Photo by Tracey Truly / Digital Trends As an all-in-one, Brother’s MFC-L2900DW offers scan, copy, and fax capabilities. Scanning is smooth and quick, with results that are clean and detailed.

"It does seem very outdated." And Joseph Vincent, from Macclesfield, said he still uses his fax machine to communicate with his brother, who lives in a remote part of Scotland. "The internet is ...