Brother MFC 740

Brother MFC 740 ... scanner, printer and fax.

The 740's front panel is awash with controls fit to rival the most complex standalone fax machine. But faxing isn't the full extent of its telecommunications abilities, because hanging off of one side is a telephone handset. This could be potentially useful for the smaller office. The insides of the machine are occupied by the inkjet print engine. This is a four-colour unit, containing black, cyan, magenta and yellow inks. These are all held in separate cartridges to enable individual replacement. An unusual feature of the 740, which is not usually found on these devices, is a video capture facility. There's a composite video input nestling under the bottom left of its front panel, which will accept any standard PAL video signal. You can either capture images and print them directly, or use the Twain driver to capture to your PC's hard disk.