Brother’s updated Ink Tank printer arsenal brings matchless speed and accessibility

Although most of our documents nowadays can be sent digitally at the push of a button, there are still many reasons to have a printer at the ready. After all, we still need them around - our most important documents like title deeds and marriage certificates are still done up in print form, and that probably isn’t going to change any time soon. 

Now, you won’t be printing those kinds of documents daily, but that doesn’t mean you should settle for anything less than the best, and Brother’s new series of Ink Tank printers and Multi-function Centres will ensure that you’re not standing by the printer when you could be doing something else. 

Efficiency is the name of the game

Whether you’re in the office prepping presentation notes or printing out your honeymoon pictures at home on a Saturday morning, it can be costly to get these tasks done if you’re not careful. Fortunately, Brother printers are incredibly cost-efficient, featuring ultra-high-yield ink refill bottles that let you print up to 7,500 pages in black and 5,000 pages in colour. Accordingly, this means that you don’t have to constantly grab new ink bottles from the store, thus saving you time and petrol in the long run. 

Now, if you’re mostly operating from home, as many of us have gotten used to doing since the pandemic emerged, the Brother DCP-T220 printer is a great base option. It offers up to 1,200 x 6,000 dpi print quality, ensuring that you’ll always be satisfied with how your documents turn out. To help with that, these printers feature dye-based black ink, which creates gorgeous pictures with crisp lines, clear texts, and vibrant colours that pop off the page. 

You can also load 150 sheets in a standard paper tray and print using USB 2.0 connectivity, completing your projects at blazing speeds. In fact, this feature is particularly useful for students, as we all know the nervous tension of printing out assignments the very morning they’re due. But with this speedy printer, you’ll be done in a snap. 

Time is money 

Gone are the days of waiting by your printer as it slowly churns out page after page. The Brother DCP-T520W is a fast printer that boasts print speeds of up to 17ipm (images per minute) for monoprints and 9.5ipm for coloured ones. Picture yourself printing a presentation in your office. How many pictures would each slide have? How much time would you have to print all of them out? These are questions you simply don’t have to ask with Brother’s new series of printers.

In addition, the DCP-T520W also lets you enjoy seamless wireless connectivity, so you can print from wherever you’d like!

The most user-friendly printers you’ll ever use

Printers should be easy to use, and Brother has designed their products with this key concept in mind. Their new Ink Tank Printers are plug-and-play levels of simple, available to use right out of the box without the need to install fancy drivers on computers and notebooks. 

The printers’ user interface has also been reworked to make it easier to print, scan and copy regardless of the task at hand. This means that you won’t have to spend too much time explaining to your family how these printers operate – they just work. 

However, sometimes you need a printer that’s not only easy to use but can keep up with the intense workload of an office environment. It’s common for several office employees to be queuing up at the printer waiting for their documents to be churned out, and while it’s straight-up impossible to print everyone’s requests simultaneously, Brother has found ways to make everyone's lives a little easier. That is, by removing the need for us to manually insert paper via its 20-sheet Automatic Document Feeder, a feature that’s exclusive to the DCP-T820DW printer and its larger cousin, the flagship model, MFC-T920DW. 

Sporting an 80-sheet multi-purpose paper tray on top of the standard 150-sheet tray common to all four printers, the T820DW is specifically tailored for high-speed printing, as it boasts the swiftest print-out time among the quartet at six seconds for monoprints and six and a half seconds for coloured documents. Accordingly, this makes it ideal for handling the high-intensity printing queues experienced in medium to large companies. 
 

Going all in 

Despite all of that, sometimes it’s just not enough, and you might need a printer that can go above and beyond the call of duty. The Brother MFC-T920DW is the most feature-rich printer in Brother’s new Ink Tank line-up, and it even comes with an additional fax function to boot. 

However, squeezing in all these extra functions has not made it any more complicated to use - it still manages to be as user-friendly as the rest of the Brother’s printers. Indeed, this flagship model brings everything its smaller siblings have to the table and then some with its unique USB (Flash Memory) direct printing, which allows you to print documents just by sticking in a thumb drive. 

It’s an extremely useful feature if you’re rushing out a bunch of documents and don’t have a laptop or tablet on hand, and we understand such situations tend to come up a lot more often than we’d like. And that’s not even the end of it. The MFC-T920DW printer also sports a 1.8-inch TFT Colour LCD display, which is an added convenience that puts it right at the top of Brother’s new Ink Tank echelon. So, if you’re looking for a great all-in-one printer that can really do it all, this is your best bet.

Taking stock of all the models

To further simplify how the new printers compare, here's a quick table list and their respective pricing.

Brother's printer lineup is widely available across various electronics retailers across the island, including online options such as their Lazada store for online purchase interests.

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Stand a chance to win a DCP-T820DW printer!

To get the ball, or prints rolling, in this case, Brother is also giving away two sets of DCP-T820DW printers for free to some lucky winners! All you have to do is participate in our forum discussion thread here and let us what you like most about this new printer model and why YOU think you should receive one - the most creative entries and inspiring entries will get to take one of these super-fast printers home!

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