The HP Officejet Pro 8500 is one of the best office inkjet alternatives for under $350. Being feature packed, small businesses may be tempted to try this over the latest expensive laser printer.

Output quality is an undoubted strength, as are its looks, but most businesses will find the lack of capacity annoying.

Impressive print quality, a good turn of speed and decent features, but it simply costs too much to own.

Very compact and incredibly cheap for an A3 all-in-one, but speed and print quality are only average

A great printer for the road with a microscopic footprint, but average performance holds it back from greatness.

Lacklustre colour quality, but good speed and value for money make the K8600 a contender if you like blowing things up to A3 size

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

It’s not quite an office grade product, but the MFC-7840W is a great choice for a busy home office.

Beguilingly affordable with great colour quality, but neither fast nor feature packed

Painfully slow with colour, and the quality disappoints

This is one of the most complete office multifunction printers we've ever seen. but the MFC-885CW can’t overcome its price or quality issues.

A bargain printer that’s well worth considering if you only need occasional colour.

Samsung's smallest and most attractive mono laser, the ML-1510 is a speedy little printer with plenty of potential for the sub-$500 price bracket. So good in fact that we had to recommend it for its above average scores in all categories.

Rating exceptionally well in the TCO portion of our analysis, the PagePro 1200W scored almost twice the average for purchase price due to its incredibly low retail price. Don’t be fooled by the price tag though, this unit features plenty of qualities some other more expensive printers can only dream about.

The first thing we noticed about this printer was its strange physical resemblance to the Labs Winner, and significantly more expensive, HP LaserJet 1300. There are plenty of technical specs to differentiate the two, including RAM, print resolution and OS support, all swinging in HP’s favour though.