Editing Multi-function printer (section)

===Office MFP===
A mid-sized free-standing unit, designed as a central office system.

These units are usually the most fully featured type of MFP.  They include the basic Print, Copy and Scan functions with optional Fax functionality as well as networked document storage with security, authentication using common network user credentials, ability to run custom software (often a manufacturer will supply a [[Software development kit]]), advanced network scan destinations such as [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]], [[WebDAV]], [[Email]], [[Server Message Block|SMB]] and [[Network File System|NFS]] stores, encryption for data transmission and so on.

Office MFPs usually have moderately advanced finishing functions as options such as duplexing, stapling, holepunching, [[offset mode]]s and booklet-creation.

Office MFPs are almost always networked, however some have optional or standard (but infrequently used) [[USB]] and [[IEEE 1284|parallel]] connections.
Most Office MFPs have their history in mid-range [[photocopier]]s (both colour and black-and-white), and the print engine is therefore based around this type of technology, however, [[Hewlett-Packard]] recently introduced two Office MFPs based on fixed-head inkjet technology.