gray instead of greenish gray). That said, I print on Hammermill 28 lb paper, not on specific Epson photo paper.
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I agree with Dale W. This is a great color printer for business (pictures look really good), but I would not use it as a photo printer.
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Print is sharp and the image is crisp with a laser printer. I would imagine it does equally well with a jet printer. This paper quality is better than any other paper that I have purchased.
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I have printed out a few pictures and the results are good. I did however adjust the color etc with Photoshop before printing. I also used photo quality 4x6 paper.