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PRICE £471 exc VAT from printerbase.co.uk
Brother’s X-Series MFC-J6957DW is the company’s flagship large-format inkjet MFP and offers busy workgroups a sizeable range of print, copy, scan and fax features for a very modest outlay. It has an impressive capacity, with three 250-sheet A3-sized cassettes plus a 100-page A3 multipurpose tray (MPT) and tops these off with an A3 colour flatbed scanner partnered by a 50-page duplex automatic document feeder (ADF).
Speeds for) to 30ppm, and its daily duty cycle gets a 75% increase to 3,500 pages. It’s well connected, too: it can be hooked up over USB, 10/100 Ethernet or 802.11a/n 5GHz wireless, and there’s built-in support for NFC, Wi-Fi Direct, AirPrint and a heap of cloud services.
