Features & Benefits
The Brother MFC-J6930DW is the business inkjet machine that can go the extra mile for your business. With fast print speeds and a first page out time of only 5-6 seconds, it does not let you wait longer for your professional quality prints. This professional all-in-one aims to deliver reliable and professional printing for your office, with its full A3 capability, wired and wireless connectivity and high monthly duty cycles. The newly manufactured design allows the Brother MFC-J6930DW to produce the reliability and dependable quality needed to meet the needs of a demanding office environment, thanks to the high capacity Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges. It comes with four ink cartridges - Black, Yellow, Cyan and Magenta. The combined paper tray capacity of 500-sheets, a 100 sheet multi-purpose tray and a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) in this machine enables you to stay prepared and flexible, whilst taking the hassle out of printing on mixed media types such as envelopes.
Moreover, there are Individual Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges which means you only replace the colours which are consumed. It can accept both standard and extra large cartridges. Where the LC3219 XL high yield Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges can print upto 3,000 mono and 1,500 colour pages, allowing for greater cost savings to be made. As the prints come fast, you will not have to spend more time on the tasks that matter. Besides printing, this all-in-one printer has capability of scanning and copying as well. This way, you would not need to buy another photocopier or scanner machine, allowing you to save a lot of money and space. Also, it is not your regular printer that copies and scans with low resolution. What’s more, this wireless inkjet printer supports AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, iPrint&Scan, Mopria and Brother Print Service Plugin for Android. Having multiple features in this all-in-one machine makes it an easy and affordable option as compared to the other brands.
Expert Verdict
Like most of the HP models, the MFC-J6930DW comes with two big paper input trays, a single-pass auto-duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF), 4 individual Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges and a few mobile connectivity features. This Brother machine prints well, with competitively low running costs because of the Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges, and it's relatively fast. However, its graphics quality could be a bit better. The printer supports both standard and extra-large Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges. What’s special about this printer is that it requires the replacement of only those Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges that are used. You do not need to replace all Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges in order to run the task.
Measuring 18.8 X 22.6 X 14.7 inches (HWD) with its trays closed and weighing 51.6 pounds, the MFC-J6930DW comes with two 250-sheet drawers, and single-pass ADFs that scan both sides of two-sided multi-page documents simultaneously, where the MFC-J6930DW's ADF holds up to 50 pages. The MFC-J6930DW has a 30,000-page maximum monthly duty cycle, but we recommend a monthly print volume of up to 2,000 pages. You can configure the MFC-J6930DW printer, as well as connect it to cloud platforms and perform other walkup tasks, such as printing from and scanning to USB thumb drives, from a handy control panel that boasts a handful of buttons such as power, Back, Home, an NFC hotspot, Cancel, as well as a number pad that is anchored by a 3.7-inch colour touch screen. The USB port is located at the front-left side of the modal, next to the control panel, integrating all the options as nearest as possible to save time. In order to print, scan, and copy wide-format documents, an input-output tray must be large enough to accommodate oversize paper and this printer justifies that. To save space on the AIO's depth, Brother manufactured the MFC-J6930DW so that it stores paper and prints pages in landscape as well as wide orientation. This does not affect performance and print quality, though it does seem a little odd until you get used to it.
Like most printers in this class, the MFC-J6930DW takes a kitchen-sink approach to deploying connecting technologies, It comes with Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and connects to a single PC via USB. You also get the two popular peer-to-peer networking protocols with this modal. It has Wi-Fi Direct and near-field communication (NFC) capabilities for connecting your mobile devices to the AIO or networking the router to your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Not only this, it has the mobile connectivity features such as AirPrint, Brother iPrint & Scan, Google Cloud Print, and Mopria for wireless printing. Not only this, it also supports business and personal iterations of numerous popular cloud sites, including Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, OneDrive, and OneNote, as well as Web app connectors for Facebook and Flickr. Brother also offers support with several other cloud-centric Web apps for just about every scenario.
Coming to speed, the speed is quite good but the MFC-J6930DW can be slowed down when printing Acrobat, Excel, and PowerPoint documents containing colour, graphics, and photos. Overall, the MFC-J6930DW's print quality is good, though there can be some issues with full-page business graphics. If we first let's talk about text output, with Brother machine, the text quality is pristine, very much resembling laser printer output with well-shaped, highly legible characters. Thanks to the highly efficient Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges, the Graphics, too, look good. Moreover, the MFC-J6930DW prints terrific-looking photos, on both good quality inkjet paper and high-end premium photo paper. The images are very well-detailed and vibrantly coloured, superior to what you'd get from a local store. However, since this is a business printer, the ability to print flawless graphics rather than photos is preferable. Overall, this business-centric colour wireless inkjet printer is relatively fast, with good print quality, competitively low running costs, and flexible paper handling.
Review
The purely business-oriented Brother MFC-J6930DW is a relatively giant looking inkjet multifunction machine that provides low running costs, A3 size printing, flexible paper handling and a lower paper tray that are some of the prominent features.
