The Brother Work Smart MFCJ870DW is a state of the art ink jet all-in-one printer that offers amazing features at a very reasonable cost. Nearly all modern printers will work with the Apple operating system but the Brother printer is listed among the most compatible with your Mac systems. Brother has focused on wireless printing in designing this printer. Most importantly, the Brother Work Smart MFCJ870DW is equipped with built in Apple AirPrint technology.

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Smarter Work

Airprint is a feature in the more recent Apple operating systems, starting with OS X Lion and iOS 4.2.1. Airprint connects the Mac computer with the Airprint compatible printer through the wi-fi network directly so that individual print drivers are not necessary. Airprint also means that you can print from any connected device including your iPhone or iPad.

The Brother Work Smart printer also has built in NFC (or Near Field Communication) . This compatibility means you can load images or other content into the printer by merely bringing your device in close proximity to the printer, bringing it close to a contact panel on the printer. You don’t have to make a physical connection between the device and the printer. This may seem like a minor matter, but it can be important for someone who wants to print images directly from an I-Phone or compatible portable device. The printer will print or scan images directly from your compatible portable device.

Photo Friendly

PictBridge compatibility means that you can connect with any PictBridge compatible camera and print directly from the camera’s memory card without any need to download images to your computer. The printer also web-connects to popular cloud servers such as Facebook, PICASA Web Albums, Flicker, Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, and Skydrive. You can print directly from these popular web services.

The all-in-one MFC-J870DW offers a full pallet of printing and communications capabilities. It is a printer, fax machine, card reader, and high quality scanner/ color photo copier. The printer has an intuitive 2.7 inch touch screen display, a touch panel control which can shortcut commonly used functions.

The system is regularly upgraded with new features that are downloaded into the printer. It comes loaded a number of useful shortcuts.

Copies Made Easy

An outline and copy feature enables you to make a hard copy of only selected portions of a document. An outline and scan feature enables you to select parts of a physical document and scan just those parts against a transparent background. An outline and remove feature lets you remove or red -line portions of a scanned document and produce a physical copy of just the remaining information. A note-scan feature prints a template for note-taking of up to eight pages. You fill the template with notes and the printer will automatically organize your notes into a series of jpeg images for easy retrieval. The Brother Creative Center Templates prints common business documents like calendars, signage, and seasonal display documents which you select right from your touch-screen display.

Exceptional Quality

Brother MFC-J870DW is an excellent color graphics and photographic quality printer. The image quality of 6,000 by 1,200 dpi is an excellent resolution for a standard printer. It prints directly on CDs or DVDs to produce professional looking labels. The printing is fast at up to 27 pages per minute color or 33 pages per minute black and white. It also has built in duplex printing which means that you can print on both sides of your paper.

Smarter Ink

The system uses four print cartridges, three color and a black. They are independently replaceable. The cartridges are installed into a panel on the front of the device. There is no need to lift the scanner panel and wait for the device to recycle. You will be surprised how important that little feature is.

The printer has a paper capacity of up to 250 sheets of standard paper which means much less paper handling than most printers of its size. It will print on a wide range of paper sizes and weights, with a straight path which prevents bending and jams.

More Functions

The scanner function in the Brother MFC-J870DW allows you to scan into a number of widely used formats. You can create high quality jpg files, tiff files, or PDF files. You can scan directly into e-mail or storage on media cards. You can scan graphic files for optical character recognition (OCR) which can then be inserted into text documents without additional software. You can reduce your scanned documents to 25% of their original size or enlarge them to 400%. The scanner sorts up to 99 pages of stacked documents.

The scanner has a maximum resolution of  1200 x 1200 dpi which produces camera quality images from hard copy. These copies can printed on photographic paper or plain paper. You can edit images scanned into the printer using your touch screen, select a desired part of an image and integrate that section into another image for printing or storing.

The  MFC-J870DW also takes content directly from any memory card or thumb drive, which plugs into the front of the machine. You can select content and print without using your computer.

Simple to Install

The  MFC-J870DW includes full fax capability without additional software. The fax modem transmits at 33,600 bps in color or black and white. It transmits photos as fine as 203 x 392 dpi. There are 16 one-touch dial selections and up to 100 speed dial numbers. It has 400 pages of transmission memory. You can fax any image or file from any compatible device without having to access your computer or the wi-fi network.

The card reader will accept any generation of memory sticks up to32 gigabytes. It will take multimedia cards to 4 gigabytes, SDHC cards to 32 gigabytes and any USB flash media memory drives. Mini and micro cards can be used with adapters.

An Amazing Price

The  Brother MFC-J870DW is a very flexible, full function all-in-one printer ideally suited for your Mac and Mac-mini computer with a late build Apple IOS. It is economical to purchase at a street price under $150.  Long lasting ink cartridges for this printer are among the most economical on the market.