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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

A Peek At The Brother DCP-7040 Monochrome Laser Printer's Specifications

By Nathan Stewarts


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.

You can take advantage of additional features such as watermark, booklet and poster printing. However, duplex capability is only the manual type. There's a standard internal 16MB memory, good enough for handling even complex printing tasks.

Capable of handling a variety of media sizes (executive, legal, letter, B5, A5 and A4) is the 250-sheet capacity adjustable paper tray. But for more media handling flexibility, there's the manual feed too. It can work on sizes ranging from 3" x 4.75" to a maximum of 8.5" x 14". This is also something which may be used for thicker media.

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%).

Although printing and copying are in monochrome only, color scanning is around. An optical scanning resolution of up to 600 x 2400 dots per inch is used, but an interpolated one means you can enjoy a maximum of 19200 x 19200 dots per inch resolution. The machine takes on a flatbed scanner type, with the use of the platen on the top panel. Scans may come in BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG, PDF and MAX formats. It's also possible to directly scan to a file, image, e-mail and OCR.

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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