What printer cartridges does the Brother MFC J480DW use?

The Brother MFC J480DW uses four individual IJT Direct branded ink cartridges, comprising of black, cyan, magenta and yellow. There are two capacities known as LC221 and LC223.  The LC221 covers all four cartridges in the low capacity and these cartridges offer up to 260 pages per cartridge. IJT Direct offers the high capacity cartridges known as LC223, on these you can get up to 550 pages. This is based on 5% coverage of an A4 page.

Brother MFC J480DW Printer Review

Our expert review of the Brother MFC J480 DW printer

Our expert analysis & summary:

Our team of experts here at IJT Direct think that the Brother MFC 480 is an ideal user friendly colour inkjet printer. If you are looking for an attractive, low cost, low running cost printer – we’d suggest this one is for you. Brother are often the best & most reliable inkjet printers available, and are especially suited to the small home office or small business environment. Reliable, well built & by using 4 separate cartridges it offers true affordability.  

Our thoughts on Design

The Brother MFC J480 DW inkjet printer comes in sleek black, has a flatbed scanner, copier & fax. USB Connectivity, duplex double sided printing & wifi make this a very usable printer. Compact in size at only 400(W) x 341(D) x 172(H)mm and only weighing 8.3kg.

Main Printer Advantages

The functional MFC J480DW offers a maximum resolution of 1200 dpi when copying at 6images per second. It can comfortably stack up to 99 pages. With a 100 sheet paper input tray, you’re sure to have enough for most print tasks. Print resolution of Up to 6,000 x 1,200 dpi (Vertical x Horizontal) make images very high quality. AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, iPrint&Scan, Mopria, Wi-Fi Direct are great features.

Main Printer Disadvantages

The Brother J480DW design can be limiting. Paper handling could be better from this level of inkjet printer - Standard Tray: A4, LTR, EXE, A5, A6, Photo(10x15cm), Index card, Photo-2L, C5 Envelope, Com-10, DL Envelope, Monarch - Plain, Inkjet, Glossy(cast/resin). It can only carry 50 plain sheets at a time but does come with an ADF. Print and copy speeds of the Brother MFC J480DW in colour is a bit slow at 12 pages per minute.

Running costs - Are the inks good value for money?

Here at IJT Direct we think the Brother MFC J430DW is a great low cost printer and has good running costs. Don’t buy original Brother Printer cartridges as you will find you spend a lot more, which increases the cost to run your printer. You can get great value high yield cartridges from IJT Direct. Because this printer uses separate printer cartridges you only need to replace the ink colour you use. Buy from IJT online. The best printer ink in Britain.

We sell the best quality printer ink cartridges for the Brother MFC J430W all covered by a 12 month warranty backed up by friendly customer support and advice. If you are looking for cheap printer inks online without jeopardising print quality, buy your Brother ink cartridges direct with IJT.

Cartridges that fit the Brother MFC J430W printer include:

LC1240Y Brother MFC J430W yellow printer ink cartridge
LC1240BK Brother MFC J430W black printer ink cartridge
LC1240C Brother MFC J430W cyan printer ink cartridge
LC1240M Brother MFC J430W magenta printer ink cartridge
LC1220BK Brother MFC J430W black printer ink cartridge
LC1220C Brother MFC J430W cyan printer ink cartridge
LC1220M Brother MFC J430W magenta printer ink cartridge
LC1220Y Brother MFC J430W yellow oem inkjet lc1220y printer cartridge
LC1240 Brother MFC J430W multipack lc1240's bcmy printer ink cartridge