Brother has a good range of all-in-one printers and the DCP-770CW sits near the top of that range. It's neatly designed in silver and black and has a more integrated look than many of its rivals.

The most obvious innovation in this machine, though, is its widescreen LCD display. This provides enough room to show a thumbnail of a photo as well as a menu of options, or to show before and after images when applying built-in photo corrections.

An array of buttons to the right of the LCD controls most aspects of the machine, including photocopies and printing from memory cards or a PictBridge camera. The two memory card slots take most common types between them, though not MicroDrives.

Paper loads into a low-capacity, 100-sheet tray at the front and feeds out on the top of the tray cover. This cover includes an integral photo paper tray, which you push into the depths of the machine when printing photos. They feed to the same output tray, but are fiddly to remove, as they don't stick out from the front of the machine.

The four separate ink cartridges plug in behind a small cover at the bottom front of the DCP-770CW and the piezo-electric heads have to charge up before you first print. If any ink cartridge runs out, all printing stops. The machine can be connected via USB 2, Ethernet or WiFi wireless: the wireless setup is unusually easy and doesn't require the machine to be temporarily connected via USB.

This printer is rated at much higher speeds than you're likely to see in real life. Printing in normal print mode, we saw a mono print speed of under 3ppm and a colour print speed of under 2.5ppm - both of these are around a tenth of the rated speeds and are none too quick for a machine in this class.

Speeds will go up in draft mode, of course, but we continue to believe that most people do most of their printing in normal print mode. The A4 flatbed scanner produced a single sheet photocopy in 43 seconds; again, not terribly fast.

Photo print quality is good, with crisp detail and natural colours. The built-in photo correction firmware also worked well, producing noticeable improvements in our test prints. The same can't be said of plain paper print, where there's appreciable feathering of ink as it runs into the fibres of the paper. We use a multi-purpose office paper, designed for inkjet and laser use, in all our tests.

Checking the Internet for the cost of ink cartridges produces cost per page figures of 3p and 7.5p for 5 percent black and 20 percent colour cover, respectively. This puts the machine in the middle of the range for all-in-one printers in its class.

Brother's DCP-770CW is a machine that's heavy on features but rather too light on print quality. Being able to connect it via USB, Ethernet or WiFi makes it a versatile device and its innovative widescreen LCD display has obvious benefits, particularly when printing photos. However, its print speed and particularly its plain paper print quality don't compare well with the market-leading competition.