The Xerox Phaser 8560DN isn't small even for a solid-ink printer, so you'll need a sizeable area of free desk space to give it a home. And a sizeable wallet, too.

The Xerox Phaser 8560DN is a good solid-ink performer, which leans heavily on its green credentials. It's quick, enjoys good colour gamut and quality, has built-in ethernet networking and an intriguing power-saving mode. Alas, it's far from cheap to buy o...

Canon's Pixma MP620 colour inkjet multifunction printer offers connectivity and capacity galore.

The Canon Pixma MP620 delivers a wide variety of features in a well-designed package. Its connectivity and generous paper handling make it particularly well suited for families or students.

Brother aims at the ambitious small office with its Brother MFC-5890CN colour inkjet multifunction printer, whose wide-format capability and cheap inks increase your in-house publishing potential without breaking the bank.

If time is money, the Brother MFC-5890CN hurts on both counts. It makes you wait forever for plain-text pages that also cost more because of the pricey black ink. Wide-format printing remains rare in this price range, however, so if you need that feature

While in some cases a multifunction printer simply means combining a printer with a scanner, some, such as the Epson Stylus PX800FW add touches we haven't even seen before.

You can't get much more fully featured than the Epson Stylus PX800FW. Unfortunately, its multifunctionality comes at the expense of quality, and in an MFD costing nearly £300, you have a right to expect that prints should be stunning. If you can put up w...

Epson's WorkForce 600 is a stylish multifunction device ideal for a home office or small-business with a copier, scanner, fax, and photo printer.

The Epson WorkForce 600 is one of the fastest inkjet printers out there, producing quality photo printing and scanning. While its copying capabilities are only decent and the overall print quality does not challenge the best inkjets, it's still a solid al...

Samsung has given the Samsung CLP-315 printer a striking polished black exterior, and delicate curves that make this far and away the best-looking laser printer we've seen.

The Samsung CLP-315 is relatively light on dimensions and rather pleasing to look at. For home users who need to run off numbers of text documents mixed in with the odd colour image, this printer's £135 price makes it an enticing buy. Just don't expect i...

Canon's Selphy ES3 snapshot printer is as cute as the similarly shaped (and priced) HP Photosmart A826. Unfortunately, not everything about the Canon Selphy ES3 photo printer is so disarming and friendly.

Don't let the Canon Selphy ES3's cuteness blind you to its mediocre print quality and wasteful consumables. Families may appreciate its wealth of printing options, but there's not much else to like here.

HP's Photosmart A536 Compact Photo Printer is inexpensive, easy to use, and light enough to take anywhere.

The HP Photosmart A536 Compact Photo Printer is basic, but also affordable and easy to operate. For many home users, it offers just enough snapshot printing for the price.

Canon's Pixma MP480 is an inexpensive multifunction inkjet printer with an integrated flatbed scanner and copier.

If you're looking for an affordable multifunction inkjet printer that can produce great looking photos as well as laser-sharp text, the Canon Pixma MP480, with its dust-resistant design and high-quality scans and copies, is hard to beat.

In a market where competition is fierce to create an affordable yet functional printer that can appeal to even the most casual user, HP has upped the ante by introducing the HP Deskjet D2545, an inexpensive inkjet printer that's also environmentally frien...

The HP Deskjet D2545 will probably best serve anyone living in a university hall of residence, or someone who needs a printer to complement the family computer. Its professed status as an earth-friendlier printer makes it more recommendable than some of i...