Brother MFC-J5330DW All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer, Wireless Connectivity, Automatic Duplex Printing, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready

This printer was a replacement for my old HP printer that still worked, but the ink was expensive. I wanted this printer because of the separate ink cartridges and the auto-duplex printing.I had some trouble figuring out how to print on small format paper. The smallest size it will accept is 3.5 x 5 inches. This must be fed through the tray in the back one piece at a time. I had to reformat some of my documents to fit that paper size. The HP would accept small paper as long as the document would fit on it; this one won't. The paper size of the document must match. But there's a catch: when printing small documents such as cards, don't change the paper size in the print dialogue box; change the paper size in the document only. Leave the paper size set to Letter in the printer properties box unless you are printing on Legal size or larger.Also, when printing multiple page documents through the rear tray (such as greeting cards), I would separate the document into single pages and print them one page at a time. I eventually discovered that I could print multi-page documents through the rear tray, but there's a trick: Put the first page in the rear tray, then print the entire document. When the first page comes out, wait until the printer prompts you to insert the next page. Put the next page in, then press OK. It's slow, but it's better than separating the document into single pages and printing them one at a time. Apparently, when the first page of a multi-page document is placed in the rear tray, the printer expects the rest of the pages to be in the rear tray also. I could not find this explained anywhere and only discovered it by accident.If I print #10 envelopes in the rear tray, the printing exits left edge down. But if I print smaller #6 envelopes or single cheques, the printing exits right edge down. If the orientation matters, cut practise sheets to size and try them.The auto duplexer works only for letter (A4) size paper. Letter paper must be fed sideways in the printer--even in the rear tray. The printer will not make double-sided copies from the auto scanner. You have to scan one side, then turn the pages over and restack them. However, if you scan the pages manually, it will print on both sides. It will make multiple copies from the scanner.The paper output tray is too small. If I send a job to the printer from another room and I am not in the room with the printer to catch the paper, it will often throw the paper on the floor.If you put overfill the feeder tray, it will misfeed.The printer uses some ink not printing. Occasionally it will start up by itself, sip a little ink, then shut down. This is normal, because it has to run a little ink through the print head now and then to keep it from clogging up. The print head is not normally replaced when you replace the ink. Oddly, it seems to use the magenta ink faster than the others.In spite of all the quirks, I like this printer and recommend it. it prints fast, and the print quality is very good.

I normally have two printers because I am a business owner. My 12 years old HP D7160 printer and my 5 years old Epson WF3640 died at the same time. My first replacement was the Brother HLL2395 monochrome laser to reduce my printer cost. I liked HP printers but HP recently redesigned their printers to reject all non-HP ink cartridges so HP printers would have increased my printing cost. Disappointed with Epson because this printer started going bad after 3 years and died 2 years later. This also happened to a Canon printer. I needed a color inkjet to compliment the Brother laser black monochrome printer so I decided on this one.I am impressed with the quality and speed of this brother color all-in-one. I got a 4 year warranty because inkjets tend to clog and inkjets tend to be less reliable than laser printers that uses black toner cartridges. This color all-in-one compliments my black and white printer perfectly because I only need color 10% of the time which will reduce my overall printing cost. I really like that it only takes about 4 seconds to start printing from the moment I click print on my PC. The quality and printing speed matches my laser printer.Both brother printers are the two best printers I ever had as far as speed and quality so my only issue is long term reliability. I am still concerned about cloggimg with inkjet printers and the high cost of inkjet cartridges.However, my 4 years warranty protects me from premature clogging problems and my brother laser printer should reduce my printing cost. Buyers should be aware that ink jet cartridge replacement costs over the years can exceed the price of the original printer by a factor of 3 or even 4 so it makes more sense to me to buy two printers for high volume printing. Both printers were under $200 each so I really happy with this all-in-one color printer. I recommend this color all-in-one as long as you can deal with the inherent high cost of ink and the inherent lower reliability of inkjets due to clogging.

I found the printer neither as difficult or easy to set up as some reviews have stated. I found myself going back and forth between the touchscreen prompts and my computer during the set-up, which should not be necessary. I don't think I ever was able to download and install the latest firmware. One review I read stated this cannot be done wireless. I was connected by usb but not certain if printer ever updated. It functioned so I did not pursue it further.Now, for the thing that I really don't like. The rear feed setup. It is single feed. As far as I'm concerned, why bother with a rear feed like that. It's a convenience for the person who on very rare occasion has to print ONE envelope, or ONE picture. When you're printing dozens of letters at a time, it's not capable of doing a letter with it's corresponding envelope automatically. Now the process must be broken into multiple tasks. First, print all the letters using the lower feed tray. Second, remove paper in lower feed tray, insert envelopes go back through your documents and print associated envelopes. Third, carefully match letters with corresponding envelopes. Fourth, reinsert paper in lower feed tray and start whole process over. Had I known about this particular idiosyncrasy I would have kept looking. If you want a printer that does multiple, auto rear feed, this is not your printer.All that being said, it does appear to be a quality machine with some good features. Touchscreen is somewhat small, but no more so than our previous printer. It works fine. Printer function is prompt and smooth. Documents print clear. Machine is quiet. It does what its intended to do.