CANON FAX-L770 (Plain Paper Fax and Printer)

Circa 1990

The FAX-L770 is CANON's first Laser Class facsimile to offer ultra-high-quality output—first introduced in 1990. It also won an iF Design Award the same year.

Use Case

Designed for standard office use as a high-speed, plain-paper laser fax machine. Its primary use cases included:

• Sending and Receiving Faxes: Transmitting scanned documents (converted into a TIFF format image) as email attachments via Internet fax (I-fax) or over a telephone line. It also featured a "Delayed TX" function to send faxes at a preset time.

• Printing: As a "Laser Class" device, it used laser print technology to provide high-quality, 600x600 dpi plain paper output, unlike thermal paper faxes.

• Document Management: Users could print activity reports (e.g., automatically after 40 transmissions) and check the status log for sent and received documents via a control panel display.

• Telephony: It included a standard telephone handset, allowing users to make and receive voice calls.

(H-28.5cm x W-45cm x D-47.5cm)