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

Superb, stylish, solid... but sabotaged by poor controls

Canon's reign over the compact digital camera market looks set to continue with this offering.

Tiny, intuitive and a great performer, the IXUS 85 is the ideal carry-anywhere camera

Small but solid. The Ixus 75 is perfect for holiday snappers – just watch out when the sun goes down

Two of the best small compacts on the market. Quality differences are on a knife edge, but the Canon wins for superior features and handling.

The Ixus 60 delivers superb image quality and is beautifully designed and built.

The Canon A300 is an entry level 3.2-megapixel camera with rather plain specifications and an average range of photgraphic features.

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.

Anyone who used the IXUS 40 mightwonder how Canon could possiblyimprove on it, but that’s precisely whatit has done.

Portability has been talked about a lot recently, and people are starting to get used to the fact that their printer can be just as portable as the rest of their equipment. Canon has been offering portable laptop printers for several years and selling just enough of them to persevere, however, with the digital camera boom they are starting to come into their own.

An impressive little printer, its incredibly light and portable design makes the LBP-1120 perfect for the space-conscious small business home business operator with limited work area.

Narrowly missing out on an award, much effort has gone into the aesthetics of this unit as it has into the feature set.

Finishing a point above average overall, Canon's PIXMA iP5000 was unlucky to miss out on our coveted recommended award, pipped at the finishing line by Epson's PictureMate small format printer. Canon's five individual ink cartridges is a great system that allows you to replace only the inks you need without needing to replace a whole colour cartridge as is the case with the HP PhotoSmart 8150 printer.