Our Overall Score:
9.5/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Printers category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £89
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Brother or alternative products in the Printers category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax
BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax scores 9.8/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Printers. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Printers, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Printers? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax scores 9.3/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Printers category was £551.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £24.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Printers category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Printers category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Printers category. This was £154.27 from the 94 products we found in that category. So BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax actually comes in below average at £89.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £551.00 and the least expensive, which was £24.99. In total we found that of the 94, 68 were more expensive and 25 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax.
Prices of products from Brother
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Brother. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Brother, which was £80.98 of the 72 products we found. So BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Brother was £9.99 with the most expensive coming in at £323.00.
Prices of products from Brother and in the Printers category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Brother that sit specifically within the Printers category.
For this we found that the average price was £143.63, making BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax at £89 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £284.99 with the lowest priced item being £64.00. In total there were 14 items that were more expensive and 4 that was less expensive.
Reviews of BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax
BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax scores 9.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax is.
Overall score
BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax scores 9.5/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Brother so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: BROTHER MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer with Fax
- Brand: Brother
- Model Number: MFCJ497DW
- WiFi / Apple AirPrint / Google Cloud PrintAutomatic double-sided printing
- EAN: 4977766780940
- Description: Scan, copy and faxThe Brother MFCJ497DW All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer is the perfect space-saving solution for your home office. It’s not just a printer – it can scan photos, copy documents and fax messages too. Everything you need to do in the office, all with just one device.And with a colour screen and easy-to-use controls, it’s ideal for everything from scanning bills to printing homework.Print from anywhereYou don’t need to be glued to your PC to print the documents you need. With built-in WiFi, you can connect your smartphone or tablet directly and print anything, from anywhere at home.The Brother iPrint&Scan app provides a handy interface to find all the files you need in one place. And you can even scan files straight to Dropbox or Google Drive without taking up any storage on your laptop.Plug and printGot a USB stick with old photos you want to print? You don’t even need to turn your PC on. Simply plug the USB drive in, select the photos you want to print on the screen, and you’re ready to go. The printer works with photo paper too, so you can make an album that’s guaranteed to last.
- Product ID: 23832051033
