The Brother MFC 9140CDN is designed for small office workgroups, looking for a good quality laser printer and scanner. This printer is mainly for office purposes with fax function. The device is compatible with high yield Brother MFC 9140CDN toner cartridges which help in reducing the total print cost per copy.
The device weighs approx. 18.5 kg and measures 565 x 534 x 602 mm respectively. The design of this printer is attractive and has curved edges overall for safety. At front of the printer, there are two paper trays, the main paper tray can store up to 250 sheets of paper and a multipurpose bypass tray that supports one sheet at a time which allows you to print on different print media such as envelopes, photo paper, post card etc. Also at the top of the printer, there is an ADF tray which can hold up to 35 sheets of paper for scanning or copy multiple documents at a time. It has 9.3 cm TFT LCD touchscreen, offering user-friendly interface to users.
The printer is capable of printing and copying at a speed up to 22 ppm with the resolution up to 2,400 x 600 dpi. Brother MFC 9140CDN also supports 33.6 kbps Super G3 feature for fax purpose and forwarding calls to phone. It is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. The device allows you to send scans to Box, DropBox, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Google Drive, Picasa and SkyDrive.
Advantages:
- Automatic two sided printing
- Supports high speed USB 2.0 and ethernet ports for better connectivity
- ADF support
- 9.3cm TFT colour touch screen
- Supports Google Cloud Print, Brother’s iPrint&Scan and Apple’s AirPrint
- Supports colour fax
- Versatile paper handling
- Offers high yield Brother MFC 9140CDN toner cartridges
Disadvantages:
- Non-expandable memory and paper tray capacity
- No USB host port
- Poor output quality
- Lacks Wi-fI connectivity
- Supports single sheet manual feeder
Brother MFC 9140CDN Toner Requirements
Printer Toner for Brother MFC 9140CDN are as follows:
Brother MFC 9140CDN Black Compatible Toner Cartridge
Brother TN241 Toner Cartridge Black with a print capacity of 2,500 Pages.
Brother MFC 9140CDN Cyan Compatible Toner Cartridge
Brother TN245 Toner Cartridge Cyan with a print capacity of 2,200 Pages.
Brother MFC 9140CDN Magenta Compatible Toner Cartridge
Brother TN245 Toner Cartridge Magenta with a print capacity of 2,200 Pages.
Brother MFC 9140CDN Yellow Compatible Toner Cartridge
Brother TN245 Toner Cartridge Yellow with a print capacity of 2,200 Pages.Conclusion:
The Brother MFC 9140CDN is a high-speed multifunction printer with print speeds up to 22 ppm. It features network connectivity and two-sided printing providing ease to the busy office environment. It supports Google Cloud Print, Brother’s iPrint&Scan and Apple’s AirPrint and also allows you to send scanned documents to Box, DropBox, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Google Drive, Picasa and SkyDrive. Due to its non-expandable memory and limited paper tray capacity, the Brother MFC 9140CDN might not be able to fulfil the requirement of large workgroup.
Does your BROTHER MFC 9140CDN printer produce poor print quality?
Does your BROTHER MFC 9140CDN printer produce poor print quality?The horizontal prints with stripes or blank printout problem can be caused, either by dried out BROTHER MFC 9140CDN ink cartridges, or by clogged printheads. These things affect your print quality and give you blurred text with broken prints and error messages. Thus, you need to perform a print quality check if your printer starts making such issues. You can follow these steps to get rid of such printing issue and improve the quality of your prints:
Step one: Clean the printheads of the printer
If your printouts have horizontal stripes in the text or graphics or have some blank text, then it is an issue of clogged nozzles of printheads. To clean these blocked printheads you need to perform a Print Quality Check on a sheet.
Once the test print is out, the printer would show you four options and ask you to select an image (1, 2, 3, or 4) that matches closely with the print test result. If the test results match either of 2, 3, or 4 number image then the printer will prompt a message and would ask you to start a print head cleanup process. Select ‘Start’. After completing this process the printer will ask you to check the print quality. Press ‘Yes’. It will prompt the printer to run a test print.
Check the output of the test print. The touch screen would display a message and ask you if the Print Quality is Ok or not?
Press No if all the lines on the test prints are clear, unbroken and visible. It will stop the process right there only.
If the printout result continues with the poor quality then press ‘Yes’ and continue with the cleaning process. Make sure the process repeats at least for five times.
If the quality does not improve after the five attempts then proceed to next step.
Step Two: Replace the old BROTHER MFC 9140CDN ink cartridges
If you have cleaned up the printhead of the printer and yet the print quality does not improve then it might be possible that the ink cartridges have dried out. If BROTHER MFC 9140CDN ink cartridges in your printer are older than 6 months or you haven’t used them from months, it's high time to replace them.