Geeze....check out the Brother 8600DN machine, with fax to pc. It is a MFC with a flatbed scanner and a copier also. Maybe you can justify just having another scanner/copier on hand "in case" and then sneak in the fax to pc and fax from pc features in on your apparently out of touch IT people.
Leslie
I bought at brother 7840N at the recommendation of the board and love it. When an 8660 was on sale at sharp (refurb) I snapped it up but have had nothing but problems. It stopped receiving faxes, they had to reset the machine, the auto document feeder would not work, they could not correct the problem, they sent a new (refurb) machine. The new machine went through the same set of problems. Stopped sending faxes to the computer, they claimed it was a computer problem (but it worked before). Each time was about 45 min to 1.5 hours on the phone. New machine has been reset and guess what, auto document feeder does not work.
Love the 7840N Hate the 8660DN