We reserve the right to verify or ask for written proof of a competitors offer before we beat the price. The Brother DCP-J1050DW printer produces high-quality prints with up to 9.5ppm print speed and 1pl ink droplet size at up to 1,200 x 6,000 dpi resolution, producing photo standard prints fast without compromising on quality. Complete compatibility To take advantage of AirPrint, your compatible printer must be connected to the same wireless network as your iOS device or Mac computer.

The mobile app itself is very good, too, with a clear and concise interface that works perfectly. It lets you print documents and photos from your device, scan straight into the smartphone and control the copier function. Finally, the Windows driver provides fine granular control over how computer prints are handled and a separate scanning application offers all the tools and resolution options you could want. For those looking for the fastest possible prints, we’d recommend the HP OfficeJet Pro 9022e instead. This cranks out office prints at a phenomenal rate of knots, with print quality that’s as good or better than the Brother DCP-J1140DW. Don’t rely on it for photo prints, though – it lags behind the Brother in this regard. AirPrint enables users to print wirelessly from within applications on Apple devices to AirPrint Compatible Printers connected to a wireless network. You can use your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to easily print via Airprint without the need to install drivers or configure the printer queue. Just tap 'print' and select your AirPrint compatible printer, and print!....It's that simple. The Brother DCP-J1050DW is the wireless A4 multifunction inkjet printer that is compact and ideal for home use and can print, scan and copy. For colour documents, the Brother and the OfficeJet 9022e’s output again proved tough to separate, although the Canon Pixma TS8350 did stretch out a lead here with significantly richer colours.Where special offers provided by Printerland and/or the manufacturer applies, the competitor must also be providing the same offer/s for the It’s very slow at printing photos, though, taking longer than 13 minutes to print six 6 x 4in snaps at best quality settings. Brother is clearly aware of this, even going so far as to issue a slowness warning when you select the highest resolution setting. Apple AirPrint allows full colour, top-quality printing from iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads directly from within many Apps available from the Apple App Store. Overall, it’s a thoroughly easy to use system that’s simple to get to grips with, whichever platform you choose to use it with. The slightly clunky touchscreen is really the only thing I have a problem with. It’s similarly speedy at printing mixed colour documents, reaching 7ppm. Again, this is a bit slower than HP’s 9022e (8.1ppm) but outpaces similarly-priced rivals, with the OfficeJet 8022 dropping to 3.9ppm. Duplex printing fell into the same pattern, lagging behind the OfficeJet 9022e but beating the cheaper 8022.

If you can open it on your apple device, chances are you can print it with AirPrint and an AirPrint compatible printer. Airprint works with Safari, Mail, Photos, iWork, PDF's in iBooks and many third-party AirPrint compatible apps available from the app store. Print quality is good and it took close inspection to spot any difference between the Brother DCP-J1140DW and its rivals. For standard text, output from the HP OfficeJet 9022e and the Canon Pixma TS8350 was sharper, but not by much. Indeed, I had to use a magnifying glass to see that the Brother’s text output was a tiny bit more ragged around the edges. Printerland cannot match the price where a manufacturer or distributor sells directly to the public There are also a wide variety of third-party apps available to enable wireless printing through Apple devices, even to machines that are not natively AirPrint compatible printers. By sharing a printer installed on an Apple Mac or Windows Pc over a wireless network any printer may be able to take advantage of the AirPrint features. (An additional third-party app may be required to be installed on the local machine)

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The Brother DCP-J1140DW is an affordable printer that’s designed to cope with the tasks required of a busy home office. It’s low hassle to set up and use, prints office documents at a good speed and at a decent quality and is even capable of printing photos reasonably well if you don’t mind waiting for them. With the capacity to print, scan and copy in both colour and monochrome, the Brother DCP-J1050DW A4 colour multifunction inkjet printer is a great all-around performer for any home or office. Efficiency and energy saving as standard