With a small chassis and a low to the desk design, the Brother MFC-495CW is easy to fit on a desk. Whenever you have something to print out, you can leave the task to the printer. The same goes when you need to fax, copy, or scan pages.

The reason it can handle all those tasks is because it is as a matter of fact a multifunction printer. Brother has made a lot of multifunction printers, and the Brother MFC-495CW is one of the good choices for a small office.

Features and Highlights

When a printer is called a multifunction one, a scanner is always a part of the functions. The curved top surface of the Brother MFC-495CW is where you can find the automatic document feeder (ADF) that is capable of storing up to 15 sheets of paper and consecutively feeding every single of them into the printer.

As with all AIO printers, there is a scanner glass in the Brother MFC-495CW. While the ADF saves your time in handling multiple pages, the scanner glass saves papers from the risk of damages. Also, it can do something else that the ADF cannot, and that is to scan pages of a thick book.

The Brother MFC-495CW has a color LCD display placed between the dial pad on the left side and function keys on the right side of the control panel. The screen is as wide as 3.3 inches, allowing you to view menus and thumbnails conveniently.

Up to 100 sheets of paper can fit into the paper tray, which is positioned below the control panel. According to Brother’s claim, the printer is designed to handle up to 220 gsm paper, but it might be able to handle a bit more.

The ink cartridges are very easy to install, and so does the Paperport, an optional software developed by ScanSoft to edit photos. Rather than a photo editing suite offering tons of professional features, it is a tool geared toward casual users who doesn’t want or aren’t willing to spend a lot of time in editing a photo.

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With a speed of 35 ppm, the Brother MFC-495CW can finish a print job quite fast. Printing color pages is reasonably slower, which is 28 pages per minute. Brother adds an output tray to prevent the prints from falling, but it has a low capacity so you may have to stay at the printer to empty the tray several times when you print a lot more pages than usual.

The Brother MFC-495CW isn’t the most brilliant printer, but it is still a choice worthy of consideration. It offers a lot of features a small office might need, including a generous ink capacity and a 15-sheet ADF. It also provides a number of ways to save more on ink cost, like enabling the ink save mode to use a lower amount of ink when printing pages. When it is enabled, the print quality is affected but not to the point where the printout is unreadable. You can click the link below to download Brother MFC-495CW Driver for Windows: