Brother Challenges HP’s Vaunted Envy Series With Sleek, New, Google Cloud Print-Enabled Printers
Small, wifi-enabled with the ability to print from tablets and smartphones, low-cost printing, equipped with a touchscreen, relatively inexpensive, fast…looks like a shopping list for the perfect printer, right? And that’s what Brother might have in their just-launched MFC-J4510DW, a sleek printer with Google Cloud Print connectivity and a price tag of $200 (though I’d love an explanation as to why Brother has stuck with alphabet-soup product names while its competitors have moved on to printers with names like “Artisan” and “Envy”).
Unfortunately for iOS users, the J4510DW forgoes AirPrint in favor of cloud-based services like Google’s Cloud Print service, Brother’s own printing service and Cortado Workplace.
The printer is duplex-capable and can print at page sizes of up to 11×17, which Brother says is about as big as the printer’s footprint — impressive. Printing speeds are likewise very zippy at up to 35 ppm in black and 27 ppm in color. If print quality holds up under scrutiny, Brother may have a winner here — especially for users with Android in their pockets.
When he was eight, Eli Milchman came home from frolicking in the Veld one day and was given an Atari 400. Since then, his fascination with technology has made him an intrepid early adopter of whatever charming new contraption crosses his path — which explains why he's Cult of Android's test editor-at-large. He calls San Francisco home, where he works as a journalist and photographer. Eli has contributed to the pages of 