The cost of colour laser printing rises drastically if you need to print pages larger than A4. While you can buy a colour A4 printer for around £160 - though OKI's cheapest A4 colour laser is ...

Although prices of colour laser printers have been dropping over recent months, £140 (plus VAT) is still relatively inexpensive. This isn't a heavyweight model sold cheaply in the hope of making up income on consumables, either. ...

If you have a small to medium sized business that needs an efficient, fast and good quality workhorse of a printer, then you could do a lot worse than Epson's latest AcuLaser C3800N. When a printer ...

Lexmark has a range of rather blocky-looking all-in-one devices, with the X5470 fitting some way up from the bottom. To prove this, it includes memory card slots, fax facilities and an Auto Document Feeder (ADF). Its ...

It's a sign of times that increasing numbers of high street photo printing shops are closing with the advent of vastly improved digital cameras, software and printers which mean that the whole process, from snapping to ...

Multi-function laser machines are generally very utilitarian, like laser printers with scanners stuck on top. HP's Color LaserJet CM1017MFP does rather better. Although the components are the same, more work has been done on the styling ...

The natural successor to the P315, Lexmark's first dedicated photo printer, the P350 improves on the printing speeds of its predecessor and introduces some new Lexmark technology. While it's very portable, you can't use it everywhere ...

HP's all-in-ones continue to march on, yet this generally impressive machine has some surprising omissions that might make you think twice before buying similar models at a comparable price. In terms of design, it's very similar ...

The FS-2000D sits at the bottom end of Kyocera Mita's workgroup range of mono laser printers. It has quite a large footprint for an A4 printer, and lines that don't try to hide its function; it's ...

HP's first round of dedicated photo printers - the small, toaster-shaped ones you can print from directly using your camera - have been a big success, so it's hardly surprising that the company would want to ...

An all-in-one device at nearly £230 doesn't look great value, when they start at around £50. At over four times the entry-level price, you'd expect some extras and, fortunately, Canon's PIXMA MP830 has plenty to offer. ...

The D88 and the slightly cheaper D78 are Epson's latest, four-colour, general purpose inkjet printers aimed at the home user, both for domestic and home-based business needs. The D88 Plus is a squat, though relatively compact, ...

The HP Photosmart C4180 is exactly the sort of multi-function device that you might consider for the home or small office. It's a twin-cartridge inkjet printer with a scanner on top that also gives copy features. ...

Brother has established a name for itself as a provider of high-quality yet good value solutions in the printer market, both on a consumer and business level. A new range of all-in-one printers aims to continue ...

The Brother DCP-540CN is part of a new line-up of Brother MFDs (multi-function devices) that bear a passing resemblance to previous models such as the MF-C620, not least because the new models continue to use the ...

Described as a 'Compact Photo Printer', the Canon Selphy CP720 is little bigger than my hand and little more than six centimetres thick. It's a thermal dye printer designed for printing photos direct from digital cameras ...

The KX-FLB851E is a laser-based multi-function machine, offering mono printing, copying and faxing and colour scanning. Panasonic claims it's particularly easy to use and also points to its three output bins, which help separate out its ...

Most A3+ printers cost many hundreds of pounds and are designed for use by printing professionals who, it's assumed, don't need the ease-of-use facilities lavished on consumer printers. This is daft, as graphics professionals often have ...

Sagem isn't a company you would immediately think of as a printer manufacturer, but the PrintEasy 110 is an excellent example of an unconventional solution to cost-effective printing. The small cream and chalk blue case contains ...

Hewlett-Packard has consistently produced printers of a high standard and durability and so the release of the latest in the Photosmart series is a cause for interest. Because success in this field is gauged as much ...