Printing means more than just ink on paper. Find out how careful analysis can save you thousands of dollars.

From personal printers to home office colour, we put 12 lasers through their paces. Some are lightning fast; others produce dazzling colour. Some are tiny, and some are surprisingly cost-effective.

Laser weaponry looks like becoming part of future army's arsenal, including non-lethal "flashes" designed to stop car drivers.

When it comes to getting real work done, there’s still nothing to compete with a laser printer’s combination of quality, speed and economy. We tell you how to choose a busines laser, plus review 3 examples.

We put a selection of high-capacity office printers to the test. We analyse what printer is best for your workplace and what dosn't work.

Petawatt laser activated in Texas.

World's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser.

Artemis satellite links up with moving plane.

How will you be computing in the next 12 months? PC Authority brings you 2005's big technology stories - before they happen.

There are almost as many acronyms for the various standards of DVD as there are companies involved in DVD development.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.

A tiny, fast personal laser printer with a temping price and great quality.

Logitech extends their solid reputation by creating a highly sensitive, portable mouse for notebooks with the V450 Nano Cordless laser.

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...

We’ve examined the data from more than 8000 readers to reveal exactly what sort of reliability, customer service and satisfaction you can expect in 2007.

Despite the recent flood of low-priced, high-quality inkjet printers, theres been comparatively little movement on the budget laser front, with Kyoceras FS-1000 (reviewed issue 34, p85) dominating our A-List since September last year.

20 billion trillion watts per square centimetre.

This month, the PC Authority Labs team looks at a colourful range of printers suitable for the small-medium office market.

There are two areas to look at when testing laser printers: speed and print quality. We used a range of different documents to test the different aspects of each and weighted the results to give the Quality and Speed scores. More detail on each test is also provided online at www.pcauthority.com.au.