The big giant weighs 23.6kgs and measures 575 mm in weight, 477 mm in depth and 374 mm in height. It is incorporated with a large 9.8 cm colour touchscreen LCD that allows you to access the device features easily. The device produces excellent quality texts and photos with a resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi. XL size Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges enhance the running costs significantly. Even the printing speed is competitive with 22 ppm for black and white and 20 ppm for colour. The device boasts two paper input trays in the front with upper one able to handle 500 sheets - good for offices with a heavy workload. Automatic duplexing, 50-sheet ADF and host of connectivity features like Brother iPrint&Scan, Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print and Mopria are the highlights of the device. You can do both PC-free printing and PC-based printing with WiFi and Ethernet and USB. It is compatible with a lot of versions of Mac and Windows operating systems.
Advantages
- Low running costs
- Robust design
- Professional quality text printing
- Lab-quality photo printing
- XL size Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges available
- Prints, copies, scans and fax A3 size papers
- Support mobile printing, Cloud printing and PC-based printing
- Input tray is able to handle 500 sheets
- Automatic duplexing
- ADF
Disadvantages
- Heavy with a very large footprint
- Graphics quality is average
BROTHER MFC J6930DW Ink Requirements
Printer ink for Brother MFC J6930DW are as follows:
BROTHER MFC J6930DW Black ink Compatible 3219XL High Capacity Cartridge
Brother 3219XL Ink Cartridge Black with a print capacity of 3,000 Pages.
BROTHER MFC J6930DW Cyan ink Compatible 3219XL High Capacity Cartridge
Brother 3219XL Ink Cartridge Cyan with a print capacity of 1,500 Pages.
BROTHER MFC J6930DW Magenta ink Compatible 3219XL High Capacity Cartridge
Brother 3219XL Ink Cartridge Magenta with a print capacity of 1,500 Pages.
BROTHER MFC J6930DW Yellow ink Compatible 3219XL High Capacity Cartridge
Brother 3219XL Ink Cartridge Yellow with a print capacity of 1,500 Pages.
Conclusion
Conclusion Brother MFC - J6930 DW is a business printer that can print, copy, scan and fax up to A3 size papers. With a host of mobile connectivity options, flexible paper handling and office-oriented features, and low running costs it can be an ideal purchase for small to medium size offices and workgroups.
How to save the Brother MFC-J6930DW colour ink cartridges, when the need is of monochrome prints?
For monochrome prints, colour ink cartridges are also incorporated during printing process. The machine offers full-color printing due to the default setting in the printer driver window i.e. COLOUR. Therefore, the machine will automatically mix the colors from Brother MFC-J6930DW colour ink cartridges to produce a selected color [even for printing the black colour].
To save the colour Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges, when your requirement is of grayscale printing, then you need to change the printing preference and media type. To obtain “Grayscale” as the printing preferences, and "Plain Paper" as the media type, refer to the below steps:
Please note that the screens may differ. This depends on the operating system and also on the Brother machine you are using.
- For Window users:
- Click the start menu and open control panel.
- Select devices and printers. In that search for your printer model and right-click to open printer properties.
- In the printing preference tab, click the advanced tab.
- Change the colour/grayscale settings to grayscale.
- Now further open basic tab and choose plain paper as the media type. Make sure that the Slow Drying Paper is unchecked.
- For Macintosh Users:
- In the main menu, select system and preferences and then view printer and Scanners (or print, scan & fax).
- In that look for your printer.
- Right-click to view print dialogue box [i.e. printer driver window].
- Select the printer setting in the print dialogue box.
- Change the media type to plain paper and ensure that the Slow Drying Paper is not ticked.
- Also, change Color/Grayscale setting to grayscale.
If you are not satisfied with the print quality, you can open the printer driver window and reset the settings to default settings.
How to print using only black Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridges when the colour ink cartridges have run out?
When a colour Brother MFC-J6930DW ink cartridge is empty, an error message “B&W Print Only Replace Ink” will appear on the printer machine. This error indicates that colour ink cartridge is expended and in case of urgency, we can choose only black ink cartridges to take the print.
To print using only black ink cartridge, you need to follow the below mentioned steps:
- An error message “cannot print” appears on the screen when you are attempting to print from the PC. This message appears when the colour cartridge is empty. Choose the cancel option, to cancel the print job and return to the black & white mode.
- If the message is still displaying, replace the ink cartridges.
- To print using black ink cartridge with your PC, follow this procedure:
- Open printing preferences.
- Select the basic tab and choose the plain paper in this procedure media type. Make sure that you have unchecked Slow Drying Paper.
- Click the Advanced tab and then the grayscale radio button.
- Click Apply/OK. preference save
- If any print job remains in the queue, delete it. Press Cancel on your printer to cancel the queued print jobs.
- You can now use the Black & White mode for printing.
What should I do if the Brother MFC-J6930DW pages are skewing?
1. If the printer pages are skewing, make sure that the paper you have loaded in the input tray is aligned to the paper-width guides. If necessary, pull out the paper input tray and reload the pages in the correct manner (the paper guides should be aligned correctly).
2. Load the pages into the printer, only when it’s not printing.
If the issue is not resolved, contact the Brother Solutions Center.