There are some nice features as standard.
You can scan directly to many cloud based destinations - such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Sharepoint,, one drive, as well as to email, one-note. It also allows scanning to FTP/SFTP/Network/PC folder and of course a local USB drive.
The USB/Network connection is weird in that it is under the Scanning area, but does work. There is a Unique admin Password which is used to change some settings and also I believe for remote email printing. You can email a document to a brother.com email address which then prints it to the printer. I haven't tried this yet.
The printer allows you to set up multiple one-touch commands, such as Scan a Document, output as PDF and store on Google Drive. This is achieved through small wizards. They also provide a web interface to help with certain things, although not this functionality. There is a separate application which handles the print and scan features speifically - but the features on this a limited somewhat and could be improved very much
OCR Scanning worked quite well in my test - it took about 10 seconds to generate the text file directly to my PC for one A4 printed document
Photo Scanner is OK. Not great for photographs, but good for documents and written text.
Scanning at max resolution takes around 30 seconds, but is no better than lower resolution - if anything its worse.
The Printer is very fast - much more than my old Canon. It literally shoots out printed pages (they actually have a page stopper to stop the pages flying out to the ground) The colours are good, but i would say slightly muted. I used the same paper as my old Canon.
Fax has 99 shortcuts but i havent used this at all so cannot comment
It doesnt like Glossy premium paper. The photographs come out with far too much red. On normal paper it seems to be a bit better. Text on glossy paper is very bad.
There is no way to use the rear tray via the software settings. if paper is in the rear tray - it may or may not use it. It does not print to a 6x4 inch paper, even though the rear tray
By far the worse aspect is the printer driver software. You cannot print booklets, nor passport photos - there is no way of controlling anything like that. its Very poor software
After having this for a few months, I noticed that the printer goes through a clean cycle (using valuable ink) even if you havent used it. It does it anyway. Recently I upgraded the firmware, and found out that it now does this even when the printer is OFF, but has an electricity feed! If i print 1 page or no pages for a month, it does this anyway. Needless to say my printer ink is depleting faster with these self-cleaning cycles than i am actually using. I walked away from Epson due to their ink-subscription, and now Brother are using dirty tactics as well.