The Brother MFC-J4335DW is an all-in-one color inkjet printer. It uses a four-cartridge system and is compatible with Brother's LC406 ink cartridges. It has USB and Wi-Fi connectivity, supports Apple AirPrint and Mopria Print Service, and works with Brother's MobileConnect smartphone app. Scanner features include an 8.5" x 11" flatbed and an automatic feeder, but it doesn't support duplex scanning.
This printer has a variant, the Brother MFC-J4535DW. It has an additional 250-sheet input tray, a larger touch-sensitive display, and more connectivity options, including Ethernet, NFC support, and external storage support (USB flash drive). There's also a Costco-exclusive model, the Brother MFC-J4345DW XL, which is identical to the MFC-J4335DW but comes with additional longer-lasting XL ink cartridges. You can see more details in the Differences Between Variants section.
Our Verdict
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is great for family use, with a superb cost-per-print and an outstanding mobile companion app. The scanning features are very good, so you can easily digitize old photos or process multi-page documents. Printed photos only look alright and have a lot of grain, but it's fine for casual use. Deep black and blues look noticeably different from originals, but it's okay for most non-professional color printing.
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Feels very well built, with easy access to paper jams.
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High page yields and low cost-per-print.
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Automatic document feeder.
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Produces very detailed photos.
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Produces sharp documents.
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Narrow color range and mediocre color accuracy.
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Grainy photos.
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Vertical bands when printing photos on 4" x 6" paper.
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Small input tray.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is great for small or home offices. It has excellent page yields to help minimize cartridge replacements, warms up in no time to get single pages out, and prints impressively quickly. There's easy access to paper jams from the rear or under the flatbed scan glass. Unfortunately, although it has an automatic document feeder, it can't duplex scan.
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Feels very well built, with easy access to paper jams.
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High page yields and low cost-per-print.
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Prints documents quickly.
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Automatic document feeder.
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Produces sharp documents.
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No duplex scanning.
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Small input tray.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is great for students. The cost-per-print is outstandingly low, and it quickly prints out the single page so you can get your work out fast. There's also a flatbed scanner and automatic document feeder for digitizing notes. There's Wi-Fi connectivity, but it can't print via Bluetooth or directly from external storage.
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Feels very well built, with easy access to paper jams.
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High page yields and low cost-per-print.
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Prints documents quickly.
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Automatic document feeder.
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Produces sharp documents.
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Small input tray.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is excellent for black-and-white printing, with superb black page yields at a fantastic cost-per-print, and it's compatible with high-yield XL cartridges. It gets single pages out very quickly, prints longer documents at a good speed, and gives easy access to potential paper jams. There's an automatic document feeder, but unfortunately, it can't duplex scan.
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Feels very well built, with easy access to paper jams.
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High page yields and low cost-per-print.
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Prints documents quickly.
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Automatic document feeder.
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Produces sharp documents.
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No duplex scanning.
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Small input tray.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is decent for casual photo printing. Colors look reasonably accurate, but you need to set the quality to "High" to produce usable photos without any banding. Even then, there's plenty of grain, with washed-out blacks affecting small photo details.
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Feels very well built, with easy access to paper jams.
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High page yields and low cost-per-print.
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Produces very detailed photos.
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Narrow color range and mediocre color accuracy.
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Grainy photos.
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Vertical bands when printing photos on 4" x 6" paper.
- 8.2 Family
- 8.2 Small/Home Office
- 8.4 Student
- 8.5 Black & White
- 7.3 Photo
Performance Usages
- 6.1 Color Quality
- 9.0 Document Quality
- 8.6 Scanner
- 8.1 Speed
- 9.5 Recurring Costs
- Updated Sep 04, 2024: Minor text changes to add mention of the Canon PIXMA TS9520a/9521Ca as an alternative with better color accuracy in the Color Accuracy section.
- Updated Feb 19, 2024: We've updated the review for clarity and readability.
- Updated Jan 24, 2023: We've updated the review to improve clarity and added more information in the Expected Maintenance, Black and White Documents, Color Documents, Color Gamut, and Small Details sections.
- Updated Nov 10, 2022: We mistakenly indicated that the printer has an Ethernet port in the Connectivity section. It does not; it only has line ports for fax functionality. We've adjusted the score accordingly.
- Updated Aug 29, 2022: Converted to Test Bench 1.2.
- Updated Jul 04, 2022: Converted to Test Bench 1.1.
- Updated Apr 05, 2022: Updated the Photo Printing Time in the Printing Speed box. The result was initially very slow due to bad Wi-Fi connection, but it's much faster now.
- Updated Feb 28, 2022: Fixed mention of where the ink cartridges are located.
- Updated Jan 26, 2022: Reshot and updated the 'In Use Picture'.
- Updated Jan 05, 2022: Fixed error with Max Paper Weight test result.
- Updated Dec 14, 2021: Converted to Test Bench 1.0.
- Updated Sep 03, 2021: Review published.
- Updated Aug 31, 2021: Early access published.
- Updated Aug 20, 2021: Our testers have started testing this product.
- Updated Aug 18, 2021: The product has arrived in our lab, and our testers will start evaluating it soon.
- Updated Aug 11, 2021: We've purchased the product and are waiting for it to arrive in our lab.
Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We tested the Brother MFC-J4335DW printer. It has a variant with slightly different features, the Brother MFC-J4535DW, and you can also get this printer in bundles that come with longer-lasting XL ink cartridges. You can see them in the table below.
| Model | Display | Additional 250-sheet input tray | Connectivity | Bundle Versions | Notes |
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| MFC-J4335DW | 1.8 in. (44.9 mm) TFT Color LCD | N | Wi-Fi, USB | MFC-J4335DW XL - Includes additional high-yield cartridges | - |
| MFC-J4345DW | 1.8 in. (44.9 mm) TFT Color LCD | N | Wi-Fi, USB | MFC-J4345DW XL - Includes additional high-yield cartridges | Same printer as MFC-J4335DW - Costco exclusive, only available in bundle version |
| MFC-J4535DW | 2.7 in. (67.5 mm) TFT Color Touchscreen LCD | Y | Wi-Fi, USB, Ethernet, external storage (USB), NFC | MFC-J4535DW XL - Includes additional high-yield cartridges | - |
See our unit's label here.
Compared To Other Printers
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is among the best all-in-one inkjet printers for home use. It yields a large number of prints, doesn't cost much to maintain, and produces high-quality documents. For photo printing, it's outstanding at producing fine details, but there are many printers in its class with a wider color range and better color accuracy.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best home printers, the best all-in-one printers, and the best inkjet printers.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW and Brother MFC-J1010DW represent Brother's mid-range and cheap all-in-one inkjet printer offerings. While they offer similar features, the J4335DW performs better overall. It provides faster scanning through its ADF, faster printing, a much higher page yield, and marginally better scan quality. Really, the choice comes down to your print load. If you don't print very often, the J1010DW is a good choice; however, if you have a larger print load, the additional performance of the J4335DW makes it the more suitable option.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW and Epson EcoTank ET-3850 are both all-in-one inkjet printers. The Brother is better for most people; it prints sharp black and white documents, prints quickly at 17 black and 15 color pages per minute, and offers an ADF-equipped scanning capable of scanning up to 20 pages per minute. It falls short for people with very high print loads; the Epson is the better choice in this case, as it uses a refillable tank system that yields almost four times as many black prints and more than five times as many color prints. It also produces nicer-looking photos.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW and the Epson EcoTank ET-2850 are both good options for a home office. If you scan often for work, the Brother is a better choice since it has an automatic document feeder that scans very quickly. It also prints much faster. On the other hand, if you print often, the Epson is a better choice. It has much higher page yields, and its ink bottle costs are much cheaper than the Brother's cartridge prices.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW and the Brother MFC-J1205W areboth all-in-one inkjet printers designed for home use. The J4335DW is better overall because it has better page yields, faster printing speed, and more scanner features like an automatic feeder and duplex scanning. It also has a better display console with more buttons to help navigate the settings menu. As for the print quality, the MFC-J4335DW is better for documents, but the MFC-J1205W has a slightly wider color range and better color accuracy.
The Epson EcoTank ET-2800/ET-2803 and the Brother MFC-J4335DW are both inkjet models, but the Epson uses a refillable supertank ink system, while the Brother uses a hybrid high-yield cartridge–tank system. The Brother performs better for home office, student use, and black and white printing, as it prints significantly faster and supports duplex printing. Additionally, it has an automatic document feeder that scans multi-page documents quickly. The Epson yields significantly more black and color pages at a much cheaper cost-per-print, produces significantly better-looking photos with deeper contrast, and produces a much wider range of colors with better accuracy.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW and HP Smart Tank 7301 are all-in-one inkjet printers with their respective strengths. While the Brother uses a traditional ink cartridge system, the HP is a supertank model with refillable ink reservoirs. As such, it offers vastly higher page yields than the Brother and a lower cost-per-print; this makes the HP the better choice for those with very high print loads. By contrast, if you have workloads that need to process a lot of scans, then you should consider the Brother. Its ADF-equipped scanner can scan up to 20 pages per minute and produces exceptional-quality scans. It also produces sharper-looking black and color documents.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW and the Canon PIXMA TR8620a are both all-in-one family printers. The Brother produces higher-quality documents, prints faster, and yields significantly more prints, so it's a better choice if you need to print a lot of documents for work, school, or your hobbies. For photo printing, the Brother produces more fine details, but the Canon produces a wider range of colors with better accuracy.
