Only the included software is worth the money

Video at Amazon.com view suitable for everyday use printer for small office and especially for private use.
Who is familiar with the famous video sharing website who knows with this code to do something: v = yK4zFWHrmxg. As the story is told of the arrival of the buyer.

In practice, first use via USB has been installed on a workstation computer. That worked from the supplied installation CD properly.
Then the printer on a wireless FRITZ was! BOX 7390 converted. Also went without any problems with an automatic pairing process (WPS / AOSS).
Later, should a new laptop (ASUS Convertible T100TA) looking from the living room to the printer, and found him in the WLAN. About "Windows Update" all drivers have been offered to the mark "Brother" on the WEB, among whom were also special "MFC-J4510DW" drivers were. These were installed.
And now:
The printer in home office was left to scan a page from the mirror. From the living room the notebook should read with Paint this page. The managed properly. The scanned page has then stored via WLAN on the hard drive for a large desktop computer.

In this respect, therefore, no problems, smooth course.
The horror came when first opening the device to reach the sockets. - Since the containment mechanism rattled around in the area because it was not properly secured to the upper part (here v = 0wwCZWMW7oU and above separately presented as video). The scary thing: that such a thing happened in Brother, a manufacturer who has a lot to do with trade and industry and usually greatest emphasis on quality.

After all:
This stand is practically hardly used, and you can also do without him.
Therefore:
The shortage is indeed reported, but the unit will keep, because it yes otherwise works well.

If the print quality:
You seem to be, in any case, useful "mixed".
For example, the color appears black little tired and contrast. This is, however, that the printer is set by default to thrift. If you change the settings before printing and selects the next best quality, you also get rich black.

Color:
Again, depending on the paper type and objective to find by trial an appropriate setting. Then the results are satisfactory. And they must not be as good as with a special photo printers.
At least here the office printing is at the forefront in the use and color elements on the letterhead.

Software:
It is the "hammer". For the software also includes a scanning program selection for OCR. For further processing, eg pure TXT, RTF, DOC or PDF and even HTML are available.
With PDF, you can activate "workable" option. Then you get a PDF document that looks like the scanned original, but in which you can select the text or parts of it and copy and use for other documents.
That comes with the printer software did much better (perfect) results as an expensive special software that was purchased here again.
The printer sends its OCR results directly to a program that can be set in advance (for example Notepad, Wordpad, WORD or Writer or eg Adobe Reader). The software recognizes the programs available and offers them for selection.

From the local point of view alone, this software is already worth the price printer so that the printer has been virtually free to come.

The malaise of the containment mechanism is not taken very seriously here. S *** happens. But to return the printer would be a disproportionate effort. AMAZON may find a solution. Perhaps they send over a Brother service technician who fixes the defect. Otherwise the Brother Customer Service for advice is questioned times. In any case we need the device here only once to print our individual Christmas cards and in time to be able to submit. That now seems more important.

Included with the printer is a set was "5 XL cartridges compatible for Brother ... with chip and level indicator" for EUR 17.90 ordered. Because initially the starter cartridges are installed, is still pending whether expectations are met in the compatible cartridges or not. In any case, genuine Brother ink cartridges appear ago the price as an imposition.

Despite the problems with the mechanics there full 5 stars for the device.

And still a little highlight at the end:
If you call, for example, in the web browser on fritz.box its wireless server, can be found under "WLAN" == >> "Wireless" heading "Known WLAN Devices" and including about "BRWF4B7E22898ED" (this name can be changed) as Link.
By clicking on this link, a new tab will open in the browser, for example as 192.168.178.25/general/status.html-Seite. In this page you find seven riders in front with partly numerous submenus that can be set and the control of the printer.
All this is very professional and useful than the "ControlCenter4".