DS-740D Duplex Compact Mobile Document Scanner

Use for work on the go, super easy, user friendly, works way better than I expected it to.

This is a great little printer. I was looking for a portable printer that didn’t rely on thermal paper and this is what popped up in my research. Although it’s a tad heavy if I had to take it with me every day. It’s still doable. It is a bit bigger than I had hoped, it’s still substantially smaller than most other printers unless you go to a thermal printer which I didn’t want to do. I have a bigger color Brother printer, so I was already familiar with the quality of their products. And this one lives up to their high quality standards. It holds a good amount of paper, so I don’t have to keep feeding it all the time. It does use toner cartridges instead of ink cartridges, so they are bigger. But once you walk through the steps of changing a cartridge, it’s quite easy. Overall, I’m happy with this purchase. It’s a great product at a great price and the quality is solid. I recommend this little workhorse.

So I bought this (factory refurbished) because my dad passed earlier this year and he was a pack rat; one of those people who prints out bill payment confirmations and all kinds of random papers, not to mention the countless photos he had. Anyway, I figured this scanner would help with getting everything onto a computer much more efficiently than my printer/scanner combo. Here's what I found: -Brother has their own software to update the firmware and can manage your scans. This software does NOT work on my desktop however it DOES work on my laptop. My desktop is a high-end gaming machine that can run circles around my laptop without breaking a sweat, the difference is that my desktop has an AMD Ryzen 9 processor whereas my Dell G7 laptop has an Intel I7. My desktop just does not recognize the scanner when it's plugged in. So, I have to use 3rd party software, which I've managed to make work pretty well, but is disappointing that this is even an issue. -The top lid flips up so you can have photos/papers come out straight up instead of behind, however this does not work well with photos. While scanning pictures, the photos would move while going through the feeder causing a warped image being scanned in. So this feature works well for papers, just not for photos. -Portability? Yeah...not really. I had planned on taking this to my dad's house and scanning things there, but the issue is that you have to plug it into a computer. I desperately tried to use it on my android phone but there just aren't any apps that will recognize the scanner and not just use the phone's camera. The "portable" terms is just literally that you can pick it up and move it around, within the confines of the USB cable length - which what they give you is only 2ft long, so you're going to need to buy a longer cable yourself. Overall, I'd still recommend it for on-the-fly scanning, especially if you have a metric ton worth of things to scan. These things aren't exactly cheap but if I had to buy one again, I'd make sure to get one that is actually portable, one that has memory and a rechargeable battery.

This is a nice little duplex scanner. I bought the factory refurbished model, and for a quick minute I thought that might have been a mistake. After every page, the scanner took 20+ seconds to be ready again. I'm using Linux (Fedora), so I thought maybe it was a driver problem. Or maybe I got a dud unit. I watched the udev monitor and realized the scanner seemed to be power-cycling after each page. Odd. Turns out, it was the port on my laptop. I plugged it into a different USB port ON THE SAME LAPTOP and the scanner works great! No long delay between scanning subsequent pages. No strange udev messages. Linux folks, Brother has Linux drives on their product support website (*.deb and *.rpm). Install is simple. I used Gnome's "Document Scanner" at first as the scanning front end. You have to select "All Pages From Feeder" (not "Single Page") in order for the two-sided (duplex) functionality of the 740D to work. You MUST ALSO select "Both" from the preferences dialogue. I eventually switched to "gscan2pdf", which is more flexible in terms of scan post-processing. In the "Scan" dialogue on the "Scan Options" tab, the "Scan Source" option allows you to perform two-sided (duplex) scanning. Select the option ending with "left aligned" for single-sided and "left aligned - duplex" for two-sided.

Really good scanner, fits up to pretty much exactly 8.5x11. we digitized like 25 huge photo albums in about 3 days. You really need to use the software on their website because it gives you a continuous feed option that saves so much time. Whatever the PPM listed on this page, it's wrong. This scanner scans much faster, provided you do three things: use continuous scan setting, close the tray so it's feeds out straight, and pull the pictures away so they don't cause a "jam". My only complaint is that it will "jam" because it thinks it's blocked, and instead of allowing you to continue after pulling the picture out and continuing scans, it aborts the scan (saving the pictures most of the time) and you have to restart continuous scan.

I ordered it because I wanted to have scanning capacity on my desk. I have automated scanner/printer from the same company for serious scanning jobs. Well as time passes by - this small tiny scanner is so convenient that I use it for almost anything except really big stacks of paper (that I do not have that often). so it became my primary scanner. Scan quality is sufficient for me and scanning speed is pretty fast. I am not using it for imaging/photography work, just regular scanning of documents and occasional images, whatever comes to my desk. Great product

I have good experience with previous Brother products, and this scanner, fortunately, was no exception. Decent quality of scanned documents, good scan speed, easy setup (macOS Catalina), and intuitive operation.

Muito fácil de instalar e muito prático de usar! 100% satisfeito!

Ha sido una excelente compra. El tamaño es perfecto puedes guardarlo fácilmente. Escanea rapidísimo y muy fácil de instalar en tu laptop. Me ha sido muy útil. Escanea super bien credenciales. Volvería a comprar otro producto marca brother.

Easy to use and pretty fast scanning

Ya tengo más de 3 años y sigue operando muy bien