The Brother MFC-J995DW and the Brother MFC-J4335DW both use the proprietary INKvestment Tank hybrid cartridge–tank system for superior page yields compared to traditional cartridges. The J995DW is better for families and casual photo printing thanks to its significantly higher page yields, cheaper cost-per-print, faster photo printing speed, and significantly better-looking photos. It can also print directly from USB flash drives and SD cards. On the other hand, the J4335DW is better for small and home offices and black-and-white printing thanks to its much faster document printing speeds and faster scanning speed.
The Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4830 and the Brother MFC-J4335DW are both all-in-one inkjet printers. The Brother is better overall as it produces higher-quality documents and scans, and its cost-per-print is much lower due to its significantly better page yields. However, the Epson has more features, like duplex scanning, a larger input tray capacity, and support for USB flash drives.
The Canon PIXMA TS9520a/9521Ca and the Brother MFC-J4335DW are both all-in-one inkjet printers. For the most part, the Brother is a better choice if you mainly need to print documents, as it produces higher quality documents and prints much faster. However, the Canon is better for photo printing because it has a wider color range and superior color accuracy. Also, printed photos from the Canon don't look as grainy. These two printers are similar feature-wise; the main difference is that the Canon printer supports wide format paper up to 11" x 17". Unlike the Canon, the MFC-J4335DW lacks Ethernet connectivity and external storage support, but you can get those features if you go with its slightly more expensive variant, the Brother MFC-J4535DW. The Brother has much lower recurring costs, as its ink cartridges yield significantly more prints.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is a better printer overall compared to the Epson EcoTank ET-2720. The Brother prints faster, supports automatic duplex printing, and produces far more accurate colors. It also feels better built, has a better display and physical keypad, built-in fax, and an automatic document feeder. On the other hand, the Epson uses a supertank ink system for far better page yields and a cheaper cost-per-print, and aside from the disappointing color accuracy, produces much better-looking photos.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW performs better overall than the HP OfficeJet Pro 6978. The Brother can print lots more pages than the HP before its cartridges run out, resulting in much lower running costs. Also, the Brother prints and scans much faster, and its flatbed lid's hinges can extend to scan thicker items. On the other hand, the HP can automatically scan double-sided sheets and print directly off a USB flash drive.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is better than the HP OfficeJet Pro 8135e/8139e in basically every relevant way. The Brother has a sturdier build, a more user-friendly interface, a higher page yield, faster printing speeds, and superior print quality. Its scanner also has an ADF that processes pages much faster than that of the HP, and its flatbed scanner has a height-adjustable hinge to accommodate thicker source material.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is better for every use than the HP DeskJet 3755/3772. Both are all-in-one inkjet printers; however, the Brother yields more than 20 times the number of black and color prints, scans 20 times faster, and produces much better scans and black and color documents. While the HP ink is cheaper because you will need to change cartridges frequently if you regularly print, its cost per print is very high, over ten times that of the Brother for black documents
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is much better than the HP Smart Tank 5101. The Brother produces higher-quality documents and photos, prints faster, and supports automatic duplex printing. It also has an automatic feeder to scan long, multipage documents and extendable lid hinges to accommodate thicker items like textbooks. The HP yields more prints, but it may need more maintenance, as its printheads clog easily.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is better than the Canon PIXMA TR7820/TS7720 for most uses. The Brother produces higher-quality documents and scans and prints faster. It also yields significantly more pages, resulting in a lower cost-per-print. However, the Canon produces more colorful and color-accurate photos, and its scanner supports manual duplex scanning.
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Test Results
This printer feels very well-built, with a design that allows easy access to the ink cartridges and potential paper jams. However, the power cord isn't removable, making it hard to replace if damaged, and the input tray feels a tad flimsy. Also, the USB-B port for connecting directly to a computer is under the scan bed, shortening the cable's usable length.
