Buh-bye inkjet, hello laser: If you always wanted a color laser printer for your home office but didn't think you could afford one, think again.

The HP Officejet Pro L7590 All-in-One Printer focuses on the small and home office.

Fast printing for business apps. Prints, scans, faxes over network. Standalone copier and fax.

Slow photo printing. Photo quality is a touch below par for an ink jet.

Thanks to fast speed, high-quality output, and lots of office-centric features, the HP Officejet Pro L7590 All-in-One Printer is a clear winner for the small office.

Most small-format dedicated photo printers are notably easy to set up and use. Almost all of them are suitable for technophobes who just want to print snapshots with as little effort as possible. So when I say that the HP Photosmart A636 Compact Photo Pri...

Touch screen. Prints 5-by-7s, 4-by-6s, and up to 4-by-12-inch panoramas. Installs driver from printer itself.

Speed is acceptable but slower than that of some other dedicated photo printers.

The HP Photosmart A636 Compact Photo Printer is strong on convenience, with a kiosk-like touch screen and effortless installation.

Small enough to share a desk with, the Brother MFC-7840W delivers all the all-in-one (AIO) features a home or small office needs.

Fast. Prints, scans, faxes from a PC. Standalone copier and fax. Ethernet and Wi-Fi connections. Automatic document feeder.

No duplexer.

The Brother MFC-7840W packs almost everything a small-office or home-office user could want into a compact, monochrome laser all-in-one (AIO).

In the Pixma iP100 Photo Printer, Canon's latest version of its mobile printer, Canon makes surprisingly few compromises for the sake of portability.

Portable. Fast. Prints directly from PictBridge Cameras. Bluetooth, rechargeable battery, and car adapter options.

Heavier than some laptops, at 4.4 pounds. Prints fewer pages per cartridge than its closest competitor.

The Canon Pixma iP100 Photo Printer is notably fast for a portable printer, and a significant improvement over the model it replaces.

Despite its high price, the Kyocera FS-1300D's low cost per page can make it cheap to own in the long run.

Low cost per page. Reasonably good paper handling, with built-in duplexer.

Slow performance for the price and engine rating.

A monochrome laser, the Brother HL-2170W prints reasonably high-quality output at fast speeds.

Small. Fast. Network and Wi-Fi connections. Ample paper capacity. Low cost per page for an inexpensive laser.

Graphics quality—typical for a monochrome laser—is less than ideal.

The Brother HL-2170W delivers a lot of printer for the price, with high speed, more than acceptable output quality, and suitable paper capacity for a small or home office.

The Samsung ML-2851ND offers plenty of strengths, with no real weaknesses.

Fast. High-quality text. Built-in duplexer. Low cost per page.

Although photo and graphics quality are both typical for a monochrome laser, they're less than ideal.

The Samsung ML-2851ND leaves its closest competition in the dust, with fast speed, high-quality text, ample paper handling, and a low cost per page.

The HP Deskjet 6988 Printer Series is the perfect printer for the home and small business customer. The 6988 Series works with wired and wireless networks and delivers breakthrough speeds ? all at an affordable price. Get crisp, professional-quality docum...

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The PIXMA MX7600 All-In-One features high-performance versatility and exceptional reproduction. Thanks to its patented print head technology and 5-color ink system, you can produce superb photos with 4800 x 1200 color dpi resolution (max.), and fast, too:...

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