Each cartridge comprises 70 to 100 per cent recycled material.

70 per cent ink price cut shakes industry.

That park bench you're sitting on? It could be made from ink cartridges. A new patent for "eWood" aims to build outdoor furniture with all your printer junk.

Print, scan, copy and fax with one single device. We put 10 all-in-ones through their paces.

Once upon a time not too long ago, your average inkjet printer had a single tricolour ink cartridge. Of course, the print quality was fairly ordinary, but it did the job. Today, with digital cameras the norm and home users wanting to print their own photographs, your photo printer may have as many as eight different ink cartridges.

A good quality and speedy colour laser printer, but the running costs are unsettlingly high.

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.

Printer vendor Fuji-Xerox, in conjunction with an Australian covert operator, has seized $2 million worth of counterfeit toner cartridges in Hong Kong, bound for Canada.

The quality of this diminutive cutie is almost as good as the high-end models, but the price means a compromise on both speed and features.

An interesting new technology, but cheap running costs are let down by poor quality.

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

A fast printer let down by high running costs and few features

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

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

Cheap to buy and run, the X5470 is great for mono printing, but less so for photos and images.

Do-it-yourself kits allegedly violate HP's ink patents.

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.

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

The C5600n handles colour-related tasks well and at a price that makes it affordable for small businesses.