Like most inkjet printers, the printheads can clog if you don't print anything for an extended period. There are a few maintenance functions built-in to help resolve clogging or other print quality issues, like Printhead Cleaning and Improve Print Quality (for white, dark, or uneven lines). As for regular ink maintenance, the ink cartridges yield a large number of prints, so you won't have to replace them all that often unless you print a lot. You can access the ink cartridges through the large opening at the front of the printer. The input tray holds only 150 sheets, which is on the smaller side. If you have a large print load or want to reduce maintenance, the Brother MFC-J4535DW variant has a secondary input tray that holds 250 sheets of paper, bringing the maximum capacity to 400 sheets. For paper jams, the sheet rollers are accessible by lifting the scanner bed or through a panel on the back. The back panel is small, so there isn't much space to maneuver.
See the user manual here.
The display is decent. It's visible whether you're seated, standing, or off to the side. It isn't a touchscreen, but the full array of physical buttons makes navigating the user interface easy. There's audio feedback when pressing the buttons, although you can turn this off if it bothers you. The Brother J4535DW variant has a larger 2.7-inch, touch-sensitive display and fewer physical buttons.
The ink cartridges yield a large number of prints, so you won't need to replace them often, and you can further increase the yield with XL cartridges (LC406XL). However, if one cartridge runs out of ink, you'll need to replace it before the printer lets you print anything else.
The scan quality is exceptional. Text looks clear, colors look vibrant, and fine details, like the lines in the graph, are present.
- Quick Setup Guide
- Telephone line cord
- Brother LC406 starter cartridges:
- 1x LC406 black
- 1x LC406 cyan
- 1x LC406 magenta
- 1x LC406 yellow
The print quality of black-and-white documents is outstanding. Text looks sharp, and most fine details are present. The only complaint is that the colored areas look a tad washed out and grainy.
The print quality of color documents is outstanding. Text looks clear, and colors look vibrant without being oversaturated. Finer details are visible, but not as much as when printing in black-and-white.
The cost-per-print is exceptionally low, thanks to its high page yields and relatively cheap ink cartridges. It's eligible for Brother's Refresh Auto-Fulfillment Service, a service that ships ink to you when your printer runs low (with no limit); however, it isn't compatible with the Brother Refresh EZ Print Subscription, which gives you a fixed allowance of prints per month for a flat monthly fee.
If you want a larger input tray capacity to reduce maintenance, the Brother MFC-J4535DW variant has an additional 250-sheet input tray, bringing the maximum capacity to 400 sheets. The output tray holds a total of 100 sheets.
For photo printing, the "Normal" photo printing quality setting causes thick vertical banding. As such, we used the "High" quality instead, which produces a better-looking image. We recorded this print speed as our photo printing time result since we expect more people will use this setting for photo printing.
This printer has a manual-fed, one-sheet multipurpose tray on the back.
This printer has a mediocre color gamut. It has trouble producing bright, saturated tones, as well as darker shades of blue, green, and yellow. Color transitions look grainy and patchy.
As mentioned in the Printing Speed section, printing photos in the 'Normal' quality setting causes vertical banding; however, setting the quality to 'High' or 'Best' fixes the issue. There are also bands when printing borderless on 4" x 6" paper, but this issue isn't present when printing the same image on letter-size paper.
Color accuracy is passable. Most colors are inaccurate, but not enough to make pictures look bad or unnatural. That said, it still isn't ideal for professional work that requires perfect accuracy. Check out the Canon PIXMA TS9520a/TS9521Ca if you want a printer with better color accuracy to print photos.
This printer is outstanding at reproducing small details. Although the advertised print resolution is 1200 x 4800, it can print at a higher resolution of 1200 x 6000 if you set the print quality to 'Best.' Fine details look clear and well-defined, and while the use of halftones (dots) causes some loss of detail, it's not too bad.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW's USB-B direct-to-computer port is under the scanner as seen here. The Brother MFC-J4535DW variant has an Ethernet port and NFC support, and it can print directly off a USB flash drive.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is compatible with the Brother Mobile Connect, not the older Brother iPrint&Scan app. You can use the Mobile Connect app to print, scan, and copy directly from your mobile device, check ink levels, perform maintenance tasks, and even order supplies. The maximum supported scan resolution is 300 DPI when scanning with the smartphone's camera, as opposed to the 1200 DPI on the desktop software.
You need to install drivers to use the printer on Windows devices, which you can find here. On Chrome OS devices, you need to install the Brother iPrint&Scan app from the Google Play Store to get full functionality. There's no need to install drivers on Macs.