The best Canon home all-in-one yet, with flawless quality and an impressive feature list.

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

A fast, high-quality all-in-one, but for running costs look for the MP610 first.

A slight speed boost and a new curvaceous shape keep Canon on top of the inkjet pile.

Fast, great quality prints at a decent price – the only real competition for the other Canon

The scanner is the only minor weakness in an otherwise near perfect home all-in-one

Well-equipped and quite quick, but the quality is patchy

Canon continues the good work and delivers another winner with the MP610.

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

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

The attractive looks are undermined by average image quality, although it remains good value.

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

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

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.

One of the fastest and best-quality printers on show. The scanner isn’t perfect and there aren’t as many features as the best here, but the MP170 is hard to beat for value.

It doesn't seem likely that one device could be all things to all people, but the Canon PIXMA MP780 is the closest thing we've seen yet. It has a feature set that would leave few wanting, and is capable of professional results. Not only that, but this is by far the quickest inkjet in this roundup.

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.

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.

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.

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.