Very compact and incredibly cheap for an A3 all-in-one, but speed and print quality are only average

An A3 colour printer with a good turn of speed, quality colour output and low running costs.

Expensive but solidly built – a fast way to get superbly vibrant A3 prints.

Good print speed, high expansion potential and quality colour output makes the C9650n a great total printing machine.

Lacklustre colour quality, but good speed and value for money make the K8600 a contender if you like blowing things up to A3 size

Colour Inkjet PRINTER

HP has a huge range of laser printers, stretching from enormous 50ppm A3 corporate behemoths with full finishing capabilities to diminutive 10ppm personal lasers. Of all the printers in its considerable arsenal, its biggest seller by far is the LaserJet 4100 series...

Superb print quality at consistently high speeds, and it’s packed with useful features too.

In marketing terms, bigger is better, leadingHP to use a 6.2-megapixel CCD in the newR717. That sounds superior to its predecessor,the R707, but pixel count is largely academicover 4 megapixels unless you want A3 size.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

A superbly easy-to-use and feature-laden compact camera that’s well worth the price.

A superbly easy-to-use and feature-laden compact camera that’s well worth the price. Same titanium shell as before, with a lowlight ability.

A superb camera that takes fantastic pictures, and offers excellent portability and versatility

An 18x zoom in a compact, well-built body. General handling and image quality are great too.

Price of HD-DVD players comes down, but is it too late?

Hearst to put daily news on LG Philips flexible LCD.

An expensive and unusually poor Sony product.

Fuji-Xerox Printers has launched a channel sales promotion whereby it would offer a years supply of black and white toner for free on its Phaser 8400 printer, which was released in July.

Coming from a graphics and illustration background, I have always felt much more comfortable with the tools I use in real media (ie: pens, markers, watercolours on paper, cardboard, etc) than with the hardware interfaces I was presented with when desktop publishing swept the industry.

The initial purchase price of a printer can be difficult to see past when you're making a buying decision, and it's tempting to simply go for the cheapest available - but inkjet printing can be deceptive.