The MP500 is a great all-rounder. It’s capable of excellent print quality at high speeds, plus CD printing, has an automatic duplex module and a tempting price.

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There’s a good range of software and excellent image quality, but you pay a lot for the durability and ADF.

If you are serious about converting paper documents to editable text then this is the way to go. A decade ago it would have cost close to $50,000 for a system that allowed you to rapidly scan multiple paper documents into editable, searchable and archivable electronic documents. Today it can be done for less than $1300 and the cost of a scanner with an automatic document feeder.

Fujitsu announces the tiny S300 and the S510 colour desktop scanners.

Cheap to buy, cheap to run and bundled with features; print quality holds it back from greatness.

The best home-office choice with an ADF and fax, plus good text speeds and quality. Those looking for a photo printer should look elsewhere, though.

Interesting design and plenty of features, but it takes an age to produce mediocre results

Quality, speed and a huge array of features go some way to justifying the price

A 2,400 x 2,400dpi flatbed scanner, features an LCD and one-touch front panel buttons for printing/copying, emailing, burning and sharing images.

A great choice for offices that need to recognise batches of documents, with its only real weakness being poor automatic zoning on complex documents.

It wasn't too long ago that mono-lasers by themselves cost over $500, but now that colour lasers have dropped in price, mono-lasers, too, have shuffled down a peg. Samsung has delivered a laser printer with a decent scanner for a very low price. It's a SOHO device, but without some of the features associated with that, such as faxing and document feeders.  

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