Brother Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer, MFC-J491DW, Multi-Function Color Printer, Duplex Printing, Mobile Printing,Amazon Dash Replenishment Enabled
The Brother Work Smart Series MFCJ491DW all-in-one color inkjet printer is easy-to-connect, compact, economical and loaded with features and functionality that make it essentially the perfect printer for your home, home office or dorm room. This wireless color inkjet all-in-one printer delivers high- quality, reliable printing, copying, scanning and faxing in a desk-friendly footprint to
The Brother Work Smart Series MFCJ491DW all-in-one color inkjet printer is easy-to-connect, compact, economical and loaded with features and functionality that make it essentially the perfect printer for your home, home office or dorm room. This wireless color inkjet all-in-one printer delivers high- quality, reliable printing, copying, scanning and faxing in a desk-friendly footprint to fit just about anywhere. The MFC-J491DW offers automatic duplex (two-sided) printing that helps save paper.
The MFC-J491DW delivers wireless mobile printing that lets you print from your desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet(1). Use the automatic document feeder and 100-sheet capacity paper tray for generous output without constant monitoring or refilling. Cloud connectivity lets you scan-to popular cloud services directly from the printer including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Evernote and more(2). You can also easily capture and convert documents using Brother Cloud Apps(3). Ink replacement is a snap with separate ink cartridges that easily pop in and out. High-yield replacement cartridges help you save with every printed page. The 1.8” color display lets you easily navigate onscreen menus to simplify workflows. Includes a one-year limited warranty and free online, call or live chat support for the life of the printer.
(1)Requires connection to a wireless network. (2)Requires an Internet connection and an account with desired service. (3)Requires internet connection. (4)Reprinted from pcmag.com with permission. Copyright 2017 Ziff Davis, LLC. All Rights Reserved. (5)Based on ISO/IEC 24734 (after first set of ISO test pages). For more details, visit manufacturer’s website. (6)The mobile device must have NFC capability and run Android OS 4.4 or later.
Product Features
- SIMPLE TO CONNECT: Choose from built-in wireless or connect locally to a single PC or Mac via USB interface. MFCJ491DW offers easy-to-set-up wireless networking
- MOBILE PRINTING: Print wirelessly from mobile devices(1) using AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Brother iPrint&Scan, Mopria and Wi-Fi Direct
- CLOUD CONNECTIVITY: Scan-to popular Cloud services directly from the printer including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and more(2)
- VERSATILE PAPER HANDLING: Automatic document feeder and up to 100-sheet capacity paper tray for letter/legal-size paper for flexible printing
- FOR USE WITH BROTHER GENUINE INKS: LC3011BK, LC3011C, LC3011M, LC3011Y, LC3013BK, LC3013C, LC3013M, LC3013Y
- AMAZON DASH REPLENISHMENT ENABLED: Upon activation, Amazon Dash Replenishment measures the ink level and orders more from Amazon when it’s low
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TL:DR – Don’t buy this. Don’t buy this printer, and I recommend reading up on any other brand, period. It only exists to covertly suck up your unused ink, and disable the entire machine whenever it wants until you feed in another cartridge. This is not just an exaggeration by disgruntled commenters.The reviews on this printer seemed, overall, to be positive when we first bought it. Immediately after purchase, the bad business practices started rolling in hard. There are surely many reviews with this information, but the more the better.1. This printer periodically sucks up ink as part of its “maintenance schedule.” Even if you print nothing, it will be empty in a few months. Where this ink actually goes is a mystery.2. The printer will not print (!) once it has seemingly arbitrarily decided that it is out of ink to do so. Who knows how many more pages worth of ink are still in the cartridge. Everything still prints solid blacks up until this point. The machine has decided…
Didn’t work. Poor support from Brother. So the instructions tell you how to set it up, and then it prints a test page. Ours showed nothing on the cyan test, so we followed the instructions for it to clean the print head and get the same result. Two more times. On a brand new printer.We call Brother, they say the ‘starter’ print cartridge is probably empty from us cleaning the print head three times. How much does it waste when you clean it? How tiny are the starter cartridges? They tell us to buy a new print cartridge for it. Why would I buy print cartridges for a printer that hasn’t proved to work yet? We ask them to send us another starter cartridge so we can verify it works. No dice.Never got to the point of actually testing anything else on it.We’re initiating a return to Amazon. At least they are dependable. We opted for Brother due to poor results from HP in the last few years. Don’t know where we’ll go now.
Arrrgh!!! Do yourself a favor and buy something else. This thing may print really well but I’ll probably never know. I’ve stopped my 3 hour plus setup (I’m not that stupid for it to take that long) to write this. Now I’m trying to figure out how to reduce a copy to 50% of the original. The printer controls ( and the setup program) are the least intuitive of any that I have ever seen. The custom settings are there but it keeps reverting to 100%. You can’t input a 5 and an 0 if the 100 won’t delete with the X button, which is all that is available to change the size on the teensy screen. The online User’s manual’s instructions are not clear. Just arrgh!!!! Save yourself the stress. (I have a very expensive computerized Brother sewing machine and love it…evidently this is a different…waaaaay different… branch of the company. ) .