Monday, April 2, 2012

A Quick Look At The Features Of The Brother DCP-7040 Monochrome Laser Printer

By Steven Rusel


Small offices and homes can rely on the Brother DCP-7040 to take care of their everyday printing needs. But this black-and-white printer can do more than that. It's also designed to perform copying and scanning tasks.

As many as 23 monochrome printouts a minute can be churned out. Relying on laser technology and good enough resolution of 2400 x 600 dots per inch, documents can end up looking clean and highly readable. According to the manufacturer, the recommended print volume is 250 to 2000 pages a month. Evidently, the machine is ideal for use where light to moderate printing of professional-quality documents is necessary.

Additional features include booklet, watermark and poster printing. However, printing on both sides of the paper is done manually as no auto-duplex is around. Within is a 16MB memory for handling even complex printing requirements.

Media sizes which can be handled by this versatile printer's adjustable 250-sheet paper tray range from A4, A5, B5, letter, legal, to executive. But custom sizes (3" x 4.75" to 8.5" x 14") may be handled by the manual feed tray. This is also what's commonly used when you require printing on media with thicker sizes, avoiding paper jams.

The machine works as a stand-alone copier, meaning you don't have to turn on a computer each time. Multiple copies are taken care of by the 35-sheet capacity ADF or auto document feeder. As for copying thicker objects such as bound media, the top panel sports a glass platen. This machine is fast enough to churn out up to 23 copies per minute. 2-in-1 and 4-in-1 functions compress copies on a single sheet for paper conservation. Enlargement and reduction is possible (400% to 25%).

Despite of the fact that the unit is capable of black-and-white printing and copying, scanning can be done in color. Scanning resolutions used are 600 x 2400 dots per inch (optical) and 19200 x 19200 dotes per inch (interpolated). It has the flatbed type of scanner design with the glass platen present. You can directly scan to a file, e-mail, image and OCR. Scanning formats is also versatile - PDF, BMP, JPG, PNG, MAX and TIFF.

The Brother DCP-7040 comes with a compact footprint, measuring 16.9" (width) x 15.6" (depth) x 12" (height). This machine weighs 24.4 pounds. Hi-speed USB 2.0 is the interface for connecting to a single computer. Operation is simplified by means of the well-organized buttons and two-liner display on the large control panel. However, this one lacks two important features that are usually present on other multifunction printers: faxing and networking.




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