Abstract: An apparatus and method provides a photocopier with E-mail capability by integrating a system into the photocopier. The system is made to be compatible with the software programming of a multi-functional product (MFP) to allow the MFP to communicate with XML web pages. In this way, the MFP is permitted to ask an external application running on a server to do desired tasks and to see and interact with the application from the touch screen of the MFP which is typically populated with light emitting diodes (LEDs). When the features of the system are provided in the MFP and when those features are selected from the touch screen, a special screen opens up on the MFP allowing the user to enter one or more e-mail addresses as well as a subject line and a message as would be the case in any e-mail.