Brother Printer Manual Feed Slot

I purchased this as an upgrade from my 3750 for 2 main reasons: The screen is larger and I wanted the rear feed and rear slot option. (The rear feed will feed paper from a pop-up area located at back of machine. The rear SLOT will feed paper straight through from back to front (after removing a piece and making an adjustment). The rear slot will print on media up to 1.3mm thick. Anyway - after setting up the printer, I was anxious to experiment with these features (mostly the rear slot, as I wanted to create my own decorative card stock for use with die cutter). I could only find ONE sentence in the entire user manual that addressed selecting the rear slot, and it was a NOTE: It said to select the rear slot, choose the option with the appropriate paper size. I kept choosing 8.5 x 11, but did not realize there were further options. (See first photo). However, to choose rear feed, you go into different settings, first choosing layout, then printer settings, then paper source. See 2nd photo. I think these 2 options should be located in the same place. (I use MacBook with Monterey). I also found one other limitation working from the printer console. There is a nice feature to print decorative card stock or lined paper. If you choose lined paper, you are offered the rear slot as an optional paper source; if you choose decorative card stock, you are not! I believe the rear feeder (which loads and prints without curving the paper around the way the main feeder does) will meet most of my card stock printing needs. After much research, this feeder can handle card stock of 100 pounds (or more).

It took a little time to get the hang of it. The manual was of little help. But once you become familiar with it, you have to love it. I never knew that a printer could have continues feed. No longer limited to a pre determined length. Really a great feature.K

Prints on just about anything that will feed thru the printer

Our second Brother printer, would not have anything else !

Brother printer needs to use brother ink. I bought another brand ink that did not work.

I'm case anybody was wondering, you don't have to feed the end through that slot. You can just wrap them around your coil of cables and store them away nice and neat. These are thicker and better than another brand I had previously purchased. These are very well made, durable, and I think they are going to last a very long time. Great product. Would recommend them, and would buy them again.

Context: I serve as a pastor takes care of the production side of worship services. With Coronavirus, every organization started to go online only and for us that meant live streaming Sunday services. We built a PC and put this card in it. This card fits our live stream workflow really well. If you want to use this with a Mac you'll need an external PCIe chassis that connects via Thunderbolt3. This card has 4 I/O 3G-SDI slots and 1 reference slot. The negative thing about this card is that none of the ports are labeled. So it took me a moment to figure out what port is #1 and which port is the #5 reference slot. I ended up googling which slot was which and figured it out. (I've attached a picture for your reference if you get confused too.) The biggest feature we needed this card for is the ability to send an alpha key and to be able to send 1080p60 (59.94). The Blackmagic software is robust and allows us to use slot 1&2 (or 3&4) to send an alpha signal into our ATEM switcher so we can overlay lyrics and videos over the feed that is coming in through our video cameras. With that said, we could have used the other 2 ports to feed into additional screens or something but instead we are using them as inputs so our ATEM switcher is feeding back into this Decklink and we use that feed as our live stream to YouTube and Facebook. (We have a pretty powerful computer so running our presentation software - ProPresenter7 - and live streaming is no issue). We've been using other Blackmagic products (hyper deck, ultra studio, ATEM switcher) and have been very impressed with their prices, features, and performance. This product is no different.

a good case for Brother printer.

This is my second Brother MFC printer and I have been very happy with both (so far on new one)

No manual feed for paper available; have to open the drawer and insert paper