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

A solid workgroup mono laser that delivers above-average quality and plenty of features for the price.

The Photosmart 7960 is HP's flagship photo inkjet and comes with the new Photoret Pro engine. It's a development of Photoret IV, and a fourth cartridge containing three grey inks has been added too. The 7960 can print 4,097 shades of grey - ideal for black-and-white photographs.

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

A brilliant performer, particularly in terms of photo image quality. It’s superb value, too.

A workgroup laser with a good turn of speed and low running costs, but we expect better quality at this price.

Widescreen is still one of the flavours of the month for notebooks and plenty of users are opting to banish boring old 4:3 aspect ratio LCD panels to the land of wind and ghosts.

An excellent all-in-one, particularly when it comes to photo quality, but it’s possible to get more features elsewhere.

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...

Printer manufacturers have steadily been increasing the number of ink cartridges in their top of the range photo printers on the basis that the more basic colours they have to work with the more precise the overall result.

Packed with features like network capability and transparency scanning, it also has the best scanner by far, with great print quality too.

An A4 paper and folder kit for printing out your digital photos in a format that can easily be shared and stored for years. It's essentially a pack of 10 sheets of double-sided photo paper, a hard book and folder clips.

A workgroup printing workhorse that delivers classy mono and colour print quality

A workgroup printing workhorse that delivers classy mono and colour print quality.

Fast, cheap to run and offering flawless text quality, this is a great-value option.

Capable of reproducing good photos, but it’s slow, a bit expensive to run and has a poor scanner.

While HP’s strength in photo printing is once again proved, mono prints take too long and the scanner is poor.

Good photo quality and a large touchscreen make this the A4 inkjet to buy.

Solid ink printing technology has had a tumultuous life.

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